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We are an energetic, people-centric movement that is fast becoming the choice for today’s generation of Jewish Israelis who crave a positive, meaningful, halachic experience of their Jewish identity.
We actively involve ourselves with everything relevant to Jewish society in Israel.
Our fresh and welcoming programs, services, and holiday experiences impact hundreds of thousands of families.
Our public policy work is successfully evolving workable solutions from within the Knesset, in response to national Jewish social and political issues.
Tzohar’s smart, can-do, approach to our ancient heritage in our modern Jewish State is keeping the Jewish people Jewish.
Tzohar
What is Tzohar All About
We are an energetic, people-centric movement that is fast becoming the choice for today’s generation of Jewish Israelis who crave a positive, meaningful, halachic experience of their Jewish identity.
We actively involve ourselves with everything relevant to Jewish society in Israel.
Our fresh and welcoming programs, services, and holiday experiences impact hundreds of thousands of families.
Our public policy work is successfully evolving workable solutions from within the Knesset, in response to national Jewish social and political issues.
Tzohar’s smart, can-do, approach to our ancient heritage in our modern Jewish State is keeping the Jewish people Jewish.
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Play a Part in Tzohar
Tzohar is your chance to join a growing international network of thousands of activists who are effecting change and actively building our movement in their local communities, initiating Tzohar events and activities, and cultivating relevance, respect, and sensitivity within Jewish society.
Whether you have five minutes to spare or you want to get deeply involved, Tzohar has a way for you to play a part.
- Subscribe to our email list to get breaking news and updates about important issues and events.
- Join a Tzohar holiday happening or utilize our grassroots services.
- Engage in advocacy, push for legislative reform, and spread the word in your community.
- Organize a local HUB or follow a certain issue.
Please browse through this website and find an area that appeals to you.
Tzohar Events & Activities
How to Get Involved
Tzohar is your chance to join a growing international network of thousands of activists who are effecting change and actively building our movement in their local communities, initiating Tzohar events and activities, and cultivating relevance, respect, and sensitivity within Jewish society.
Whether you have five minutes to spare or you want to get deeply involved, Tzohar has a way for you to play a part.
- Subscribe to our email list to get breaking news and updates about important issues and events.
- Join a Tzohar holiday happening or utilize our grassroots services.
- Engage in advocacy, push for legislative reform, and spread the word in your community.
- Organize a local HUB or follow a certain issue.
Kashrut
Tzohar Food Supervision
In response to growing demand for a reliable, professional and transparent national kashrut system, Tzohar has launched a food supervision subsidiary entitled “Tzohar Food Supervision”
By introducing competition, transparency, businesslike procedures, standards and controls – set by a respected committee of expert Rabbis – Tzohar is enabling more outlets to sell kosher food, with ease.
Our fresh, smart, innovative approach includes training women as kashrut supervisors; a breakthrough towards integrating women into Israel’s kashrut system.
Tzohar’s Food Supervision service is led by Rabbi Oren Duvdevani, an international expert on kashrut.
Jewish Ancestry - Shorashim
Tzohar Roots Investigation Unit
More than one million Israelis (around 20% of all Jews living in Israel) lack the tools and the knowledge necessary to authenticate their Jewish status and to live full Jewish lives.
Tzohar has responded by developing a ground-breaking methodology that combines proof of Jewish roots (shorashim) and forensic Investigation techniques with expert genealogical research skills.
Our Shorashim Forensic Unit is uniquely positioned to helps immigrants from the FSU, North and South America to confirm their Jewish roots and thus to legally marry as Jews in Israel.
To date we have successfully authenticated the Jewish identity of over 40,000 Jews.
Israel’s Knesset
Public Policy
Global Unity Project for Yom Kippur 5785
While the war has taken over our consciousness, the scars felt in Israel from the confrontations that took place last year Yom Kippur – shouting and fist fights between Jew and Jew, some wrapped in talisses and holding siddurs, others with placards, whistles and megaphones – are still all too fresh. While the war has put a “band-aid” on the divisions between secular and religious, the rifts have recently begun to resurface.
As an organization that is widely respected by both sides of the divide, we at Tzohar have undertaken to promote healing. We will mount a global campaign aimed to help unify our people, including the following simple but impactful activities:
1. A call for all in Israel to join one of Tzohar’s ~400 Tzohar Yom Kippur services.
2. A special Yom Kippur prayer.
3. Global connection.
The initiative has been joined by numerous partners: the Koren publishing house, the Rabbi Sacks Heritage Fund, Torah Mitzion, Young Israel, World Mizrahi and more.
To join the project and to download the Prayer for Unity, click here: https://tzohar-eng.org/unity/
Recommendations for the 2024 Tishrei Tefillot In Light of the “Swords of Iron” War
How can communities celebrate the High Holidays – especially Simchat Torah – this year? This is the question that is being asked across Israel and across the world – by rabbis, communities and the public at large.
To answer this fraught-with-emotion question, Tzohar’s rabbis met in a special session, and have distilled their thoughts and suggestions into a uniquely sensitive and straightforward halachic guide. With a deep understanding of the needs of the hour, it offers special and adapted prayers, instructions for modifications of holiday customs, and suggestions for steps that can be taken to strengthen unity across Israeli society and the Jewish world.
The booklet is intended for all Jews looking to instill relevance and connection into their prayers while remaining faithful to the past, whether as individuals seeking meaning, families facing hardship, or entire communities coming to terms with our unprecedented reality. It provides a spiritual and practical solution for anyone trying to balance the joy of the holiday with the complex national reality and offers suggestions for ways to deal with the unique challenges of the year.
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