A Jewish Perspective on Disability

The Bible for Normal People Podcast

Format: Audio with transcript

Blemished Brides: Women’s Bodies and Disability in Ancient Judaism

Women Who Went Before Podcast

Format: Audio with transcript

Shaping Tradition: Queer Disability Torah

This short film by Sasha Perry showcases Julia as a 2024 Shaping Tradition honoree at SVARA: A Traditionally Radical Yeshiva.  May 29, 2024.

Format: Video with captions

Disability Torah with Julia Watts Belser

Judaism Unbound. March 22, 2024.

Format: Audio & Transcript

I’d Fight Like Hell for You: Surviving the Climate Crisis

Peter Torres Fremlin interviews Julia Watts Belser for Disability Debrief. February 7, 2024.

Format: Text

What Yom Kippur Can Teach Us About the Brutality of Ableism

TIME Magazine. September 24, 2023.

Format: Text

Climate Crisis Makes Us Recognize Our Limits; Disability Culture Can Show Us How

TruthOut. July 20, 2023.

Format: Text

A Soul-Crushing Talmudic Tale About Disability Tells A Bigger Story

The Jewish News of Northern California. August 22, 2023.

Format: Text

Reading Jewish Texts in an Age of Climate Change

The 2021 Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies at the University of Washington.

Format: Video
Lectures are captioned. An ASL interpreter is present on screen.

Disability and the Politics of Vulnerability

The Berkley Forum.  The Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs. April 15, 2020.

Format: Text

Disabled People Cannot Be “Expected Losses” in the Climate Crisis

TruthOut. September 20, 2019.

Format: Text

God on Wheels: Transformational Spiritual Leadership

Yale Divinity School Livestream. October 2019.

Format: Video
No captions; ASL interpreter is present on screen.

God on Wheels: Disability and Jewish Feminist Theology

Tikkun Magazine. Fall 2014.

Format: Text