Yonathan Reches

Yonathan Reches is a hide worker and scribe based in St. Paul, MN, where he lives with his spouse, child, and dog. He founded the Kedusha Project, a collective of artisans dedicated to equipping Jews to fulfill the embodied mitzvot through practices that are ethical and equitable. Yonathan’s work matches traditional craftsmanship to contemporary values, recovering and reimagining scribal methods long gatekept within insular communities. He produced the world’s first tefillin from roadkill and the first megillah on giraffe parchment. He is in the process of creating the world's first kosher, braille megillah, and he continues to look for ways to innovate the kedusha industry!