Rabbi Edward Rettig
Rabbi Edward Rettig serves as the Associate Director for Legislative Affairs and Education at the Israel/Middle East Office of the American Jewish Committee. In this capacity he is responsible for the conducting of the AJC’s solidarity fund relief activities in the aftermath of the Second Lebanon War. He conducts interfaith activities with the Al-Qasemi College, a modernizing Islamic college in the town of Baqa el-Gharbieh. He also coordinates the AJC’s educational activities including personally delivering some 200 briefings per year on American Jewry to Israeli audiences that vary from graduate school classes at various universities, through senior military and security personnel at the National Defense College, political leaders, journalists, educators, and high school classes. Rabbi Rettig is also the author of the recent AJC publication “The Jewish Question in Europe.”
Rabbi Rettig is a member of the educational board, coordinating study of Jewish Peoplehood at the Israel Ministry of Education’s Beit Yatziv National Teacher Training Institute on Judaism, Democracy and Culture. He also serves on the educational board of the Atidim Academic Fellowship Program and on the board of Rabbis for Human Rights, the Israeli human rights NGO.
Born in the United States, Rettig immigrated to Israel in 1972. He is a veteran of the Israeli army, holds a law degree from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and served as an attorney in the Israel Ministry of Police while at the same time volunteering in the Association for Civil Liberties in Israel. He published in Israel on freedom of speech, the laws of libel and issues of democracy and national security as well as on the American Jewish Community. His work has been cited in the Israel Supreme Court reports. He received a Wexner Graduate Fellowship and returned to the United States to study at the Hebrew Union College where he received rabbinical ordination. Rabbi Rettig is pursuing a Doctorate in Modern Jewish History at the Hebrew Union College.
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