Software, AI and websites for Jewish organisations_

Most synagogues are well served by packaged software. This page is for the organisations that are not: federations, JCCs, day schools, community networks and national organisations whose needs grew past what a package was designed to do. You do not need another platform. You need the pieces around it built properly.

Where packaged tools stop

Packaged synagogue and nonprofit platforms do the common things well: membership, dues, a basic website, simple donations. The trouble starts when an organisation runs several programmes, entities or locations, each with its own data:

• Donors give through one system, members are tracked in another, and the school, camp or JCC has its own registration tool.
• The website cannot show a donor their full giving history, because that history lives somewhere else.
• Reports for the board take days, because someone has to merge exports by hand.
• Every new programme adds another login.

Replacing everything is rarely the answer. The answer is usually a set of focused custom builds and integrations that connect what you have, and fill the gaps the packages leave.

What we build

Donor portals and integrations

A donor portal gives supporters one place to see their gifts, pledges and receipts, update details and give again. We connect it to the fundraising system you already run, for example Blackbaud or Salesforce, so that system stays the source of truth. The same integration work joins your website forms, event registrations and internal tools to it, so one family is one record.

Our CRM development work covers this in depth, and our custom CRM vs off-the-shelf guide helps you decide what to keep and what to build.

AI for donor and member service

Community staff spend a lot of time on the same questions: dates, times, forms, receipts, how to register. AI can answer many of these, route the rest to the right person and draft follow-ups for staff to approve. It can also help staff find information across policies, programme details and past correspondence. We run a CRM with an AI assistant on our own lead pipelines, so we build this kind of system with the practical problems in mind: what the assistant may say, when it hands over to a human, and what it must never do. Read AI for Jewish organisations and see AI implementation.

Bilingual websites that respect the calendar

Many Jewish organisations serve English and Hebrew speakers, and many sites treat Hebrew as an afterthought. We build sites where both languages are first-class, with right-to-left layouts done properly. We also build to accessibility standards, including Israel’s IS 5568, so the site works for older members and people using assistive technology.

Calendar awareness matters more than most vendors realise. A system for a Jewish community should know the Hebrew date, schedule yahrzeit reminders correctly, show holiday hours, and hold automated emails and texts until after Shabbat or a chag. These are small details that tell your community the system was built for them. See web development.

Proof, and the team behind it

We designed and developed JReady for the Jewish Agency: a multilingual website with solutions, tools and information to help communities around the world deal with Covid-19 and other emergencies. It had to work for very different communities, in several languages.

For the systems side, the same team built iBon, a management platform used by over 80 Aroma branches, where DevDino acts as the CTO (the story). We built the website for CET, an organisation developing educational platforms for schools and teachers, and OnePager, the content tool Keshet 12 uses to publish. Long-lived systems that many people depend on are what we do.

Toronto and Tel Aviv

We have offices in Toronto and Tel Aviv. For Canadian organisations that means a local team in Eastern time, who can meet in person and understands Canadian privacy expectations under PIPEDA. For organisations with ties to Israel, it means engineers who read Hebrew and work in the Israeli week. The time difference also helps: work agreed in a Toronto afternoon moves forward in Tel Aviv overnight.

How to start

Pick the one problem that costs your staff the most time, whether that is donor data, member questions or the website, and tell us about it. We will look at the systems you already have and suggest the smallest build that fixes it. Good projects in this sector grow one solid piece at a time.