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PUBLICATIONS (BOOKS)

KABBALAH: A LOVE STORY
A Morgan Road Books Hardcover
(an imprint of the Broadway Doubleday Publishing Group)


IN GOD'S HANDS
(with Gary Schmidt; Illustrated by Matthew J. Baek)
(Jewish Lights Publishing, Woodstock, VT, 2005).


FILLING WORDS WITH LIGHT: HASIDIC AND SPIRITUAL REFRACTIONS OF JEWISH PRAYER
(Jewish Lights Publishing, Woodstock, VT, 2004).


FIVE CITIES OF REFUGE: Weekly Reflections on Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers & Dueteronomy (with David Mamet)
(Schocken Books, New York, 2003.)


JEWISH SPIRITUALITY: A Brief Introduction for Christians, (Jewish Lights Publishing, Woodstock, VT, 2001); also published as: Repairing the World: Introducing Jewish Spirituality
(Darton, Longmand & Todd, London, 2002).


THE WAY INTO JEWISH MYSTICAL TRADITION
(Jewish Lights Publishing, Woodstock, VT, 2001).


BECAUSE NOTHING LOOKS LIKE GOD
with Karen Kushner, (Jewish Lights Publishing, Woodstock, VT, 2000).


KABBALAH: THE WAY OF LIGHT
(Peter Pauper Press, White Plains, NY, 1999).


EYES REMADE FOR WONDER: A Lawrence Kushner Reader, with an Introduction by Thomas Moore
(Jewish Lights Publishing, Woodstock, VT, 1998).


THE BOOK OF MIRACLES: A YOUNG PERSON'S GUIDE TO JEWISH SPIRITUALITY, Special 10th Anniversary Edition
(Jewish Lights Publishing, Woodstock, VT, 1997); softcover edition: (Union of American Hebrew Congregations, 1987).


INVISIBLE LINES OF CONNECTION: SACRED STORIES OF THE ORDINARY
(Jewish Lights Publishing, Woodstock, VT, 1996).


THE BOOK OF WORDS: Talking Spiritual Life, Living Spiritual Talk
(Jewish Lights Publishing, Woodstock, VT, 1994).


SPARKS BENEATH THE SURFACE: A Spiritual Commentary on the Torah, with Kerry Olitsky
(Jason Aronson, Northvale, NJ, 1993).


GOD WAS IN THIS PLACE AND I, I DID NOT KNOW: Finding Self, Spirituality and Ultimate Meaning
(Jewish Lights Publishing, Woodstock, VT, 1991).


THE INVISIBLE CHARIOT: An Introduction to Kabbalah and Spirituality for Young Adults
with Deborah Kerdeman (Alternatives in Religious Education, 1986).


THE RIVER OF LIGHT: Spirituality, Judaism and the Evolution of Consciousness
(Harper & Row and Rossel Books, 1981; Jewish Lights Publishing, Woodstock, VT, 1990).


HONEY FROM THE ROCK: Visions of Jewish Mystical Renewal
(Harper & Row, 1977; Jewish Lights Publishing, Woodstock, VT, 1990).


THE BOOK OF LETTERS: A Mystical Hebrew Alef-Bait
(Harper & Row, 1975; Jewish Lights Publishing, Woodstock, VT, 1990).

PUBLICATIONS (TAPES)

EYES REMADE FOR WONDER: Opening Wide the Gates of Jewish Mysticism and Spirituality
Sounds True Productions, Louisville, CO, 1999, (Two cassette set).

ARTICLES ON THE THEOLOGY OF LAWRENCE KUSHNER

"Chapter 2: Teacher"
in SPIRITUAL GENIUS: THE MASTERY OF LIFES' MEANING, Winifred Gallagher, Random House, New York, 2001.

"Dialogue with Lawrence Kushner," U. S. Catholic, February, 2003.

"A Reform Congregation Wrestling with God," in Finding a Spiritual Home: How a New Generation of Jews Can Transform the American Synagogue, Sidney Schwartz, San Francisco: Josey Bass: 2000, pp. 3-11, 53-94.

"Being a Joyful Servant: An Interview with Lawrence Kushner," Mary Nurries Stearns, Personal Transformation, spring, 1999, 57-60.

"A Conversation with Lawrence Kushner," William Novak, Kerem: Creative Explorations in Judaism, Number 6, 1999.

"Twentieth-Century Kabbala," David R. Blumenthal, Cross Currents, winter 1992-93, 551-54.

