When young Jewish adults travel to Israel through trips presented by organizations such as Taglit-Birthright Israel or Jewish National Fund-USA, they are usually looking for meaningful connections to their heritage and religion.
However, some participants on these trips found something more in addition to connections to Judaism and Israel: their bashert (soul mate).
There are Jewish married couples in the United States who first met their future spouses on these kinds of trips.
Kleins from Hollywood, FL
Among these couples is an LGBTQ one from Hollywood, FL that recently tied the knot. Danielle Greenbaum Klein and Carly Klein, who got married to each other on Nov. 19, 2022 in Boca Raton, FL, met on a University of Miami Birthright Israel trip in 2013.
Both Carly, 30, and Danielle, 29, feel that Birthright Israel, which offers free trips to Israel for Jewish young adults between the ages of 18 and 32, was an integral part of forming their strong Jewish identities.
“I think it really fortified the foundation because the start of our story takes place in the holiest part in the world, and there really isn’t a better page one to helping write your book of life with your life partner,” Carly said. “I think it’s pretty meaningful because it connects us to religion, to tradition and to great times and great stories. It’s not like we met at a bar. We met in Israel. Not many people can say that.”
Carly continued, “We also incorporated a lot of Jewish traditions in our wedding, and I think people in our position are sometimes afraid to incorporate those kinds of religious traditions thinking they’ll be rejected or that it doesn’t go with their identity.”
Carly, who was born and bred in South Florida, was raised in a Reform Jewish family and attended a Jewish day school as a child.
Danielle, who moved to South Florida from Long Island, NY, grew up in a Conservative family and attended Starlight, a Jewish sleep-away camp in Wayne County, PA, for nine years.
“I went to Hebrew school and I had a bat mitzvah, but I was never able to make my own Jewish connection and do anything because I wanted to,” Danielle said. “It was always because ‘this is what my family did and experienced,’ so by going on Birthright, I was able to really open my eyes and learn all these Jewish traditions.”
Carly and Danielle’s initial meeting in 2013 wasn’t romantic. Carly noted that while they liked each other’s company during the trip, there wasn’t any plan to be in a relationship at that time as they were in different places in their lives.
They became reacquainted in 2019 when Carly slid into Danielle’s Instagram DMs. They then became closer as a romantic couple during the pandemic, celebrating Jewish holidays together, often in isolation.
“That set the foundation of the rituals that we’re going to do,” Danielle said. “And whether it was Passover for the two of us – we did the Seders – or fasting on Yom Kippur, we felt If we we’re going to start now, we’ll do it forever.”
The couple also celebrates Shabbat and light candles every Friday.
Their wedding had cohorts from Birthright in attendance, including two of Danielle’s bridesmaids who were on the trip with them. The wedding was officiated by Rabbi Robyn Fisher, who led the Birthright trip in which the couple participated.
Carly and Danielle plan to raise a Jewish family and send their children to Jewish summer camp.
From left, Carly Klein and Danielle Greenbaum Klein of Hollywood FL, who both met at Birthright Israel trip in 2013, during their wedding in November 2022.
It’s not like we met at a bar. We met in Israel. Not many people can say that. ~ Carley Klein
The Fishmans from Philadelphia, PA
Not long after meeting on a Birthright Israel trip in December 2005, Rachel and Justin Fishman of Philadelphia ,PA starting dating each other.
Rachel and Justin, both 41, married in May 2009 and have three children, including twin 11-year old daughters and a 7-year-old son. They both work with youth from underserved communities in Philadelphia. Justin is also a U.S. Navy veteran and currently a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy Reserves.
Both Rachel and Justin feel it was special to meet for the first time at a Birthright Israel trip. “I was there with my sister and a couple of my friends, and Rachel was there with her cousin and a couple of her friends,” Justin said.
“I view it as a turning point for at least my life in terms of growing up, figuring out what to do and what’s important to me. That all started with me meeting Rachel.”
Rachel said, “Finding someone to share my life with who is Jewish on Birthright is something that was important to me.”
“ It created a really nice foundation for our family on something that is very important, which is having Judaism be a part of our children’s lives, as our kids go to a Jewish day school now.” Rachel noted that although Judaism was a big part of her family growing up, she grew up in a very small town in Ohio and there weren’t many children she grew up with who were Jewish. “I alway felt like a an outcast, so this trip was the first time in my life I had been surrounded by Jewish people,” she said. “ It was a really comfortable thing.”
