2000  “Bar Mitzvah, Bat Mitzvah” in Reader’s Guide to Judaism.  Chicago: Fitzroy, Dearborn Publishers.

1997            “Bar/Bat Mitzvah In Their Social Context:  Late Modernity, Identity And Jewish Education.”  Journal of Jewish Education 63 (3): 11 – 16.

1995            “Recent Publications on Bar/bat mitzvah:  Their Implications for Jewish Education Research and Practice,” Religious Education 89 (4): 593 – 604.

1993            “Folk Religion, Elite Religion and the Role of Bar Mitzvah in the Development of the Synagogue and Jewish School in America,” reprinted from Contemporary Jewry. 9:  67-85, in Helen Lenneman, ed., The Bar/Bat Mitzvah Handbook.  Denver: Alternatives in Religious Education.

1992            “Ritual and Role Transition:  Adult Bat Mitzvah as a Successful Rite of Passage”, pp. 349-376, in Jack Wertheimer, ed., The Uses of Tradition:  Jewish Continuity Since Emancipation.  Cambridge:  Harvard University Press.

1992.  “Interpreting Adult Bar Mitzvah: The Limits and Potential of Feminism in a Congregational Setting”, pp. 205-219, in Menachem Mor, ed., Jewish Sects, Movements and Parties.  Omaha: Creighton University Press.

l990            “Some Aspects of the Social Significance of Bar/Bat Mitzvah Celebrations”, pp. 277-304, in Simcha Fishbane and Jack Lightstone, eds., Essays in the Social Scientific Study of Judaism and Jewish Society.  Montreal:  Department of Religion, Concordia University.

1987            “Folk Religion, Elite Religion and the Role of Bar Mitzvah in the Development of the Synagogue and Jewish School in America,”  Contemporary Jewry. 9:  67-85