A growing Reform Jewish congregation with members
of all ages,
backgrounds and sexual orientations. Our community is inclusive and
welcomes Jews, non-Jews and Jews by choice; intermarried and intramarried;
couples and singles; and all who wish to worship with us in seeking peace,
justice, righteousness and a community of concern for
"repairing the world" (Tikkun Olam).
1010 Park Avenue at 85th Street, NYC 888.590.2791 tujinfo@tuj.org
Rabbi Gary Bretton-Granatoor is a recognized expert in Interfaith
relations, well-known lecturer, author of numerous articles and
editor of two books.
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.