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
Hannah Antman
Shabbat Coordinator
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Claire Bergen
Mensch Academy Facilitator
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Patrick Budde
Lead Sound Engineer
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Will Burdin
Shabbat Coordinator
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Ilana Gleicher-Bloom
Educational Consultant
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Jordan Golding
Shabbat Coordinator
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Val Schlosberg
Mensch Facilitator
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Rachael Jimenez
Davening Team Coordinator
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Ben Kaye
Shabbat Coordinator
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Nathan Kaplin
Family Programs Assistant
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Rachel Mylan
Family Music Specialist
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Eli Newell
BMitzvah Coordinator
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Leah Whiteman
Build Your Village Co-Facilitator
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Sarah Hood
Caregivers of Neurodiverse Children Support Group Facilitator