The Zugi community
Many Jewish stories. One respectful community.
Zugi makes space for different backgrounds, cultures, levels of observance, orientations, and visions for relationships, home, and family.
Members describe their own Jewish identity and the life they hope to build. Zugi does not determine who is “Jewish enough.”
Your Jewish identity is yours to describe.
Jewish life can be religious, cultural, familial, communal, historical, spiritual, or some combination of these. Zugi allows members to describe what matters to them without reducing identity to one label or score.
- Self-description instead of algorithmic assumptions
- Optional details where appropriate
- “Prefer not to say” where reasonable
- No ranking of denominations or backgrounds
- No inference from name, voice, photo, or location
Compatibility is about the future as well as the past.
Members may voluntarily describe the parts of Jewish life that matter to them and the home they hope to build.
- Shabbat preferences
- Holiday traditions
- Kashrut or food practices
- Synagogue or community involvement
- Cultural traditions
- Family goals
- Children
- Conversion or family-background context where voluntarily relevant
- The Jewish home they hope to create
How these details are used
Different lives, shared respect
Belonging does not require everyone to be the same.
Zugi is designed to welcome, subject to launch eligibility and community standards:
- Different levels of observance
- Different denominations and no denomination
- Ashkenazi, Sephardi, Mizrahi, Ethiopian, mixed, converted, and other Jewish stories
- LGBTQ+ Jewish adults
- Intercultural and multilingual backgrounds
- People newly exploring Jewish practice
- People whose Jewish identity is primarily cultural
- People seeking different forms of meaningful long-term partnership, consistent with launch policy
Honesty and respect are required.
- Describe yourself truthfully
- Respect another person’s identity and practice
- Honor boundaries and private decisions
- Do not pressure someone to accept or continue
- Do not use hateful or discriminatory language
- Do not impersonate another person
- Do not solicit money or business
- Do not share another member’s information
- Do not record a conversation or date without consent
- Report serious concerns
Zugi does not score Jewishness.
Zugi may compare two members’ stated hopes for Jewish life and home, but it does not assign a value to someone’s identity, observance, denomination, background, or legitimacy.
A hard requirement applies only when a member explicitly identifies it as necessary for their own relationship. AI cannot invent or override that requirement.