Rabbi Tamar Elad-Appelbaum is the Director of the Rabbanut Yisraelit Network and Co-Director of the Shalom Hartman Institute’s Ritual Center.
She serves as a board member of Tag Meir, 929, Meitarim Network, Yanshuf, IJCIC, is a Honey fellow, and was the recipient of the Hebrew University Flegg Prize and co-recipient of the Stulman prize.
Her work spans and links tradition and innovation, working toward Jewish spiritual-ethical renaissance through the renewal of community life in Israel and the struggle for human dignity.
Tamar served as rabbi of Congregation Magen Avraham in the Negev; as a congregational rabbi in White Plains New York alongside Rabbi Gordon Tucker. She is co-editor of the Mashiv Haruach Jerusalem poem anthology (2014), co-author of the Lev Shalem commentary for Pirkei Avot (2018).
In 2010 she was named by the Forward as one of the five most influential female religious leaders in Israel for her work promoting pluralism and Jewish religious freedom.
