Karma Foundation, 2003-2004 
     grant for film “Kotel:  Jewish teens on Gender and Tradition

Center for the Study of Children and Childhood, 2000-2001 
     “The Emerging Jewish Identities of Childhood and Adolescence”

Rutgers Research Council Grant, 1996-97 
     “Religion and Gender Identity of Children”

National Endowment for the Humanities, 1995-96 
     Fellowship for College Teachers 
     (“Religious Dimensions of Jean-Paul Sartre”)

Coolidge Research Colloquium Fellowship, 1985 
     Associates for Religion and Intellectual Life 
     (“The ‘Jews for Jesus’ Heresy”)

Rutgers Research Council Grant, 1984 
     (“Well-Being and Religiosity in the Aged”)

American Council of Learned Societies, 1983 
     Fellowship for Studies in Modern Society and Values 
     (“Civility vs. Vulgarity: The Social and Cultural Roots of Sartre’s Thought”)

Rutgers Research Council Summer Fellowship, 1982

National Endowment for the Humanities, 1981 
     Summer Seminar Fellowship 
     (“Autobiography:  A Transdisciplinary Approach”)

University Fellowship, University of Chicago, 1977-78

Divinity School Fellowship, University of Chicago, 1976-77, 1975-76

Phi Beta Kappa, Columbia College, 1973

Farband Award for Excellence in Hebrew Studies, Columbia University, 1971