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Academic @ Emory Psychedelics & Harvard Law, Journalist/Substacker, Writer/11 books, former LGBTQ activist & lawprof, rabbi, meditation teacher, speaker, dad.

Obviously God is nonbinary | The Forward
The Most Surprising Thing About Disclosure Day
Five Spiritual Lessons from the Greatest Comeback in NBA History
Sympathy for Sixty Million Conservatives
Benjamin Todd: The Worst AI Risks Are Not What You Think
Fragments of My Teacher on Shavuot
Mosaic: Psychedelics and Religious Traditions
Does Wonder Make You Wonder?
On Israel/Palestine, everyone is sure that everyone else is a bigot | The Forward
From Kether to Malkuth: Jay Michaelson on Bowie, Kabbalah and Western Esotericism
Claude and I Talk About Waterslides and Ego Death
Making Sense of Psychedelics After April 18
How Candace Owens Learned Antisemitic Conspiracy Theories from an Orthodox Rabbi
F—k the Jews: The Recipe of Antisemitism, from Roald Dahl to the Manosphere
Jewish leaders need to respond to the Iran-Epstein mega-crisis – The Forward
A Five-Minute Meditation Check-In
What the Manosphere Has in Common with Martin Luther, Jacob Frank, and Allen Ginsberg
Passover's 4 cups of meaning – The Forward
It Matters that Marc Andreessen is Sometimes Really Dumb
Antisemitism Explodes on the Right, Watchdogs Blame the Left
There is No Single Reason for the Iran War (or Anything Else)
Science on Spiritual Health Symposium 2026 | Emory University | Atlanta GA
Why is the Jewish establishment so focused on the left? | Forward
How to Round Up a Whirlwind - Both/And with Jay Michaelson
Which Zohran Can You Be?
There is No Single Reason for the Iran War (or Anything Else)
Maybe Nihilism is the Real Enemy?
The Blood of Alex Pretti is crying out from the ground | The Forward
The Age of Antinomianism - Both/And
Psychedelics in Contemporary Jewish Life and Practice
Psychedelics and Spirituality: A Primer | ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera
Psychedelics in Monotheistic Traditions | Petrie-Flom Center
Universalizing Personal Experience into Cultural Critique
Religion with a lower-case r - Both/And with Jay Michaelson
3 ½ Things You Haven't Yet Read About the Epstein Files
How to Deal with all this Anger
The Real America is Not About Blood and Soil
Spiritual Lessons of the 2025 Election
"Complexifying Psychedelic “Mysticism”: Analytical, Therapeutic, and Legal Considerations" by Jay Michaelson - Canopy Forum
How Did We Get Here? - Both/And with Jay Michaelson
Working Skillfully with Queer Rage
The US is targeting Jewish organizations — what do we do now? – The Forward
Are We All Conspiracy Theorists Now?
Does Anything You're Doing Matter?
Yom Kippur and Nonduality - Both/And with Jay Michaelson
Give your rabbi a break this Rosh Hashanah – The Forward
Do Republicans Know They’re Lying?
Will Judaism after Gaza be different than Judaism before Gaza? – The Forward
The Faith of Charlie Kirk: A Guide
Bari Weiss’s Remarkably Successful Shell Game
Why a ‘Meditation Rabbi’ is Watching Horror Films
Does Mysticism Prove the Existence of God?
Firefly! - Both/And with Jay Michaelson
Why You (Yes, You) Should Care About the Jeffrey Epstein Scandal
Nick Drake is Just in Time - Both/And with Jay Michaelson
How to Steal the 2026 Election
The Torah Can Be Made to Say Almost Anything | My Jewish Learning
"New Skin for the Old Ceremony": Jay Michaelson on Judaism and Psychedelics
Big Tent Talks: Spirituality & Psychedelics with Jay Michaelson
The Closest Thing I Have to Optimism
American Jews were played — now what?
How much news is too much news?
Have we become the 'ordinary Germans' now?
Good News about the Big, Beautiful Bill
What Makes us Cruel or Kind?
Mamdani's victory is an opportunity for Jews to relearn the art of disagreement
How Meditation Helped Me in the Hospital (And After)
Reflections after maybe almost dying
Being Jewish in America today feels like walking multiple tightropes at once
No, I’m Not F—ing Inured to This!
We must face reality — the Gaza war is now a war of annihilation
Queer Theology and Social Transformation
Detours & Destinations with Rabbi David Ingber | Ep. 7: Rabbi Jay Michaelson
I supported Israel's actions in Gaza in October 2023 — not anymore
The Postliberal Hatred of America
Taking Psychedelic Spiritualities (More) Seriously
Comfortable with Discomfort
What, to the Nationalist, is the Statue of Liberty?
