Kolot is dedicated to changing the face of Jewish society in Israel by promoting social involvement and commitment stemming from a renewed and profound knowledge of Jewish sources.

Kolot trains lay and professional leaders who will become active partners in guiding the process of Israeli cultural and social formation, through original educational programming based on the open and innovative study of Torah.

 

Kolot's programs provide extraordinary impetus for leadership and Jewish development:

The Kolot Leadership Learning Program aims to create a desperately needed lay leadership and attract social activists from a wide range of fields.

The Kolot Tehuda Program prepares professional leaders for realizing and promoting communal and social projects.

The Kolot Beit Midrash brings together men and women from different backgrounds to explore Jewish sources in the context of modern social issues.

The Virtual Beit Midrash expands the circle of students in Kolot, enabling more people to study Jewish sources through an advanced digitized environment, designed especially for Kolot's needs.

The Bavli-Yerushalmi Project is dedicated to a renewal of Israel-Diaspora relations through dialogue and joint learning.

Kolot in the Community:  These are unique learning groups in which Jewish texts that touch upon the life of the community and the individual are explored and translated into social mores.  In 5766, groups will be inaugurated in Modiin, Tzur Yigal, and Ra’anana. 

“Ailing and Healing”: This Beit Midrash, a joint program of Kolot and the Sheba Medical Center’s National Center for Medical Simulation, is initiating a special learning group for caregivers and doctors, nurses, mental health professionals, and welfare workers.  The studies integrate two kinds of content: that related to medicine and treatment and that stemming from Jewish texts throughout the ages. 

“Alienation, Eros, and Monarchy: A Television and Film Workshop on the Book of Ruth”:  This learning group for television and film creators will deal with issues raised in the Book of Ruth: estrangement and our relationship to outsiders; love and lust; redemption and leadership.  These studies will form the basis for an original Israeli creation to be produced in cooperation with the country’s leading production houses.

Kolot and the Nisan Nativ Acting School: Participants in this joint project include second-year students at the Nisan Nativ studio who, in addition to studying acting, spend one day a week learning Jewish texts related to Jewish culture; based on this material, the students will stage a performance.