Articles

Oct 16, 2024

What is Chabad-Lubavitch? A Jewish studies scholar explains

The Conversation
Oct 31, 2023

“Exiting Orthodox Judaism”

with Sara Feldman, Oxford Bibliographies in Jewish Studies, (2023)
Jul 20, 2023

Lubavitch Summer Camp Songs

Artifacts of Orthodox Jewish Childhoods: Personal and Critical Essays, 2022. Dainy Bernstein (Ed.), Teaneck, NJ: Ben Yehuda Press
Jul 20, 2023

The Golem, Goyim, and the Hasidic Imagination

Artifacts of Orthodox Jewish Childhoods: Personal and Critical Essays, 2022. Dainy Bernstein (Ed.), Teaneck, NJ: Ben Yehuda Press
Apr 8, 2022

Review of Jonathan Boyarin’s Yeshiva Days: Learning on the Lower East Side

AJS Review
Sep 2, 2021

Review of Ayala Fader’s Hidden Heretics: Jewish Doubt in the Digital Age

American Jewish History
Feb 1, 2021

Religious Exit: An Incomplete Project

AJS Perspectives
Jul 1, 2020

Durkheim as a Model for Religious Exiters

Apikorsus
Apr 21, 2020

Unorthodox Captures Many Truths of Leaving Hasidic Communities

The Society Pages
Apr 1, 2020

The Only Legitimate Reason to Leave Orthodoxy

Apikorsus
Apr 1, 2020

Soft-Pedaling the Legacy of the Lubavitcher Rebbe

Apikorsus
Oct 21, 2019

Six Things I Learned Teaching in Prison

CETLS blog, BMCC
Dec 27, 2017

The Unraveling Of My Hasidic Life

The Forward
Dec 14, 2017

Ex-Haredim Cannot Save Liberal Judaism

The Forward
Nov 7, 2017

Few Who Leave Chasidic Life Lose Their Families

The Jewish Week
Jan 1, 2012

Grandfathers Against Bar Mitzvahs: Secular Immigrant Jews Confront Religion in 1940s America

with Gennady Estraikh, Zutot: Perspectives on Jewish Culture, vol. 9, 2012, pp. 73-84