Professor Rubinstein works at the intersection of religion, philosophy, and literature. He has written five books: An Episode of Jewish Romanticism (1999), on the philosopher Franz Rosenzweig; Religion and the Muse (2008), on the relation between religion and literature; From Ecclesiastes to Simone Weil: Varieties of Philosophical Spirituality (2014); A Liminal Space: Between Judaism and Christianity (2021); and Toward a Negative Theology of Judaism (2025). He has taught at Drew University, Rutgers University, and the New School. Professor Rubinstein teaches philosophy and religion courses at NYU SPS.
