Kehilla makes the tools that run Jewish community life: shuls, charities and simchas.
The story
I'm Josh Benisty. I'm 23, I have a first in computer science, I learn in yeshiva during the day, and in the evenings I run Kehilla.
It started with two places I was part of. The beis hamidrash where I davened and learned wanted to spread its Torah further and needed a simple way to book people into its events. Chazak, the charity I taught for, needed much more: a website, an events system and a proper way to look after its donors.
So I built it. Then Chazak needed registers for its sessions, a way to track its students, an app, and a way to run its Charity Extra campaign alongside everything else. Each time, it went into the same system, so nothing ever had to be typed in twice.
Other shuls saw it and asked for the same. Today Kehilla runs shuls and charities including Chazak, BBM, HGSS Sephardi Minyan and Anshei Shalom.
And then there were the weddings. My parents made three of them in two years. I watched the guest lists multiply across spreadsheets, the RSVPs arrive by text, email and word of mouth at shul, and the seating plan get redrawn at the kitchen table more times than anyone would like to admit. By the third wedding I was fairly sure there was a better way, and my mother was very sure. That became SimchaPost.
Why it's different
Kehilla starts with how our community actually works: Achisomoch, Gift Aid, Hebrew dates, honours, campaign days and dinners, and nothing going out on Shabbos.
When something doesn't work for you, you report it from inside Kehilla, and we fix it and tell you when it's done.
