Substitution for cream cheese with quantity

If cream cheese not available, another creamy cheese like mascarpone or Neufchatel.
If for non-dairy, silken tofu or tofu cream cheese.
For lower fat, reduced-fat ricotta or cottage cheese.
All same volume or weight.

There's a dough that uses sour cream rather than cream cheese- same procedure- that some use. It works well but comes out somewhat tenderer, probably better with a single long roll than as individual cookies. Rugelach are traditionally made with an enriched yeast dough; most bakers seem to use the same dough they use for Babkas. The cream cheese dough seems to be strictly American; yeast dough is more common in Europe and Israel,