Big Announcement and Shana Tova: Campus Dome is live

Today we are officially launching Campus Dome!

Atchalta is a think-and-create tank. One of our main areas of thinking is Jewish resilience, which we define as 'the willingness and ability to sustain and fight for Jewish particularity in a non-Jewish environment.' One of the most significant challenges to Jewish resilience is reaching Jews who are not already engaged in Jewish life and giving students, both engaged and unengaged, the tools to understand, express, and stand up for their Jewish identity and heritage.

Our new Campus Dome platform is one example of how we turn this thinking into creation. It provides Jewish students facing antisemitism with conceptual and moral clarity,  and practical, personalized tools for taking action.

A student simply describes an incident they have experienced and, within a minute, receives a personalized five-part action plan, helping them understand what happened, decide how to respond, and identify the support available to them. We have been testing Campus Dome over the past few months with real students, and their feedback shaped the plans students receive today.

Why it matters beyond the incident itself

The students who turn to Campus Dome are often those who are not naturally connected to Jewish life or organizations on campus, and therefore lack a “Jewish safety net” they can turn to for guidance and support. When these students experience antisemitism, that moment may be our best opportunity to reach them and offer a path toward community. 

Not Generic AI: Built Around Each Campus’s Unique Reality 

Behind every plan sits a 'knowledge base' we built campus by campus: conduct codes and anti-discrimination policies, the exact reporting offices and their procedures, Jewish life resources, and the organizations that will actually pick up the phone. In the initial phase, this data has been collected and verified for eight campuses: Columbia, Cornell, NYU, Brooklyn College, Harvard, Penn, UC Berkeley and UCLA.

Where you can help

A tool nobody knows about helps nobody. So today we also launched a digital campaign to put Campus Dome in front of students, but only in the New York area. The reason is simple: budget. We could fund one city, and we chose the one with the largest concentration of Jewish students in the country.

This is where we ask for your help. With your support we can extend the verified data to more universities and reach out to more people. Timing is crucial. The academic year has just begun, and the moments that push students away from Jewish life are already happening.

Meanwhile, Parent Dome continues to expand. In the coming days we will launch another white-label in North America together with a community partner organization. If Campus Dome empowers Jewish students to respond to antisemitism on campus, Parent Dome equips parents in K-12 schools to support their children when they encounter antisemitism. 

If you want Parent Dome or Campus Dome working in your community, directly or under your own brand, write to us. That is exactly what they were built for.

Shana Tova

September is a month of new beginnings. Recently, we published a strategic framework ahead of Israel’s elections: “National Resilience during Days of Polarization”. In the coming days, we will share news about a technological solution we are building to turn the ideas in that document into action and impact. We are also working with a strategic communications consultant to help turn our big ideas into messages that reach and mobilize the right audiences.

Shana Tova, שנה טובה, from all of us at Atchalta.