Rabbi Shoshana B. Nyer

Rabbi Nyer started at Temple B'nai Shalom, on July 1, 2003. She grew up in Cleveland, Ohio, where her parents still reside, earned a Bachelor of Arts in Jewish Studies from University of Maryland, and was ordained in N.Y. on May 4, 2003, with Rabbi and Gary Perlin in attendance. Rabbi Nyer studied at the N.Y. campus of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. Her rabbinic thesis was about the possible healing uses of Holocaust poetry. Previously, she was the student rabbi at Congregation B'nai Dorot in Alpharetta, Georgia, where she was involved with their Tot Shabbat program.

Rabbi Nyer taught religious school at Steven Wise Free Synagogue in N.Y. starting in 1999, and in other congregations before that. She has strong connections with Camp Wise in Ohio where she began as an arts and crafts specialist in 1995, was Judaic Specialist from 1996-99, and became program director in 2000, scheduling all camp programs, supervising all the specialists and creating programming for grades 3 through 10. In addition, she has served as an intern for the UAHC regional office in Cleveland, Ohio, and was a Clinical Pastoral Hospital Chaplain in the summer of 2001. For her last two years at HUC-JIR, Rabbi Nyer had the privilege of serving as the Academic Intern for Dr. Eugene Borowitz, Professor of Philosophy (who also taught philosophy to Rabbi Perlin!). Rabbi Nyer loves film and food and her family.

Rabbi Perlin and Rabbi Nyer may be the first senior-associate all female team in the history of the world! We are so excited to have such a capable rabbi in our congregation.

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