Adjunct Professor of Religion
Ripon College
300 Seward Street
Ripon, WI 54971
(920) 748-8139

E-mail: dfbrusin@stritch.edu

Education

• B.A., University of Illinois, Chicago, Ill.
• MA and ABD in philosophy, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pa.
• Rabbinical degree and doctor of divinity, Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, Philadelphia, Pa.

Areas of Interest

• Biblical and Rabbinic Judaism
• Jewish thought
• Jewish philosophy
• History of Zionism

Recent Publications

• "Jewish Identity Revisited," Journal of Jewish Communal Service, fall 2000
• "A Dream for Our Time", Reconstructionism Today, winter 1998-99
• Review of "Jewish Theology and Process Thought," by Sandra B. Lubarsky and David Ray Griffin, eds., in Bridges, fall/winter 1997.
• Review of "In the Image of God," by Juith S. Antonelli, in Bridges, spring/summer 1997.
• "Eating Meat May be Contrary to Judaism," in Roberta Kalechofsky, editor, Rabbi and Vegetarianism: An Evolving Tradition (Michah Publications, 1995)
• "The God of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Mordecai M. Kaplan," Reconstructionist, February 1984.

Current Courses Taught

• REL 121  Introduction to the Hebrew Scriptures
• REL 222  Introduction to Judaism and the Jewish People
• REL 232  The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Bible