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Rabbi Gary Bretton-Granatoor is a recognized expert in Interfaith relations, well-known lecturer, author of numerous articles and editor of two books.

Rabbi Bretton-Granatoor has recently been appointed Vice President - Philanthropy for the World Union of Progressive Judaism.  In this position, he is in charge of the North American office of the WUPJ as well as serving as Chief Philanthropic Officer for the organization. The World Union for Progressive Judaism is comprised of over 1,200 Reform, Liberal and Progressive Jewish congregations throughout the world.  With congregations in Israel, the Former Soviet Union, Europe, Asia, South America, South Africa and everywhere else, the World Union nurtures commmunities that are based on the principals of Jewish life and tradition, pluralism and innovation. 

Gary M. Bretton-Granatoor most recently served as the Director of the Education Division at the Anti-Defamation League. In that position, he was responsible for overseeing the ADL's mission to end prejudice, bias and anti-Semitism through education. Rabbi Bretton-Granatoor also served as the Director of Interfaith Affairs at the ADL. In that position he has: led efforts to address issues arising from Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ; traveled to Buenos Aires representing the ADL at an International Catholic - Jewish Liaison Committee; delivered a major address in Athens for a Muslim / Orthodox Christian / Jewish conference on Peace and the Olympic Spirit; gave an address on the 40th anniversary of Nostra Aetate at the Vatican's Gregorian University; worked to expand Latino - Jewish dialogue; responded to challenges presented by the Ecumenical and Evangelical Protestant Communities; lectured and taught in numerous venues. He was the principal Jewish scholar on History and Scriptures for the ADL's Bearing Witness program.

Prior to his post at the ADL, Rabbi Bretton-Granatoor served as Senior Rabbi at Stephen Wise Free Synagogue in New York City for eight years.

Rabbi Bretton-Granatoor was the Director of Interreligious Affairs at the Union of American Hebrew Congregations (now URJ), and the Associate Director of the Commission on Social Action of Reform Judaism. During his eleven year tenure at the UAHC he also served as the Associate Director of the Commission on Jewish Education and the Director of Adult Education for the UAHC Department of Religious Education.

A graduate of the New York campus of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, Rabbi Bretton-Granatoor was on the faculty of the Religion and History Departments of Sarah Lawrence College and was a Lecturer at the New York University School of Continuing Education and a member of the faculty of the HUC-JIR School of Education as Lecturer in Intertestamental Literature and Jewish Ethics. Rabbi Bretton-Granatoor served congregations in Mahopac, New York; San Juan, Puerto Rico; St. Louis, Missouri; and Elizabeth, New Jersey.

Rabbi Bretton-Granatoor is the editor and principal writer of Shalom / Salaam: A Resource for Jewish / Muslim Dialogue. He is also the editor of Guidelines for Adult Jewish Studies, part of the Shuster Curriculum Series. His most recent book is called A Jewish View of Cults.

He is a past chair of the Central Conference of American Rabbis' Interreligious Affairs Committee, and was on the Executive Committee of the National Council of Synagogues. Rabbi Bretton-Granatoor has served as the Program Chair of the International Committee on Interreligious Consultations. He has served on the Executive Board of Jews for Racial and Economic Justice, and on the Alumni Board of the Sarah Lawrence College. He was the founding Chair of the Interfaith Assembly on Homelessness and Housing, and was a member of the Board of Homes for the Homeless in New York City.