A native of Philadelphia, Michael Klein-Katz was educated in the public school system, earned a B.A. in Religious Studies at Franklin and Marshall College, and received ordination from the Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion (NY, 1977). Having served Reform congregations and summer camps in America for more than a decade, he and his wife, Sally, re-settled in Jerusalem, where he has devoted himself to interreligious and intercultural dialogue, young adult and adult Jewish education, tourism and raising a family.

Co-founder of the Jewish-Christian study group, B'nai Abraham, and past chairman of the Rainbow Group, Rabbi Klein-Katz has served as the Israel Interfaith Association's Director of Youth Activities and as Hebrew University Hillel's Arab-Jewish Project Coordinator. Rabbi Klein-Katz is an ninth year faculty member in a sabbatical program for Catholic clergy at the Ecce Homo Institute of the Sisters of Zion Convent and lectures formally and informally to adult learners from around the world.

Rabbi Klein-Katz is a major contributor and editor of a number of scholarly works, including The Encyclopedia of Judaism (Macmillan, 1989), The Dictionary of Jewish Biography (Simon and Schuster, 1991), and "Recent Reform Liturgical Developments," (The Encyclopedia Judaica Yearbook, 1990/91). He is the editor-in-chief of Diversity Within Unity: Sources for the Modern Jew (World Union for Progressive Judaism, 1995), an introduction to liberal Judaism in Russian translation for Israel's newest immigrants.

Articles Written by Rabbi Klein-Katz

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