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.
Michael Lesher (2009). Justice for Child Victims of Incest. Domestic Violence Report, 14(3), pp. 33, 42-48.
Michael Lesher (2009). The Fugitive and the Forgotten: Cracking the Cold Case of Rabbi Avrohom Mondrowitz. In Amy Neustein (Ed.), Tempest in the Temple: Jewish Communities & Child Sex Scandals, Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press (pp. 126-162)
Amy Neustein and Michael Lesher (2009). Justice Interrupted: How Rabbis Can Interfere with the Prosecution of Sex Offenders -- and Strategies for How To Stop Them. In Amy Neustein (Ed.), Tempest in the Temple: Jewish Communities & Child Sex Scandals, Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press (pp. 197-229)
Amy Neustein and Michael Lesher (2009). Evaluating PAS: A Critique of Elizabeth Ellis’s “A Stepwise Approach to Evaluating Children for PAS” Journal of Child Custody, July 2009, 6:322-325.
Michael Lesher (2010). Leveling the Landscape: Family Court Auxiliaries and How To Counter Them. In Mo Therese Hannah and Barry Goldstein (Eds.), Domestic Violence, Abuse, and Child Custody, Kingston, NJ: Civil Research Institute Press (pp. 16-1 - 16-11)
Michael Lesher (2011). Justice for Child Victims of Incest. Family & Intimate Partner Violence Quarterly, 3(3) (Winter 2011), pp. 245-257 (reprinted from Domestic Violence Report, above)
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)
January 2009 “The Disposable Jew: Reflections on Child Sexual Abuse and Religious Culture,” by Michael Lesher. (Published on-line because no Jewish journals or book publishers considered it “suitable” for publication; readers may judge the reason for themselves)
July 31, 2011 “Orthodox Cops: Separate and Unequal,” by Michael Lesher. New York Post (pp. 21-22) (leading featured op-ed column criticizing the funding, by New York City, of Orthodox Jewish “patrols” that withhold from police evidence of crimes committed by Jews)
August 12, 2011 “Who Guards the Guards?,” by Michael Lesher. The Brooklyn Paper (another featured op-ed column criticizing government funding of Orthodox Jewish “patrols”)
August 12, 2011 “Who Guards the Guards?,” by Michael Lesher. Courier Life’s Brooklyn Daily (reprint of the above)
November 27, 2011 “Breaking the Silence: The Brooklyn DA arrested an astounding 89 Orthodox men on charges of child sex abuse -- forcing open a community that sometimes covers up such crimes,” by Michael Lesher. New York Post (p. 29) (another leading featured op-ed column, addressing recent news of child sex abuse arrests in Brooklyn’s Jewish communities)
December 11, 2011 “Fight against intimidation must rage on,” by Michael Lesher. New York Post (p. 7) (yet another op-ed column, framing news of new child sex abuse prosecutions in Brooklyn, together with the D.A.’s admission that many victims are pressured not to report; Lesher urges the D.A. to address “the very real problems of rabbinic and institutional intimidation” faced by Orthodox victims)
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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