Articles and Chapters

“Learning from Rocks: Sacred Stones in the Torah” in the Sacred Earth: Jewish Perspectives on Our Planet, ed. by Andrue Kahn Central Conference of American Rabbis, 2023.

“Can A Child Be a Religious Naturalist?” in A God We Can Believe In, ed. by Richard Agler and Rifat Sonsino. 2022

“What Do We Say to Our Children” in Jesus Wasn’t Killed by the Jews, ed. Jon Sweeney, Orbis Books, 2020

“The Guardians at the Gate” in The Closing of the Gates, ed. by Lawrence Hoffman, Turner Books, 2018.

“Foreword”.  The Artist’s Torah, by David Ebenbach.  Stock Publishers, 2012.

“Children, Adults, and Shared Responsibilities,” Children’s Spirituality in the Jewish Narrative Tradition, edited by Marcia J. Bunge. Cambridge University Press, 2012.

“The Kol Nidre Mirror to Our Soul,” All These Vows, edited by Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman. Jewish Lights Publishing, Woodstock, VT, 2011.

“Theology or Anthropology?” Who By Fire, Who By Water, edited by Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman.  Jewish Lights Publishing, Woodstock, VT, 2010.

“The Divine Fingerprint,” Originally Blessed.  Creation Spirituality Communities, 2008.

I Am Jewish, Personal Reflections Inspired by the Last Words of Daniel Pearl, edited by Judea and Ruth Pearl.  Jewish Lights Publishing, Woodstock, VT, 2004.

Affixing Our Name to the Holy Narrative.  Congregations Magazine.  The Alban Institute, Summer 2004. 

 “Preface”, The New Jewish Baby Album. By Jewish Lights Publishing, Woodstock, VT, 2003.

“The Open Door:  The Tale of Idit and the Passover Paradox”, The Women’s Passover Companion, Jewish Lights Publishing, Woodstock, VT, 2003.

“Celebrating Thirty Years of Women as Rabbis”, Reconstructionism Today, Vol. 11, No. 1, Autumn 2003.

“I Am Not Supposed To Be Here”, Hineini in Our Lives,edited by Norman J. Cohen.  Jewish Lights Publishing, Woodstock, VT, 2002.

Editor.  “Urban Tapestry, Indianapolis Stories”, Indiana University Press, Bloomington, IN, 2002.

Editor.  “Breaking Silence Keeping Silence”, The Polis Center at IUPUI, Indianapolis, IN, 2002.

Talking to Your Children about God, Life Lights, Jewish Lights Publishing, Woodstock, VT, 2002.

“Tell Me A Story About God”, Teaching About God and Spirituality, edited by Roberta Louis Goodman and Sherry H. Blumberg, A.R.E. Publishing, Denver, CO, 2002

Editor. “Crossing Boundaries in Faith Traditions”, The Polis Center at IUPUI, Indianapolis, IN, 2001.

“Rabbi Ira Eisenstein”, Reconstructionism Today, Vol. 9, No. 1, Autumn 2001

“When Your Children Ask: A Jewish Theology of Childhood”, Spiritual Education – Cultural, Religious and Social Differences: New Perspectives for the 21st Century, Sussex Academy Press, 2001.

“Not the Last Jews in the World”, The American Rabbi, Vol. 33, No. 3/4, Spring/Summer 2001.

“Wrestling on the Other Side of the River”, The Woman’s Torah Commentary, edited by Rabbi Elyse Goldstein.  Jewish Lights Publishing, Woodstock, VT, 2000.

“Pilgrimage on the Flat Land”, Falling From Grace, edited by Kent Calder and Susan Neville.  Indiana University Press, Bloomington, IN, 1998.

 What To Say To Our Child On the Bimah”, Bar/Bat Mitzvah Basics: A Practical Family Guide to Coming of Age Together, edited by Cantor Helen Leneman.  Jewish Lights Publishing, Woodstock, VT, 1996.

“Prayer for an Adopted Child”, Life Cycles: Jewish Women on Life Passages and Personal Milestones, edited by Rabbi Debra Orenstein.  Jewish Lights Publishing, Woodstock, VT, 1994.

"Unwrapping the Gift", Women and Religious Ritual: An Interdisciplinary Investigation, edited by Dr. Lesley A. Northup.  Pastoral Press, Washington, D.C., 1993.

 "Foreword", Putting God on the Guest List:  How to Reclaim the Spiritual Meaning of Your Child's Bar or Bat Mitzvah, Jewish Lights Publishing, Woodstock, VT, 1992.

"The Task Ahead", Reconstructionist, Vol. LVI, No. 3, Spring 1991.

"Idit", Reconstructionist, Vol. LVI, No. 2, Winter 1990-1991.

 "On Becoming a Bar Mitzvah:  The Words of a Rabbi and Parent", Reconstructionist  Vol. LV, No. 2, November-December 1989.

"Birth Prayers", Reconstructionist, Vol. LIV, No. 2, October-November 1988.

"Woman in the Pulpit", Outlook, Vol. 54, No. 3, Spring 1984, New York.

"Women in the Rabbinate: A Personal Reflection", Reconstructionist, Vol.XLIX No. 5, March 1984.

"Marriage -- Some Notes and a Ceremony of Marriage Reaffirmation" (co-authored with Rabbi Dennis C. Sasso) in Menorah, November 1983, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, upcoming publication, ed. Arthur Waskow.

"Some Working Notes on the Gender of Prayer" in Raayanot, Vol. 3, No. 2, Spring 1983, Wyncote, Pennsylvania, ed. Sydney H. Schwarz.

Our Family, Our People (co-produced with Serane Blatt, Belinda Blumenthal), Alternatives in Religious Education, Denver, Colorado (1983).

Jewish Women co-authored with Sue Levi Elwell, Alternatives in Religious Education, Denver, CO (1983), revised edition 1986.

Call Them Builders:  A Resource Booklet About Jewish Attitudes and Practices on Birth and Family Life.  Reconstructionist Federation of Congregations and Havurot, New York (1977).

"The Rabbinate:  A New Image", Davka, No. 17 (Los Angeles, CA, 1976)

"B'rit B'not Yisrael -- A Covenant for the Daughters of Israel", Text of ceremony (co- authored with Rabbi Dennis C. Sasso) and Interview, Moment, (May/June 1975).

"Der Beitrag des Judentums zur Entwicklung Moderner Leitbilder fur die Frau", Diakonia, Austria (May 1974).

"B'rit B'not Yisrael -- Observations on Women and Reconstructionism", Response Magazine, (Sum 1973).

"Women in Judaism", According to Scripture, World YWCA, Geneva, Switzerland (1972).

Interview and Selected Poetry, Youth Magazine, Vol. 21, #12 (September 1970).