Join us as we celebrate the launch of Maggie's Place, a center at Mishkan Chicago dedicated to building community through a holistic approach to wellness, learning, leadership opportunities, social community, and access to social services and resources. Maggie's Place is established in Maggie Miretzky’s memory by the Miretzky family. Feel free to come by anytime […]
Looking to learn more about the hard skills necessary for taking your love to the next level and keeping it strong? This three part series (plus Shabbat dinner!) is open to couples at any stage of relationship building. We'll explore love languages, conscious communication, and Jewish approaches relationship and commitment. The cost of this series is $36 per […]
As issues of social inequity and injustice, not to mention structural violence and dangers we read and hear about in the news become woven into the fabric of our daily lives, we risk numbing the very sensitivity that as Jews we try consciously to cultivate for the pain of the world so we can do […]
Our signature Shabbat morning experience- music, prayer, reflection, Torah reading and learning, followed by a light kiddush lunch. Mini-Mishkan, a prayer and music experience for little Jews and their parents starts at 11:15am upstairs. All are welcome to the main service. Registration for Mini-Mishkan is required. Register for Mini-Mishkan
Looking to learn more about the hard skills necessary for taking your love to the next level and keeping it strong? This three part series (plus Shabbat dinner!) is open to couples at any stage of relationship building. We'll explore love languages, conscious communication, and Jewish approaches relationship and commitment. The cost of this series is $36 per […]
The CRASH Talk is the indispensable introduction to Talmud learning with Mishkan and SVARA. It is a lecture to end all lectures, a mind-blowing intellectual experience to end all…you get the point. Come hear how the Talmud–and all radical ideas–are born, crash, and are reborn anew. Discover your radical edge and how queer you really […]
Join Mishkan Chicago, Chicago Theological Seminary, and other amazing folks from diverse religious traditions to break bread, share conversation and celebration with songs of liberation. This is "Shabbat Shira," when we remember crossing the sea from slavery to freedom, marking a new chapter in the story. What better way to continue the journey than coming together with old […]
Tu b'Shevat is the holiday that symbolizes rebirth and renewal of the earth and of natural life. Join Mishkan & the Jewish Center for Addiction at JCFS as we merge and blend these ideas with stories of addiction and recovery through the rituals of the Tu b'Shevat seder with offerings of fruits, nuts and juices […]
Join Anshe Emet and Mishkan to welcome the entire community to gather in solidarity with refugees as part of HIAS's National Day of Jewish Action for Refugees. We will mobilize for the safety and dignity of victims of violence and persecution around the world through prayer, song, learning, stories, and a pledge to action. We will […]
Looking to learn more about the hard skills necessary for taking your love to the next level and keeping it strong? This three part series (plus Shabbat dinner!) is open to couples at any stage of relationship building. We'll explore love languages, conscious communication, and Jewish approaches relationship and commitment. The cost of this series is $36 per […]
You can learn Talmud! Be a player and learn how to learn, using a traditional Hebrew/Aramaic book of the Talmud and a dictionary, not to mention a hevruta (study partner) and the award-winning guidance of Rabbi Benay Lappe, founder and rosh yeshiva of SVARA: A Traditionally Radical Yeshiva. SVARA and Mishkan partner in creating 3 sessions of these […]
Drop-in nights are a place to unwind, engage with others and just be you. Come hang out, read a book, play a board game, chat it up, and enjoy FREE dinner! We'd love to see you and check in or just chill with you..so come on by Maggie's Place. Drop-in nights are your space to be you – […]
Actors, writers, storytellers share their stories about being in interfaith partnerships– the great, the challenging and the surprising aspects of falling in love with someone from a different faith background and building a home together. Presenters include Barbara Mahany, Jane deLaubenfels, Sarah Tarkany and Jacob Victorine and will be followed by an open forum discussion to dig deeper into the questions and […]
Want to deepen your knowledge around racism and racial justice in order to better enact social change? Are you interested in talking about these issues through a Jewish lens while enjoying great company and delicious food? Base Hillel, Repair the World, JCUA, and Mishkan Chicago are teaming up to make this possible! Join us monthly […]
We've created a place for people who identify as men, from all walks of life, to connect over good conversation, learning and dialogue about their experiences. ManKind will meet monthly at Maggie's Place and then carry on at a local bar or brewery. This group is open to all men without regard to race, sexual orientation, disability or experience and will be co-lead by […]
You can learn Talmud! Be a player and learn how to learn, using a traditional Hebrew/Aramaic book of the Talmud and a dictionary, not to mention a hevruta (study partner) and the award-winning guidance of Rabbi Benay Lappe, founder and rosh yeshiva of SVARA: A Traditionally Radical Yeshiva. SVARA and Mishkan partner in creating 3 sessions of these […]
Drop-in nights are a place to unwind, engage with others and just be you. Come hang out, read a book, play a board game, chat it up, and enjoy FREE dinner! We'd love to see you and check in or just chill with you..so come on by Maggie's Place. Drop-in nights are your space to be you – […]
Our signature services followed by the best darn vegetarian pot-luck anywhere (no nuts of any kind please- allergies abound).
Join the next group of Mishkanites to prepare, cook and serve food to the residents at LPCS. Email Jen Kouba to join. Email Jen
A performance by residents at Beit T'shuvah in Los Angeles, a Jewish Recovery home, addressing addiction and issues of Jewish identity. By interweaving a Passover Seder with personal stories of addiction, Freedom Song poses one stark question- "What are you a slave to?" Get more info here.
You can learn Talmud! Be a player and learn how to learn, using a traditional Hebrew/Aramaic book of the Talmud and a dictionary, not to mention a hevruta (study partner) and the award-winning guidance of Rabbi Benay Lappe, founder and rosh yeshiva of SVARA: A Traditionally Radical Yeshiva. SVARA and Mishkan partner in creating 3 sessions of these […]
Our signature Shabbat morning experience- music, prayer, reflection, Torah reading and learning, followed by a light kiddush lunch. Mini-Mishkan, a prayer and music experience for little Jews and their parents starts at 11:15am
Join the 40s+ social team for some competitive debauchery – whiskey and hamentaschen style. What more does a Purim party need?! We supply the whiskey (and wine and non-alcoholic beverages and snacks), you supply the hamentaschen (sweet or savory) and compete to win a special gift! Tastings followed by havdalah. RSVP