Media and Book Talks

A Loving Our Own Bones Conversation with Rev. Melanie Morrison on Disability, Ableism, and the Dangers of Healing Stories

Resource Center for Women & Ministry in the South. April 2024.

Format: Video, with captions

Julia Watts Belser Rethinks Biblical Portrayals of Disability, Wins National Jewish Book Award

By Hayden Frye

Georgetown University. March 2024.

Format: Text

Disability Torah with Julia Watts Belser

Judaism Unbound. March 2024.

Format: Audio & Transcript

A Loving Our Own Bones Conversation with Lisa Fishbayn Joffe on Disability, Gender, and Jewish Imagination

Sandra Seltzer Silberman Hadassah-Brandeis Institute Conversations Series. January 2024.

Format: Video, with captions

A Loving Our Own Bones Conversation with Judith Plaskow on Disability Torah and Jewish Feminism

Jewish Women’s Archive. January 2024.

Format: Video, with auto-captions

The Antidote to Ableism

by Judy Bolton-Fasman

Tablet Magazine. October 2023. 

In her new book, Rabbi Julia Watts Belser, a disability activist and scholar, takes a ‘revelatory and revolutionary’ look at everything from the story of Moses to the value of Shabbat.

Format: Text

A Loving Our Own Bones Conversation with Rev. Anna Blaedel and Robert Monson at Enfleshed

Enfleshed: Spiritual Nourishment for Collective Liberation. August 2023.

Format: Audio & Transcript