Public Scholarship | Refereed Journal Articles and Chapters in Edited Volumes
Public Scholarship
The right is right to fear Disney. CNN Opinion. May 17, 2023.
Muppet Religion. The Revealer. December 8, 2022.
Don’t Judge Disney Adults. Try to Understand Them. NBC News THINK. June 9, 2022.
Disney’s Brand is Stories– and American Stories Keep Evolving. Made by History, The Washington Post . May 9, 2022.
What We Miss When We Miss Disney World. The Revealer. June 3, 2020.
Forget “Bruno.” “Dos Oruguitas” is the “Encanto” Song We Really Need. Salon. February 19, 2022.
A Link to Jewish History, RBG’s Iconic Collars Were a Beacon for the Marginalized. Religion Dispatches. October 1, 2020.
Why ‘Hamilton’ Is the ‘Most Disney’ Disney Film. Newsweek. July 3, 2020.
In Memory of Touch. Medium. April 29, 2020.
Holy Shit. Killing the Buddha. March 23, 2020.
Why Christian nationalists think Trump is heaven-sent. (Review of Katherine Stewart’s The Power Worshippers). The Washington Post. March 20, 2020.
Blossoms (Hadeish Yameinu). Killing the Buddha. April 29, 2019.
Returning to Mary Poppins, This Time with Stage 4 Cancer. Kveller. January 11, 2019.
Mary Poppins Can’t Return Fast Enough: An Adult in the Room is the Best Fantasy of 2018. Salon. October 3, 2018
Mediating Moses and Matzah. AJS Perspectives. May 2018.
The long, nasty moral war over sexuality in America. (Review of Marie Griffith’s Moral Combat). The Washington Post. January 26, 2018.
The Needle and the Planetarium. The Immanent Frame. January 11, 2018.
Transparent Season 3: The Intersectional Messiah. Religion Dispatches. September 30, 2017.
The Blockbuster Spirituality of The Fault in Our Stars. Religion Dispatches. June 12, 2014.
Beyond the Narrow Straits of Memory. Tikkun. June 4, 2014.
The Jew in the Lotus. The Christian Century, “Then and Now” blog. August 20, 2014.
Where the Wild Things Aren’t Just Jewish. Religion Dispatches. May 9, 2012.
Refereed Journal Articles and Chapters in Edited Volumes
“Teaching American Jewish Children’s and Young Adult Literature,” in Roberta Rosenberg and Rachel Rubinstein, eds., Teaching American Jewish Literature (Modern Language Association, 2020).
“American Judaism and Race,” in Paul Harvey and Kathryn Gin Lum, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Race in American History (New York: Oxford University Press, 2018)
“Maurice Sendak’s Jewish Mother(s),” in Jane Kanarek, Marjorie Lehman, and Simon Bronner, eds., Mothers in the Jewish Cultural Imagination (Oxford, UK: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2017)
“Golems and Goblins: The Monstrous in Jewish Children’s Literature,” in Stephen Parker, Susan Ridgely, and Ann Strhan, eds. The Bloomsbury Reader in Religion and Childhood. (London: Bloomsbury, 2017)
“Imagining Mary Magdalene: The Discourse of Hidden Wisdom in American Popular Culture.” Postscripts: The Journal of Sacred Texts and Contemporary Worlds (April 2011).
“The Curious Conflation of Hanukkah and the Holocaust in Jewish Children’s Literature.” Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies (Winter 2010), 92-115.
“‘As Americans Against Genocide’: The Crisis in Darfur and Interreligious Political Activism,” with Rosemary R. Hicks. American Quarterly 56:3 (September 2007), 711-735.