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In Heaven Everything is Fine: The Unsolved Life of Peter Ivers & the Lost History of New Wave Theatre

(With Josh Frank) In the late ’70s and early ’80s, Saturday Night Live and National Lampoon were leading a comedy renaissance, while punk and new wave turned the music world on its head. At the nexus was the underappreciated and compelling creative figure Peter Ivers...

Are You Not a Man of God? Devotion, Betrayal, & Social Criticism in Jewish Tradition

(With Tova Hartman) Are You Not a Man of God? challenges the accepted readings of several iconic supporting characters from canonical stories of Jewish tradition. These characters have been appropriated throughout history to represent and reinforce central cultural values: the binding of Isaac and the religious value of sacrificing relationship for a higher purpose; the biblical Hannah, appropriated by the rabbis as an archetype of the spirit and practice of prayer; the Talmudic Beruriah and the significance of women's learning and knowledge; and the struggle for intellectual autonomy of the rabbis of the Talmudic story known by its tag-line, "It is not in heaven!"...

The God Who Hates Lies: Confronting & Rethinking Jewish Tradition

(With David Hartman) Anyone curious about the Jewish way of life, yet dissatisfied with much of contemporary Jewish theology and practice―repelled, perhaps, by the cheap and vulgar apologetics of those who seek to justify and sustain some of the tradition's systematic immoralities, who smugly deny expression to any doubt or uncertainty, claiming a monopoly on absolute truth―is invited to join on this pilgrimage

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