About Rabbi Gary Bretton-Granatoor
Rabbi Gary Bretton-Granatoor is the Vice President - Philanthropy at the World Union for Progressive Judaism. He is a recognized expert in Interfaith relations, and editor of two books: SHALOM / SALAAM: A RESOURCE FOR JEWISH / MUSLIM DIALOGUE and A JEWISH VIEW OF CULTS.
Gary served as the Director of the Education Division at the Anti-Defamation League and as the Director of Interfaith Affairs. He served as Senior Rabbi at Stephen Wise Free Synagogue in NYC for eight years.
He 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. He was the Khatib Scholar of Comparative Religion at St. Joseph’s College, on the faculty of the Religion and History Departments of Sarah Lawrence College and NYU’s School of Continuing Education.
