Rabbi Lizzi Heydemann is the founder of Mishkan, an independent, post-denominational spiritual community in Chicago whose mission is to engage, educate, empower and inspire people in Chicago and beyond through dynamic experiences of Jewish prayer, learning, social activism and community building. She was born and raised on the South Side of Chicago, educated at Stanford University and the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies.
Lizzi Heydemann
By Lizzi Heydemann
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Life Engaging Millenial Jews in Chicago with a Boutique Approach to Jewish Life
The posts on The New Spirituality blog are responses to Rabbi Sid Schwarz’s lead essay in his book, Jewish Megatrends: Charting the Course of the American Jewish Future (Jewish Lights). In that essay, which was posted on this site on May 5, 2016, Schwarz argues that any organization that hopes to speak to the next…
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Letters Synagogues and Independent Congregations Are Allies, Not Enemies
I’m grateful to the Forward for reprinting the JTA story about the , a new partnership of communities that is attracting the young and unaffiliated. It is a great story, and there is one nuance I would like to lift up. While the tempting story to tell is one that links the declining synagogue affiliation…
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