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