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Curriculum Vitae

Shaul Magid

Address: Sycamore Hall 230

Indiana University

Bloomington, IN 47405

812 334-2133 [email protected]

Degrees

B.A., Goddard College (1980)

Rabbinical Ordination, Yeshivat Ha-Mivtar, Jerusalem (1985)

M.A., Hebrew University (1985-1989), Brandeis University (1989-1991)

Ph.D., Brandies University, Near Eastern and Judaic Studies (1994)

Present Positions

Jay and Jeanie Schottenstein Professor of Jewish Studies,

Professor of Religious Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN

Rose and Henry Zifkin Teaching Fellow at The Katz Center for Advanced JudaicStudies at The University of Pennsylvania (2015-2016)

Kogod Senior Research Fellow at The Shalom Hartman Institute in Manhattan

(2015-)

Director of Graduate Studies, Borns Jewish Studies Program, Indiana University (2010-

2014)

Executive Advisory Committee Member, Islamic Studies Program, Center for the Study of

the Middle East, Indiana University

Founding Member, “Middle East Conflict and Reform Group,” Indiana University

Co-Chair, “The Study of Judaism Section” The American Academy of Religion (2008-

2103)

Director, Jewish Mysticism Section, The Association of Jewish Studies (2008- 2013)

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Director, Jewish Mysticism Initiative, Indiana University (2008-)

Editorial Board, SHMA Magazine

Editorial Board, Tikkun Magazine

Book Series Editor, “Jewish Thought and Culture: New Approaches in Post-Rabbinic

Judaisms” Academic Studies Press

Research Fellow, The Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of

Pennsylvania, 2015-2016

Senior Research Fellow, The Shalom Hartman Institute of America, 2015-

Past Academic Appointments:

Elaine Ravitch Associate Professor of Jewish Philosophy, The Jewish Theological

Seminary of America, 1996-2003.

Anna Smith Fine Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies, Rice University, 1994-1996

Adjunct Professor of Jewish Studies, UMASS-Amherst, 1992-1994

Adjunct Professor of Jewish studies, Clark University, Worcester, MA, 1992

Graduate Education

Hebrew University - 1985-89 (completed work for an MA in Jewish Thought)

Shalom Hartman Institute of Jewish Studies - 1985-87, candidate fellow

Seminary of Judaic Studies (Jerusalem) - 1987-89, completed two years concentrating

in rabbinics and medieval Jewish philosophy

Brandeis University - Ph.D., Near Eastern and Judaic Studies, January 1994, dissertation

entitled, Hasidism in Transition: The Hasidic Ideology of Rabbi Gershon Henoch of

Radzin in Light of Medieval Jewish Philosophy and Kabbala, Professor Marvin Fox,

advisor (dissertation committee, Professors Marvin Fox, Elliot Wolfson, and Antony

Polansky)

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Past Professional Positions

Chair, Department of Jewish Philosophy, The Jewish Theological Seminary of America

(1999-2003)

Acting Dean, List College of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, Spring 2003

Member, Medieval Studies Program, Acting Chair (2001-2002), The Jewish Theological

Seminary of America

Co-Editor, The Journal of Textual Reasoning (2001-2007)

Editorial Board, The Society for Scriptural Reasoning (1999-2003)

Yeshiva Education

Yeshivat D'var Yeshurun - Brooklyn, N.Y. 1978-1980

Yeshivat Ha-Mivtar - Jerusalem 1980-85, Rabbinical ordination, 1985, from Rabbi

Ya'akov Warhaftig (Harry Fischel Institute of Halakha), Rabbi Chaim Brovinder (Yeshivat

Ha-Mivtar) and Rabbi Zalman Nechemia Goldberg (Yeshivat Har Zvi)

Yeshivat Ha-Hayyim ve Ha-Shalom (Jerusalem) 1982-84. I spent these two years

studying Lurianic Kabbala with Rabbi Mordechai Attia.

Jerusalem Seminary of Jewish Studies ( Beit Midrash l’Limudei Ha-Yahadut) 1987-

1989. I completed two years of course work in the rabbinic track, focusing on rabbinic

literature

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Publications

Books

Hasidism on the Margin: Reconciliation, Antinomianism, and Messianism in Izbica and

Radzin Hasidism, (Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2004)

From Metaphysics to Midrash: Myth, History, and the Interpretation of Scripture in

Lurianic Kabbala (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2008).

(Winner of the 2009 American Academy of Religion Book Award for Excellence in

Religion in the Textual Studies Category)

American Post-Judaism: Identity and Renewal in a Postethnic Society (Bloomington, IN:

Indiana University Press, 2013)

Hasidism Incarnate: Hasidism and the Construction of Modern Judaism, (Stanford

University Press, 2014)

The Jewish Jesus of Volozhin: Elias Soloveitchik’s Commentary to the New Testament

(Mark and Matthew), trans. Jordon Levy, introduction, annotations, and commentary,

Shaul Magid (Yale University Press, forthcoming)

Books in Progress

Contemplation and Interpretation in Sixteenth Century Kabbalah

Doubt and Certainty in Jewish Pietism from Maimonides to Mussar

American Jewish Survivalism: Meir Kahane and the Politics of Pride

Why Satmar?: Joel Teitelbaum and Battle Against Modernity and its Contemporary

Reception.”

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Edited Books/Journals

God’s Voice through the Void: Old and New Studies in Bratzlav Hasidism , Shaul Magid

ed. (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2001)

“Beginning/Again”: Toward a Hermeneutic of Jewish Texts, Aryeh Cohen, Shaul Magid

eds. (New York: Seven Bridges Press, 2001)

Modern Judaism, Winter 2009 co-editor with Edward Kaplan, new essays on Abraham

Joshua Heschel

Prooftexts, 2010, co-editor with Don Seeman, special issue on “Kabbala and MysticalPoetics”

Jewish Studies Quarterly, 2010, co-editor with Matthias Lehman, “Jewish in Ottoman

Lands”

Scholarly Articles

2015 – Between Romantic and Materialist Politics: Meir Kahane and Shlomo Carlebach,

The Journal of American Jewish History (in press)

2015 – “Anti-Semitism as Colonialism: Meir Kahane’s ‘Ethics of Violence’” Journal of

Jewish Ethics 1.2 (Summer, 2015): 231-261.

2015 – “Jewish Arianism: The Pre-Existence of the Zaddik in Early Hasidism,” Kabbalah

and Time, Brian Ogren, ed. (Leiden, Brill, 2015), 97-110

2015 – “Allegory Unbound: Rav Kook, Rabbi Akiva, Song of Songs, and the Rabbinic

(Anti) Hero,” Kabbalah 32 (2015): 57-82.

