monograph

When We Collide: Sex, Social Risk, and Jewish Ethics. March 2023, Indiana University Press.

articles

“Person-Shaped Holes: Childfree Jews, Jewish Ethics, and Communal Continuity.” Journal of Religious Ethics 49:2 (2021)

“Is Judaism ‘Sex Positive?’ Understanding Trends in Recent Jewish Sexual Ethics.” G’vanim, Volume 10 (2019)

“Textual Relationships: On Perspective, Interpretive Discipline, and Constructive Ethics.” Journal of Textual Reasoning 10:1 (2018).

“A Prescription for Discourse: Power and Expertise in Ritual and Sexual Health.” Journal of Jewish Ethics 4:2 (2018).

“A Polyvocal Body: Mutually Corrective Discourses in Feminist and Jewish Bodily Ethics.” Journal of Religious Ethics. 43:2 (2015)

“Community, Authority, and Autonomy: Jewish Resources for the Vaccine Wars.” Journal of the Society for Christian Ethics, 34:1 (2014), 173-88.

Book Chapters

“Jewish Feminism,” in Jewish Virtue Ethics, eds. Geoffrey Claussen, Alex Green, and Alan Mittleman. Forthcoming, SUNY Press.

“’Intertextually Modified Organisms:’ Genetic Engineering, Jewish Ethics, and Rabbinic Text” in That All May Flourish: Comparative Religious Environmental Ethics, ed. Laura Hartman. Oxford University Press (2018).

reviews

Jewish Justice: The Contested Limits of Nature, Law, and Covenant, David Novak, 2017.  Journal of Jewish Ethics 5:1 (2019).

Justice for All: How the Jewish Bible Revolutionized Ethics, Jeremiah Unterman, 2017.  Journal of Jewish Ethics 4:2 (2018).

conference presentations

American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, November 2021

• “Citation as a Jewish Feminist Discipline.”

• Panelist, “Religious Ethics: Meaning and Method.”

Society of Jewish Ethics, January 2021: Panelist, “Jewish Virtue Ethics Book in Progress.”

Association for Jewish Studies, December 2020: “The Neuroatypical Talmud: Textual Forms, Deviant Brains, and Ethical Impetus.” In seminar, “Reading the Talmud as Ethical Prompt.” 

Judaism and Disability: The New Genetics, Disability Studies, and Practical Interventions, Scottsdale, AZ, February 2019: “Toward a Framework for Responsible Uses of Genetic Testing.”

American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, November 2018

• “Torah Edgeplay: Risk, Power, and Polymorphous Community;”

• Panelist: “Where Wisdom Can Be Found: Scripture and Wisdom in the Abrahamic Traditions.”

Association for Jewish Studies, December 2017:  “Hold Open the Gates of Weeping: Text, Power, and Empathy in Sexual Health.” In seminar, “Jewish Women’s Healing and Medicine: Ancient to Contemporary Traditions.” 

Association for Jewish Studies, December 2016: “The Ethics of Reading When Reading Ethics: Teaching Ethics Using Rabbinic Sources”. In seminar, “Thinking With Rabbinic Texts: The Next Stage.”

American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, November 2016: “No One Wants an Agent With a Social Disease: Mishnaic Purity Discourse as a Model for Moral Agency in Sexual Health.” 

Society of Jewish Ethics Annual Meeting, January 2016: “Let’s Talk About Sex: Navigating Power and Expertise in Ritual and Sexual Health.” 

Society of Jewish Ethics Annual Meeting, January 2014: “Risky Business: Reexamining Risk and Benefit in Jewish Sexual Ethics.”

Mid-Atlantic Regional Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, March 2013: Panelist, “Reason, Scripture, and the Senses.”

Society of Jewish Ethics Annual Meeting, January 2013: “Community, Authority, and Autonomy: Jewish Resources for the Vaccine Wars.”

public scholarship

“Citing Jewish Law, Florida Synagogue Challenges Abortion Ban—But Here’s the Problem With ‘Religious Requirement’ Arguments.” Religion Dispatches, June 24, 2022.

“Critical Theory for Political Theology 2.0: Risk.”  Political Theology Network,  May 24, 2022.

“Letter 60,”  American Values, Religious Voices: 100 Days, 100 Letters Campaign, March 20, 2021.

“Remote Control: Distance Learning Isn’t a Last Resort—It’s an Opportunity,” Bitch Media, December 9, 2021.

“To Fandom, With Love: Fanfic Lets Us Imagine a Better World, Together.” Bitch Media, December 9, 2020.

“Ill Will: The Problem With Individualizing COVID Risk,” Bitch Media, November 18, 2020.

“The Religious Vote for Biden and Harris,” The Revealer Podcast, Episode 8, October 26, 2020.

“Pausing the Panic Button: Can Religious Scholarship Teach Media Literacy?” Bitch Media, October 21, 2020.

“Jewish Sexual Ethics with Dr. Rebecca Epstein-Levi,” Classical Ideas Podcast with Gregory Soden, Episode 166, June 27, 2020.

“In the Time of COVID-19, Ventilators Are Scarce. How Do We Decide Who Gets Them?” Berkley Forum, Georgetown University, Berkley Center for Religion and World Affairs, April 13, 2020.

“Not Like Other People: How the Talmud Helps Us Think About People Who Believe They're Above the Law.” The Revealer, April 7, 2020.

“Philosemitism is Bad for the Jews.” Alma, January 7, 2020.

“How Ancient Rabbis Can Help Combat STI Stigma.” Religion Dispatches, August 26, 2019.

“Beer, Sex, and Risk: What the Kavanaugh Hearing Told Us About Risk, Power, and Who Gets to Have Them.” Feminist Studies in Religion Blog, October 18, 2018.

“Empty Claims & Empty Bellies: Why ‘All-Natural’ Isn’t Always Better.” StyleWise Blog, July 31, 2018.

“Toward More Expansive Perspectives on Gender, Authority, and Role Modeling.” Gleanings: A Dialogue on Jewish Education from the Leadership Commons at the William Davidson Graduate School of Jewish Education, Spring 2018.