Andor and the Banality of Totalitarianism
Big Tent Talks: Spirituality & Psychedelics with Jay Michaelson (Indianapolis, May 13)
Live Podcast Taping w/David Ingber (92nd Street Y, NYC, May 4)
ARC Podcast: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera
The Age of Semiotic Infinity
Opportunism, Madness, Nihilism, & Terror
Stephen Miller's cavalier cruelty misses the whole point of Passover (Forward)
The Glass is Already Broken
Waiting for Midnight: A Quasi-Optimistic Take
Letter to a Trump-Supporting Technologist
The Religious Functions of Psychedelics
Right Now, It's Like This
Supporting Trans and Queer Youth Event
Lucy Pulls the Football Away Again
Is Religious Freedom for Liberals, Too? | ARC
The Most Important Sentence Donald Trump Has Ever Said
What’s so bad about fascism?
The Fight for the Rule of Law is On
Science on Spiritual Health Symposium 2025 | Emory University | Atlanta GA
A Surprising Inauguration Day Emotion
What is Realistic Dharma? Feb 17
Before I learned Kabbalah, I learned from David Lynch | Forward
Gaza ceasefire is the result of political machination — not Donald Trump | Forward
What We Do in a Nightmare
What will my kid's world be like?
Has Jeffrey Kripal Gone Mad, or Normal? | ARC
Uncertainty is a Feature, Not a Bug | My Jewish Learning
Check In on Your Elephant
My Favorite Culture of 2024
Why Biden should pardon everyone on Trump’s | MSNBC
The Coming Pivot in Psychedelic Medicine
Meditation and Psychedelics: Between Mental Health and Spiritual Awakening
Can Trump really fire 50,000 civil service workers? | MSNBC
Trans Journalist Imara Jones: 'There's Something Wrong With the Character of This Country'
Just about every interpretation of Trump's narrow election victory is wrong
We Need to Talk More About Trans People, Not Less | Rolling Stone
We can be thankful this year — and Jewish wisdom can help
Declining the Invitation
One Final Consolation | Both/And
Americans Didn't Vote for What Donald Trump Is About to Give Them | Rolling Stone
Try to see Trump as his voters see him | Both/And
Once again, I'm an outsider in America | Forward
How to Survive the Next Week | Both/And
Trump's NYC rally was a morally disgusting glimpse of the MAGA future
Can American Jews stop demonizing each other? | Forward
Articulation Helps: Fourteen Concerns About Trump 2.0 | Both/And
Donald Trump's 38-minute dance party is his Joe-Biden-Debate moment | Both/And
Denying Ourselves to Death | Both/And
It’s Yom Kippur, and Humanity Is Deeply Flawed | ARC
Learning to Feel Like a Mountain, Oct 20 2024
The Real Opus Dei: Human Trafficking, Cult-Like Abuse... and the Supreme Court | Both/And
The Mask as Symbol and Weapon | ARC
This is the most disorienting Rosh Hashanah in memory | Forward
'Megalopolis' is an aesthetically brilliant, morally bankrupt film | Forward
Artifacts of Life and Death - Berman Archive
Have You No Sense of Decency? | Both/And
Spreading conspiracy theories isn’t good for the Jews | Forward
Eden Pearlstein: Why Nothing Really Matters | Both/And
Project 2025 and American Jews—What's at Stake? Sept 19
The Pet-Eating Is The Point | Both/And
Opinion | Elon Musk’s X is a poison. We don’t need to keep taking it. | MSNBC
Mysticism for Normies | Both/And
Lessons for the Psychedelic Movement from the LGBTQ Equality Movement | Both/And
How Rabbi Michael Lerner merged spirituality and social justice and influenced a generation of progressives
Don't Take Your Thoughts So Seriously! | Both/And
American Jews’ traumatized responses to antisemitism and anti-Zionism are hurting our children | Forward
Responding to Walz pick, the Right resorts to antisemitism-baiting | Forward
You Are Wiser Than You Were | Both/And
Josh Shapiro would make a great VP, but I'm relieved he's not running | Forward
Yes, JD Vance Really Believes This Stuff | Both/And
Nationalist Fictions | Both/And
JD Vance's weird ideas about parenthood | Forward
How Biden embodies Jewish concepts of strength | Forward
When American values are Jewish values — the convention speech I'd give | Forward
Comparative Incitement | Both/And
Shake off the dust, arise, and save democracy | Forward
Judge Cannon's Decision Is a Glimpse of a Terrifying MAGA Future | Rolling Stone
Jay at NYIMC LGBTQ sangha July 22
