Jodi Eichler-Levine is the Berman Professor of Jewish Civilization and a professor of religion studies at Lehigh University. She is the author of Painted Pomegranates and Needlepoint Rabbis: How Jews Craft Resilience and Create Community and Suffer the Little Children: Uses of the Past in Jewish and African American Children’s Literature. Her work at the intersections of religion and popular culture has appeared in The Washington Post, Salon, The Revealer, Religion Dispatches, and Killing the Buddha, among other venues.