May 26, 2010 -- Rabbi Mark Dratch is Founder and CEO of JSafe: The Jewish Institute Supporting an Abuse Free Environment, an organization addressing issues of domestic violence, child abuse and institutional and professional improprieties in the Jewish community. He is also an Instructor of Jewish Studies and Philosophy at the Isaac Breuer College of Yeshiva University.

Rabbi Dratch served as a pulpit rabbi for 22 years at Congregation Agudath Sholom, Stamford, CT; Shaarei Shomayim, Toronto; Kehillath Jesurun, New York, NY, and other pulpits. He served as both a Vice President and Treasurer of the RCA, and is presently a member of the Executive Board. He served as chair of Task Force on Rabbinic Improprieties, which worked to establish policies and guidelines for the RCA in dealing with allegations against one of its members, and was author of the Resolution on Rabbinic Improprieties.

Rabbi Dratch is active in the "Abuse Community" and is a member of the Leadership Council of the FaithTrust Institute, formerly the Center for the Prevention of Sexual and Domestic Violence, Seattle, WA, and is featured on a number of its training videos on issues of abuse in religious communities. He is a member of the Clergy Task Force of Jewish Women International and a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Abuse and Religion.

He serves as Camp Rabbi at Camp Morasha and is a member of the Board of the American Friends of Nishmat. Rabbi Dratch served as the Orthodox Union's "Webbe Rebbe," answering “Ask the Rabbi” questions posed through their website. He has published many articles in scholarly, rabbinic and popular journals in English and Hebrew. Many articles are available on the Resource page of www.JSafe.org.

Rabbi Dratch is a graduate of Yeshiva University (1979), its Ferkauf Graduate School (Jewish Education) and Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (semicha) (1982). He is married to Sara Lamm Dratch and is the proud father of four children, a daughter and teenage triplets.