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 sits on the board of T’ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights, as well as the rabbinic cabinet of AVODAH: The Jewish Service Corp. She is an alumnus of Rabbis Without Borders Fellowship and the Clergy Leadership Incubator.
Meet our Rabbi & Founder
Full-Time Team
Part-Time Team
Hannah Antman
Shabbat Coordinator
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Patrick Budde
Lead Sound Engineer
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Will Burdin
Shabbat Coordinator
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Matthew Ellenwood
music director
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Jordan Golding
Shabbat Coordinator
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Rachael Jimenez
Davening Team Coordinator
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Ben Kaye
Shabbat Coordinator
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Eli Newell
BMitzvah and teen organizer
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Leah Whiteman
Build Your Village Co-Facilitator
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Sarah Hood
Caregivers of Neurodiverse Children Support Group Facilitator
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Mensch Academy Facilitators
Penina Beede
Mensch Academy Facilitator
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Leo Mendelson
Mensch Academy Facilitator
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Jonathan Scheffel
Mensch Academy Facilitator
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Lauren Tannenbaum
Mensch Academy Facilitator
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Jordan Zelvin
Mensch Academy Facilitator