Media Interviews Jul 20, 2023 Andrew Gold interview On The Edge Jun 18, 2023 Frieda Vizel Interview Apr 17, 2023 Claire Ashman Podcast Interview May 13, 2021 Meet the sociologist who left his Chabad community and wrote a pathbreaking study of ex-Hasidim Forward Feb 1, 2021 International Institute for Secular Humanistic Judaism interview Dec 19, 2020 Brooklyn College News Profile Dec 5, 2020 Alan Brill Interview Nov 8, 2020 Harmonic Atheist Podcast Interview Jul 22, 2020 New Books Network interview Jun 9, 2020 Leaving Ultra-Orthodox Judaism Valley Beit Midrash May 21, 2020 Leaving Lubavitch Jewish Standard May 20, 2020 Formerly Hasidic Sociologist Shares Thoughts on ‘Unorthodox’ Baltimore Jewish Times Reviews Jun 6, 2023 Degrees of Separation reviewed in Politics, Religion & Ideology Jun 2, 2023 Degrees of Separation reviewed in American Journal of Sociology Jun 2, 2023 Degrees of Separation reviewed in AJS Review Dec 22, 2021 Degrees of Separation reviewed in the Journal of Jewish Identities Nov 4, 2021 Degrees of Separation reviewed in Canadian Jewish Studies (in French) Sep 2, 2021 Degrees of Separation reviewed in Contemporary Sociology Sep 2, 2021 Degrees of Separation reviewed in American Jewish History May 30, 2021 Degrees of Separation reviewed in Contemporary Jewry Mar 16, 2021 Beyond ‘Unorthodox’ Commentary Feb 8, 2021 A Scholarly Unorthodox JewThink Jan 26, 2021 Degrees of Separation reviewed in Social Forces Oct 30, 2020 Degrees of Separation reviewed in Symbolic Interaction Aug 5, 2020 Degrees of Separation reviewed in Ethnic and Racial Studies Jun 18, 2020 Why They Left Jewish Link New Books Network Interviews Jun 15, 2025 Ezra Glinter on Menachem Mendel Schneerson: Becoming the Messiah Jun 1, 2025 Daniel Karpowitz on College in Prison: Reading in an Age of Mass Incarceration May 19, 2025 Chani Getter on Mapito: Embrace Yourself May 9, 2025 Ruth Braunstein on My Tax Dollars: The Morality of Taxpaying in America Apr 5, 2025 Eli Rubin on Kabbalah and the Rupture of Modernity: An Existential History of Chabad Hasidism Mar 4, 2025 Michael Visontay on Noble Fragments: The Gripping Story of the Antiquarian Bookseller Who Broke Up a Gutenberg Bible Jan 27, 2025 Adam Chalom and Jodi Kornfeld on Contemporary Humanistic Judaism Jan 13, 2025 Chaya T. Halberstam on Trial Stories in Jewish Antiquity: Counternarratives of Justice Dec 24, 2024 Jordan Rosenblum on Forbidden: A 3,000-Year History of Jews and the Pig Dec 8, 2024 Stacy Torres on At Home in the City: Growing Old in Urban America Nov 26, 2024 Yermiyahu Ahron Taub on Prayers of a Heretic Nov 13, 2024 Sara Glass on Kissing Girls on Shabbat: A Memoir Oct 16, 2024 Naomi Seidman on Translating the Jewish Freud: Psychoanalysis in Hebrew and Yiddish Oct 16, 2024 Jessica Roda on For Women and Girls Only: Reshaping Jewish Orthodoxy Through the Arts in the Digital Age Jul 28, 2024 Laura Yares on Jewish Sunday Schools: Teaching Religion in Nineteenth-Century America Jul 26, 2024 Jonathan Branfman on Millennial Jewish Stars: Navigating Racial Antisemitism, Masculinity, and White Supremacy Jul 9, 2024 Rachel Z. Feldman on Messianic Zionism in the Digital Age: Jews, Noahides, and the Third Temple Imaginary Jun 28, 2024 Michoel Rotenfeld on The Shochet: A Memoir of Jewish Life in Ukraine and Crimea Jun 5, 2024 Glenn Dynner on The Light of Learning: Hasidism in Poland on the Eve of the Holocaust Mar 7, 2024 Emily Lynell Edwards on Digital Islamophobia: Tracking a Far-Right Crisis Feb 7, 2024 Calvin John Smiley on Purgatory Citizenship: Reentry, Race, and Abolition Jan 17, 2024 Naomi Seidman On Chaim Einspruch’s 1941 Yiddish Translation of the Christian Bible Jan 11, 2024 Thomas DeGloma on Anonymous: The Performance