Rabbi Joseph H. Ehrenkranz is now Director Emeritus of the Center for Christian-Jewish Understanding (CCJU) of Sacred Heart University, which he co-founded and headed for 15 years. He was ordained by Yeshiva University in 1949 and received an honorary Doctor of Divinity Degree from Yeshiva in 1987.
He served as rabbi of Congregation Agudath Sholom, Stamford, Connecticut, for 45 years. Rabbi Ehrenkranz visited the Russian dissidents during the 1976 Passover holiday and conducted the Passover Seder for Jewish Refusniks in Moscow at that time. In 1978 he initiated the Peace Pilgrimage to Cairo-Jerusalem at the invitation of then Egyptian President Anwar Sadat.
In 1982, a Yeshiva University Chair in Pastoral Counseling was endowed by Mr. and Mrs. Carl Bennett in his honor. In 1985, Rabbi Ehrenkranz was appointed as permanent representative to the United Nations representing the Synagogue Council of America.