In August 2013, Kohl Finegold became the Director of Education and Spiritual Enrichment at Congregation Shaar Hashomayim in Montreal, the largest and oldest traditional Ashkenazi synagogue in Canada.[8] In doing so, she also became the first Orthodox woman to serve as synagogue clergy in Canada.[4] In 2019, she changed her title from Maharat to Rabba.[9] Since 2019 she has been the president of the Montreal Board of Rabbis, and since 2020 she has served as Vice President of the International Rabbinic Fellowship. In 2022, Kohl Finegold created the podcast Verses, which draws links between Broadway and Torah.[10]
In 2023, she became rabbinic leader of the Moriah Congregation in Deerfield, Illinois, where she lives with her husband Rabbi Avi Finegold and their three children.[5]