Dekel Peretz is a postdoctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity in Göttingen. His interdisciplinary research bridges Jewish studies, postcolonial theory, and digital religion, with a particular focus on Jewish life in Germany and contemporary Jewish–Muslim relations. His current research project examines the possibilities and limits of local interfaith and intercultural encounters amid geopolitical rupture. In addition to his academic work, Dr. Peretz is active in community initiatives and networks. He serves as chairperson of the Jewish Center Fraenkelufer Synagogue Association, which promotes the reconstruction of a Jewish community, cultural, and education center on the site of the main sanctuary of the Fraenkelufer Synagogue, destroyed by the Nazis. He is also the founding director of LABA Berlin: A Laboratory for Jewish Culture and Mar’a’yeh: A Space for Creative Muslim–Jewish Exchange.