Jewish and Torah Tech Projects: A Curated Collection

This is a curated collection of technological projects for Jewish religious life. It covers AI tools, Hebrew calendar utilities, text study platforms, MCP servers, home automation, and more. The list focuses on projects specifically intended for religiously observant Jews, rather than general Israel/Israeli tech projects.

GitHub: danielrosehill/Jewish-AI-Projects

AI Chatbots and Assistants

• AI Torah — AI-powered Torah learning platform with personalized paths, interactive tutors, and multilingual access

• ChavrutAI — Web app making the Talmud more accessible through a digital interface

• Jude the Judaic ChatBot — Local AI study assistant using Sefaria corpus and Ollama with Hebrew support

• Rabbi AI — AI chatbot providing Jewish wisdom and Torah knowledge with verified source citations

• Rebbe.io — AI-powered rabbi providing Torah insights and halacha answers

• Torah Scholar — AI-powered Jewish text research across Tanach, Talmud, and commentaries

• Kosher AI — AI assistant for Jewish life

• KosherGPT — GPT-powered assistant for kosher and Jewish topics

• Rav Chat — AI assistant for Torah study

APIs and Developer Resources

• Hebcal API — Jewish calendar API with holidays, zmanim, and more

• Sefaria API — REST API for accessing Sefaria's library of Jewish texts

• TorahCalc API — API for Torah-related calculations and conversions

Calendar and Zmanim Libraries

• Hebcal — A perpetual Jewish calendar (C, ES6, Go implementations)

• KosherJava Zmanim — Comprehensive Java library for calculating zmanim (halachic times)

• KosherZmanim — JavaScript/TypeScript library for calculating zmanim

• pyluach — Python library for Jewish calendar dates

MCP Servers (Model Context Protocol)

• Hebcal MCP — Hebrew calendar and zmanim calculations via MCP

• Otzaria MCP Server — Makes the Jewish library accessible to LLMs with full-text search

• Sefer Graph — Torah citation knowledge graph with 1.9M+ citations via MCP

• Zmanim MCP Server — MCP server for calculating Jewish prayer times for any location

Jewish Texts and Study Tools

• Otzaria — A modern app that brings the Jewish library to every device

• Sefaria Project — Open source platform for Jewish texts with extensive API

• Parsha Map — Interactive Torah portions on an ancient Near East map with historical context

Home Assistant and Smart Home

• Home Assistant Jewish Calendar — Official integration for Jewish calendar sensors

• Jewish Sabbaths and Holidays — Home Assistant integration for Shabbat and Yom Tov times via HebCal API

• Shabbat Card — Animated Shabbat/Yom Tov status card for Home Assistant with sun-driven sky and melting candle

Shabbat Tools

• Pause for Shabbat — Auto-sets Outlook email autoresponder for Shabbat

• Shabbat Blocker — JavaScript file that blocks usage on Shabbat

• Shabbat Timetable — Universal Shabbat prayer timetable generator using Hebcal API

AI Transcription

• Sofer.ai — AI transcription for shiurim with multilingual support (English, Hebrew, Aramaic, Yiddish)

Datasets

• Sefaria English Library — English-language Jewish text library on Hugging Face

• Sefaria Hebrew Library — Hebrew-language Jewish text library on Hugging Face

The full repository includes many more projects across categories like Kosher/Kashrut tools, NLP and text analysis, daily learning schedules, custom GPTs, and development components. Visit the GitHub repository for the complete list.