Tzvi Marx, a French born American-Israeli, who lived in Israel for 20 years, has a Ph.D. from the Catholic University of Utrecht (1993); was ordained at Yeshiva University (NYC, 1970); and is the author of Jewish Law on Disability (2002). He currently lives in Holland lecturing on Judaism at the Radboud University of Nijmegen, serving as director of the Folkertsma Stichting, and co-editing their publication Tenachon.

He is especially active in interfaith cooperation in the Dutch society both with Christians and Moslems. The institute he heads is unique in Europe in its having both Christian as well as Jewish Talmudic scholars who make Judaism accessible to the general public through their programming, library and publications.