While Justin didn’t grow up with a strong Jewish background, he wants his children to have the opportunity to have a Jewish education and make it a strong part of their lives. He looks back at the trip as the pivotal moment that changed the trajectory of both his and Rachel’s lives.
“My wife was able to start a stable family and have children, and it helped me figure out what drives me and what’s my purpose,” he said. “That’s what the trip did for us. Hopefully our kids see what’s important to Rachel and I and how stable our relationship is, and we hope to be a model to them as they grow up and eventually find their own partners.”
Rachel said, “I had been to Israel before when I was younger with my family, while Justin had not, and for people growing up Jewish in America, I think it’s so important to go to Israel.”
“I hope to find more time there as we get older and as our children get older,” she continued.”I think the trip itself has this amazing love story from it, and that also makes Israel that much more of a special place.”
Rachel and Justin Fishman of Philadelphia, PA with their three children.
“I had been to Israel before when I was younger with my family, while Justin had not, and for people growing up Jewish in America, I think it’s so important to go to Israel.” ~ Rachel Fishman
The Konhauzers from Boca Raton, FL
It was instant love for both Liana and Kyle Konhauzer of Boca Raton, FL when they met each other on a Birthright Israel Mayanot trip in June 2010 as University of Central Florida students. Although they were both UCF students at the time, Liana, 33, and Kyle, 35, never met each other before the trip. Liana had attended JNF-USA’s alternative spring break and was therefore ineligible for Birthright, so she staff-led the trip with Chabad at UCF and met Kyle there.
Liana and Kyle got married in June 2014. They have a little boy named Jackson, who already has a Plant Your Way fund within JNF-USA.
Kyle said meeting Liana on the trip “was super meaningful.”
“How unexpected is it that on your first trip ever to Israel, you find your future wife,” he said. Liana, who is JNF-USA’s associate director, South Florida, said she feels 100 percent that this trip strengthened both her and her husband’s already strong Jewish identities and devotion to Israel.
“It’s definitely why I wanted to pursue a career in the Jewish communal field, because I had such a special experience meeting Kyle on the trip and I want other people to be able to not just have the opportunity to potentially meet their spouses, but to meet their lifelong friends and make connections,” she said. “When I raise money for Israel, which is what I do at JNF-USA, it’s personal.”
Kyle is an attorney whose firm, Kanner & Pintaluga in Boca Raton, is sponsoring JNF-USA’s Lawyers for Israel Society’s events for the entire season. He said the trip was certainly meaningful in developing his Jewish identity.
“We now have a two-year old that’s been in day care at a temple for basically his entire life,” he said. “I went to Hebrew school, a Jewish high school and Jewish summer camps, so it[trip] definitely reinforced me in wanting to have the same upbringing for our little guy.”
Kyle and Liana Konhauzer of Boca Raton, FL at the Western Wall in Israel.
“How unexpected is it that on your first trip ever to Israel, you find your future wife.” ~Kyle Konhauzer
The Steinbergs from Scottsdale, AZ
A friendship formed among two young professionals during a weeklong trip in Israel eventually turned romantic.
In 2016, Dr. Josh and Gabby Steinberg of Scottsdale, AZ met each other in JNF-USA’s Jewish Volunteer Vacation (JVV), a weeklong trip in Israel where young professionals ages 22-40 from across the U.S. spent their time volunteering at the organization’s philanthropic sites across Israel.
Josh, 33, and Gabby, 34, started dating each other after the trip, got married in October 2021, and are expecting a baby in February.
Josh, who is a dentist, was so inspired by this trip, that he became a leader within JNF-USA and now serves as a member of the organization’s National JNFuture Board of Directors and is a member of the JNFuture Board of Directors in Arizona.
“JVV changed our lives,” Josh said. “Our trip hashtag was “#lovegrowsinisrael but little did we know how literal it was. Over the week of volunteering, not only did our connection to Israel blossom but so did our relationship. Six years later, we are still very involved with Jewish National Fund-USA, and that was rooted with JVV. We recommend anyone looking for their beshert to spend the week with other volunteer focused individuals helping the land of Israel.”
Gabby, who works in public health, is involved in JNF-USA’s Disabilities Task Force, where she is most active in Special in Uniform.
