Hadar is an Arab Jewish scholar, mystic and artist. She teaches spirituality and Jewish mysticism at Malchut, a mystical school teaching direct experience of God. She was born and raised in a Sephardic Jewish home in Jerusalem, a city she is still lovingly devoted to. Her ancestral roots span the Middle East, from 10 generations in Jerusalem and with additional lineage roots in Syria, Kurdistan, Iraq and Iran. Throughout her life she has traveled between Jerusalem and the US, bridging the Levant with the West. 

Her grandfather was a spiritual Kabbalist prayer leader and her dad is a quantum physicist. She grew up with spirituality and science in beautiful harmony, which informed her life trajectory. She received her Electrical Engineering degree at Cooper Union and later studied at Alt*Div, an alternative divinity school at the intersections of faith and justice. Her work is rooted in the understanding that all existence is spiritual in nature, and therefore the relationship between material science and spirituality is inseparable. 

Hadar works with themes of abstraction and manifestation to find God everywhere. Her relationship to the Divine is at the essence of her perspective. She cultivated her own curriculum on the cosmology of creation and teaches it through her capstone offering God Fellowship, a 12 week training on direct experience of God through consciousness, energy and devotion. She also developed her own Jewish Mystical School through Malchut bringing to life the mystical traditions of Jewish tradition through teachings and community connections.

Through Hadar’s training at Luminous Awareness Institute, she gained proficiency in many modalities of healing— from ancient wisdom to transformative technology. Her practice is based on the framework that the body is a space of dialogue between materiality and spirituality. This is expressed in Hadar’s performance art, healing, and teaching work.

Hadar is an artist with the belief that art paves the way for social change and narrative shifts. Her artistic mediums include performance, movement, writing, weaving, sound, and ritual. Hadar is currently pursuing her MFA at Transart Institute for Creative Learning. 

Hadar’s Jewish faith has led her to explore prayer, meditation, and ritual as a way to connect with the Divine and with others. Hadar was the first Jewish fellow at Abrahamic House, a multifaith incubator for social change. She was recently guest featured on two episodes of Season 3 of Hulu’s “Ramy: One Cup of Tea” series. 

Over the years, Hadar has developed a scholarship practice that has led her to deepen in Jewish mysticism and intersectional feminism. This manifests in Hadar’s work as an educator and in her founding of Feminism All Night, a project that designs communal immersive learning experiences for feminist spiritual discourse and possibility. This is also reflected in her first book, every word is a prayer, that explores devotion to God through language. 

Hadar makes devotional art through the practice of weaving prayer rugs. Her virtual art show Prostrations is a compilation of fiber art, film, audio, scripture and poetry in reflection of Jewish devotional prayer practice. She also created The Selichot Project, a collection of her grandfather’s tapes singing Sephardic Jewish liturgical prayers in preparation for High Holidays. She teaches Jewish scripture and embodied practices through various platforms, including her own Jewish Mystical School at Malcut. Over the years, she has taught at various Jewish organizations and has been a scholar in residence at At The Well. She also consulted and developed curriculum on Judaism and Love, embodied Jewish practices, stories of women in the Torah and more. 

Each aspect of Hadar’s work is done through a political lens. For her, politics is defined by the relational sphere and how people interact with one another. The interplay between the micro and macro elements of politics is where we have the strongest capacity to affect change. For Hadar, change starts on a personal level with the body, which then affects our relationships, broader systems, and eventually the cosmos. She weaves spirituality into systemic change by working to heal violence and systemic oppression that happens to bodies on an individual and relational level. 

She has written for The New Arab,  JTA, Lilith, +972 Magazine, DoubleBlind and more. Through integrating the spiritual and political, Hadar creates socially aware art that transforms systems of oppression into ecosystems of liberation and healing.

Her podcast, Hadar’s Web, features community conversations on spirituality, healing, justice, and art. Subscribe to her Substack for access to her latest writings, offerings, and media appearances.