Selected Academic Essays
- Gidron B, Katz S, Meyer M, Hasenfeld Y, Schwartz R, Crane JK. “Peace and Conflict Resolution Organizations in Three Protracted Conflicts: Structures, Resources and Ideology.” Voluntas. 10/4 (2000):275-298.
- Crane JK. “Because…: Justifying Law / Rationalizing Ethics.” The Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics. 55/1 (2005):55-77.
- Crane JK. “On Obedience in Spinoza’s Theological-Political Treatise.” ARC. The Journal of the Faculty of Religious Studies, McGill University. 34 (2006):239-250.
- Crane JK. “Faltering Dialogue? Religious Rhetoric of Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Buber.” Anasakti Darshan: international journal of nonviolence-in-action. 3/1 (2007):34-52.
- Crane JK. “Why Rights? Why Me?” Journal of Religious Ethics. 35/4 (2007):551-581.
- Crane JK. “Jews Burying Gentiles.” The Review of Rabbinic Judaism. X/2 (2007):145-161.
- Crane JK, Kadane JB. “Seeing Things: The Internet, the Talmud and Anais Nin.” The Review of Rabbinic Judaism. XI/2 (2008):342-345.
- Crane JK. “Na’aseh v’Nishmah: For Rabbi Eugene B. Borowitz.” CCAR Journal: The Reform Jewish Quarterly. Fall (2009):21-25.
- Crane JK. “Defining the Unspeakable: Incitement in Halakhah and Anglo-American Jurisprudence.” Journal of Law and Religion. XXV/2 (2009-2010):329-356.
- Crane JK. “Shameful Ambivalences: Dimensions of Rabbinic Shame.” AJS Review: The Journal of the Association for Jewish Studies. 35/1(Spring 2011):61-84.
- Crane JK. “Torture: Judaic Twists.” Journal of Law and Religion. XXVI/2 (2010-2011):469-504.
- Crane JK. “Perspectives on Torture: Reports from a Dialogue Including Christian, Judaic, Islamic and Feminist Viewpoints.” Journal of Religious Ethics. 39/4 (2011):Forthcoming.
- Crane JK. “Torturous Ambivalence: Judaic Struggles with Torture.” Journal of Religious Ethics. 39/4 (2011):Forthcoming.
- Crane JK. “Rethinking Conjoined Twins.” CCAR Journal: The Reform Jewish Quarterly. LIX/I(Winter 2011):125-141.
- Crane JK, Putney S. “Exorcising Doubt About Religious Ethics.” Open Peer Commentary. American Journal of Bioethics. Forthcoming.
- Crane JK. “’Who You Talkin’ About?’ Parallel Truthiness Concerns Between Autobiography and Biography in Bioethics.” Open Peer Commentary. American Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience. 3/4(2012):82-83.
- Crane JK, Kadane JB. “Critical Note: Seeing Things.” The Review of Rabbinic Judaism. Forthcoming.
- Crane JK. “Stem Cell Research and Judaism: Ethical Concerns.” Religions: a Scholarly Journal. 5(2013):41-54.
- Crane JK. “Praying to Die: Medicine and Liturgy.” Journal of Religious Ethics. 43/1(2015): 1-27.
- Crane JK. “Eugene B. Borowitz: A Modern Jewish Ethicist.” Journal of Jewish Ethics. 1/1(2015): viii-xi.
- Crane JK. “Arboreal Wisdom? Epistemology and Ecology in Judaic Sources.” Practical Matters. Issue #9 (May 25, 2016). http://wp.me/p6QAmj-F4
- Crane JK. “Who’s Your Mama Now? Rachel, Leah and Rabbinic Views on Their Procreative Possibilities.” Journal of Jewish Ethics. 3/1(2017):92-117.
- Crane JK. “If I Only Had Three Eyes! Jewish Perspectives on Genetic Enhancement.” Studia Bioethica. 10/3(2017):24-29.
- Wolpe PR, Rommelfanger KS, et al, including Crane JK. “Ethical principles for the use of human cellular biotechnologies.” Nature Biotechnology. 35/11(November 2017):1050-1058.
- Crane JK. “Married to HEAVEN: some ethical concerns in response to ‘HEAVEN in the Making’ by Ren and Canavero.” AJOB Neuroscience. 8/4(October-December 2017):225-227.
Selected Book Chapters
- Crane JK. “Stages of Man.” The Still Small Voice: reflections on being a Jewish man, 99-104. Edited by Michael Holzman. New York: Union for Reform Judaism Press. 2007.
- Crane JK. “With a Mighty Hand: A Judaic Perspective on the Ethics of Modern Armed Conflict.” In Enemy Combatants, Terrorism, and Armed Conflict Law: A Guide to the Issues, 184-206. Praeger Security International series. Edited by David Linnan. Westport: Praeger. 2008.
