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, Ph.D., Like Bread on the Seder Plate: Jewish Lesbians and the Transformation of Tradition.

Rabbis Rebecca T. Alpert, Ph.D., and Rabbi Jacob J. Staubm, Ph.D., 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, Ph.D., 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.

Rabbi Joy Levitt and Rabbi 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, Ph.D., Finding a Spiritual Home: How a New Generation of Jews Can Transform the American Synagogue. 
Also see Judaism and  Justice: The Jewish Passion to Repair the World.

Rabbi Jeffrey Schein, Tithadesh: Renewal and Reflection in Jewish Education.

Rabbi Jeffrey Schein and Rabbi Jacob Staub, Ph.D., editors, Creative Jewish Education: A Reconstructionist Perspective.

Rabbi Jacob Staub, Ph.D., The Creation of the World According to Gersonides.

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

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