Rabbi Tamar Elad Appelbaum
Rabbi Tamar Elad Appelbaum is the founder and the spiritual leader of Kehilat Zion in Jerusalem, an emerging community of Israeli Jews of all backgrounds, gathering together to re-dream Jerusalem as a meeting point for all. She is also the co-founder of the seminary for Eretz Israeli rabbis of Hamidrasha and the Hartman institute. Her work spans and links tradition and innovation, working toward Jewish spiritual and ethical renaissance. She devotes much of her energy to the renewal of community life in Israel and the struggle for human rights. In 2010 she was named by the Forward as one of the most influential female religious leaders in Israel for her work promoting pluralism and Jewish religious freedom.
