Team Mishkan
Meet our well-oiled machine (running on coffee and love).
From our home-grown, local Rabbi and founder, to our super-human staff of professionals and clergy, Mishkan’s team has (collective) decades of experience envisioning, creating, growing, sustaining and organizing community.
Rabbi Lizzi Heydemann
Lizzi Heydemann catalyzed the founding of Mishkan Chicago in September of 2011. She graduated with Honors from Stanford University, and was ordained by the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies in Los Angeles in 2010. Her first job out of school was as the first Revson Rabbinic Fellow at IKAR in Los Angeles.
Meet our Rabbi & Founder
Full-Time Team
Part-Time Team
Steven Chaitman
Music Fellow
Ilana Gleicher-Bloom
Educational Consultant
Jordan Golding
Shabbat Coordinator
Katy Ibur
Shabbat Coordinator
Rachael Jimenez
Davening Team Coordinator
Nathan Kaplin
Mensch Academy Facilitator
Rachel Mylan
Family Music Specialist
Eli Newell
Shabbat Coordinator
Betsy Ross
Mensch Academy Facilitator
Val Schlosberg
Mensch Facilitator
Mira Warmflash
Mensch Academy Facilitator
Julie Wernick
Mensch Academy Facilitator