Shoshana (she/her) leads T’ruah programming on the ground in Israel and Palestine, including the year-long Rabbinical and Cantorial Fellowship, seminars, and clergy trips.
Shoshana comes to T’ruah with almost two decades of experience teaching Torah and social justice in Jerusalem. She was a senior faculty member at the Conservative Yeshiva, where she taught Talmud, Midrash, and Gender Studies and mentored generations of rabbinical students on their journey toward leadership. In the U.S., she served as United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism (USCJ) scholar-in-residence in communities across the country.
Currently, Shoshana teaches Talmud at the Schechter Rabbinical Seminary in Jerusalem and leads the beit midrash on the Dorot Fellowship. She is also a research fellow at the Kogod Research Center at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem, where she has served as a senior faculty member and rabbi of the hevruta gap-year program, led the rabbinical student seminar, and taught in various programs in Israel and across North America. Shoshana has also taught at Mechon Hadar and Drisha in the U.S. and and at Beit Midrash TAKUM, a social-justice program for Israeli university students, which she founded.
Shoshana has semikha (rabbinic ordination) from Rabbi Daniel Landes (now Yashrut), a BA in Judaic Studies from Brandeis University, and an MA in rabbinics and ancient Jewish history from Hebrew University. She is a graduate of the Matan Advanced Talmudic Institute and the Shalom Hartman Institute’s Melamdim program for teacher training.
Shoshana is passionate about the idea of Torah as a liberating force and believes that deep learning brings a deep desire to create good in the world.