Articles, Book Chapters and Other Observations
Judaism and the World
Judaism and Capital Punishment
The Tears That Are Not Murder: Judaism and Abortion
In Every Generation: A Jewish Approach to Genetic Research, Testing and Screening, and Gene Therapy
A Name for Ourselves: Judaism and Infertility
A Sea of Troubles: Judaism and the Environment
Keynote Address, February 27, 2005
In God's Image: Judaism and Homosexuality
Judaism and Immigration:
Ask A Rabbi Response in Moment Magazine
Triangle: A Fire That Changed the Country Forever
Judaism and the Labor Movement; March 25, 2011
Jewish Life: Ritual, Community, Ideology and Identity
Shabbat and the Power of the Regular and Routine,
from Text Messages: A Torah Commentary For Teens
(Jewish Lights, 2012)
Let's Uplift Synagogue Language
Reform Judaism Magazine, Fall 2013
The Secret of Jewish Survival
Reform Judaism Magazine, Winter 2008
A Covenant Cocktail: The Messianic Idea In Judaism
Slipping and Falling Through Space and Time:
A Mystical Moment at a Minyan for My Father
The Kaddish and The Grateful Dead
Reform Judaism
Partly Pregnant: What Does it Mean to Be a Good Jew?
Evolution and Us: How Charles Darwin
Made Reform Judaism Possible
Ties That Bind: Obligation and Autonomy
in Reform Judaism Today
Israel Related Remarks
What Have We Won at the Western Wall?
Everybody Must Get Stoned
Jimmy Carter and the Betrayal of History
Costs and Consequences: Redemption of Gilad Schallit
October 21, 2011; Parashat Bereshit
Facts and Faces
May 27, 2011; Parashat Bamidbar
For Others and Ourselves:
Hillel's Words for Haiti and for Israel
January 22, 2010; Parashat Bo
City of our Souls: On the 40th Anniversary of
the Reunification of Jerusalem
Judaism and Other Religions
A New Day, Reprise:
Remarks Delivered as a Sunday Sermon
for Nazareth-by-the Sea Episcopal Church,
Red Hook, St. Thomas, VI
August 27, 2017
Everything That Happened
November 19, 2010; Parashat Vayishlach
See it Now: Reflections on The Passion of the Christ
March 12, 2004; Parashat Ki Tisa
Have You Not One Blessing for Me?
Towards a Dialectic of Pluralism
November 28, 2003; Parashat Toledot
Covering the Cross; Discovering Respect
Social Issues and Community Relations
Hate Will Fade and Hope Will Shine:
Keynote Address for the Atlantic City NAACP MLK Service
“Uniting Against Hate, Antisemtism and Islamophobia”
St James AME Church of Atlantic City
January 16, 2023
An Open Letter to Representative Jeff Van Drew:
From the South Jersey Board of Rabbis and Cantors and
The Jewish Community Relations Council of Southern New Jersey
December 30, 2022
Love on the Table:
Keynote Sermon for the Absecon Island
Interfaith Thanksgiving Service,
November 21, 2022
Reflections on 9/11
Reflections on the Ten Year Anniversary of the Attacks
Remarks from September 11, 2002
Judd Hirsch and Jerry Falwell:
Things Happened for a Reason
Rosh Hashanah Morning 2001
Lo Nafsik Lirkod: We Will Not Stop Dancing
Erev Rosh Hashanah 2001
Tributes and Memorial Observations
An Unfinished Revolution:
The Life and Legacy of Rabbi David Hartman
In Memory of Rabbi David J. Forman