- Crane JK. “Open Source Covenant.” Jewish Theology In Our Time: A New Generation Explores the Foundations & Future of Jewish Belief, 43-49. Edited by Elliot Cosgrove. Woodstock: Jewish Lights Publication. 2010.
- Crane JK. “Ethics of Hermann Cohen, Franz Rosenzweig and Martin Buber.” Oxford Handbook of Jewish Ethics and Morality. Dorff E, Crane JK, editors. New York: Oxford University Press. 2012.
- Crane JK, Dorff EN. “Theories of Jewish Ethical Theories.” In The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Ethics and Morality, 27-34. Dorff EN, Crane JK, editors. New York: Oxford University Press. 2013.
- Dorff EN, Crane JK. “Introduction: Why Study Jewish Ethics?” In The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Ethics and Morality, 1-24. Dorff EN, Crane JK, editors. New York: Oxford University Press. 2013.
- Crane, JK. (2014). “Judaism, Bioethics in [Addendum].” In B. Jennings (Ed.), Bioethics (4th ed., Vol. 4, pp. 1773-1774). Farmington Hills, MI: Macmillan Reference USA.
- Crane JK. “Jewish Ethics.” In Oxford Bibliographies in Jewish Studies. Ed. David Biale. New York: Oxford University Press. 2014. Available at:
- Crane JK. “Fear of Missing Out: Judaism, addiction, and the Internet.” In Addiction and Its Consequences in Jewish Law, 1105-116. Walter Jacob, editor. Pittsburgh, PA: Freehof Institute for Progressive Halakhah. 2014.
- Crane JK. “Elliot N. Dorff: An Intellectual Portrait.” For Elliot N. Dorff: In Search of the Good Life, 1-35. Hava Tirosh-Samuelson and Aaron W. Hughes, editors. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. 2014.
- Crane JK, Gross AG. “Brutal Justice? Animal Litigation and the Question of Counter-Tradition.” In Beastly Morality: Animals as Moral Agents, 225-247. Jonathan K. Crane, editor. New York: Columbia University Press. 2015.
- Crane JK. “Beastly Morality: A Twisting Tale.” In Beastly Morality: Animals as Moral Agents, 3-27. Jonathan K. Crane, editor. New York: Columbia University Press. 2015.
- Crane JK. “Reform Jewish Perspectives on Abortion.” In Abortion: Religious and Non-Religious Perspectives. Alireza Bagheri, editor. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press. Forthcoming.
- Crane JK. “Sove’a: A Satisfying Idea.” In Food in Jewish Traditions. Edited by Aaron S. Gross. Forthcoming.
- Shapiro G, Crane JK. “Abortion.” Encyclopedia of Islamic Bioethics. Dr. Shabana, editor. New York: Oxford University Press. Forthcoming.
- Crane JK. “Global Significance of Islamic Bioethics: A Jewish Perspective.” In Islamic Bioethics: Current Issues and Challenges. Alireza Bagheri and Khalid Abdulla Al-Ali, editors. Hackensack, NJ: World Scientific Publishing Co., Inc. Forthcoming.
- Crane JK. “Advancing Death? Discourse and Authority in Judaic Bioethics.” Normativity in Bioethics: Dealing with Bioethical Issues in a Globalized World. Eds: Joris Gielen and Bert Broeckaert. Springer: Advances in Global Bioethics. Forthcoming.
- Crane JK. “Hospitality and Protectionism: Tensions and Possibilities.” In Migration and Refugees in Jewish Law. Walter Jacob, editor. Freehof Institute for Progressive Halakhah. Forthcoming.
- Crane JK. “If I Only Had Three Eyes! Jewish Perspectives on Genetic Enhancement.” Mind, Genes & Self: Religious perspectives on the impact of emerging technologies on human identity. Alberto Garcia, editor. Forthcoming.
Books
- Crane JK, Agusti-Panareda J. Ahimsa: The Way to Peace. Volume 2 of 20 in the series Rediscovering Gandhi. Misra S, Misra RP, editors. New Delhi: Concept Publishing House in association with the International Centre for Gandhian Studies and Research, Gandhi Smriti & Darshan Samiti. 2007.
- Dorff E, Crane JK, editors. Oxford Handbook of Jewish Ethics and Morality. New York: Oxford University Press. 2013.
- Crane, JK. Narratives and Jewish Bioethics. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2013.
- Crane, JK, editor. Beastly Morality: Animals as Ethical Agents. New York: Columbia University Press. 2015.
- Crane, JK. Eating Ethically: Religion and Science for a Better Diet. New York: Columbia University Press. 2018.
- Crane, JK, editor. Race with Jewish Ethics. University Park, PA: Penn State University Press. Forthcoming.
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