The Article below ("pov.pdf") describes Rav Raanan's journeys throughout Emek Yisroel  (the Valley of Jezreel) with Chief Rabbi Dovid Lau and Ayelet Hashachar's work strengthening the residents for Rosh Hashanah.  During our journey we were honored to have Hanoch Albleck sing "Unetane Tokef," the famous prayer we all say on Rosh Hashanah, which brought people listening to tears. The melody was composed after the Yom Kippur War by Yair Rozenblum, and sung especially in memory of the eleven people from Kibbutz Beit Hashita killed during that war.   Please watch this moving moment:
 
 

 

 

Six ways to connect

Phone study, communities, encounters, the High Holidays, synagogues and special projects. In each, religious and secular Israelis meet without giving up who they are.

  • 16,000 participants

    Chavruta

    Religious and secular study partners learn together by phone once a week, matched by a trained staff, free of charge.

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  • Communities and Study Houses

    The Ayelet Hashachar community in the city: an open community, involved in city life. Every resident is invited to join meetings, workshops, holidays and a beit midrash for men and women.

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  • Bridging and Encounters

    Study tours, bar/bat mitzvah programs, talks for teenagers and meetings that let secular Israelis see into the lives of their religious neighbors.

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  • Yom Kippur

    A traditional Israeli Yom Kippur service in communities and kibbutzim, voluntary and open to anyone who wants to pray.

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  • 80 kibbutzim

    Building Synagogues

    Building, renovating and supporting synagogues in kibbutzim, moshavim and young communities.

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  • Special Projects

    Chavruta for the Lonely (in development), Together at Home, the Path of Life in Kiryat Shmona, a tent for prayer and study in Hostages Square, a synagogue in the Settlement Museum and more.

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