turn of the 1970s. Unification Church Rubenstein was a defender of the Unification Church and served on its advisory council, as well as on the board of directors of the church-owned Washington Times newspaper. In the 1990s, he served as president of the University of Bridgeport, which was then affiliated with the church. Rubenstein said about the church's founder Sun Myung Moon: I especially appreciated Rev. Moon's commitment to the fight against Communism. From his own first-hand, personal experience and out of his religious convictions, he understood how tragic a political and social blight that movement had been. I had been in East and West Berlin the week the Berlin Wall was erected in August 1961 and had visited communist Poland in 1965. Unfortunately, many of my liberal academic colleagues did not understand the full nature of the threat as did Rev. Moon. I was impressed with the sophistication of Rev. Moon's anti-communism. He understood communism's evil, but he also stood ready to meet with communist leaders such as Mikhail Gorbachev and Kim Il Sung in the hope of changing or moderating their views. Other writings Rubenstein undertook a psychoanalytic study of Paul the Apostle in his book My Brother Paul. He continued with Holocaust themes in later writings and adjusted some of his earlier views about God in light of the Kabbalah. Works Autobiography Books Assessments Zachary Braiterman, " "Hitler's Accomplice"?: The Tragic Theology of Richard Rubenstein," Modern Judaism, 17/1 (February 1997), pp. 75–89. Zachary Braiterman, (God) After Auschwitz (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999). Jakob Jocz, The Jewish People and Jesus Christ After Auschwitz (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1981). Michael Morgan, Beyond Auschwitz: Post-Holocaust Thought in America (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001). Betty Rogers Rubenstein and Michael Berenbaum, eds., What Kind of God? Essays in Honor of Richard L. Rubenstein (Lanham: University Press of America, 1995). See also God is dead Holocaust theology Unification Church References External links Richard L. Rubenstein Papers at the American Jewish Archives (includes a biographical sketch) Short biography 1924 births 2021 deaths American Reform rabbis Jewish American writers 20th-century American rabbis American Jewish theologians Religious naturalists Philosophers of Judaism Hebrew Union College alumni Jewish Theological Seminary of America semikhah recipients Harvard Divinity School alumni University of Bridgeport faculty Unification Church and Judaism Unification Church controversies Holocaust theology Death of God theologians The Washington Times people Jewish anti-communists American autobiographers Rabbis from New York City