Chani Chase is a well known Jewish studies educator at Jewish elementary and high schools in Chicago. She also teaches Jewish bridal education classes through Daughters of Israel. In addition, Chani leads challah-baking workshops which incorporate both learning the skills of expert challah baking as well as exploring the spiritual depth of this time-honored Jewish tradition.
Esti Deutsch is Director of the Women's Division of Chicago Torah Network, and has introduced hundreds of women to the beauty and depth of Torah. She has a special passion for sharing the wisdom of Jewish tradition with brides about to embark on building their Jewish home and in general is a much sought after teacher, mentor and coach to women throughout the community. One of her very popular recent projects is the Jewish Spiritual Growth Conference Call which she leads each week. After over 25 years as a computer consultant, Esti left this career to pursue a career as a personal, life and relationship coach.
Hila Handler is finishing medical school at Rush University and starting a Shabbat-Observant Residency at Aurora Mount Sinai Hospital, Milwaukee. Her interest in health and spirituality was ignited at the University of Chicago, where she spent a year writing a thesis in Bio-Energy Medicine with the dean of the School of Medicine, organized a presentation for medical students with a doctor of bio-energetic medicine and helped collaborate on a class called "Spirituality and Medicine". After making waves at U of C, Hila traveled around the world, working with healers of different origins including Rosita Arvigo, the author of Rainforest Home Remedies, in Belize, and with a Mayan Midwife. She also studied Bio-Energetic Medicine in St. Petersburg, learned acupuncture in Beijing and taught Iyengar Yoga for 7 years. Her path led her to a guru in an ashram in upstate NY, and eventually it led her, as she says, "away from the ashram to West Rogers Park, where I found CTN, the community I had been searching for, and Hashem."
Rebbetzin Feige Twerski is a community leader and scholar whose wisdom and insight have made her an advisor and mentor to thousands of women around the world. Together with her husband Rabbi Michel Twerski, she has devoted her life to building the Milwaukee Jewish community, while lecturing and teaching on a myriad of Judaic subjects in Jewish communities around the world. Feige has also authored numerous articles on parenting, marriage, and Jewish philosophy and is a regular contributor to aish.com.
Slovie (Jungreis) Wolff is an author, freelance writer and parenting instructor. She is the daughter of Esther Jungreis, renowned Rebbetzin, author of Life is a Test, The Committed Marriage, and The Committed Life and founder of Hineni International. Slovie has taught Hineni Young Couples and Parenting classes at the Hineni Heritage Center in New York City for more than ten years. She is the author of Raising a Child with Soul: How Time-Tested Jewish Wisdom Can Shape Your Child's Character (St. Martin's Press), which is in its third printing. Visit her at www.raisingachildwithsoul.com.
Kochava Yitzchak is a popular teacher and lecturer in Bible, Oral Law and Jewish Thought. She was born in Vienna, grew up in Germany, and did her undergraduate and graduate studies in New York. She has a Masters in Bible from Bernard Revel Graduate School and currently teaches at the Ida Crown Jewish Academy and at the Blitstein Teacher's Institute of Hebrew Theological College.
