Crane Publications and Research
Dr. Crane focuses on pressing moral issues largely related to biomedical, environmental, and social concerns. Methodological topics include religious jurisprudential reasoning, ethical argumentation, and narrative rhetoric. His projects intertwine contemporary ethical scholarship with Judaic and other religious sources.
Publications listed here from 2020-2026.
ESSAYS IN REFEREED JOURNALS
Crane JK. “Jewish Ethics in Pandemics.” Journal of Jewish Ethics. 6/1(2020):1-29.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/jjewiethi.6.1.0001
Crane JK. “’Eating Ethics’: cooking up a storm, academically.” Food, Culture &
Society. February 2021. https://doi.org/10.1080/15528014.2020.1859924
Crane JK. “Coherent Courage.” Zeramim: An Online Journal of Applied Jewish
Thought. 5/3 (Summer 2021). https://zeramim.org/current-issue/vol-v-issue[1]3/courageous-coherence/
Crane, JK. “Zoonotic Pandemics and Judaism’s Early-Modern Turn to
Science.” Electronic Journal for Research in Science & Mathematics Education,
25/3(2021):43-48. https://ejrsme.icrsme.com/article/view/21604
Crane JK. “Pigs, Pandemics and Public Relations.” CCAR Journal: The Reform Jewish
Quarterly. LXIX/2 (Spring 2022):92-107.
Crane JK. “Cross-over and Constructions of Difference Through Pigs and Pandemics
in Jewish Sources.” The Review of Rabbinic Judaism. 25/2(2022):131-170.
https://doi.org/10.1163/15700704-12341395.
Crane JK. “Religion, Animals, and Desire in Eden: A Visual Critical Reconsideration of
the Naḥash.” Religions. 13/10(2022): 923. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel13100923.
Crane JK. “Not Just: Judaism and Reparations.” Journal of Jewish Ethics. 9.1
(2023):82-109.
Crane JK. “What’s it Like? Metaphors in Louis Newman’s Ethics.” Journal of Jewish
Ethics. 10/1-2 (2024): Forthcoming.
BOOK CHAPTERS
Shapiro GK, Crane JK. “Abortion.
i. Originally published in Oxford Islamic Studies Online. Dr. Shabana, editor.
New York: Oxford University Press. 2018.
http://www.oxfordislamicstudies.com/article/opr/t343/e0245.
ii. Republished in Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World: Digital Collection. Edited by John L. Esposito. New York: Oxford University Press. Published 2022. https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780197669419.001.0001/acref-9780197669419-e-4.
iii. Retitled as “Islamic Bioethics: Abortion.” In Oxford Research Encyclopediaof Religion. New York: Oxford University Press. Article published April 17,2024. https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780199340378.013.1244.
Crane JK. “Advancing Death? Discourse and Authority in Judaic Bioethics.” Dealing
with Bioethical Issues in a Globalized World: Normativity in Bioethics, 31-50. Joris
Gielen, editor. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. 2020.
Crane JK. “A Colorful, Complicated Conversation: An Introduction.” In Judaism,
Race and Ethics: Conversations and Questions, 1-16. Jonathan K. Crane, editor.
University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press. 2020.
Crane JK. “Abortion in Reform Judaism.” In Abortion: Religious and Non-Religious
Perspectives, 37-50. Alireza Bagheri, editor. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. 2021.
Crane JK. “Preferring Existence: A Response to David Heyd.” In Multicultural and
Interreligious Perspectives on the Ethics of Human Reproduction: Protecting Future
Generations, 221-226. Joseph Tham, Alberto Garcai Gómez, John Lunstroth, editors.
Cham, Switzerland: Springer. 2021.
Crane JK. “Betrayal: Judaism and Moral Injury.” In Hesed v’Emet Nashaku: Loving
Kindness and Truth Embraced - The Life and Thought of Rabbi Elliot Dorff, 250-271.
Edited by Michael Berenbaum and Michael B. Dorff. Paradise Valley, PA: The
Wordsmithy. 2023.
Crane JK. “Constructing Ignorance: Judaic Manipulations of Non-Knowledge.” In
G’dulat Mordechai: Essays on Rabbinic Thought in Honor of Mark Washofsky. Edited
by Ari Jun and Richard Sarason. New York: Hebrew Union College Press.
Forthcoming.
Crane JK. “Jewish Environmental Ethics: A Proposal for Non-Anthropocentrism.” In
Multicultural and Interreligious Perspectives on Environment and Climate Change.
Edited by Joseph Tham. Forthcoming.
Crane JK. “Pain and Suffering | Judaism | Modern Judaism.” Encyclopedia of the
Bible and its Reception. Volume 22. Berlin: De Gruyter. 2024. 1119-1122.
Lysaught T, Crane JK, Padela AI. “Abrahamic Religions and Bioethics: Contested
Terminology and Contrasted Methodology.” In Methods in Medical Ethics, 3rd
Edition: Bioethics, Scholarship and Practice. Edited by Jeremy Sugarman and Daniel
Sulmasy. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press. Forthcoming, April 2026.
Crane JK. “Moving the Goalposts: Beyond the Beginning and End of Life Debates?”
For Striving to Be Human: Jewish Perspectives on Twenty-First Century Questions.
Edited by Leah Cohen Tenenbaum & Douglas Kohn. CCAR Press. Forthcoming.
Crane JK. “How Have Jews Approached Slavery?” for Judaism in Five Minutes,
edited by Sarah Imhoff. Sheffield: Equinox. Forthcoming.
BOOKS AUTHORED AND EDITED
Crane JK. Eating Ethically: Religion and Science for a Better Diet. New York:
Columbia University Press. 2018.
Crane JK, editor. Judaism, Race and Ethics: Conversations and Questions. University
Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press. 2020.
Crane JK, Filler E, and Wasserman M, editors. Modern Jewish Ethics Since 1970:
Writings on Methods, Sources, & Issues. Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press.
2025.
Crane JK. Immoral Medicine: Defending American Biomedical Research at the Trial
of Nazi Doctors. Manuscript in development.
Crane JK. Trysts in the Garden: Companionship and the Naḥash in Eden. Manuscript
in development.