2015 - “Jewish Kabbalah: Hayyim Vital’s Shaarei Kedushah,” (annotated translation and

introduction) in Louis Komjathy ed. Contemplative Literature: A Comparative

Sourcebook on Meditation and Contemplative Prayer (SUNY Press, 2015), 197-265

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2014 – “Butler Trouble: Zionism, Excommunication and the Reception of Judith Butler’s

Work on Israel/Palestine,” Studies in American Jewish Literature 33.2 (2104): 237-259

2014 – “Doubt and Certainty in Contemporary Jewish Piety,” in Jewish Philosophy for the

Twenty-First Century, Hava Tirosh-Samuelson and Aaron Hughes eds. (Leiden: Brill,

2014), 205-228

2014 - The American Jewish Holocaust ‘Myth’ and ‘Negative Judaism’: Jacob Neusner’s

Contribution to American Judaism,” in A Legacy of Learning: Essays in Honor of Jacob

Neusner , A. Avery Peck, B. Chilton, W.S. Green and G.G. Porton (Leiden, Brill, 2014),

321-340

2014 – “The Divine/Human Messiah and Religious Deviance: Rethinking ChabadMessianism,” in Rethinking the Messianic Idea in Judaism: Historical, Philosophical and

Literary Perspectives (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2014), 316-354

2014 – “American Jewish Fundamentalism: Habad, Satmar, and Artscroll,” in Menachem

Butler, ed., Essays for a Jewish Lifetime (New York: Hakirah Press, forthcoming)

2014 – “Is There an American Jewish Fundamentalism Part I: Habad” in David Watt and

Simon Wood eds. Fundamentalism: Perspectives on a Contested History (Charleston,

SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2014), 70-91

2014 – “Is There an American Jewish Fundamentalism Part II: Satmar,” in David Wattand Simon Wood eds. Fundamentalism: Perspectives on a Contested History (Charleston,

SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2014), 92-107

2013 – “The Holocaust and Jewish Identity in America: Memory, the Unique, and the

Universal,” Jewish Social Studies 18-2 (Winter, 2013): 100-135

2012 – “God is Already Not One: The Postmonotheistic Turn in Contemporary Jewish

Theology in America,” [in Hebrew] Ruah Haaretz 1 (Sept. 2012), 49-52.

2012 – “From Sainthood to Selfhood in American Judaism: ArtScroll’s New Jewish Hero

and Jewish Renewal’s Functional Rebbe,” Modern Judaism (October, 2012): 270-291

2012 – “Hasidism, Mithnagdism, and Contemporary American Judaism,” in The

Cambridge History of Jewish Philosophy, Martin Kavka and David Novak eds.

(Cambridge University Press, 2012), 280-310

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2012 - “The King is Dead (and has been for three decades), Long Live the King”:

Contemporary Kabbalah and Scholem’s Shadow,” Jewish Quarterly Review (Winter2012): 131-153

2012 – “Early Hasidism and the Metaphysics of Malkhut in Yaakov (Lifhitz) Koppel’s

Shaarei Gan Eden, Kabbalah 27 (2012), 245-268

2012 – “Brother Where Art Thou?”: Reflections on Jesus in Martin Buber and the Hasidic

Master R. Shmuel Bornstein of Sochacze,” German-Jewish Thought: Between Religion

and Politics, Christian Wiese, Martina Urban eds. (Gottingen: Walter de Gruyter Press,

2012), 209-240.

2011 – “The New Jewish Reclamation of Jesus in Late Twentieth-Century America: Re-Aligning and Re-Thinking Jesus the Jew,” The Jewish Jesus: Revelation, Reflection,

Reclamation, Zev Garber ed. (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, 2011), 358-

382.

2011 – “Hasidism: Mystical and Non-Mystical Interpretations of Scripture,” Jewish

Mysticism, F. Greenspahn ed. (New York: New York University Press, 2011), 139-158.

2011 – “Myth, History, and Mysticism: Gershom Scholem and the Contemporary Scene,”

Jewish Quarterly Review 101.4 (Fall, 2011): 511-525.

2011 – “Be Alone, Together: Religious Individualism, Community, and the American

Spirit in Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thomas Merton, and Abraham Joshua Heschel.” The

Merton Annual (Summer, 2011), 116-130

2010 – “Yitro, (neo) Hasidism, and a New American Piety,” Festschrift for Arthur Green

(Woodstock, VT: Jewish Lights Books, 2010), 22-29.

2010 – “Introduction” to Zvi Mark, The Scroll of Secrets: The Hidden Messianic Vision

of R. Nahman of Breslav, (Brighton, MA; Academic Studies Press, 2010), 7-11.

2010 – “Pragmatism and Piety: The American Spiritual and Philosophical Roots of JewishRenewal” Kabbalah and Modernity (Leiden, Brill, 2010), 357-388.

2010 - “Constructing Women from Men: The Metaphysics of Male Homosexuality

among Lurianic Kabbalists in Sixteenth-Century Safed” Jewish Studies Quarterly (Winter,

2010): 4-28

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2010 – “Lurianic Kabbala and its Literary Genre: Myth, History, Fiction,” Prooftexts (Fall

2010): 362-397

2010 – “The Holocaust as Inverted Miracle: Shalom Noah Barzofsky of Slonim on the

Power and Divine Nature of Radical Evil” Spiritual Authority: Wrestling with Cultural

Power in Jewish Thought , Haim Kreisel and Boaz Huss eds. (Beer Sheva: Ben Gurion

University Press, 2010), 33-62

2009 – “Subversion as Return: Scripture, Dissent, and Renewal in Contemporary Judaism”

Subverting Scriptures: Critical Reflections of the Use of the Bible, Beth Benedix ed.

(New York: Palgrave Macmillan), 217-236.

2009 – “The Role of the Secular in Abraham Joshua Heschel’s Theology: (Re)ReadingHeschel After 9/11” Modern Judaism (February, 2009): 138-160

2007 – “’Adonai Open My Lips’: Preparing to Pray According to the Vilna Gaon,”

Journal of Textual Reasoning (November, 2007)

2007 – “ Imitatio Dei and/as Shared Space: Martin Buber’s Theological Argument for

Sharing the Holy Land,” in Righteous Indignation: A Jewish Call for Justice, Or Rose, Jo

Ellen Green Kaiser, and Margie Klein eds. (Woodstock VT: Jewish Lights Press, 2007)

2007 - “The Necessary Heresy of Translation: Reflections on the Hebrew Writings of

Zalman Schachter-Shalomi” Spectrum (January, 2007)

2006 - “The Ritual is not the Hunt”: The Seven Wedding Blessings, Redemption, and

Jewish Ritual as Fantasy,” Liturgy, Time, and the Politics of Redemption, Randi

Rashkover and Chad Pecknold eds. (Eerdmans Press, 2006), 198-221

2006 – “In Search of a Critical Voice in the Jewish Diaspora: Homelessness and Home in

Edward Said and Shalom Noah Barzofsky’s Netivot Shalom,” Jewish Social Studies

(summer, 2006): 193-227

2006 – “Ethics Disentangled from the Law: Incarnation, the Universal and HasidicEthics,” Kabbalah: A Journal of Jewish Mysticism (fall, 2006): 31-75.

2006 – “Rupture as Tikun or Anti-Traditionalism as Halakhic Salvation:

A Response to Menachem Fisch's ‘ Berakhot 19b, The Bavli's Paradigm of Confrontational

Discourse’” Journal of Textual Reasoning 4-2 March 2006

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2005 – “The Politics of (un) Conversion: The 'Mixed Multitude' (erev rav) as Conversos

in Rabbi Hayyim Vital's Etz Ha-Da'at Tov, Jewish Quarterly Review 95 4 (fall, 2005):625-666.

2005 – “A Monk, A Rabbi, and the Meaning of This Hour: War and Nonviolence in

Abraham Joshua Heschel and Thomas Merton” Cross Currents (summer, 2005): 184-213

2005 – “Ethics Differentiated from the Law: Hasidic Ethics” in The Blackwell Companion

to Religious Ethics William Schweiker ed. (Blackwell: UK, 2005), 176-187

2004 – “Rainbow Hasidism in America – The Maturation of Jewish Renewal – A Review

Essay,” The Reconstructionist (Spring, 2004): 34-60

2004 – "Is Egalitarianism Heresy: Re-Thinking Gender on the Margins of Judaism"

Nashim 8 (Fall, 2004): 89-129

2003 – “Versohnung, Reue, und die konnende Welt” Concilium: Internationale

Zeitschrift fur Theologie, (2003): 581-592.

