AI Literacy for Jewish Organizations
Practical AI training for the people responsible for Jewish education, communication, leadership, and trust.
I help Jewish communal professionals use AI without surrendering accuracy, confidentiality, Jewish knowledge, or human responsibility.
Your staff are already using AI.
Unevenly, often without guidance, and sometimes without discussing it openly — while AI features arrive built into platforms your organization already uses.
These tools can fabricate quotations and sources in the same confident language they use for accurate information. They can distort Jewish history and text, expose confidential information, blur authorship, and create serious reputational risk.
An organization that transmits Jewish knowledge cannot afford staff who can't tell fluent output from accurate output.
Jewish communal settings
- Synagogues
- Day schools & supplementary schools
- Federations
- JCCs
- Camps & youth organizations
- Jewish nonprofits & agencies
Three ways to bring this to your staff
Staff Workshop
Live demonstrations of where these tools fail, a verification habit staff can apply immediately, and clear boundaries for what should not enter an unapproved AI system.
Half-Day Intensive
Everything in the workshop, plus hands-on practice across real staff roles, departmental scenarios, privacy boundaries, and a facilitated first outline of the organization's staff guidance and unresolved policy questions.
Implementation Series
Shared staff guidance for approved uses, confidential information, and escalation; role-specific use cases; and standards for reviewing AI-assisted work — actual organizational outputs, not just learning.
Designed for effective virtual or on-site delivery. Pricing includes a preparation call, organization-specific scenarios developed without requiring confidential information, and participant resources. Virtual delivery is available worldwide; on-site delivery and travel are quoted based on location. Final scope and pricing depend on audience size, customization, delivery requirements, and organizational goals.
A verification habit staff can use immediately
A four-part HevrutAI verification framework
Source
Where did this claim come from — and can I inspect the original?
Accuracy
Does the source actually support what this output says?
Challenge
What evidence, context, or opposing interpretation is missing?
Responsibility
Am I prepared to put my name — and my institution's — on it?
- A clear picture of what these tools actually do — and why fluent, confident-sounding output is not necessarily accurate
- Live demonstrations of the failures that matter in Jewish communal work: invented sources, distorted Jewish history, false attribution, and uncritical agreement
- A Jewish framework throughout — attribution, interpretation, and responsibility for what we transmit
- A one-page reference card staff use long after the session ends
Why a Jewish-specific training?
Jewish communal work depends on accurate attribution, responsible interpretation, inherited memory, and trust between people and institutions. AI disrupts each of those practices. This training uses Jewish texts and learning traditions not as decoration, but as working tools for source integrity, disagreement, transmission, and human accountability.
Attribution
Repeating teachings in the name of their source — the discipline that keeps transmission trustworthy.
Humility
Learning to say "I do not know" — the discipline these tools were never taught.
Machloket
Disagreement as a discipline rather than automatic affirmation — what Jewish learning asks of a partner.
Built by a working Jewish communal professional
This training comes from daily practice, not abstract observation. I use these tools in my own work running teen engagement, leadership training, and family programming — and I've spent more than a year building with them hands-on: websites, workflows, research systems, and educational tools.
I founded HevrutAI, an independent Jewish AI-literacy and verification initiative, and my writing and educational work examine Jewish life, technology, memory, and information integrity. I translate between the AI world and the Jewish communal world because I live in both.
Stacy La Mell · Founder, HevrutAI
Before you ask
Do participants need AI experience?
No. The workshop is designed for mixed-comfort staff teams — from daily users to people who have never opened one of these tools.
Which AI tools are covered?
The training focuses on transferable judgment rather than promoting one platform. Demonstrations may include widely used tools and AI features already present in organizational software.
Do we need an existing AI policy?
No. The 90-minute workshop can help identify what the organization needs to clarify next. The half-day and implementation series support deeper organizational guidance.
Is this legal, cybersecurity, or compliance advice?
No. The training helps staff develop sound judgment and identify questions that should be escalated. Organizations should involve their own legal, IT, security, HR, and policy professionals where appropriate.
Will we have to share confidential materials?
No. Scenarios can reflect your work without requiring confidential constituent, donor, student, personnel, or pastoral information.
Can this be delivered virtually?
Yes. The virtual workshop is designed as a fully interactive format — polls, chat exercises, and paired investigation — not a reduced version of the on-site session.
How many participants does standard pricing cover?
Standard workshop pricing is designed for one organizational team. Larger multi-agency or conference audiences are quoted separately.
A 20-minute conversation
Tell me what your teams are running into, and I'll shape a session around your actual pain points — no generic slide decks.
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