Inducing an impactful social change process rests on two pillars: recruiting and training social change agents and networking them. While the interfaith field in the Jewish world is still nascent, it already includes at least a dozen significant organizations, each doing its own unique work and bringing value to the field and to society at large. While most of the leaders, activists, and organizations in the field know each other and have crossed paths in the past, they were never brought together in an orderly manner. Hence, the field lacks coordination and some efforts are duplicated; and thus, it does not realize its full potential.
The Ohr Torah Interfaith Center wishes to position itself as the go-to place for interfaith work in the Jewish world. To this end, the Interfaith Center works to train leaders and activists in the field, network them, and provide them with relevant professional resources and tools. We aim to ignite a field-building process modeled after other successes from recent years, such as the fields of Jewish Intentional Communities (led by the Hakhel network), Jewish Peoplehood (led by the Reut Institute), caring for people with disabilities \(led by the Ruderman Foundation), the Trauma Coalition, and more.
