Beit Tefilah Israeli
ORGANIZATION DESCRIPTION
Founded in 2004, Beit Tefilah Israeli is an inclusive Jewish-Israeli grassroots community offering meaningful Jewish-cultural ritual, study and community life to the general Israeli public. It works to provide a variety of liberal and egalitarian Jewish-Israeli community gatherings and programming for Shabbat and holiday services, lifecycle events and Jewish-Israeli identity exploration. While its summer Shabbat and holiday public sphere programs are at its core, Beit Tefilah also celebrates weekly Shabbat services throughout the year at its home in central Tel Aviv, engages the community in social action programs, provides workshops for IDF officers, conducts education programming in schools and works to expose other communities to its innovative style of prayer.
FIELD OF INTEREST
grant programs
Open Tent Shabbat and Holidays: Israeli-Judaism in the Public Sphere will serve nearly 100,000 Israelis per year through free, non-synagogue-based, inclusive Shabbat and holiday services in the public sphere.