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Pluralism and Jewish Renewal within Israel

Helping expand programming that brings the voices of overseas Jewry to Israelis

The Jewish Agency partners with Israeli government agencies, for example, the Ministry of Culture and Sport and the Ministry of Diaspora Affairs, to make funding available to Jewish Renewal organizations, with the goal of expanding programming that brings the voices of overseas Jewry to Israelis, strengthens Jewish identity, and promotes tolerance.

The programs include study days, workshops, holiday celebrations, cultural events, tours, intergenerational programming, conferences, community development, and social activism with Jewish Renewal content. We also operate some programs directly, such as seminars for organizational leaders, at which they learn more about the diversity of Jewish expression around the world.

In addition to our Support for Streams funding, we make allocations to organizations that meet a strict list of criteria, including having both male and female leaders and educators, and reaching audiences across a wide geographic spread, with favor given to organizations in the periphery.

Among the more than 30 organizations receiving allocations this year are Hillel Israel, the Shalom Hartman Institute, the Israeli Beit Tefillah, the Leo Baeck Education Center, the Reform Movement in Israel, Ne’emanei Torah Va’Avodah, Gesher, Kulana – Youth in Yerucham, the Midrasha in Oranim, Atid Ba’Midbar (Future in the Desert), the Degel Yehudah Spanish Egalitarian Community, and many more.