2003 - “Nature, Exile, and Disability: The Natural World in R. Nahman of Bratslav’s Tale

The Seven Beggars” in Judaism and Ecology. Hava Tirosh-Samuelson ed. (Harvard

University Press: Cambridge, MA, 2003), 333-368

2003 – Review Essay – David Hartman, Love and Terror in the God Encounter: The

Theological Legacy of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik , Volume 1 Shofar (Winter, 2003)

21.2, 134-139.

2002 - “The Intolerance of Tolerance: Makhloket (Controversy), Exile, and Redemption in

Early Hasidism,” Jewish Studies Quarterly December (2001) 8.4, 326-368

2002 – “Rabbis of Silver, Sages of Gold – A Response to ‘Philosophical Talmud’,” in

Textual Reasonings, Peter Ochs and Nancy Levene eds. (SCM Press: London, 2002),

103-112

2001 – “Walking Softly on/with the Law: Apologetic Thinking and the

Orthodox/Conservative Debate,” Conservative Judaism, (Autumn, 2001), 54.1, 29-52

2001 - “Associative Midrash: Toward an Understanding of R. Nahman’s Hermeneutic

theory in Likkutei MoHaRan” in God’s Voice Through the Void: Old and New Studies in

Bratzlav Hasidism, S. Magid ed. (SUNY Press: Albany, NY, 2001), 15-66

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2001 – “Pharaoh’s Hardened Heart: Cruel and Unusual Punishment and Covenantal

Ethics,” The Journal of Scriptural Reasoning

2001 - “Origin and the Overcoming of Beginning: Zimzum as a Trope of Reading in Post-

Lurianic Kabbala” in Beginning/Again: Toward a Hermeneutic of Jewish Texts, Shaul

Magid, Aryeh Cohen eds. (Seven Bridges Press: New York, 2002), 163-214

2001 - “Beginning, False Beginning, and the Desire for Innovation,” in Beginning/Again:

toward a Hermeneutic of Jewish Texts, Shaul Magid, Aryeh Cohen eds. (Seven Bridges

Press: New York, 2002), xvii-xxxvi

2000 - “The Spinozistic Spirit in Mordecai Kaplan’s Re-Valuation of Judaism” Modern

Judaism (May, 2000), 159-180

1999 - “Monastic Liberation as Counter-Cultural Critique in the Life and Thought of

Thomas Merton,” Cross Currents, 49-4 (Winter) 1999-2000, 445-462

1999 - “De-Constructing the Mystical: The A-Mystical Kabbalism in Rabbi Hayyim of

Volozhin’s Nefesh Ha-Hayyim” Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy 9, 21-67

1998 - “A Thread of Blue: R Gershon Henoch Leiner of Radzyn and His Search for

Continuity in Response to Modernity” Polin, 11 (1998): 31-52

1998 - “Abraham Joshua Heschel and Thomas Merton: Heretics of Modernity”

Conservative Judaism, (Fall, 1998): 112-125 [re-printed in Turning to God Together for

Inward Holiness and Social Justice, Beatrice Bruteau ed.]

1997 - “Modernity as Heresy: The Introvertive Piety of Faith in R. Areleh Roth’s Shomer

Emunim” Jewish Studies Quarterly, 3-4 (1997): 74-104

1996 - “From Theosophy to Midrash: The Lurianic Reading of the Garden of Eden” AJS

Review, Spring/Summer, (1996): 37-75

1996 - “Conjugal Union, Mourning and Talmud Torah in R. Isaac Luria’s Tikkun Hazot ” Da’at 36 (1996): 52-72.

1996 - "Through the Void: The Absence of God in R. Nahman of Bratzlav's Likkutei

MoHaRan" Harvard Theological Review 88:4 (1996): 495-519

1995 - “From Theosophy to Midrash: Lurianic Exegesis on Adam and Eve and the Garden

of Eden” The Postmodern Jewish Philosophy Network 4:2

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1995 - "Hasidism and Existentialism?: A Review Essay of J. Gellman's The Fear, theTrembling and the Fire: Kierkegaard and Hasidic Masters on the Sacrifice of Isaac"

Modern Judaism 15 (1995): 279-294

1995 - "Gershom Scholem's Ambivalence Toward Mystical Experience and His Critique

of Martin Buber in Light of Hans Jonas and Martin Heidegger" Journal of Jewish Thought

and Philosophy 4-2 (1995): 245-269

1989 - "The Dialectical Element in R. Soloveitchik's Halakhic Anthropology" [Hebrew]

'Et La'asot (Journal of Jewish Thought, Jerusalem): 81-89

Encyclopedia Articles

2016 – “Antinomianism” in Vocabulary for the Study of Religion, Leiden: Brill, 2016),

102, 103.

2015 – “Isaac Luria,” The Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception

2014 – “Antinomianism” in The Vocabulary for the Study of Religion (Leiden: Brill)

2008 – Revision of the article on “Judaism” for the World Book Encyclopedia

2008 – “Antinomianism” in The Cambridge Dictionary of Jewish Religion, Judith Baskin

eds. (Cambridge UK, Cambridge University Press)

2007 – “Gershom Scholem” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

2007 – “Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook,” in The Cambridge Dictionary of Jewish History,

Religion, and Culture

2007 – “Jewish Renewal” in The Encyclopedia of the Jewish Diaspora

2007 – “Egalitarianism” in The Encyclopedia of the Jewish Diaspora

2007 – “Lurianic Kabbala and the Diaspora,” in The Encyclopedia of the Jewish Diaspora

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2007 – “Hasidism as a Diaspora Phenomenon,” in The Encyclopedia of the Jewish

Diaspora

2007 – “Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, Encyclopedia Judaica, revised edition

2007 – “The Izbica/Radzin Hasidic Dynasty” The YIVO Encyclopedia of Eastern

European Jewry, Gershon Hundert ed.

2007 - “Rabbi Kalonymous Kalman Epstein of Krakow” The YIVO Encyclopedia of

Eastern European Jewry, Gershon Hundert ed.

2005 – “The Jewish Renewal Movement” and a revision of “Chabad Hasidism” in the

Encyclopedia of Religion, 2nd edition

Reviews/Responses

2016 – Review – A Best Selling Hebrew Book of the Modern era: The Book of the

Covenant of Pinhas Hurwitz and its Remarkable Legacy, David Ruderman, American

Historical Review

2015 – Review – In the Shadow of Zion: Promised Lands before Israel, Adam Rovner,

Journal for the Study of Contemporary Thought in the Islamicate World

2015 – Review – Babel in Zion: Jews, Nationalism, and Language Diversity in

Palestine: 1920-1948, Liora Halperin, Modern Judaism (Winter, 2015)

2014 - Review - Deconstructing Zionism; a Critique of Political Metaphysics, Gianni

Vattimo and Michael Marder eds. New York, Bloomsbury, 2014, Notre Dame

Philosophical Review (May, 2104)

2014 - Review – Muslims and Jews in America: Commonalities, Contentions, and

Complexities, Reza Aslan and Aaron Hahn Tapper eds., Review of Middle East Studies

2013 – Review – Jews and Anti-Judaism in the New Testament , Terrance Donaldson,

University of Toronto Quarterly 82-3 (Summer, 2013):

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2012 – Review – Holy Dissent , Shofar (Summer, 2013)

2012 – Review – The Scandal of Kabbalah, by Yaacob Dweck, American Historical

Review (June 2012)

2011 – Review – Post-Zionism/Post Holocaust , by Elhanon Yakira, The Journal of

Religion (Winter 2012)

2011 – Review – “Jacob Frank and the Heresy we Forgot,” The Forward , June 10, 2011

2011 – Review - “The Triumph and Tragedy of Counter-Cultural Judaism,” A review of

Holy Beggars: A Journey form Haight Ashbury to Jerusalem by Aryae Coopersmith, The

Forward July, 13

2010 – Review – “ArtScroll and the Bourgeois Revolution of American Orthodoxy: A

Review of Jeremy Stolow’s Orthodox by Design,” Zeek, July 22.

