Books and Professional Literature
Amy Neustein and Michael Lesher (1999). Legislative Solutions to the Protective Parent Backlash. Family Violence and Sexual Assault Bulletin, 25(2-3): 19-26
Amy Neustein and Michael Lesher (2002). The Silence of the Jewish Media on Sexual Abuse in the Orthodox Jewish Community. In D.S. Claussen (Ed.), Sex, Religion, Media, Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc. (pp. 79-87)
Amy Neustein and Michael Lesher (2005). From Madness to Mutiny: Why Mothers Are Running from the Family Courts—and What Can Be Done about It (Gender, Crime and Law series, Northeastern University Press/University Press of New England, May 2005)
Amy Neustein and Michael Lesher (2006). The Other Side of Child Neglect Charges: What Happens When There Are No Standard Criteria for Charging a Non-Offending Mother With Neglect? Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, 15(4).
Amy Neustein and Michael Lesher (2008). A Single-Case Study of Rabbinic Sexual Abuse in the Orthodox Jewish Community. Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, 17(3-4), pp. 270-289.
October 4, 1995 “Mixed Marriage, Mixed Message,” by Michael Lesher. Jewish Community News of Clifton/Passaic
November 17, 1995 “Exile in Orthodoxy,” by Michael Lesher. The Jewish Week
December 29, 1995 “The Rhetoric About 'Rhetoric,'” by Michael Lesher. The Jewish Week (pg. 7)
February 9, 1996 “Of Bagels and Believers,” by Michael Lesher. The Jewish Week (pg. 22)
April 5, 1996 “When the Apple Falls Far From the Tree,” by Michael Lesher. The Jewish Week (pg. 19)
May 3, 1996 “Defending Judge Duckman,” by Michael Lesher. The Jewish Week (pg. 32)
June 2, 1996 “The Goldstein Syndrome,” by Michael Lesher. Canadian Jewish News
June 28, 1996 “The Rabbi and the Runaway,” by Michael Lesher. The Jewish Week (pg. 24)
July 17, 1996 “Mideast Fundamentalism Can Easily Infect New Jersey, America,” by Michael Lesher. North Jersey Herald & News
August 2, 1996 “Palestine, the Jews and the Olympics,” by Michael Lesher. The Jewish Week (pg. 18)
October 1, 1996 “A Child's at Stake: A Custody Fight Becomes a Political Nightmare,” by Adam Fifield and Michael Lesher. Village Voice (pp. 10, 12-13)
October 4, 1996 “Face Facts: Jerusalem Is Divided,” by Michael Lesher. The Jewish Week (pg. 28)
November 1, 1996 “Speaking with Their Silence: A Troubling Child Sex Abuse Case in Orthodox Community Raises the Question, Where Are Our Leaders?” by Michael Lesher. The Jewish Week (pg. 28)
January 31, 1997 “Proudly Orthodox - and Gay,” by Michael Lesher. Forward (pg. 7)
January 16, 1998 “An Orthodoxy Afraid of Unraveling,” by Michael Lesher. Forward (pg. 7)
1998 “Cheapening a Sacred Vocabulary,” by Michael Lesher. Forward
November 13, 1998 “Two Weddings and a Boycott,” by Michael Lesher. Forward (pg. 23)
May 30, 2002 “Does the Jewish Community Sacrifice Victims of Sexual Abuse?” by Amy Neustein and Michael Lesher. Jewish Exponent (pg. 37)
June 21, 2004 “Courts See Moms as Guilty till Proven Innocent,” by Michael Lesher and Amy Neustein. New York Daily News (pg. 39)
December 7, 2007 “Learning Our Lesson,” by Michael Lesher and Amy Neustein. The Jewish Press (pp. 5, 97) (letter to the editor urging “a new rabbinic approach to child sexual abuse” in light of the Mondrowitz case)
March 26, 2008 “Governor David Paterson: A champion of women and children,” by Michael Lesher and Amy Neustein. Amsterdam News (pg. 13) (column describing David Paterson's record with the issue of family court reform in cases of child sexual abuse)
Michael Lesher, Michael Corrado, Stephanie Selice (eds.) (1978) The Discordian Review, The Discordian Society, Spring 1978
Michael Lesher, “Deucalion and the Fat Lady,” Virginia Literary Review, 2(2), Fall 1980 (pp. 28-35)
Michael Lesher, “The Waiting Room,” Virginia Literary Review, Spring 1982
Michael Lesher, “The Satirist,” Scholia Satyrica, Spring 1980 (pp. 29-36)
Michael Lesher, “At the Voice of a Bird,” Cimarron Review, April 1997 (pp. 54-69)
Michael Lesher, “Love Story,” Oasis, October-December 1999 (pp. 9-12)
Michael Lesher, “Night Music,” “For My Corpse,” “Eve's Prayer,” “Vampire,” Oasis, October-December 2000 (pp. 45-51)
Michael Lesher, “Soul's Beloved,” “Broadcast News,” “Chopping Trees in North Carolina - Midnight,” Oasis, July-September 2001 (pp. 41-43)
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