Earlier and additional writing. For featured pieces and selected Washington Post columns, see the main articles page.
The Forward
- The Atonement Prayers We Should All Say in the #MeToo Era
- Why Are Jews So Pro-Choice?
- Jeff Sessions Is Right About Biblical Precedent. He's Pharaoh.
- Trump's Washington Reminds This Rabbi of Modern-Day Sodom
- GOP Budget Cutters and the Book of Job
- What This Rosh Hashanah Liturgical Poem Means in Trump's America
- How a Year in Trump's America Renewed My Faith
- "I don't know what percent of the water in the mikveh is actually made up of women's tears…"
- Actually, Dr. Ruth, the Talmud Does Not OK Rape
- The Jewish Community Must Oppose Trump's Muslim Ban
- Why Jewish #BlackLivesMatter Activists Should Take a Back Seat: Learning to Hand Over the Microphone
- Take Back Tzniut: Stop Monitoring Hemlines
- Adults, Who Happen to Be Young(er)
Other Justice Topics
- What We Can Learn About a Hillary Clinton Presidency from the Experience of Women Rabbis — Tablet
- The Requirements of Hope — Sojourners
- The Question 2017 Made Us Ask — Sojourners
Parenting
- Transforming the Mundane, Everyday Work of Parenting Into a Spiritual Practice — AlterNet
- Poop and Gratitude — HuffPost
- The Latest Parenting Trend: Radical Amazement — Kveller
- How Your Kids Can Help You Mentally Prepare for the High Holidays — Kveller
- Why My Baby's Sex Doesn't Matter — Kveller
- Our Kids Aren't the Only Ones Who Need Training — Kveller
- Truly Transformative: Motherhood and the Spiritual Practice of Parenting — Zeek
- V'ahavta: Prayer and Parenting — Sh'ma: A Journal of Jewish Ideas
Theology, Ethics, Ritual
- God of Contradiction: On Language and Liturgy — Zeek
- Why We Read Hagar on Rosh Hashanah: On the Abuse of Power — HuffPost
- A Blogger's Deceit, Power, and Amends — HuffPost
- Should We Forgive the Repentant Leader of an "Ex-Gay" Ministry? — HuffPost
- The Revelation Will Not Be Televised — HuffPost
- Wilderness as Transition: Omer, Anxiety, and the Neutral Zone — HuffPost
- Heaven and Earth: Some Notes on New Jewish Ritual — Reinventing Ritual: Contemporary Art and Design for Jewish Life
- Taste It and You Will See That God Is Good — Jbooks
- The Goat Always Comes Back: On Facing Fear — Sh'ma
- Why Judaism and Feminism Require One Another — The Forward
- A Few Words on Kiddushin — Sh'ma
- Teaching Jewish Sexual Ethics — Sh'ma
- Chanukah and Adult Faith — The Jewish Journal of Los Angeles
- Feminist Approaches to Jewish Marriage (resource site)
Art
- Art History 101 — Salon
- Spanking the Theory — Salon
- Bill Viola: Technology and the Soul — San Francisco Chronicle
- Two Jews Rethink Their Relationship with Religion (book review) — San Francisco Chronicle
- A Sexual Radical Finds Common Ground with the Christian Right (book review) — San Francisco Chronicle
- "Brandon": Multimedia, Art, and Social Change — San Francisco Chronicle
- The Pearly Gates of Cyberspace — San Francisco Chronicle
- Zeum Kaboom Crash — San Francisco Chronicle
Other Essays
- To Begin Again — Tablet
- Blessed Be the Chicago Cubs — Tablet
- Fringe Me Up, Fringe Me Down: On Getting Dressed in Jerusalem — Bitchfest: Ten Years of Writing from the Pages of Bitch Magazine (FSG)