2007 - 2008 Board of Directors

Devorah Worch is mom to Akiba-Schechter students Liba, Volvy, and Mordechai Yosef. She is consistently amazed at how happy her kids are at Akiba and how the school meets their developmental and intellectual challenge needs.

Devorah grew up in suburban Detroit, and studied classical music and ethnomusicology at the University of Michigan. After a brief period in China, she worked for five years in New York City in the fashion industry, importing clothing from the Far East. At this time, she began studying Jewish thought and practice, sampling some of the rich Chassidic traditions in the New York area equally through the intellectual lens of cultural anthropology and the emotional experience of resounding personal transformation. She continued these studies in Jerusalem, leaving Israel to marry and start her family in 1992. Devorah and her children moved to Chicago in 1998 to begin a new life as a single parent family. After a detour in computer programming, her professional work has centered on sales and marketing functions. She has maintained formal and informal Jewish communal work, teaching, planning events and serving on various committees, and most currently spearheading a new project geared to raising money and awareness for Jewish Day Schools, the Superfund for Jewish Education and Continuity.

Devorah enjoys spending time with her children, bike riding, camping, reading, visiting Chicago's lake and excellent museums, baking, or just being “lazy” together. She practices Iyengar yoga, is a beginning runner, and learns classical Jewish mussar and Chassidic texts.


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