2009 – Review – “Reviewing Contemporary American Judaism: Dana Evan Kaplan’s

Contemporary American Judaism.” Zeek, December 7.

2009 – Review – Pierre Birnbaum, Geography of Hope: Exile, the Enlightenment,

Disassimilation, Translated by Charlotte Mandell, American Historical Review, October,

2009, pp. 1043-1044.

2009 – Review – David Myers, Between Jew and Arab: The Lost Voice of Simon

Rawidowicz, The Forward, March 13

2008 – Review – Joel L. Kraemer, Maimonides: The Life and World of One of

Civilizations Greatest Thinkers, The Washington Post Sunday Book Review

2008 – Review – Elliot R. Wolfson, Venturing Beyond , Journal of Religion,

(forthcoming)

2008 – Review – Edward Hoffman, The Way

of Splendor: An Updated 25

th

Anniversary Edition, AJS Review (forthcoming)

2007 – Review – Mor Altshuler, The Messianic Secret of Hasidism, Kabbala 16

2007 – Review – Elliot Horowitz, Reckless Rites, American Historical Review 112.5

2005 – Review – Matt Goldish, Sabbatean Prophets, American Historical Review 100.3

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2004 – Review – Lawrence Fine, Physician of the Soul – Healer of the Cosmos, AJS Review 28.2

2003 – Review – Pinhas Giller, Reading the Zohar , Jewish Quarterly Review

2002 – Response - The Brokenness (and Sacrality) of the Human Voice: A Response to

Aryeh Cohen, Journal of Textual Reasoning, Spring 2002

2001 – Response – to Elliot Gertel’s ”Energy and Jewish Mysticism,” Conservative

Judaism, 53-2 Winter (2001): 22-25

1998 - Review - Alan L. Mittleman, The Politics of Torah: The Jewish Political Traditionand the Founding of Agudat Israel, AJS Review 23.2

1998 - Review - Edward Kaplan, Holiness in Words: Abraham’ Joshua Heschel’s Poetics

of Piety, AJS Review 23-1 (1998): 141-146

1997 - Review - Gedalia Nigal, Magic, Mysticism, and Hasidism: The Supernatural in

Jewish Thought , Polin 10

Articles of General Interest

2016 – “Scholarship and Provocation: A Response to Art Green’s Review od Hasidism

Incarnate,” Tikun Magazine, Jan. 14

2015 – “1913: Seeds of Conflict”: New Doc Explores Little Known History of Palestine”

Film Review, Religion Dispatches, June 29.

2015 – “My Teacher’s Son: A Memoir of Heresy in marked by a Father’s Unnerving

Piety,” Tablet Magazine, April 13

2015 – “Stuck Between Berlin and Jerusalem: What Kind of Zionist was Gershom

Scholem?” Tablet Magazine, Match10

2015 – “Should American Jews Stop Obsessing over the Holocaust,” Tablet Magazine,

January 25

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2014 – “Is It Right to Compare Ferguson to Gaza: Reflections from a Jewish Protestor,”

Tikkun Magazine, December 11

2014 – “Should Rabbis Proselytize Non-Jewish Spouses?: A Response to JTSA

Chancellor Arnold Eisen,” Zeek Magazine, August, 18

2014 – “War is not ‘Hell’ its ‘Sin’: Jews and Muslims Hunger Strike against Violence,

Religion Dispatches, July 15.

2014 – R. Zalman Schachter-Shalomi: “The Holy Cobbler with a Secret,” Tikkun

Magazine, July 6.

2014 – “Reb Zalman Married Counter-Culture to Hasidic Judaism,” Obituary TheForward , July 3

2014 – “The New Normal: Why J-Street Should be Happy About Being Rejected by the

Conference of Presidents,” Zeek Magazine, May 1

2014 – “The Dark Side of Purim” The Forward , March 10

2014 – “ From Anti-Zionism to Settler Post-Zionism: What do the Settler Movement and

Neturei Karta Have in Common, Tikkun Magazine, February 25

2014 – “The Wandering Jew and Zionism,” SHMA, January/February

2014 – “Who is Boycotting Whom?: National Hillel Guidelines, Dissent, and Legitimate

Protest,” Zeek Magazine, January 10.

2013 – “Goliath the Israel Slayer: Why Max Blumenthal’s New Book is a Painful Read,”

Religion Dispatches November, 7

2013 – “And What of the Non-Jewish Jews?: Reflections on the Pew Poll of American

Jews,” Religion Dispatches, October 7

2013 – “Bibi’s Bad History: Benjamin Netanyahu’s UN Speech” Religion Dispatches,

October 7.

2013 – “Confessions of an Interloper: Bible Criticism from the Sidelines,” TheTorah.com

Sept. 3

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2013 – “No Light between the U.S. and Israel”: Review of Rashid Khalidi’s Brokers of

Deceit , Open Zion, May 23

2013 – “Shavout and Self-Immolation, Open Zion May 14

2013 – “Lishma Kizoni: Ha-Im Anu Zekukim le-Kanaei Shalom,” [Hebrew] Ha-Oketz,

March 6

2013 – “The Gaon of Modernity: On Eliyahu Stern’s The Genius: Elijah of Vilna and the

Making of Modern Judaism, The Jewish Review of Books 4-1 (spring, 2013)

2013 – “It’s not Tzedakah if we get a Tax Break,” SHMA; A Journal of Ideas, March 1

2013 – “Iran as Haman: Jeffrey Goldberg’s Dangerous Analogy” Open Zion, February 27

2013 – “ How to Take Purim Seriously” Open Zion, February 21

2013 – “The Soloveitchik who Loved Jesus” Tablet Magazine December 14

2012 – “Because God Tells Me So: Do Jews Have a ‘Historic Right’ to Israel?” Religious

Dispatches, December 10

2012 - “Broken Mirror: On Shlomo Carlebach,” Tablet Magazine, November 2

2012 – “Radial Lishma: Do We Need the Zealot for Peace?” Tikkun Magazine, July 27

2012 – “Retelling Hasidism for the Twenty-First Century,” Tikkun Magazine, Summer,

37-39.

2012 – “Dani Dayan’s Service to the Left,” The Times of Israel, July 27, 2012

2012 – “It’s the ‘Spirituality, Stupid,” The Times of Israel, July 1, 2012

2012 – “Migrants in Israel and the Persecuted Majority,” The Times of Israel, June 6,2012

2012 – “Bad Faith on Two States,” The Daily Beast – Open Zion, June 4, 2012

2012 - “What if the Left Abandoned Israel?” The Times of Israel, May 24, 2012

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2012 – “Peace Partners? A Question for the ‘Pragmatic’ Right,” The Times of Israel, May

11, 2012

2012 – “The Sad Saga of a Compromised Rabbi” Religion Dispatches, April 26, 2012

2012 – Review – “Peter Beinart’s Crisis in Zionism: Right Diagnosis/Wrong Treatment,”

Religion Dispatches, April 16, 2012

2012 – “Re-Telling Hasidism for the Twenty-First Century:

A review essay of A Hidden Light” Stories and Teachings of Early HaBaD and Bratzlav

Hasidism, by Zalman Schachter-Shalomi and Netanel Miles –Yepez, Tikkun Magazine,

(summer, 2012)

2012 – “ The Price of Uncertainty,” SHMA Magazine (April, 2012)

2012 – “The Hypocrisy in Protests against the Ultra-Orthodox in Israel,” Religion

Dispatches, January 5, 2012

2011 - “On Lying,” Frequencies, December, 26 2011

2011 – “The Jewish non-Jew and the non-Jewish Jew in America,” Occasional Religion,

October 24, 2011

2011 – “The Hasidism: An Underground History,” Jewish Review of Books, 2-2 (Summer

2011): 15, 16.

