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Feb 6, 2017, 3:01 PM

‘Occupied Territories’ or ‘Promised Land’?

The best way to form an opinion on the West Bank / Judea-Samaria is to actually go, explore and be surprised

Jan 8, 2015, 9:53 AM

Lech Lecha to the Diaspora, Nathalie Lastreger’s visit to France

In parashat Lech Lecha, Abraham is told to leave his home and journey to the land of Israel. In Project Lech Lecha, a joint initiative between the World Zionist Organization, Masorti Olami, and MERCAZ Olami, schlichim from Israel are...

Apr 4, 2013, 5:03 AM

When even the women of the Warsaw Ghetto are erased

The faces not shown in a Haredi publication (illustrative image, from detail of the famous photo from Jürgen Stroop's report to Heinrich Himmler from May 1943)

asks what else is possible when an ultra-Orthodox publication treats female Holocaust victims as sexual objects

Apr 2, 2013, 1:16 PM

An ingathering in Lisbon

The Masorti Europe religious will soon restore the Jewish status several members of a community nearly lost to history

Feb 14, 2013, 5:11 PM

Insults and injury at Western Wall

Barring the Women of the Wall is an outrageous insult and it's also unwise

Jan 28, 2013, 4:41 PM

I shook the hand that blessed Barack Obama

In the U.S., she's a leading rabbi with a flourishing congregation. In Israel, she's officially nothing.

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About Me

Rabbi Tzvi Graetz, is the former Executive Director of Masorti Olami & MERCAZ Olami. He serves on the board of JNF Israel as chair of the environment and sustainability committee and he is a fellow in the Beit Midrash for Israeli Rabbis, a joint program run by the Shalom Hartman Institute and HaMidrasha at Oranim. Rabbi Graetz was born in Israel and is a second generation Masorti (Conservative) Jew who has spent his career working to build and promote Israel’s Masorti Institutions in order to enhance religious pluralism. Rabbi Graetz spent four years as the spiritual leader of Kehilat Shevet Achim in Gilo, Jerusalem and as rabbi of the TALI Gilo School. He has served as Director of the NOAM youth movement and Camp Ramah NOAM, and also spent time in the USA as a shaliach of the Jewish Agency and the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism.