BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
Publications
“Psalms for the Post-Modern Man” in BROTHER KEEPERS - NEW PERSPECTIVES ON JEWISH MASCULINITY, edited by Harry Brod & Shawn Zevit. Harriman, TN: Men’s Studies Press, 2010.
JEWISH VIEWS OF THE AFTERLIFE. Second edition. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, Publishers, 2009.
"Kashrut and Halal - Sharing of Sacred Food and New Directions for Jewish-Muslim Dialog in Post 9/11 America" http://www.shalomctr.org/node/1508
“Afterlife: Medieval Judaism” in ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE BIBLE AND ITS RECEPTION, Vol. 1. Berlin: Vaerlag Walter de Gruyter, 2009.
“Commentary” on WELCOMING CHILDREN by Richard Hirsh. Wyncote, Pa: Reconstructionist Rabbinical College Press, 2008.
“Ask the Rabbis – What does Judaism have to say about life after death (from the perspective of): Jewish Renewal”. Moment, (February 2006), pp. 30-31.
“Jewish Pastoral Care for Grief and Bereavement” in JEWISH PASTORAL CARE : A PRACTICAL HANDBOOK FROM TRADITIONAL AND CONTEMPORARY SOURCES, edited by Dayle A. Friedman. Woodstock, VT: Jewish Lights Press, Second Edition 2005; First Edition 2001.
JEWISH VIEWS OF THE AFTERLIFE. Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson Inc., Publishers. Hardcover edition, 1994; softcover edition, 1996; First Roman and Littlefield Edition, 2004, 475 pages.
“The Pregnant Father Ponders” Adoption Today, July 2002, p. 33.
“Kabbalistic Conceptions of Death” in 3 MINUTE DISCOURSES ON KABBALAH” Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson Inc., Publishers, 2001.
“Forward” to JEWISH BOOK OF LIVING AND DYING by Lewis Solomon. Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson Inc., Publishers, 1999.
Content Consultant on JEWISH BOOK OF LIVING AND DYING by Lewis Solomon. Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson Inc., Publishers, 1999.
“A Meditation for Yizkor [Memorial Prayer]” in Kol Haneshamah - PRAYERBOOK FOR THE DAYS OF AWE. Wyncote, Pa: Jewish Reconstructionist Fellowship, 1999.
“A Jewish Adoption Ceremony to Welcome Our Daughter”, Co-authored with Geela Rayzel Raphael, (January 1999) http://www.jewishfamily.com/jc/lifecycle/a_ceremony_to.phtml
“Death, Grief and Renewal: Love Across the Jewish Barricades” New Menorah, No. 53 (Fall 1998), pp. 7-10.
“Forward” to A BOOK ABOUT DYING: PREPARING FOR ETERNAL LIFE by Robert Kirven. West Chester, Pa.: Chrysalis Books, 1997.
“The Dying Rebbe: A Model for Conscious Transition” Gnosis, (December 1996), pp, 62-63
“The Dance of Rainbow Colors” in THE FIFTY-EIGHTH CENTURY: A JEWISH RENEWAL SOURCE BOOK, edited by Shohama Wiener. Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson Publishers, 1996.
“Depictions of the Afterlife in Kabbalistic Judaism” What’s Next? (Winter 1995), p. 28.
“Is There Afterlife After Auschwitz?: Reflections on Life After Death in the Twentieth Century,” Judaism, Vol. 41, No. 4 (Fall 1992), pp. 346-360.
“Co-Parenting Covenant” (Co-authored with Geela Rayzel Robinson-Raphael), New Menorah - Journal of Jewish Renewal, Second Series, No. 24, Spring 1991, pp. 9-10.
“Covenant Guidelines for Creative Relationships” (Co-authored with Geela Rayzel Robinson-Raphael), New Menorah - Journal of Jewish Renewal, Second Series, No. 18, Winter 1989, pp. 3ff.
“Personal Reflections on the Intifada” Viewpoints - Canadian Jewish News, August 1989.
PAMPHLET SERIES: Understanding Yahrzeit and Yizkor; Understanding Grief and Bereavement; Understanding the Unveiling (Toronto: Benjamin Family Foundation, 1988).
Guidelines to Understanding the Tradition of Shiva (Toronto: Benjamin Family Foundation, 1987) 16 pp.
Editor, Nichum Avelim: Comforting the Mourners, by Michelle B. Goodman (Toronto: Benjamin Family Foundation, 1987) pamphlet 27 pp.
“Responding to Bruria's Cry: Bereavement Support in the Jewish Community”
The Jewish Funeral Directo Vol. 55, No. 2, (Summer 1987), pp. 6ff.
“The Next Frontier: Bereavement Support Services”. Jewish Funeral Director 55, 1 (Spr. 87),pp.14-15.
“Judaism's Contribution to the Psychology of Death and Dying”. Ph.D. Dissertation. (Ann Arbor, MI.: University Microfilms International, 1986) 396 pp.
“Vidui - The Deathbed Confession”. New Menorah, No. 3 (1985), pp. 4-5.
“Introduction” to “Inspirational Shabbos Liturgy” by Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi. Response, No. 41-42, (Fall-Winter 1982), p. 100.
“Moon Rite: Dance and Prayer of Kiddush Levana”. (Co-authored with H. P. Frydman) Menorah: Sparks of Jewish Renewal, Vol. II, No. 1 (December 1980), pp. 6-8.
“East Meets West”.Yoga Journal, July/August 1977.
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