Naomi Graetz taught English at Ben Gurion University of the Negev for 35 years. Since 1974 she lived in Omer. She is the author of Unlocking the Garden: A Feminist Jewish Look at the Bible, Midrash and God; The Rabbi’s Wife Plays at Murder ; S/He Created Them: Feminist Retellings of Biblical Stories (Professional Press, 1993; second edition Gorgias Press, 2003), Silence is Deadly: Judaism Confronts Wifebeating and Forty Years of Being a Feminist Jew. Since Covid began, she has been teaching Bible and Modern Midrash from a feminist perspective on zoom. She began her weekly blog for TOI in June 2022. Her book on Wifebeating has been translated into Hebrew and was published by Carmel Press in 2025. Her latest interest is in using AI as a tool for teaching and writing. Her motto is "rather than fight it, join it and use it." And in keeping with that credo, she has put together a book in collaboration/co-authored with ChatGPT entitled, 25 Re-Visitations of the Book of Genesis. She has recently moved to a retirement village in the Lower Galilee and has been blogging about her experience there.
