Selected Faculty and Alumni Books and Articles

Our faculty and alumni have written and edited a number of thought-provoking works, both scholarly and popular. Many are considered groundbreaking. A selected bibliography follows:

Rabbi Rebecca T. Alpert. Like Bread on the Seder Plate: Jewish Lesbians and the Transformation of Tradition.

Rabbis Rebecca T. Alpert and Jacob J. Staub. Exploring Judaism: A Reconstructionist Approach.

David Brodsky, Ph.D.  A Bride Without a Blessing.

Rabbi Sandy Eisenberg Sasso. God's Paintbrush.

Rabbi Dayle A. Friedman, editor. Jewish Pastoral Care: A Practical Handbook from Traditional and Contemporary Sources.

Rabbi Nancy Fuchs-Kreimer. Parenting as a Spiritual Journey.

Joel M. Hecker, Ph.D. Mystical Bodies, Mystical Meals: Eating and Embodiment in Medieval Kabbalah.

S. Tamar Kamionkowski, Ph.D. Gender Reversal and Cosmic Chaos: A Study on the Book of Ezekiel.

Rabbi Sheryl Lewart, editor. Jewish Alive & American: Student Resource Book for a Thirty-Week Introduction to Judaism.

Lori Lefkovitz, Ph.D., editor. Textual Bodies: Changing Boundaries of Literary Representation.

Joy Levitt and Michael Strassfeld, co-editors. A Night of Questions: A Passover Haggadah.

Ilan Peleg, Ph.D., editor. The Middle East Peace Process: Interdisciplinary Perspectives.

Rabbi Sid Schwarz. Finding a Spiritual Home: How a New Generation of Jews Can Transform the American Synagogue. 
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Jeffrey Schein, Tithadesh: Renewal and Reflection in Jewish Education.

Rabbi David E. S. Stein, editor. The Contemporary Torah: A Gender-Sensitive Adaptation of the JPS Translation.

David Teutsch, Ph.D., co-editor. Behoref Hayamim: In the Winter of Life.