The Challenge
Jewish community members used 10+ fragmented apps for prayer times, kosher info, Torah content, and events. No single trusted source for religious guidance, local community connection, or Jewish-friendly services existed.
Our Solution
Comprehensive digital platform bringing together faith, community, and daily life:
AI Religious Assistant
Provides instant answers to Jewish law and religious questions using OpenAI for intent detection and multi-step reasoning. Google Cloud Vision API processes scanned religious texts through OCR, while a LangChain-based RAG system retrieves answers from trusted sources embedded as vectors in PostgreSQL (pgvector).
Community Hub
Connects users with local Jewish life through AI-assisted event discovery and social connections. Custom agentic workflow reasons over user location and subscription preferences to recommend nearby events, synagogues, and kosher businesses.
Religious Resources
Digital Siddur, IsItKosher database, 10,000+ Jewish texts, and music streaming powered by semantic search. LangChain embeddings stored in PostgreSQL vector database enable intelligent content discovery.
KosherNet Search
Safe web search restricted to vetted Jewish websites using Google Custom Search API. Real-time content extraction via Firecrawl with AI-powered summarization using OpenAI GPT-4o delivers clean, trusted results from approved domains only.
Technology Stack
Impact Delivered
Searchable Jewish texts and religious content
Replacing 10+ fragmented apps
Major Jewish sources integrated
Vetted content only via KosherNet