Both Josh and Gabby are grateful they were able to meet and start a lasting bond on the trip.
“I think one of the things I always believed in is if you do good things, you’ll find other people who do good things too,” Josh said. “I think that’s why we were both on a volunteer trip. There were other people who had similar values.”
Gabby said this trip allowed them to experience Israel and visit places that they wouldn’t typically go to as normal tourists.
“To also meet Josh in it was icing on the cake,” she said.
The Steinbergs feel the trip helped to strengthen their already strong Jewish identities. “I think any trip to Israel can definitely do that, as well as finding someone who shares your same values and love for Israel,” Gabby said.
Josh said, “ I think JNF is a way in which we feel we’re doing something in helping out Israel, even though we’re not living there in Israel.”
“We’re helping the people who live there,” he continued.
Both Gabby and Josh plan to introduce their child to JNF-USA at an appropriate age. They also plan to send their child to a Jewish preschool.
Visit jnf.org/travel to learn more about the organization’s upcoming missions to Israel.
Dr. Josh and Gabby Steinberg of Scottsdale, AZ volunteering during a Jewish National Fund-USA mission trip in Israel.
“Our trip hashtag was “#lovegrowsinisrael but little did we know how literal it was. Over the week of volunteering, not only did our connection to Israel blossom but so did our relationship.” ~ Josh Steinberg
Twelve or Eleven-year-old Ayel Morgenstern of Boca Raton, FL is connecting with others by spreading kindness and love through mitzvah projects.
For years, Ayel – a sixth grade student at North Broward Preparatory School in Coconut Creek, FL – has used her artistic talent and what she considers are strong Jewish values for these projects.
Ayel’s story first went viral when she was six years old as she painted hundreds of rocks to adorn tombstones that were vandalized in Jewish cemeteries in different parts of the United States. She has worked on several other kindness projects since then.
“I want to do mitzvahs and I want to inspire others,” Ayel said enthusiastically. “I have done many projects to help the whole world.”
Following Hurricane Ian’s recent devastation in Southwest Florida, Ayel has once again been showcasing her artistic talent to connect with others through kindness and love.
“I really wanted to connect with people, and I also really wanted to help other people who went through this [Hurricane Ian],” Ayel said.
For her recent project, Ayel painted “Kvelling Hearts,” which are colorful, whimsical hearts. Kvelling means happy in Yiddish. Proceeds from her artwork have been donated to the organization, All Hands Volunteers and Happy Hearts Fund, to help heal and console the people of Southwest Florida, specifically by rebuilding homes. Ayel has so far surpassed her goal of raising $1,000.
“Each heart is different in their own special way, just like us,” Ayel said. “I have strong strong Jewish values.”
Ayel said it’s very important for her to incorporate Jewish values through these projects.
Ayel’s mother, Lauren Morgenstern, said, “We have strong Jewish values and roots.”
“We always try to incorporate that into our daily lives, and we hope that our children pass it on to their children,” Lauren Morgenstern continued.
Ayel’s also working on “Sunny Side Up,” an art project in which she’s collaborating with the Jewish Volunteer Center of the Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County and The Soup Kitchen in Boynton Beach, FL to beautify the Soup Kitchen.
Ayel loves connecting with others on these projects because it’s “powerful and impactful” to her.
In early 2021, Ayel wrote a letter and poem to U.S. President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris telling them about the projects she has worked one. She recently received a signed letter from the White House recognizing her and her projects.
“It made me feel very excited,” Ayel said in response to receiving the letter.
Among Ayel’s projects that can be considered impactful is “Sunny Seats,” which consists of wooden chairs and benches that she painted in memory of the 17 victims who died during the shooting tragedy at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, FL on Feb, 14, 2018. It’s a personal project for her as she lived in Parkland at the time of the shooting.
“Ayel was only in first grade at the time and her elementary school was literally within walking distance from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School,” Lauren Morgenstern said. “She saw everything, and she wanted to paint 17 chairs for the 17 lives that were lost. They have been distributed all across the city of Parkland, and since then, I’ve lost count on how many chairs and benches she has painted, as they’re all across the country now, including in schools and libraries. She continues to paint as she loves to paint and loves to connect with others through art. “
Lauren Morgenstern explained if there was anything that influenced her daughter to work on the projects.
