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The Transformative Power of the Arts
Creativity has always been central to Jewish civilization. Through art, music, literature, and film, we can strengthen identity, bridge divides, and awaken pride in who we are.
Our story is our greatest asset. By telling it through Jewish eyes, we reveal the faith, courage, creativity, and resilience of a people whose civilization has endured across thousands of years.
The arts can reach where argument cannot, reconnecting Jews to one another, to their inheritance, and to the enduring bond between Torah, People, and Land.
We seek to inspire a new Jewish creative renaissance.
Welcome to a New Light for Zion
What if Jewish survival requires more than endurance in a hostile world?
What if redemption begins with a return to the deepest core of who we are?
In a world intoxicated by propaganda,
our future depends upon reclaiming our calling.
The West may have forsaken its foundations,
but we cannot forsake ours.
Our Goals
Strengthen Jewish identity, literacy, faith, and unity.
Cultivate leaders, artists, thinkers, and builders
prepared to serve and defend their people.
Build Jewish Identity Centers in America and an Artists’ Colony in Israel
devoted to renewal through learning, creativity, community,
and the defense of Am Yisrael.
Reconnect Jews to the enduring bond
between Torah, People, and Land.
Inspire a new generation to inherit Jewish civilization
with confidence, self-respect, responsibility, and pride.
This is the beginning.
Discover the larger vision → About Us
A School of Light and Creation
Like the ancient schools of prophecy, Jewish creators can awaken faith, rouse hope, and rekindle purpose in a generation searching for meaning.
Ohr Chodosh L’Zion seeks to unite imagination and faith by empowering artists, writers, musicians, and thinkers to cultivate their gifts and tell the extraordinary story of our 4,000-year journey: its triumphs and tragedies, faith and resilience, destruction and renewal.
We are a remnant of a remnant, a people who survived exile and returned to rebuild a sovereign Jewish civilization in our ancestral homeland.
Why Our Mission Can Help Build Jewish Unity
Through art, education, leadership, and cultural engagement, Ohr Chodosh L’Zion seeks to restore Jewish spiritual confidence, nurture emerging talent, and strengthen the eternal bond between Israel and the Diaspora.
We seek common ground across Jewish communities through the inheritance that belongs to us all: Torah, People, Land, history, creativity, and responsibility.
We also build bridges with Noahides, Christians, and all who honor the covenant and the seed of Abraham, strengthening friendships rooted in faith and respect.
Our goal is to cultivate a generation whose knowledge, creativity, courage, and resilience can command the global stage and reflect the light of Zion.
Ohr Chodosh L’Zion
A New Light for Zion
Our continued existence and the rebirth of the Third Commonwealth are among the great stories of human history. Through a new generation of creators, the Jewish voice can shine clearly, confidently, and beautifully at the moment it is needed most.
Ohr Chodosh L’Zion fosters unity and creativity by providing a platform for Jewish artists, musicians, filmmakers, writers, thinkers, and educators to tell our story and reignite our creative spirit at a time when the Jewish voice is needed most.
This is an opportunity to reclaim our voice and reconnect with our divine purpose, rooted in Torah, Land, and People.
We seek to inspire a generation whose faith, creativity, strength, and resilience will carry Jewish civilization forward and tell our extraordinary story to the world.
We are looking for builders. Artists. Teachers. Writers. Musicians. Students. Veterans. Thinkers. Parents. Leaders.
If this vision speaks to you, it is already yours.
Help build it.
Reclaiming the Jewish Voice
We live in an age when propaganda travels faster than truth. Jewish history, Israel, and Zionism are increasingly distorted before a generation often unprepared to answer.
We cannot control every message our children encounter. We can prepare them to meet those messages from a position of knowledge, confidence, and strength.
Our answer is Jewish literacy, creativity, faith, and unity: Jews who know their history, understand Israel's purpose, tell their own story, and stand without apology for their People and Land.
We cannot compete by numbers. We can create, educate, believe, and unite.
Our greatest answer to those who would define us is to define ourselves .
rom that renewal can emerge something greater: a confident Jewish civilization, rooted in faith, inspired by creativity, united by responsibility, and illuminated by the everlasting light of Zion.
A Contribution to All Mankind — Settenbrino’s view of the artist as a conduit between the Divine and the human, drawing inspiration from beyond himself and giving it form through his own soul.
"Does Jewish victimhood justify the Gaza war?" Settenbrino's Raw Interview with ORF Austrian anchor Patrick Hafner
The Response | Official Documentary Trailer Featuring Randy Settenbrino • Coming to the Historic Blue Moon Hotel
Itamar: Art, Memory and October 7 - Settenbrino reflects on Itamar, his work memorializing the Fogel family massacre, and on the brutality that returned to the world’s consciousness on October 7. Art becomes witness, preserving what others forget, misunderstand or choose not to see.
