After completing university and a two-year hitchhiking circumnavigation adventure around the world, Ira Kerem returned to Washington, D.C., his birthplace, and recruited friends to open up the Kosher Kitchen, history’s only anti-profit, collectively run, worker’s self managed kosher restaurant. After three and a half years there, he left to work in London as the director of Project Areivim, the World Union of Jewish Students’ Jewish peace corps. He then made aliyah to Israel where he worked for several non-profits, including representing US Jewish federations in Israel and a network of Jewish/Arab schools. He has hosted over 500 tourists in his Jerusalem apartment, been married, divorced, the father of four adult children, grandfather of four small children, and addicted to Israeli folk dancing. He is now active with Israelis who cook and provide food for those in need and can’t wait for the Coronavirus to be over so that he can start to host, travel, and begin new projects again.