of Hidden Identities Dec 20, 2023 Emily Horowitz on From Rage to Reason: Why We Need Sex Crime Laws Based on Facts, Not Fear Dec 2, 2023 J. Christopher Edwards on Crucified: The Christian Invention of the Jewish Executioners of Jesus Nov 18, 2023 Meghan Henning on Hell Hath No Fury: Gender, Disability, and the Invention of Damned Bodies in Early Christian Literature Oct 31, 2023 Todd Vachon on Clean Air and Good Jobs: U.S. Labor and the Struggle for Climate Justice Oct 31, 2023 Melissa Weininger on Beyond the Land: Diaspora Israeli Culture in the Twenty-First Century Aug 6, 2023 Mike Rothschild on Jewish Space Lasers: The Rothschilds and 200 Years of Conspiracy Theories Aug 6, 2023 Lea Taragin-Zeller on The State of Desire: Religion and Reproductive Politics in the Promised Land May 28, 2023 Reyhan Durmaz on Stories Between Christianity and Islam: Saints, Memory, and Cultural Exchange in Late Antiquity and Beyond May 16, 2023 Justine Ellis on The Politics of Religious Literacy: Education and Emotion in a Secular Age May 7, 2023 Samantha Pickette on Peak TV’s Unapologetic Jewish Woman: Exploring Jewish Female Representation in Contemporary Television Comedy Mar 30, 2023 Eric Alterman on We Are Not One: A History of America’s Fight Over Israel Mar 14, 2023 Laura Kolb on Fictions of Credit in the Age of Shakespeare Mar 5, 2023 Yehudah DovBer Zirkind on Chaim Grade’s “The Yeshiva” Feb 25, 2023 Claire Bond Potter on Political Junkies: From Talk Radio to Twitter, How Alternative Media Hooked Us on Politics and Broke Our Democracy Feb 14, 2023 Daniel Lasker on Karaism: An Introduction to the Oldest Surviving Alternative Judaism Feb 7, 2023 Ben Burgis on Christopher Hitchens: What He Got Right, How He Went Wrong, and Why He Still Matters Jan 15, 2023 Steven Lukes on Émile Durkheim’s The Elementary Forms of Religious Life Jan 8, 2023 Joshua Kulp and Jason Rogoff on Reconstructing the Talmud: An Introduction to the Academic Study of Rabbinic Literature Dec 25, 2022 Tzafrir Barzilay on Poisoned Wells: Accusations, Persecution, and Minorities in Medieval Europe, 1321-1422 Dec 21, 2022 Jacob Kramer on The New Freedom and the Radicals: Woodrow Wilson, Progressive Views of Radicalism, and the Origins of Repressive Tolerance Dec 14, 2022 Harold Holzer on The Presidents vs. the Press: The Endless Battle Between the White House and the Media–From the Founding Fathers to Fake News Dec 7, 2022 Ken Schept on A Gift of Feathers Dec 6, 2022 Jay Michaelson on The Heresy of Jacob Frank: From Jewish Messianism to Esoteric Myth Nov 23, 2022 Gary Kates on The Books That Made the European Enlightenment: A History in 12 Case Studies Nov 23, 2022 Rhonda Levine on When Race Meets Class: African Americans Coming of Age in a Small City Oct 26, 2022 Larry Ceplair on The Hollywood Motion Picture Blacklist: Seventy-Five Years Later Sep 19, 2022 Sara Ronis on Demons in the Details: Demonic Discourse and Rabbinic Culture in Late Antique Babylonia Aug 3, 2022 Amy-Jill Levine and Marc Zvi Brettler on The Bible with and Without Jesus: How Jews and Christians Read the Same Stories Differently Jul 27, 2022 Thomas Kidd on Benjamin Franklin: The Religious Life of a Founding Father Jul 6, 2022 XinLing Li on Black Masculinity and Hip-Hop Music: Black Gay Men Who Rap Jun 27, 2022 Joni Schwartz and John Chaney on Gifts from the Dark: Learning from the Incarceration Experience Jun 17, 2022 Judah Schept on Coal, Cages, Crisis: The Rise of the Prison Economy in Central Appalachia Jun 10, 2022 Geoffrey Kurtz on Jean Jaures: The Inner Life of Social Democracy Jun 7, 2022 Dainy Bernstein, Goldie Gross, Yehudis Keller, Hannah Lebovits, and Miriam Moster on Artifacts of Orthodox Jewish Childhoods: Personal and