2011 - Israel/Palestine Journal: “A Terrorist Masquerading as a Policeman” Occasional

Religion, April, 27, 2011

2011 – “Be the Jew You Make: Jews, Judaism, and Jewishness in Post-Ethnic America,”

SHMA: A Journal of Jewish Responsibility, March, 2011

2011 – “Fear and Loathing at the J-Street Conference: Negotiating between Protest andBoycott,” Occasional Religion, March 7, 2011

2011 – “Democratic Egypt Tests Divided Israel,” Religion Dispatches, February 1, 2011.

2010 – “Is Netanyahu the Jewish Arafat?” Zeek Magazine, September 29.

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2010 – Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach and His Interpreters: A Review Essay of Two New

Musical Releases,” Musica Judaica, September

2010 – “Islamophobia, Antisemitism, the Holocaust, and a ‘New’ Jewish Cause,” Zeek

Magazine August 20.

2010 – “Does Helen Thomas Work for Israel?” Religion Dispatches, June 9.

2010 – “Of Boycotts and Blockades: An Analysis of the Gaza Flotilla Attack.” Zeek

Magazine, June 2.

2010 – “Dogmas and Allegiances in Contemporary Judaism,” Shma Magazine, April (also

published in Zeek Magazine, April 2010)

2010 – “Is ‘Radical’ Theology Radical?” Tikkun Magazine (March/April)

2009 – “’Justify my Love: J-Street’s Obsession with Loving Israel,” Zeek , October.

2009 – “Dual Allegiance,” Zeek Magazine, September 9.

2009 - Yom ha-Kippurim and Tisha be-Av – “The Commonality of Opposites,” Shma

Magazine, September

2009 – “The Settlers and the Haredim: Between Ideology and Pragmatism,” Religion

Dispatches, July 30.

2009 – “Shlomo Carlebach” Roundtable on Contemporary Spirituality, Havutra: The

Shalom Hartman Journal, May

2009 – “Obama “Shakes” the Jewish Consciousness in Cairo,” Religion Dispatches, June

9

2009 – “The ‘American’ Holocaust and the American Jewish Dilemma,” Zeek Magazine,

March 10

2008 – “’Jews who were Israelis’: Anti-Semitism and the Chabad Center in Mubai”

Religion Dispatches, December 16

2008 – “From Pariah to Charmed Hero: America’s Obsession with Jews and Israel,”

Religion Dispatches, October, 2008, re-printed in The New Vilna Review, November,

2008

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2008 – “Is There an Orthodox War Against Modern Orthodoxy?” The New Vilna Review,July, 2008

2008 – “The Zionist Clock at 60” Tikkun Magazine May, 2008

2008 – “Which Birthright?: Why Choosing Home over Homeland May Not be So Bad?”

Zeek Magazine, May, 2008

2008 – “Is Kabbala Mysticism?: Another View,” Zeek Magazine, March

2007 – “Zionism, Anti-Semitism, and the Boundaries of Dissent,” Zeek Magazine, April.

This includes a response by Paul Bogdanor and my rejoinder to Bogdanor’s response.

2006 – “Who Owns the Holy Land?: Sacred Real Estate” The Christian Century July 25,

2006, 24-27.

2006 – “Reponses to the Hamas Elections,” op-ed Herald Tribune/Bloomington, April 2.

2006 – “Jewish Renewal, American Spiritualism, and Postmonotheistic Theology,” Tikkun

Magazine (May/June). Also included in the 20th Anniversary edition of Tikkun Magazine,

October/November 2006

2006 – “The Holocaust and Jewish Renewal: A Theological Response,” Tikkun Magazine

(March/April)

2006 – “Jewish Renewal – A New American Religion?” Tikkun Magazine

(January/February)

2005 – “When Will the Wedding Take Place?,” in Spectrum: A Journal of Renewal

Spirituality

2004 – “The Settler Succession” The Jerusalem Report , September 20, 2004

2003 – “’Political Diasporism’ as an American Alternative to Post-Zionism,” Hoveret : A

JTS Student Publication

2003 – “Zalman Schachter-Shalomi,” in Conservative Judaism, 2003

2002 – “A New Prayer for the State of Israel: A Liturgical Alternative?,” Tikkun

Magazine May/June 2002, 26-28

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2000 – “The Meaning of Sin,” JTS Magazine 9-3 (Spring, 2000)

1999 - “What is ‘Troubling’ About Troubling Texts?” Journal of Textual Reasoning

1998 - “Piety Before Ecstasy: A Modern Prerequisite for Jewish Meditation,” in Jewish

Meditation (Woodstock Vermont: Jewish Lights, 1997)

Awards/Scholarships

2015 – Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania – Research

Fellow, 2015-2016

2015 - Center for the Arts and Humanities Institute (CAHI), Indiana University, Research

Fellow, spring 2015

2009 – From Metaphysics to Midrash, Winner of the 2008 American Academy of

Religion Book Award for Best Book in Religion in the Textual Studies Category.

2007-09 - Global Citizenship Course Development Grant, Indiana University

2007 – Center for the Arts and Humanities Institute (CAHI), Indiana University, Research

Fellow, spring 2008

1996 - Recipient of the Harry Starr Research Fellowship, The Center of Jewish Studies,

Harvard University (declined)

1992-93 - Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture - dissertation grant

1992-93 - National Foundation for Jewish Culture - dissertation grant

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1989-93 - Graduate fellowship in the Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies,

Brandeis University

Academics Lectures, Invited lectures, Papers Presented

2015 – “When Christianity Defines Judaism: Martin Buber on Jesus and the Baal Shem

Tov,” Columbia University, Center for Israel and Jewish Studies, November 30

2015 – “Politics and Precedent: Meir Kahane, the Satmar Rebbe, and David Novak ofJudaism and Zionism,’ CUNY Graduate Center, New York, New York, November, 20.

2015 – Rabbi Yoel Teitelbaum’s Jewish Theology of the Anti-Christ,” University of

Illinois, Urbana-Champagne, November 17.

2015 – The Annual Goldberg Lecture in Jewish Culture and Society, “Meir Kahane’s

Critique of American Judaism,” University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagne, November 16.

2015 – “Intermarriage, Meir Kahane, and the American Jewish Dilemma,” College of

Charleston, November 1.

2015 – “’The Unknown Knowns’: Can Judaism Survive without Doubt?” Guilt and

Doubt: New Perspectives on Jewish Feeling, The Katz Center for Advanced Judaic

Studies, Philadelphia, PA, October 25

2015 – “Rethinking American Jewish Zionist Identity,” Between Race and Religion:

Contemporary American Jewish Culture and Politics, Stanford University, October, 8.

2015 – “The Word of God is No Word at All,” Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public

Life, Columbia University, April 15.

2015 – “Buber’s Baal Shem Tov Jesus: The Symmetry between Jesus and the Baal Shem

Tov in Martin Buber’s Writings of Hasidism and Christianity,” keynote address, Institute

for the Study of Religion and Contemporary Spirituality, annual conference, Tel Aviv

University, March 5

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2015 – “Cultural Translation and the Hasidic Story: martin Buber and Zalman Schachter-

Shalomi’s Re-telling of Hasidic Tales,” Institute for the Study of Religion andContemporary Spirituality, annual conference, Tel Aviv University, March 6

2015 – “Is Contemporary Jewish Studies a Modern Day Heresy?: Reflections on a New

Myth of Origins,” 21st Annual Gross Colloquium in Judaic Studies, University of

Pennsylvania, “Doing Wissenschaft : The Academic Study of Judaism as Practice, 1818-

2018

2015 – “The Word of God is No Word at All!” Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public

Life, Columbia University, April 15.

