Meet Zach Wishnov! Zach is the creator and owner (and chef) at Mahtzee. By day, Zach works in IT product management. When he’s not working, he’s baking Mahtzee and building an online store to give people the gift of delicious matzah toffee. Get a taste of Mahtzee at the upcoming ChiTribe Hanukkah Happy Hours. What does Jewish

Meet Ariel Tidhar, Creator and Owner of ARIEL TIDHAR Jewelry Where are you from? I grew up in Rogers Park & Skokie What did you do Jewish growing up? Growing up I attended Solomon Schechter, the JCC for camp, synagogue occasionally and was mostly Jewish at home with the food we ate,

Holocaust education is incredibly important, perhaps more so today than ever. With anti-semitism on the rise, education is imperative in order to ensure that it never happens again.  Michael Gutman Meet Michael, Angela, Brian, and Danny Gutman, our Jewish People of the Week! On September 23rd, the Gutman family, along

The lighting of the candles, the singing and signing inspired me to be the woman I am today Sari Daybook Where did you grow up? I was born in Rogers Park and raised in Skokie for most of my life. What did you do Jewish growing up? As a young

I also grew up speaking Yiddish, and every year I would attend Yidish Vokh, a week-long immersion retreat, which was my favorite week of the year! Benna Kessler Where did you grow up?  Durham, North Carolina What did you do Jewish growing up?  My family was very involved in our

Originally from Buffalo Grove, meet Cantor David Berger. Currently the cantor at KAM Isaiah Israel in Hyde Park, David went to High school at Adlai Stevenson and college at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. After completing the Jewish Theological Seminary in NY, David trained in cantorial school at the Hebrew

Where did you grow up? Highland Park What did you do Jewish growing up? I grew up having Shabbat dinner with my family. Mygrandparents usually hosted Shabbat, so three generations of our family got together each week. Some of my best family memories are at that dinner table! I also went

Where did you grow up? I grew up in a suburb of Detroit, MI What did you do Jewish growing up? As a kid, we went to shul frequently, and I also attended Hebrew School and had my bat mitzvah. Overall, my fondest memories are weekly Shabbat dinners with my

Meet Carol who found her Chicago Jewish Community during the Pandemic Where did you grow up? San Diego, California What did you do Jewish growing up?  I converted at age 29! I did go to some Bar/Bat Mitzvahs growing up, and of course a few Shabbats at sleepovers with my

My wife, myself, and at that time 2-month-old son got COVID early on.  There were no real policies or procedures for returning to work after testing positive. Once my local health department cleared me from quarantine, my goal became to get back to my team in the emergency department. We got sick before masks,