“From when she was at a very early age, I have always had art supplies in the house,” she said. “Ayel’s always been an artistic child. She’s always been a dancer. I had her in dance at 18 months, so she’s musically very gifted and she’s obviously gifted in art. She was also painting when she was just 18 months and she was painting on canvases. I always say that my house is Michaels on steroids as I have everything, and I do believe that had some type of influence on how connected she is with art.”Visit instagram.com/ayel_rocks_kindness/ or twitter.com/ayel4kindness for more information on Ayel and her projects, including the fundraiser to help Hurricane Ian victims.
Since the pandemic, more remote workers are coming to Boise, Idaho, trading dense, urban cities for a down-to-earth, outdoorsy place seen as desirable to relocate.
No one could be more excited than Rabbi Mendel Lifshitz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Idaho and his wife Esther, who have 11 children. For 18 years, the religious couple has slowly eked out a Jewish community despite the relatively small number of Jews.
All that has changed in the past few years.
“During the pandemic, we’ve had a really huge spurt,” he said. “It has opened people’s eyes to the fact that they can choose where to live as opposed to being told where to live. I’d say more people moved here in the last two or three years than have moved here in the whole decade.”
Among the many newcomers are Jews who have found their new and sometimes first spiritual home in Chabad of Idaho. They are attracted to Chabad’s authenticity and welcoming attitude. Every Jew is encouraged to participate, regardless of affiliation and ability to pay.
Israeli-American Dan Berger, an entrepreneur, left the east coast for a road trip to pass time during the first wave of covid. “What I didn’t realize is that I was actually following my spirit.”
Boise became his new home and “Chabad has become a key part of my integration. It has given me the spirituality I was seeking, but more so an authentic community of people who share the same values.”
Chabad of Idaho is in the midst of expanding facilities including building a mikvah, after a successful fundraising campaign. Berger is chair of the building committee.
The Lifshitzes started a Hebrew school many years ago with three students. Now there are 30. They are running a camp this summer with over 25 children. There’s a women’s circle, adult education and teen programs. Then there are regular Shabbat services and a community dinner on the first Friday of every month.
Lifshitz remembers when “we couldn’t get a minyan together. Now we have one every week.”
Boise is atypical for a city of 230,000. “There’s no Jewish Federation, no JCC. There’s a Reform temple and there’s Chabad. That’s it,” Lifshitz said.
“When we moved here there was really zilch as far as traditional Jewish life,” and only 750 to 1,000 Jews. Now it has doubled. Until the Lifshitzes put down roots, roving Lubavitch rabbis visited Boise for four decades.
“There was never any attempt or undertaking to establish a permanent presence until we were asked to do so. “We had Chabad in our house,” said Lifshitz, who, like his wife, is in his early 40s. “We opened our doors and reached out to anybody we could meet.”
With such a small community, the Lifshitzes took the approach of cultivating one Jew at a time. “The Jewish community in Idaho is handcrafted. It’s not assembly-line Judaism. The Talmud teaches us that every person is an entire world and you really feel it out here. You know every person on a first-name basis. We’re connected and we have deep relationships with people.
“We offer basically everything that a very large Chabad center offers just on a microcosmic scale.” Still, the community has grown so much that “we literally cannot keep up. We need to hire more staff.”
The nearest big city is Salt Lake City, five hours away. “There are so many challenges here. There’s no kosher food so we make a community order to ship in.”
The Lifshitzes were assigned to Boise when they asked the Chabad Lubavitch organization for a posting in 2004. Esther was from South Africa and Mendel, from Cincinnati. She had never heard of Idaho. Before settling in Boise, Lifshitz, then a rabbinical student, had been on assignment in over 30 countries. “Boise was a big change for us. Both of us decided after we got married that we were interested in pioneering somewhere. We got more than we bargained for.”
What the Lifshitzes like about Boise is the friendliness, down-to-earth mentality and openness to Jewish tradition. “I love the fact that we came to a blank slate where we could really paint the tapestry. That was a big challenge, a big calling and an even bigger privilege. That has been really something remarkable, rewarding and enriching.”
Eve Levy is the granddaughter of four survivors, one of whom came from Warsaw and lost a hundred family members in the Holocaust.
