Selected Faculty and Alumni Books and Articles
Our faculty and alumni/ae have published thought-provoking and often groundbreaking works, both scholarly and popular.
Rabbi Rebecca T. Alpert Like Bread on the Seder Plate: Jewish Lesbians and the Transformation of Tradition
Also see Whose Torah? A Concise Guide to Progressive Judaism
Rabbis Rebecca T. Alpert and Jacob J. Staub Exploring Judaism: A Reconstructionist Approach
Barbara E. Breitman, D.Min., co-editor Jewish Spiritual Direction: An Innovative Guide From Traditional and Contemporary Sources
Michael Carasik, Ph.D., Theologies of the Mind in Biblical Israel
Rabbi Sandy Eisenberg Sasso God's Paintbrush
Rabbi Dayle A. Friedman, editor Jewish Pastoral Care: A Practical Handbook from Traditional and Contemporary Sources
Reena Sigman Friedman, Ph.D., These Are Our Children: Jewish Orphanages in the United States, 1880–1925
Joel M. Hecker, Ph.D. Mystical Bodies, Mystical Meals: Eating and Embodiment in Medieval Kabbalah
Also see: Volume 11 and Volume 12 of The Zohar: Pritzker Edition
S. Tamar Kamionkowski, Ph.D. Gender Reversal and Cosmic Chaos: A Study on the Book of Ezekiel
Also see Bodies, Embodiment and Theology of the Hebrew Bible (co-editor)
Rabbi Nancy Fuchs Kreimer Parenting as a Spiritual Journey
Rabbi Sheryl Lewart, z"l, editor Jewish Alive & American: Student Resource Book for a Thirty-Week Introduction to Judaism
Rabbis 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
Also see Judaism and Justice: The Jewish Passion to Repair the World.
Rabbi Jeffrey Schein, Tithadesh: Renewal and Reflection in Jewish Education
Rabbis Jeffrey Schein and Jacob Staub, editors. Creative Jewish Education: A Reconstructionist Perspective
Rabbi Jacob Staub. 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 Ira F. Stone, introduction and commentary Mesillat Yesharim: The Path of the Upright
Rabbi David Teutsch, Ph.D., co-editor. Behoref Hayamim: In the Winter of Life
Also see Making a Difference: A Guide to Jewish Leadership and Not-for-Profit Management
Various alumni and faculty are represented in:
Torah Queeries: Weekly Commentaries on the Hebrew Bible
Reconstructionism: Denominationalism That Works? (special issue of Zeek: A Jewish Journal of Thought and Culture)