Rabbi Tamar Elad-Appelbaum is the founder of Zion: An Eretz Israeli Community in Jerusalem, and the co-founder and co-head of the Beit Midrash for Israeli Rabbis at the Hartman Institute and Ha Midrasha at Oranim, as well as co-founder and co-head of the Ritual Center.

Board member of Tag Meir, Voice of the people global Jewish Council of the Israel’s Presidents House, The Civil Commission, 929, Meitarim, A Land for All, council of Religious leaders of Judur Shorashim, Yanshuf,
IJCIC, and more.
Honey fellow, recipient of the Hebrew University Flegg Prize, and co-recipient of the Stulman prize.
Rabbi Tamars 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.

Served as rabbi of Congregation Magen Avraham in the Negev; as congregational rabbi in White Plains
New York alongside Rabbi Gordon Tucker, co-editor of the Mashiv Haruach Jerusalem poem anthology (2014), co-author of the Lev Shalem commentary for Pirkei Avot (2018).

In 2010 was named by the Forward as one of the five most influential female religious leaders in Israel for her work promoting pluralism and religious freedom.