The 41-year-old Orthodox Rebbetzin and mother of six draws inspiration every day from her two bubbes, who lived to be 98 and 100. She leads Jewish women on heritage trips to Israel and the Diaspora, all the while connecting them to Judaism in ways that are meaningful to them. She also co-directs an adult Jewish learning center on the Chicago north shore with her husband Rabbi Gadi Levy.
“My bubbes were a part of my life until I was 39 years old,” Levy said. “I grew up with such unconditional love from them. They were my best friends. They were my cheerleaders. They would always say, ‘Eveleh, you could do anything. You could change the world.’”
It was a trip to Poland and Auschwitz at age 18 that gave Levy her aha moment in life. “I happened to be in the gas chambers. There was this realization that if they all survived for me to stand here today, I have to do something extraordinary with my life. That’s when I really leaned into my faith and my Judaism and decided to make a difference in the Jewish world.”
Taking women to Israel to share her love of the land and of the Jewish people is Levy’s favorite part of her work. She has led 15 Momentum trips since 2010 and has more recently formed her own organization that leads adventure and immersive trips called Inspired Jewish Women.
The Poland-Israel Journey is especially meaningful to her. “Poland has over a thousand years of Jewish history. That trip is a very deep experience for me; it’s literally like a part of my soul.”
Hundreds of women have traveled with Levy to Israel “to rejuvenate their spark to Judaism. We provide inspiring and recharging trips for Jewish growth-oriented women who are looking to reconnect.”
Trips, like an upcoming one to Morocco, have sold out. “There’s definitely a big need and a thirst. After a couple of years of Covid-19, I think people are really ready to have community and experiences that are really transformational.”
Travelers range from children and grandchildren of survivors to Jews by choice. “They want to learn about the history that they have stepped into. We’ve even taken some non-Jewish women on that trip and it’s been so life-changing for them.”
After visiting Poland and Israel, women clamored for another trip. “They said, ‘where are you going to go next?’ And they literally said they don’t care where we go as long as we go together.”
Levy tried something adventurous and different by taking a group to Thailand. They had Shabbat with 300 Israelis at Chabad House in Bangkok. “I love showing and experiencing how we’re all so similar. Like we could go into a synagogue in Bangkok and they’re singing the same tunes you grew up with at your synagogue.”
“We’re one people, with one G-d, one Torah. There is much more that unites us than separates us. So that’s a very big underlying theme of all my experiences in life. It’s unity without uniformity. The same way we can be Jewish in our own way and yet have so much in common. That’s really what I run all of my experiences with that premise and there’s no judgment. Everyone’s coming from different places and that’s OK.”
Levy’s parents became gradually more religious during her upbringing in Canada. Her mother was a public-school teacher for over 40 years and her father was a CFO for RENA, a Jewish foundation for handicapped adults.
She met her South African husband, Gadi, 22 years ago on a blind date. It was love at first sight for Levy and this young rabbi. They got engaged after their third date. “It was just a matter of getting my parents comfortable with it. It was clear that we were meant to be together. It was a choice, a good decision. One of the best ones I’ve made.”
Eve Levy said that Gadi grew up with a very different Judaism. “He grew up with prayers, laws and observance. My family came into it very slowly. He came from a long line of rabbis. He was very knowledgeable about Judaism and it was always his dream to become a rabbi. He’s also mohel so he’s passionate about bringing Jewish baby boys into the covenant of Abraham.” He flies around the world for families having a ritual circumcision ceremony.
Since July of 2021, the couple’s L’Chaim Center in Deerfield, Illinois offers synagogue services and programming for Jewish adults. More than 1,000 people attend throughout the year. Before coming to the L’Chaim Center, the couple served in other communities that included Portland and Denver.
At L-Chaim, they offer adult education classes, Shabbat and holiday services, including for the High Holy Days. They offer marriage, parenting classes, a course on “Women, Wisdom and Wine” for mothers as well as “Torah and Tequila” for young fathers.
“We attract multi-generational people from many different synagogues, sometimes three generations come to our programs. We’re not a place for a certain type of Jew. It happens to be that my husband’s rabbinical ordination was Orthodox and I gradually became Orthodox. We’re here to show Jews the beauty of their heritage.
“We have the full heart of the Jewish people,” Levy said of the L’Chaim Center and Inspired Jewish Women. “This is not a job. This is our passion. We don’t sleep some nights because there is too much to do and we have all the energy for it because when you love what you do, you can do anything. You have a why.