2015 – “Renewal in a Post-Zalman Era: Between Neo-Hasidism and Paradigm Shift”University of Colorado/Boulder, March 2.

2015 – “Remembering (and Forgetting) R. Zalman Schachter-Shalomi,” Naropa

University, Boulder, March 1.

2015 – “After Multiculturalism: Postethnicity and the Future of Judaism in America,” The

Aranov Lecture, University of Alabama, February 25.

2015 – “Post-Rabbinic Judaism in America,” California State University/Long Beach,

February, 18.

2015 - “Jewish Thinking Outside the Christian Gaze: The Case of Hasidism” Institute for

Christian and Jewish Studies, Baltimore, MD, February 3.

2015 – “The Four Miscalculations of Zionism” Goucher College, February 3

2015 – “Meir Kahane and the “Ethics of Violence” Society for Jewish Ethics, January 10

2104 – “Is Meir Kahane a Zionist?” AJS, Baltimore,. December 17

2014 – “Why be Jewish?: Intermarriage, Meir Kahane, and the Contemporary JewishDilemma,” New York University, May 7.

2014 – “Beyond Pluralism and Multiculturalism: Is American Jewry Ready for

Postethnicity?,” The Sondra Bender Visiting Scholar’s Lecture, Colorado University

Boulder, CO, March 6.

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2014 – “Rainbow Hasidism: The Metaphysical Legacy of Zalman Schachter-Shalomi,”

plenary address for the Tenth Anniversary of Hebrew College Rabbinic School, HebrewCollege, Newton, MA, January, 27

2014 – “Charisma Speaking: Incarnation, and Sacred Language ( Lashon Ha-Kodesh) in

Nahman of Bratslav’s Self-Fashioning,” Columbia University, January 23

2013 – “Reading Frank Talmage Reading Kabbalah: Talmage and Kabbalistic

Hermeneutics,” AJS, December 15-17

2013 – “Is Mordecai Kaplan Reconstructionism Too Jewish?” AJS, December 15-17

2013 – “Fundamentalism as Re-Education: The Case of Artscroll,” AAR, November 18

2013 - The Zaddik before Time: The Pre-existence of the Zaddik in Elimelekeh of Lyzinsk

and Dov Baer, the Maggid of Mezritch,” Eternity, Epoch, and Soul: Jewish Mystical

Notions of Time, Rice University, November 3-5

2013 – “Are American Jews Ready for Postmonotheism?” Lehigh University, November,

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2013 – “After Multiculturalism: American Jews in a Postethnic Society” Muhlenberg

College, November 20

2012 – “Jacob Neusner on American Judaism and the Holocaust,” AAR, Chicago,

November 19

2012 – “Liberal Judaism, Christianity, and the Specter of Hasidism, University of North

Carolina/Duke University Jewish Studies Colloquium, November 12

2012 – “Postmontheism as a New American Jewish Theology,” University of North

Carolina/Duke University, November 11

2012 – “Hasidism Incarnate: Hasidism and the Christianization of Modern Judaism,”

University of California/Irvine, October 31

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2012 – “Posmonotheism in Zalman Schachter-Shalomi and Arthur Green,” Conference for

the Study of Contemporary Spiritualties, University of Haifa, March 20, 2012

2012 – “Is There an American Jewish Fundamentalism?” University of Nebraska, Lincoln,

March 7

2012, “Postmonotheistic Theology in Contemporary America,” Emory University,

February, 20

2011 – “Liberation, Liberators, and the Unanswered Fifth Question: Three JewishPerspectives from the Twentieth Century,” De Pauw University, April 22

2010 – “Artscroll’s American Jewish Saint: From Venerated Icon to Functional Hero,”

AAR Conference, Atlanta, GA Nov. 1

2010 – “"Hasidism and Second Wave Neo-Hasidism: From Jewish Exclusivity to a

Globalized Judaism,” UC – Santa Cruz, February 25.

2009 – “Religious Individualism and the American Spirit in Ralph Waldo Emerson,

Thomas Merton, and Abraham Joshua Heschel,” International Thomas Merton Society

Annual Conference, Rochester, NY, Jun 11-13.

2009 –“Jewish Jesus in America: New Perspectives,” Wesleyan University/Illinois, March

30.

2009 – “Re-Claiming Jesus or Defending Judaism?: The Jewish Jesus in Contemporary

America,” UCLA Center for Jewish Studies, January 29.

2008 – “From ‘Beyond Vietnam’ to Iraq: Martin Luther King Jr. after Forty Years”

Building Bridges: Martin Luther King Jr. after Forty Years, Ivy Tech Community

College April 6, 2008

2008 – “American Judaism after Zionism – New Directions,” University of Rochester,

April 1.

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2008 – “ Interim Judaism/Interim Jews: Michael Morgan’s Contribution to American

Jewish Thought,” March 31, conference “In Quest for the Past and Future of Jewish

Philosophy”

2007 - “Ethnicity, America, and the Future the Jews according to Felix Adler, Josephine

Lazarus, and Mordecai Kaplan,” AAR Conference 2007

2007 - “Lurianic Kabbala as Fiction: A New Historicist Perspective” AJS

2007 – “The American Spiritual Roots of Jewish Renewal,” “Kabbala and Modernity,”

The Center for Hermetic and Esoteric Studies, University of Amsterdam, July 4-6

2007 – “The Power of Radical Evil: Rabbi Shalom Noah Barzofsky of Slonim on the

Holocaust,” Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel, May 27-29

2007 – “Jewish Renewal in Contemporary America: Negotiating the Boundaries of

Legitimacy,’ University of Denver, April 24. Also includes two 3 hour seminars as part of

the “Rimon Master Class” on Kabbala and the interpretation of Scripture

2007 – “Self-Hood and Sainthood in Israeli and American Jewish Mysticism,”

Northeastern University, March 13

2007 – “Can Heschel be a Source for Secular Theology,” Brandeis University, conference

celebrating the centennial of Heschel’s birth, March 11-12.

2007 – “Translation as Heresy: Negotiating Boundaries of Legitimacy in Jewish

Renewal,” Graduate Theological Union, February, Berkeley, CA

2006 - Between Meta-Halakha and Post-Halakha: Messianism, Democracy, and the

Future of Jewish Law” AAR Conference, Washington, DC

2005 - “Infallibility, Human Worship, and Religious Deviance: Lubavitch “Rebbeism” and

its Proto-Jewish Origins” “Reaching for the Infinite”: Conference on the Life and Work of

Rabbi Menahem Mendel Schneersohn, New York University, November

2005 – “Multiculturalism and Postethnicity in Jewish America: The Loss of Jewish

‘Essence’ and the (Re) Birth of the New Jew” Sh’ma Panel on “The Limits of Pluralism,”

dedicated to the work of Eugene Borowitz, AJS Conference

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2005 – “Teaching Jewish Mysticism in the American Academy,” Panel, AJS Conference

2005 – Respondent to panel “Contemporary Kabbala,” AJS Conference

2004 - “Performative Imagination: The Ritual of Reading in the Lurianic Text Pri Etz

Hayyim” AJS Conference, Sunday December 19.

2004 – “Can We Save Ourselves if We Abandon the Other: Re-Thinking Jewish

Responsibility in the Diaspora,” Nishma: A Day of learning on Judaism and Social

Justice, Keynote address, Spertus College, Chicago, Ill., October 24

2004 – “Charisma Talking: Lashon Ha-Kodesh as the Language of the Zaddik in Likkutei

MoHaRan I:19,” 25th Annual Gale Lecture, symposium on Charisma in Jewish Mysticism,

University of Texas, Austin, TX, October 17.

