BOOKS
MUSINGS WITH THE ANGEL OF DEATH: POEMS OF LOVE, LIFE AND LONGING. Boulder, CO: Albion- Andalus Books, 2024, 146 pages,
JEWISH END-OF-LIFE CARE IN A VIRTUAL AGE: OUR TRADITIONS REIMAGINED. Co-edited with Dayle A. Friedman and David Levin. Boulder, CO: Albion-Andalus Books, 2021, 192 pages.
JEWISH VIEWS OF THE AFTERLIFE. Revised 3rd, 25th-anniversary edition. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, Publishers, 2019, 481 pages.
ECHOES FROM THE ASHES: HOLOCAUST POEMS OF LIFE, DEATH AND REBIRTH. Boulder, CO: Albion- Andalus Books, 2019, 58 pages.
MAY THE ANGELS CARRY YOU: JEWISH PRAYERS AND MEDITATIONS FOR THE DEATHBED. Boulder, CO: Albion-Andalus Inc., 2016, 124 pages.
LIVING AND DYING IN ANCIENT TIMES: DEATH, BURIAL AND MOURNING IN BIBLICAL TRADITION. Boulder, CO: Albion-Andalus Inc., 2015, 100 pages.
THE GRIEF JOURNEY AND THE AFTERLIFE: JEWISH PASTORAL CARE FOR BEREAVEMENT. Boulder, CO: Albion-Andalus Inc., 2015, 88 pages.
JEWISH VIEWS OF THE AFTERLIFE. Revised second edition. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, Publishers, 2009.
JEWISH VIEWS OF THE AFTERLIFE, Summit, NJ: Jason Aronson Inc., Publishers. Hardcover edition, 1994; softcover edition, 1996, 475 pages.
ARTICLES AND OTHER WRITINGS
“Parshat Vayehi: Jacob’s End-of-Life Wisdom” in MIDRASH HAZAK – TORAH WISDOM BY 70 OVER 70, edited by Susan Elkodsi (Teaneck, NJ: Ben Yehuda Press, 2025)
“Afterlife Journey of the Soul in Jewish Tradition and Mysticism” in RALPH METZNER EXPLORER OF CONSCIOUSNESS — THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF A PSYCHEDELIC PIONEER, edited by Cathy Coleman, Sounds True Press, 2024, pp. 264-272.
“Foreword” to JEWISH WISDOM FOR LIVING AND DYING: SPIRITUAL JOURNEY THROUGH THE PRAYERS AND RITUALS OF MAAVOR YABOK AND SEFER HAHAYYIM by Steven Moss. Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2022.
“From Bereaved Refugee to Man of Destiny: A Midrash on Pandemic Languishing and Hearing the Call” Evolve—Groundbreaking Jewish Conversations, March 25, 2022.
“Death and Dying” in HANDBOOK OF JEWISH RITUAL AND PRACTICE, ed. Oliver Leaman, London: Routledge, 2022.
“Transformation of Jewish Death Rituals in Times of Crisis, Pandemic, and Cultural Dislocation” in JEWISH END-OF-LIFE CARE IN A VIRTUAL AGE: OUR TRADITIONS REIMAGINED. Co-edited by Dayle A. Friedman, David Levin and Simcha Paull Raphael. Boulder, CO: Albion-Andalus Books, 2021, pp. 1-21.
“Prayer of One Who Has Recovered” in JEWISH END-OF-LIFE CARE IN A VIRTUAL AGE: OUR TRADITIONS REIMAGINED. Co-edited by Dayle A. Friedman, David Levin and Simcha Paull Raphael. Boulder, CO: Albion-Andalus Books, 2021, pp. 172-173.
“Re-Discovering the Afterlife” in SEEKING REDEMPTION IN AN UNREDEEMED WORLD, Ed. Howard Addison. Mishawaka, IN: Graduate Theological Foundation, 2019, pp.79-86.
“Story 5.1” [Celebrating a Cosmic Union], co-authored with Geela Rayzel Raphael, in Goldie Milgram, et al. WISDOM FROM REB ZALMAN – EMBRACING THE JEWISH SPIRIT. New York, NY: Reclaiming Judaism Press, 2018.
“Yizkor on the Last Day of Passover” KOL ALEPH – The Voice of Aleph: Alliance for Jewish Renewal (April 25, 2016).
“Yizkor and the Mourner’s Path: The Personal Odyssey of a Grief Therapist” Jewish Exponent (April 1, 2015) pp. 14-15.
“Remembering Reb Zalman, My Teacher and Friend” Jewish Exponent (July 7, 2014) p. 7, 24.
“Beyond Bodily Death” in “Jewish Thinking on the Afterlife: A Moment Magazine Symposium” Moment (July/August 2011) p. 36.
“’Miriam Took Her Timbrel Out and all the Women Danced’: A Midrashic Motif of Contemporary Jewish Feminism”. Women in Judaism: A Multidisciplinary Journal, (Winter 2010) Vol. 7, No. 2.
“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.
“Afterlife: Medieval Judaism” in ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE BIBLE AND ITS RECEPTION, Vol. 1. Berlin: Vaerlag Walter de Gruyter, 2009.
“Kashrut and Halal: Sharing of Food and New Directions for Jewish-Muslim Dialog in Post-9/11 America” (2009) https://www.shalomctr.org/node/1508.
“Commentary” on WELCOMING CHILDREN by Richard Hirsh in A GUIDE TO JEWISH PRACTICE, VOLUME 3 – THE LIFE CYCLE, edited by David A. Teutsch. Wyncote, PA: Reconstructionist Rabbinical College Press, 2008, 2014.
“Commentary” and Content Consultant on THE JOURNEY OF MOURNING by Richard Hirsh in A GUIDE TO JEWISH PRACTICE, VOLUME 3 – THE LIFE CYCLE, edited by David A. Teutsch. Wyncote, PA: Reconstructionist Rabbinical College Press, 2006, 2014).
“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.
“Pens and Poetry” Pennant – A Publication of the Pen Collectors of America, (Spring-Summer 2004), p. 36.
“The Pregnant Father Ponders” Adoption Today, (July 2002), p. 33.
“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, 2001.
“Kabbalistic Conceptions of Death” in 3 MINUTE DISCOURSES ON KABBALAH, Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson Inc., Publishers, 2001.
“Foreword” 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.
“Foreword” 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, 2nd 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” Jewish Funeral Director Vol. 55, No. 2, (Summer 1987), pp. 6ff.
“The Next Frontier: Bereavement Support Services”. Jewish Funeral Director 55, 1 (Spr. 1987), 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.
“The Meeting of East and West”. Yoga Journal, July/August 1977, pp. 4-5.
“Journey of Spaceship Earth: Donald Keys on the Spiritual Role of the United Nations” The Literary Supplement of The Georgian, March 18, 1975.
“Divine Light Mission”. The Literary Supplement of The Georgian, January 9, 1973.