We are so excited to welcome guest speaker Ruben Shimonov, founder of Sephardic Mizrahi Q Network and wildly talented calligrapher. As always, we'll have music from our Davening Team, liturgy, and reflection from our rabbis. Music, prayer and special guests will differ week to week, but you can always count on this Friday wind down […]
Live! from the Rabbis' living rooms, join us for Saturday morning services full of music, prayers, learning, and inspiration. Special guest appearances by children and pets. Following services at 10:30 am, join us for Nosh & Drash, aka Torah study, where we'll explore the themes from the weekly parsha. Services will be live-streamed over Zoom. […]
As part of a Chicago JCFS initiative, this Shabbat is Mental Health Shabbat. After the service, Rabbi Steven will share what the parsha can reveal to us about the importance of mental health. This will serve as a space to reflect on the events in Colleyville last weekend. Join the zoom
Stories, songs and celebrating Shabbat for 0-4 year olds and their grown ups. Join us in welcoming back beloved Family Music Specialist Rachel Mylan! BYOChallah - at the end of the service, we will make motzi together. Services will be held over Zoom. Register
For Builders, by Builders. At this second meeting of Kehillat Kabbalah, Builder Matthew Ellenwood will survey the foundational history of esoteric Judaism and discuss highlights of several key texts. The meeting will include a presentation, exploratory exercises, and discussion about what this community of receiving might look like as we journey forth. This is the […]
Join Tennessee Builder, Ted Besmann, for a virtual six week study group centered around Jewish Theology in Our Time: A New Generation Explores the Foundations and Future of Jewish Belief. The group will meet once a week from 6-7 pm CT for six weeks beginning on January 24th. As this is an intimate group, we […]
For many of us, living through a pandemic has created the opening for the uncomfortable yet inevitable internal conversation: if I died tomorrow, how would people remember me? This class is an opportunity to use the framework of ethical wills to think seriously about how you want to be remembered - and to define who […]
Last July, the Chicago city council passed the Empowering Communities for Public Safety (ECPS) ordinance, creating the strongest civilian police oversight system in the country. Next year Chicagoans will elect representatives to District Councils in each of the city's 22 police districts, where they will take on a leading role in transforming public safety and […]
Along with our Jewish Emergent Network sister communities, The Kitchen and Kavana, Mishkan is heading to Israel and the West Bank. There, we will connect with activists, artists, scholars and rabbis who we promise will go off script and maybe even change us in ways previously considered unimaginable. Learn about costs and our early itinerary […]
Join us for music from our Davening Team, liturgy, and reflection from our rabbis. Music, prayer and special guests will differ week to week, but you can always count on this Friday wind down to leave you feeling nourished and inspired. The service will be live-streamed on our Facebook page. This Friday is repro Shabbat, […]