2004 – “The Monk and the Rabbi and the Meaning of this Hour: Thomas Merton and

Abraham Heschel on War and Non-Violence,” Iona College, October 14

2003 – “Thomas Merton and Abraham Joshua Heschel: Ecumenicism, 9/11, and the

Middle east Crisis, There are No Strangers: Thomas Merton on Interfaith Dialogue,

Wisdom House, Litchfield, CN, October 26th

2003 – “Is Egalitarianism Heresy?: Rethinking Gender and the Margins of Judaism,” The

I. Usher Kirschbaum Lecture, Queens College, May 13th

2003 – “The Necessary Heresy of Translation: Reflections on the Hebrew Writings of Reb

Zalman Schachter-Shalomi,” Awakening, Yearning and Renewal: Conference on Neo-

Hasidism, New York City, March 26-28

2002 – “The Sin of Becoming a Women: Male Homosexuality (mishkav zakhur ) in

Lurianic Kabbala,” A.A.R Conference, Toronto, CA, November

2002 - “’And Adam’s Sin was (too) Great’: Original sin in Lurianic Exegesis,” A.J.S.

Conference, Los Angeles, CA, December

2002 – “Can Positive Religion Live in the World of Reason Alone: Or, Can Prophecy

Avoid Effacing Philosophy,” University of Virginia, March 21, 2002

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2002 – “Religion and Violence: A Jewish Response,” University of Pennsylvania,

Department of Religious Studies, March 6, 2002

2002 – “Killing Sacred Cows: Apologetics and Jewish Theology for the Next Generation”

Congregation B’nei Torah, Boca Raton, Florida, February 1.

2002 – “Judaism and Gender – New Perspectives,” The Conservative Synagogue of

Jamaica, Jamaica NY, January 13.

2001 – “The Science of Gender: Engendering Judaism and the Challenge of Rabbinic

Biology” - “J. Lieblein Lecture on Alternative Views of Religion and Science,” B'nai

Israel Congregation, Rockville, MD, October 28.

2001 – “Translating Into Tradition: The Hebrew Writings of Rabbi Zalman Schachter-

Shalomi and the Reversal of Translation,” AAR Conference, Denver, Colorado

2000 – The Rabbi Hugo Hahn Memorial Lecture, “Without Witnesses: Constructing and

Transmitting the Historical Holocaust” Congregation Habonim, New York, New York

November 11.

2000 – “Idolatry, Messiah, and the Critique of the Rabbis: Hermann Cohen and R. Kook

on the Efficacy of Art, “ A.J.S Conference, Boston, MA,

2000 - “The Tolerance of Intolerance: Makhloket and Redemption in Early Hasidism,”

AAR Conference, Nashville, TN

2000 - “Are We Heretics? Re-Thinking Conservative Judaism” Inaugural Lecture, Elaine

Ravitch Chair in Jewish Studies, Jewish Theological Seminary, April

1999 - Hasidism and the War Against Reason: The Anti-Philosophical Treatise Kin`at ha-

Shem Tseva'ot and the Hasidic Battle Against Philosophical Inquiry,” AJS Conference,

Chicago, IL. December

1998 - “Tradition as Liberation: Monasticism as a Modern Alternative” Thomas Merton’s

Conversion: On the 60th Anniversary of his Baptism, Union Theological Seminary/ Corpus

Christi Church/ Iona College, November 14th

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1998 - Respondent/Discussant to Yohanan Silman’s “Good Thought and Bad Thought in

Halakha” Winter - AJS Conference, Boston, December

1998 - “Translation as Nimshal: Can Kabbala Survive Translation?” AAR Conference,

Orlando Florida, November

1998 - Winter - AJS West Conference, University of Judaism, Los Angeles, Calif., paper

entitled, “Can Kabbala Survive Translation?: Reflections on the American Academic Study

of Jewish Mysticism”

1998 - Winter - Abraham Joshua Heschel 25th Anniversary of His Death, JTS., paper

entitled, “Contemplative Prayer as a Modern Dilemma in Heschel and Thomas Merton”

1998 - Winter - Judaism and the Natural World: Harvard Center for World Religions,

Paper entitled, “Nature, Exile and Disability: The Natural World in R. Nahman of

Bratzlav’s Tale The Seven Beggars”

1997 - Fall - Thomas Merton’s Prophetic Stance, Corpus Christi Church, Paper entitled,

“Mysticism as Religious Critique: Thomas Merton and Abraham Joshua Heschel as

Heretics of Modernity”

1997 - Fall - AJS Conference, Boston, Paper entitled, “The Grave of R. Nahman of

Bratzlav as Erez Yisrael in the Bratzlav Tradition”

1996 - Fall - AAR Conference, New Orleans. Paper entitled, “The Spinozistic Spirit in

Mordecai Kaplan’s Re-Valuation of Judaism”

1995 - Winter - AJS Conference, Boston. Paper entitled, “Before Genesis 1: Zimzum as a

Trope of Reading in Post-Lurianic Kabbala”

1995 - Fall - AAR Conference, Phila., Paper entitled, “Modernity as Heresy: The

Introvertive Piety of Faith in R. Areleh Roth’s Shomer Emunim”

1994 - Winter - AAR Conference, Chicago. Paper entitled, "From Theosophy to

Midrash-The Lurianic Reading of the Sin of Adam and Eve".

1994 - Winter - AAR Conference, Boston. Paper entitled, "Associative Midrash: Toward

a Hermeneutic Theory in R. Nahman of Bratzlav's Likkutei MoHaRan".

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1993 - Winter - AJS Conference, Boston. Paper entitled, "Gershom Scholem's

Ambivalence Toward Mystical Experience in Light of Hans Jonas and Martin Heidegger"

1993 - Fall - AAR Conference, Washington DC Paper entitled, "Integration and Retreat:

Two Responses to the Absence of God in the Hasidic Ideologies of R. Nahman of

Bratzlav and R. Gershon Henoch of Radzin"

1992 - Winter - AJS Conference, Boston. Paper entitled, “The Synthesis of the Guide and

the Zohar in the Hasidic Writings of R. Gershon Henoch of Radzin”

1992 - Fall - AAR Conference, San Francisco. Paper entitled, "The Trans-Kabbalistic

Nature of Torah Study in R. Hayyim of Volozhin's Nefesh Ha-Hayyim"

1992 - Fall - SUNY. New Paltz. Lecture entitled, "The Hanukkah Story as Told in

Talmud Shabbat (21b) in its Historical Context"

1990 - Winter - AJS Conference, Boston. Paper presented in the graduate colloquium

entitled, "Moral Perfection in the Hasidic Ideology of R. Simcha Bunim of Pryzsucha"

Teaching and non-Academic Lectures

2010 – “Does Zionism have a Future in America,” in “The Past and Future of Zionism,”

Indiana University/Purdue University, Indianapolis, April 25.

2007 – “Faith in Action: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam in Dialogue,” De Pauw

University, April 11 with Father David Burell and Dr. S. Athar

2007 – “The Perils of Jewish Identity: Israel, Anti-Semitism, and Legitimate Dissent in

Contemporary American Jewry,” Indiana University, March.

2006 – “Hezbollah, Israel, and the War in Lebanon,” panel discussion, sponsored by the

Department of Near Eastern Culture and Languages, Indiana University, October 22.2006 – “Teaching about Israel: Beyond the Conflict,” for High School and Middle School

teachers in Washington County (Indianapolis) IN, September 20.