“We believe in the Jewish people. We believe in the destiny of the Jewish people. It has to be good; it has to be strong. We don’t want to just survive; we want to thrive. My grandparents didn’t survive the hell that they survived in the Holocaust for us to assimilate. So I feel a lot of power and passion towards standing up for my brothers and sisters, making sure that they know what it means to be a Jew and how beautiful it is and how enriching their lives could be if they just take what is rightfully theirs.”
Haggadah Collective weaves tradition with unique elements in adult and children’s versions.
For Pearl Richman of The Haggadah Collective, Passover evokes memories of setting the table for her mother’s large seders in a small apartment, then creating the same kind of ambiance in her own home and constantly adding personal, inspirational notes to the standard, easy-to-follow Haggadah that everyone used. Richman, a teacher for 35 years, wanted people to have a seder experience that mattered, including things that resonated with her family.
Eventually, the pile of research and add-ons became overwhelming, and Richman, who is from Toronto, “spent a summer putting together what I wanted to use that was unique, beautiful and elevating,” along with the traditional elements of the seder. She filled it with photos and artwork to make it a living Haggadah, presented it to her mother, Lil Brown, and started using it. Seeing the project as a Hiddur Mitzvah – taking the mitzvah, elevating it and making it more beautiful – Richman wanted to share her creation.
“My friends really liked it,” Richman revealed. “The following year, we went to a local bookstore and sold 500 copies. We had book signings set up, and then COVID hit.”
Undaunted, Richman came up with a new version, one that had a voice for kids. The Kids Haggadah matches up well with the adult version, so that everyone is literally on the same page. She also did some revisions to the adult version.
“The third illustrator we chose worked well for the right looks on the adult Haggadah,” Richman said. “We gave the illustrator the names of my sisters who had passed away, and they came alive. There are photographs of a candlestick and a bowl for matzah that belonged to them. We wanted to bring things that mattered to our family to everyone. We could hang onto the connection, because love never goes away.”
While embracing the tradition and the order of the seder, Richman uses gender-neutral text and sometimes changes words to be more compassionate and inclusive. When talking about the four children, she replaces “wicked” and “simple” with “challenging” and “innocent.” Instead of the traditional four cups of wine, there are five, with the fifth one to honor refugees and displaced persons. The orange on the seder plate represents marginalized people, Miriam’s Cup honors women in the Pesach story and the broken “Matzah of Anguish and Hope” reminds us to support the people of Israel whose lives are continually shattered by terrorism. There is a page on why Elijah is relevant.
A special touch is the fifth child lost to the Holocaust. Brown brought the concept of the Fifth Child to the seders when Richman was a child, emphasizing the importance of never forgetting about the child who did not survive and thus could not ask a question. “The impact was never lost on me,” Richman said.
Thanks to Richman’s friend, who was also the child of survivors, The Haggadah Collective has joined forces with One More Candle, an initiative that is committed to remembering every one of the 1.5 million children murdered in the Holocaust. By lighting a candle for these children, people can remember and honor the names that have never been said out loud.
Richman worked with her daughter, Maxie, a master’s student in Child Study and Education, to create Hug-It-Out, A Lil Haggadah for Kids. Emphasizing kindness and inclusiveness, the children’s Haggadah “is a love letter to children,” said Richman. The 47-page, full-color Haggadah follows the adventures of Annie and her brother Arnie as they prepare for and experience the seder. While telling the Passover story and providing what Richman considers important ideas, Hug-It-Out is fun and easy to understand, even including kid-friendly recipes. It incorporates the fifth child, illustrated by Annie and Arnie holding hands, gazing at the stars that represent the million bright lights lost during the Holocaust.
Educators loved the children’s Haggadah, according to Richman. She had 400 copies printed, and they immediately sold out. Today she is selling the Haggadot in two shops and three websites and adding to her repertoire.
Last year Richman designed a matzo cover and afikomen set with the motif of half of a Jewish star. She also created coasters with the ten plagues on them for seder participants to use after dipping their fingers in the wine. She is designing a seder plate, as well as a challah board and challah cover for Rosh Hashanah.
“If I can help to provide a way to celebrate holidays that resonates with people, then I feel good about it,” Richman said. “It’s a mitzvah to bring beauty and meaning into the home.”
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