Founding Director of the Interreligious Coordinating Council in Israel (ICCI), Ron Kronish is now an independent scholar, educator, speaker and writer. He has lived in Jerusalem since 1979, serving as Director of ICCI (1992-2016), Director of the office of an American Jewish organization in Israel (1988-92), Director of Staff Development and later Co-Director for the Melitz Centers for Jewish Zionist Education (1979-1988), lecturer in Education at Tel Aviv University (1982-1986) and at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1979-1981).

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Dr. Kronish has lectured to a wide variety of groups in Israel, including synagogue groups, Jewish community missions and Jewish, Christian and interreligious groups. In addition, he has been a scholar-in-residence at universities, synagogues and communities in North America, Europe and in the Far East.

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Educated at Brandeis University (BA), Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion in New York (MHL, rabbinic ordination) and the Harvard Graduate School of Education (doctorate in philosophy and history of education), Rabbi Kronish has published articles and essays on Jewish politics, faith communities and the peace process, as well as education, culture and contemporary issues in America and Israel.

He has represented ICCI at the Vatican and at many international conferences, and has frequently been consulted by media representatives for background information and briefings.

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Dr. Kronish has edited four books of essays:

--Coexistence and Reconciliation in Israel: Voices for Interreligious Dialogue (published by Paulist Press, 2015).

--Towards the Twenty-first Century: Judaism and the Jewish People in Israel and America (published by Ktav, 1996), an anthology in memory of his beloved father, Rabbi Leon Kronish

--Toward the Third Millennium (published by ICCI, 2000)

--Pilgrimage in a New Millennium (published by ICCI, 1999).

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He published a book entitled The Other Peace Process: Interreligious Dialogue, A View from Jerusalem  in August 2017 by Hamilton Books (formerly University Press of America), an imprint of Rowman and Littlefield. This book, which is a professional memoir on his work in the field of Interreligious Dialogue and Peacebuilding, is used in courses in this field in Israel and abroad.

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Teaching and Lecturing Abroad: During the Fall semesters of 2018 and 2019, he taught a seminar on Interreligious Dialogue and Peacebuilding as an adjunct professor in the Theology School and Casperan Graduate School at Drew University in Madison, New Jersey, in cooperation with the Center for Religion, Culture and Conflict of the university; for the previous 5 years, he taught a pro-seminar for M.A. students in the Coexistence and Conflict Program in the Heller Graduate School at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts. In addition, he lectured at universities and in communities in several other cities in the U.S.A.

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Rabbi Kronish lives in Jerusalem with his wife Amy for the past 41 years. He is the proud father of 3 wonderful daughters (and 3 wonderful sons-in-law) and the even prouder grandfather of 6 fabulous grandchildren.