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About Pinchas Project
The Pinchas Project website is a public database listing individuals identified as supporters, contributors, and participants in Pinchas Project campaigns. The community should be aware of these connections and use caution when sharing personal information, since information shared with people in these networks may be redistributed in ways that could put you or your loved ones at risk.
Project namesake
Why Pinchas?
In the Torah, Pinchas — grandson of Aharon the Kohen — lived through a moment of open degeneracy: public conduct that defied every norm of decency and stood as a brazen rejection of the Torah itself. While others hesitated, Pinchas acted swiftly, decisively, and at great personal risk to defend the sanctity of the camp.
For that act of zeal he was rewarded by Hashem with rewards greater than those granted to any other man — a brit shalom (covenant of peace) and an eternal priesthood passed down through his descendants.
This project takes its name from that example: see clearly, document carefully, and act when the community is at risk.
Inspired by the Canary Mission
Canary Mission was created around the belief that communities have a right to know when individuals or organizations promote antisemitism, extremism, or intimidation in public spaces. In a similar vein, The Pinchas Project positions itself as an organization dedicated to documenting and exposing conduct it views as harmful to the broader community - whether through abuse of power, corruption, predatory behavior, or coordinated campaigns that endanger vulnerable people. Like Canary Mission, Pinchas Project would argue that transparency is a form of public protection: by preserving public records, statements, and documented patterns of behavior, it seeks to ensure that serious risks to the community are not ignored, minimized, or hidden behind institutional influence. Supporters would view both organizations as operating from the same underlying principle - that informed communities are safer communities, and that accountability begins with documentation.