Critical Essays May 30, 2022 Ilana Horwitz on God, Grades, and Graduation: Religion’s Surprising Impact on Academic Success May 24, 2022 Carolina Bank Muñoz and Penny Lewis on A People’s Guide to New York City May 11, 2022 Paul Heideman on Class Struggle and the Color Line: American Socialism and the Race Question, 1900-1930 Apr 18, 2022 Jennifer Delfino on Speaking of Race: Language, Identity, and Schooling Among African American Children Apr 8, 2022 Todd Clear on The Punishment Imperative: The Rise and Failure of Mass Incarceration in America Apr 8, 2022 Nomi Stolzenberg and David Myers on American Shtetl: The Making of Kiryas Joel, a Hasidic Village in Upstate New York Mar 22, 2022 Elisheva Carlebach, Francesca Bregoli, and Mayer Juni on The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, Volume 6 Feb 15, 2022 Manoela Carpenedo on Becoming Jewish, Believing in Jesus: Judaizing Evangelicals in Brazil Feb 2, 2022 Emma Southon on A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: Murder in Ancient Rome Feb 2, 2022 Robin Isserles on The Costs of Completion: Student Success in Community College Jan 17, 2022 Yakir Englander on The Male Body in Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Theology Dec 15, 2021 Craig Jones on The War Lawyers: The United States, Israel, and Juridical Warfare Nov 4, 2021 Amy Sodaro on Exhibiting Atrocity: Memorial Museums and the Politics of Past Violence Oct 15, 2021 Nathaniel Deutsch on A Fortress in Brooklyn: Race, Real Estate, and the Making of Hasidic Williamsburg Oct 14, 2021 Eliyana Adler on Survival on the Margins: Polish Jewish Refugees in the Wartime Soviet Union Sep 2, 2021 Sarah Benor, Jonathan Krasner, and Sharon Avni on Hebrew Infusion: Language and Community at American Jewish Summer Camps Sep 1, 2021 Judith Levine and Erica Meiners on The Feminist and the Sex Offender: Confronting Sexual Harm, Ending State Violence Jul 25, 2021 Amy Kaufman and Paul Sturtevant on The Devil’s Historians: How Modern Extremists Abuse the Medieval Past Jul 13, 2021 Joe Allen on The Package King: A Rank and File History of UPS Jul 9, 2021 Leonard Greenspoon on Jewish Bible Translations: Personalities, Passions, Politics, Progress Jun 11, 2021 Amaka Okechukwu on To Fulfill These Rights: Political Struggle Over Affirmative Action and Open Admissions May 27, 2021 Zev Eleff on Authentically Orthodox: A Tradition-Bound Faith in American Life May 20, 2021 Andrew Whitehead on Taking America Back for God: Christian Nationalism in the United States May 19, 2021 Harry Freedman on Reason to Believe: The Controversial Life of Rabbi Louis Jacobs May 6, 2021 Molly Vollman Makris and Mary Gatta on Gentrification Down the Shore May 5, 2021 Lila Corwin Berman on The American Jewish Philanthropic Complex Apr 19, 2021 Rachel B. Gross on Beyond the Synagogue Apr 12, 2021 Sheila Jelen on Salvage Poetics Mar 31, 2021 Gershom Gorenberg on War of Shadows Mar 23, 2021 Elizabeth F. Thompson on How the West Stole Democracy from the Arabs Mar 22, 2021 Jeffrey Shandler on Yiddish: Biography of a Language Mar 4, 2021 Miriam Udel on Honey on the Page: A Treasury of Yiddish Children’s Literature Feb 23, 2021 Josh Lambert on How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish Feb 19, 2021 Naomi Seidman on Sarah Schenirer and the Bais Yaakov Movement Feb 5, 2021 Gennady Estraikh on Transatlantic Russian Jewishness Dec 31, 2020 Shaul Magid on Piety and Rebellion Dec 17, 2020 Michal Raucher on Conceiving Agency Nov 30, 2020 Jonathan Boyarin on Yeshiva Days Oct 21, 2020 Rachel Manekin on The Rebellion of the Daughters Sep 21, 2020 Karen Skinazi on Women of Valor Sep 11, 2020 Ezra Cappell, Jessica Lang, Jericho Vincent, and Frieda Vizel on Off the Derech