"Why I Daven where I Daven," Anita Diamant, Reform Judaism, fall 1985, pp.16-17.

"Can Liberal Jews Rediscover the Inner Core of Spirituality," Peter S. Knobel, Reform Judaism, fall 1983.

"Science and Spirit in Contemporary Jewish Mysticism," Richard L. Rubenstein, Cross Currents, vol. XXXIII, no. 4; winter 1983-84, p. 400 ff.

"Neo Hasidism in Suburbia," Nehemiah Polen, Christian Century, vol. C, no. 3, Jan. 26, 1983.

CONTRIBUTIONS TO BOOKS

"Foreword," to THE BELIEFNET GUIDE TO KABBALAH, Arthur Goldwag, New York: Three Leaves Press / Doubleday, 2005.

"Foreword," to THE BOOK OF CUSTOMS: A COMPLETE HANDBOOK FOR THE JEWISH YEAR, Scott-Martin Kosofsky, New York: HarperCollins Publishers, Inc., 2004.

"I am a Jew," in I AM JEWISH: PERSONAL REFLECTIONS INSPIRED BY THE LAST WORDS OF DANIEL PEARL, ed. Judea and Ruth Pearl, Woodstock, Vermont: Jewish Lights Publishing, 2004.

"Hineini: The Calling," in HINEINI IN OUR LIVES: LEARNING HOW TO RESPOND TO OHTERS THROUGH 14 BIBLICAL TEXTS & PERSONAL STORIES, Norman J. Cohen, Woodstock Vermont: Jewish Lights Publishing, 2003.

"Afterword" A Baptist Among the Jews, Mary Blye Howe, Jossey Bass, 2003

"My Lunch with Jesus," in Jesus Through Jewish Eyes, ed., Beatrice Bruteau, Maryknoll, New York, Orbis Books, 2001.

"An Ocean of God: The Interconnectedness of All Being," in God at 2000, ed. Marcus Borg and Ross Mackenzie, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Morehouse Publishing, 2000.

"What Did the Mystic Say to the Hot Dong Vendor? Six Neo-Kabbalistic Metaphors for Cosmic Design," in Cosmic Questions, ed. James B. Miller, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, vo.l. 950, New York, NY 2001.

"Foreword," The Oracle of Kabbalah: Mystical Teachings of the Heberw Letters, Richard Seidman, New York, St. Martin's Press: 2001.

"Foreword," Our Lives as Torah: Finding God in Our Own Stories, Carol Ochs, San Fancisco, Josey Bass: 2001.

"Introduction," "Broken Tablets: Restoring the Ten Commandments and Ourselves, ed. Rachael S. Mikva, Woodstock, VT: Jewish Lights Publishing, 1999.

"A Hasidic-Spiritual Commentary," with Nehemia Polen, in in Siddur Ami: My People's Prayerbook, ed. Lawrence Hoffman, Jewish lights Publishing, Woodstock, VT.
Vol. I, The Sh'ma and it's Blessings, 1997.
Vol. II, The Amida, 1998.
Vol. III, P'sukei d'Zimrah (Morning Psalms), 1999.
Vol. IV, Seder K'riat haTorah (The Torah Service), 2000.
Vol. V, Birkhot haShachar (The Morning Blessings), 2001.
Vol. VI, Tahanun and Concluding Prayers, 2002.
Vol. VII, Shabbat at Home, 2003 (in press).

"Foreword to the New Edition of Centered Living," M. Basil Pennington, O.C.S.O., Liguori, MO, Liguori/Triumph, 1999.

"Silencing the Inner Voices," in Meditation: from the Heart of Judaism, ed. Avram Davis, Jewish lights Publishing, Woodstock, VT, 1997.

"The Synagogue and Caring Community," in in Imagining the Jewish Future: Essays and Responses, ed. David A. Teutsch, State University of New York Press, 1992.

"Ports of Entry: Introductory Texts on Judaism," in in A Reader's Guide To Jewish Books, ed. Barry Holtz, (Schocken Books, 1991).

"The Unity that is not One," in Ehad: the Many Meanings of God is One, ed. Eugene B. Borowitz, Sh'ma Publications, NY, 1988.

Visions and Voices: Ten Conversations, Jonathan Cott, Doubleday, New York, 1987, "Lawrence Kushner," pp.197-213.

"Communities within Synagogues: in The Jewish Catalogue III, ed. Michael and Sharon Strassfeld, Jewish Publication Society, 1980.







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