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When families and individuals in St. Paul want to make a change in their lives, Neighborhood House is here to help. We are a multi-service agency, providing wrap-around services for people when they need it most. Neighborhood House helps people with basic needs, education, multiple youth programs, and health and well-being. All of our programs are offered for free to participants.
Helping families and individuals thrive since 1897.
To help people gain the skills, knowledge and confidence to thrive in diverse communities.
http://neighb.org

Jill is a Certified Legal Interpreter and sat on the Minnesota Supreme Court Interpreter Advisory Committee, she is at the top of her game in her field.

Jodi’s next book, The Happy Medium: Speaking the Language of Intuition was released in December, 2016!

Designed for people who want to more fully understand the language of their own intuition, this little book is packed with vibrant, entertaining, intuition-boosting practices that can be applied in a parking lot, a mall, or a boardroom and will help you live big!

It shows you how to use every bit of your natural intuition to successfully flow through life and live in a place of abundance, acceptance, and soul.

You’ll be delighted with how quickly and fluently you will speak the language of intuition and with the amount of joy that accompanies this skill.
http://theintuitivecoach.com

Michelle Horovitz
Co-Founder & Executive Director of Appetite For Change.
Michelle is an experienced cook with over 15 years under her belt in the kitchen at home, professionally and teaching cooking classes to youth and adults. She received her B.A. in Biothics from the University of Pennsylvania and a J.D. from the University of Minnesota Law School. After practicing law as a Public Defender for 4 years in Miami-Dade County, Michelle went to work for James Beard Award winning Chef Michelle Bernstein, as a line and prep cook and assistant pastry chef. In 2010 she and her family moved back to her home-town of Minneapolis. Michelle’s father’s family is from the Northside and she has a passion for building racial and social equity in this community.
Appetite For Change uses food as a tool building health, wealth, and social change in North Minneapolis. AFC is a community-led organization that strengthens families, creates economic prosperity, and encourages healthy living.
http://appetiteforchangemn.org

Eleanor Gantman a Minnesota Native, an example of a finely tuned wit. At 101 she remembers so many wonderful stories of her childhood, so fun to listen to.

Having grown up in a Midwestern Jewish and Zionist family, Jessica Fishman moved to Israel after graduating from Indiana University with a degree in Journalism and Business. She spent her first few years in the country serving in the Israel Defense Forces, learning the Hebrew language, and getting acclimated to the country.
Jessica Fishman has written a number of articles about Israel and her story has been featured in leading Israeli and Jewish media.

After developing the popular Aliyah Survival Blog, which is an irreverent portrayal of an American immigrant’s first years in Israel, she has written a deeply personal, witty memoir about the difficulties, absurdities, and excitement of making a home in a new country.

She was inspired to write Chutzpah and High Heels: The Search for Love and Identity in the Holy Land after a life-changing event in Israel. Her goals are to share her experience and inspire social change.

The book is now available and can be purchased from a variety of online locations.
https://jessicafishmanauthor.com

Ariana Katz is the host and creator of Kaddish the podcast. Ariana is a rabbinical student at Reconstructionist Rabbinical College in Philadelphia. She is a member of the Philadelphia Reconstructionist Chevra Kadisha (Jewish burial society), a volunteer chaplain and board member at Planned Parenthood of South East Pennsylvania, and a member of the Jewish Voice for Peace Rabbinical Council. Ariana is in training to become a soferet, scribe of sacred Jewish text.
Kaddish is a monthly podcast hosted by Student Rabbi Ariana Katz that focuses on mourning ritual and customs, features first person storytelling and interviews, uses Jewish tradition to contextualize and deepens themes of the show, and holds space at the intersection of life and death. Kaddish aims to build a network of listeners and friends that will contribute stories and build online community.

This show includes topics like mourning chosen family, reproductive loss, illness, ritual writing, suicide, queer and trans burial, tattoos and conversion status, state violence. Also guests talks about their specific interests and storytelling from folks about loss or grief and healing.
There is a dearth of death education, and there is a romanticising, exoticizing, and sexualizing of death. Kaddish aims to stay in the muck, the complicated, unsexy, terrifying places, because those too are a part of grief.

Elaine Rose Glickman is an author, a teacher, and a parent – and she put all of these facets together in writing Your Kid’s a Brat, and It’s All Your Fault. A parenting advice columnist for Mommy Magazine and a featured guest on the syndicated television talk show Daytime, Elaine guides parents on everything from kids who eat only five foods to kids who won’t put down their phones for more than five minutes. She chairs a top-rated Florida preschool and creates and facilitates educational programs for children of all ages.

Elaine also holds a Master of Arts in Hebrew Letters and rabbinic ordination, and she has published many books of Jewish nonfiction, including the National Jewish Book Award finalist Sacred Parenting. She lectures widely on topics ranging from biblical women to Jewish messianic literature to theodicy, or the problem of evil, and writes a featured blog for the Jerusalem Post entitled “The Streets of Jerusalem.”

Elaine lives in Florida with her husband and three children, who are beautifully behaved, brilliant, creative, kind, and perfect in every way. Yes, she’s messing with you. They are great kids, though.

JHSUM, is a historians go to for information regarding the Jewish Community history of Minnesota and the surrounding states. Robin Doroshow is the new Executive Director and will take JHSUM to new highs.
Doroshow brings a wealth of experience which will serve her in this new role. Originally from St. Paul, MN, she earned a BA in Psychology and Judaic Studies from the University of Minnesota. She went on earn her JD from William Mitchell College of Law. She also completed coursework at The Jewish Theological Seminary, Harvard Law School and Georgetown University. She has worked in a variety of capacities including Development Director at Jewish Family and Children’s Service of Minneapolis and Private practice of law with Shulman, Gainsley and Walcott, PA and Doroshow and LeBow, PLLP. Since 2012 she’s had a number of pieces published in The American Jewish World, The Forward, The Daily Planet, and TC Jewfolk.

Welcome to the world of Chocolat Celeste.

Each chocolate has been formulated by our founder and chocolatier, Mary Leonard. She believes that gift giving is a personal expression and statement about you and the recipient.

Mary's attention to design and flavor places these chocolates into a category of their own. Each chocolate is meticulously handcrafted. Traditional methods, no preservatives, high cocoa content, low sugar, 100% pure cocoa butter.