Shlomit Ravitzky Tur-Paz, an attorney, a group facilitator, and a lecturer in the fields of Judaism, gender, and law. She serves as director of the Joan and Irwin Jacobs Center for Shared Society at the Israel Democracy Institute. Prior to this, she was a fellow of the Mandel Educational Leadership Institute and director of Beit Midrash Elul, which brings together different sectors of Israeli society for the purposes of studying, communicating, and creating. Shlomit also founded and co-managed the Itim Center – Resources and Advocacy for Jewish Life; founded and managed Shearim, a pluralistic Beit Midrash in the Maaleh Hagilboa Yeshiva; and was an instructor in the Israel Culture Department of the Ministry of Education.
She served as chairperson of Rashut HaRabim, a coalition of Jewish renewal organizations in Jerusalem, and as a member of the boards of Kolech and Panim.
She holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in law from the Hebrew University and has also studied Judaism and philosophy in a variety of academic and religious frameworks. She is a member of Kibbutz Kfar Etzion and a mother of five.