Rabbi Lizzi Heydemann

Rabbi Lizzi Heydemann is the founder and rabbi at Mishkan Chicago, a dynamic spiritual community whose mission is to spread inspired, down-to-earth Judaism and to reach out to people who have felt on the edges of Jewish life – young adults, LGBT Jews, Jews in interfaith relationships and non-Jewish partners – and to be a welcoming space for all. Lizzi was ordained by the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies in Los Angeles in 2010, and while there trained at IKAR, first on the davening team, then as a rabbinic intern, and then as the first Revson Rabbinic Fellow. Lizzi grew up on the South Side of Chicago, is a Young Judaea Year Course alum, graduated with honors from Stanford University in 2004, and was a fellow in the most recent cohort of Rabbis Without Borders.