NEW YORK (JTA) – In the summer of 2011, Lizzi Heydemann returned to her native Chicago to establish a Jewish community loosely modeled on Ikar, the Los Angeles congregation where she had spent two years as a rabbinic intern. She set about harvesting email addresses and putting out the… Read more »
Thriving indie Jewish communities join forces to create rabbinic fellowship
A Hanukkah celebration at the Kitchen in San Francisco on Dec. 9, 2015. (Q Lam)