2006 – “Earthquake?: The Israel/Palestine Dilemma,” with Abdulkadar Sinno, Indiana

University, sponsored by Brit Zedek v Shalom, February

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2006 – “Promised Land: A Dialogue from Jewish and Christian Perspectives,” with

Michael McGarry, The Twenty-Fifth Forum on Jewish/Christian Relations, ChristianTheological Seminary, Indianapolis, IN, March 13.

2005 – “Judaism in the Next Century,” Aitz Hayim Synagogue, Highland Park, Illinois

2001 – “Canon and Canonicity: Re-Thinking What We Read,” inaugural lecture for the

JTS Torah Institute: A Conservative Judaism Curriculum, January 15th, Caldwell, New

Jersey

2000 – Havruta Adult Education program, JTS, “ Mussar after the Holocaust: the Ethics

of Reconstruction: a text study of R. Elyahu Dessler’s Mikhtav m’Elyahu”

2000 – Havruta program, JTS, “Jewish Mysticism and Mitzvot – a text study of the Zohar

1999 - Visiting Asst. Professor, Columbia University, course entitled “Vision, Myth and

Symbol: An Introduction to Early Jewish Mysticism”

1999 - Lecturer , Doctor of Jewish Studies Seminar, Spertus College, Chicago, Ill.1999 – Havruta program, JTS, “Rabbi Nahman of Bratslav’s Likkutei MoHaRan”

1998 - Rabbinic Training Institute, Pawling, New York, June, “Hasidism as a Religious

Model of Piety”

1997 – Spring, The Institute of Continuing Education: The United Synagogue of

Conservative Judaism, “Retrieving a Religion of the Spirit’

1997 - Scholar in Residence, Kane Street Synagogue, Brooklyn NY, January 24, 25

1997 - “The Messianic Underpinnings of Modern Judaism” Morristown Jewish Center,

Morristown, NJ, February 9.

1997 - “The Place of Mysticism in Judaism Today” White Meadow Temple, White

Meadow NJ, November 13.

1996 - Fall, The Jewish Theological Seminary’s Franz Rosenzweig Lehrhaus, course

entitled, “Conjugal Union, Mystical Union and Tikkun ‘Olam in Sixteenth Century

Kabbala”

1994-1996 - Anna Smith Fine Asst. Professor of Jewish Thought, Department of Religion,

Rice University, Houston, Texas

1996 - Spring, Rice University School of Continuing Education. Course entitled,

“Judaism Past and Future - The Struggle for Holiness and Redemption”

1996 - Summer, Jewish Theological Seminary - Course entitled, “Piety on the Cusp of

Modernity - An Introduction to Hasidism”

1995 - Fall - Lecture entitled, “Hasidic Perspectives on Hanukkah” - Meah Institute of

Adult Education, Boston, MA.1995 - Fall, Temple Beth Israel, Houston Texas - Mini-Course entitled, “The Strong

Strands of Spirituality in the Tapestry of Judaism”

1995 - Kerem Summer Institute, Hebrew College, Brookline, Ma. - Lecturer in Medieval

Jewish Thought

1994\95 - Winter, Three-Part Lecture series entitled, " Devekut Contra Mitzvot: Hasidic

Readings of the Tension Between Obligation and Experience", Hebrew College Brookline,

Ma.

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1994 - Spring, Holocaust Memorial Lecture, Temple Tiferet Israel, Malden Ma., "Faith

and Sanctity: A Dialectic of Commemoration"1994 - Spring, Temple Emanuel's Adult Education Committee/Hebrew College [Boston]

lecture entitled, "Spiritual Community or Community of Spirit: Two Models of

Community in Modern Judaism - Comparing Mordecai Kaplan and Martin Buber"

1994 - Spring, Visiting Lecturer at Boston University, Department of Religion

1994 - Spring - Visiting Lecturer, Hebrew College, Boston MA. Two courses, "The Birth

of Kabbala: From the Hekhalot to the Zohar" and "The Struggle with Modernity"

1993-1994 - Rabbinical Advisor, student egalitarian minyan, Harvard\Radcliffe Hillel

1993-1994 - Harvard/Radcliffe Hillel Center for Jewish Studies - Two courses, "How Do

Hasidic Texts Read the Bible?- A Study in Hasidic Exegesis" and "Rabbi Nahman of

Bratzlav's Likkutei MoHaRan"

1993 - Fall - Visiting Professor, Clark University, Jewish Thought1993 - Spring - Teaching Fellowship, Harvard University, Core Program course in

Humanities. Course entitled, "Moderation and Extremism", a study of the ethical theory in

Aristotle, Aquinas, and Maimonides.

1991-1992-1993 - Fall, Spring - Visiting Asst. Professor, UMASS - Amherst, courses in

medieval and modern Jewish history including honor sections in Zionism and Jewish

philosophy during the Enlightenment.

1991 - Spring - Teaching Fellowship, Brandeis University for a humanities course entitled,

"The Image of Man in the Modern Age"

1991-1992-1993 - Teaching Fellowship, Brandeis University for a humanities course

entitled, "Homer and the Early Greek Tragedies"

1990 - Spring - Teaching Fellowship for a Judaic Studies course entitled, "Jewish

Philosophy From the Bible to Maimonides"

1989-1990 - Lecturer, Melton School of Adult Education, Newton Ma., included a two

semester adult seminar covering major themes in Jewish philosophy, ancient, medieval and

modern.

1989-1990 - Teacher, Solomon Schechter Day School, Newton Ma., 7th grade Talmud

class

1988 - Fall - Oded Program in Adult Education (Jerusalem), course entitled, "The

Problem of Theology in Jewish Thought," a seminar on various approaches of Jewish

thinkers to theology.

1988 - Summer - C.A.J.E. Conference, Hebrew University, Lecture entitled, "Kavannah:A Theology of Action.” A look at the development of religious intention in Jewish

tradition, its treatment in Maimonides Code of Law ( Mishneh Torah) and Hasidic thought.

1988 - Spring, Summer - Project Oded Summer Session - a 6 week lecture series entitled,

"Ba'al Teshuva: A Paradox of Return - A Critical View of the search for meaning in

Contemporary Jewish Society"

1987-1988 - Fall, Spring - Adult Education at Congregation Moreshet Israel - Center for

Conservative Judaism (Jerusalem). Three 6 week lecture series, "Modern Thinkers

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Confront Halakha", "Religious and Secular Architects of the Zionist Revolution," and

"The Non-Jewish Neighbor in Zionist Ideology."1987-1988 - Fall, Spring - Oded Program for Adult Education, Jerusalem. A semester

course entitled, "19th and 20th Century Jewish Philosophy".

1986 - Spring - World Union of Jewish Students (WUJS) Arad, Israel. Two courses,

"Introduction to Talmud" and "Philosophical Perspectives of Halakha"

1984 - Fall - Mechon Chana Yeshiva for Women (affiliated with Merkaz Ha-Rav Kook)

Two courses, Midrash Bereshit Rabba (taught in Hebrew) and Bible with classical

commentaries (taught in English)

1983 - 1984, Mikhlelet Bruria (Jerusalem) various courses including the thought of Rav

Kook, medieval biblical exegesis, and Hasidic Thought.

1981-1984 - Yeshivat Ha-Mivtar (Jerusalem) During my four years in the Kollel I taught

various courses in the yeshiva program including, Bible with commentaries, medievalJewish philosophy and Jewish mysticism (Hasidism and the Kabbala of R. Moses Hayyim

Luzzato).

Professional Organizations

American Association for the Study of Religion (elected member, 2014)

Association of Jewish Studies

American Academy of Religion

Middle East Conflict and Reform Group,

Indiana University, founding member

Islamic Studies, Indiana University

Center for the Study of the Middle East, Indiana University

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