Kinds of Kindness is a Great Film About the Psychological Roots of Fascism | Both/And
Project 2025 would end the American Jewish dream | Forward
Feel the Shittiness | Both/And
The Supreme Court Fails Again | Rolling Stone
The Conundrum of Religion, in One Video and a Chart | Both/And
What Would Donald Trump Do in Gaza? | Forward
Supreme Court to MAGA: Your Social Media Conspiracy Dreams Are Bunk | Daily Beast
I am afraid for my family | Both/And
Sex: Jewish Positions | Jewish Museum Berlin
Rest in Awareness meditation
How much more injustice will Trump's Jewish supporters tolerate? | Forward
Democrats need to run on Covid, not run away from it. | Both/And
Donald Trump Is a Convicted Criminal. Will He Still Be President? | Rolling Stone
The Spirituality of Economic Dread | Both/And
Are There Insurrectionist Sympathizers on the Supreme Court? | Rolling Stone
Remember who the bad guys are | Both/And
The Gaza War is Revisionist Zionism in action | Forward
The Secret That is Not a Secret: Ten Heretical Tales
What I Learned from Being Gaslit about Lyme Disease | Both/And
Student activists aren't antisemites; they're partners in a dance of death | Forward
When the Right Fights the Left About the Jews | Both/And
Can American Jews step back from conspiratorial paranoia? | Forward
The Wheel of Climate Emotions | New York Insight
The head of the largest Christian Zionist organization wants an apocalypse | Forward
How to host a Seder when everyone strongly disagrees about the war | Forward
The Collectivist Apocalypse of The Three-Body Problem (Both/And)
The growing panic about antisemitism (Forward)
Joe Rogan and the Death of God (Both/And)
How Donald Trump Got Richer than Ever, Beat Tish James, and Sold Out his Own People (Both/And)
According to Donald Trump, I’m a Rabbi Who Hates Judaism (Daily Beast)
Israel/Palestine and the Politics of Trauma (Both/And)
Jonathan Glazer’s Oscar Speech Reflected the Best of Jewish Values (Daily Beast)
Everyone Knows It's the End of the World (Both/And)
How to Relate to the News w/ Jeff Warren & Tasha Schumann
Jay Michaelson Interview | Gashmius
Meditation in Real Life - New York Insight Meditation Center | Feb 27, 2024
What's the next move in the war — and why it's so hard to trust anyone's answer | Forward
Feb 21, Jay Michaelson + Noah Feldman | The Vilna Shul
'They're Frightened of Diversity': Rob Reiner on Christian Nationalism (Rolling Stone)
Katherine Stewart on the Christian Nationalist Threat (Both/And)
Altering the Mind to See More Clearly | My Jewish Learning
Mystic vs. Mainstream (Podcast)
Good News About that Boring and/or Existential Crisis (Both/And)
Jewish Crises and Counter-Theologies | The Vilna Shul
The Messiah of Nihilism (Both/And)
Evolve podcast on "The Secret That Is Not a Secret"
The ICJ ruling on Israel got it right (Forward)
The Secret That Is Not a Secret -- purchase here
Montclair NJ Book Event, Sunday 1/21
Why do media outlets love scared Jews? (Forward)
Jay Michaelson’s Heretical Tales (Havurah)
The Constitutional Crisis is Real. Here's How It Will Play Out (Rolling Stone)
Liberal Zionists Are Finding Our Voices Again (Both/And)
How culture warriors weaponized Jewish grief and forced Harvard’s president to resign (Forward)
A poem about the passage of time that I wrote thirty years ago (Both/And)
"Leave the World Behind" Filled Me with Dread (Both/And)
Getting in the Mikveh with Jay Michaelson (Queerly Beloved Podcast)
Antisemitism has been confusing for 2,500 years (Both/And)
The university presidents were right and American Jews' moral panic is wrong (Forward)
Calculated Demagoguery on Antisemitism and Free Speech (Daily Beast)
"The Secret That Is Not A Secret" Launch Event
It's time for Israel's far right to go (Forward)
Psychedelics in a World at War
Creativity, Spirituality, & Making a Buck Podcast
What I’m thankful for (even) this year (Both/And)
Hostage deal makes the best of an impossible situation (Forward)
George Santos: Con Man as Camp (Daily Beast)
When soldiers are hiding in hospitals (Forward)
Why Are We Being So Awful? (Both/And)
Jewish Mysticism Upside Down & Inside Out (HUC podcast)
Let Us Freak Out About Trump (Both/And)
Censuring Rashida Tlaib was wrong (Forward)
Go on a Media Diet (Both/And)
What the 'genocide' charge gets right — and wrong (Forward)
What is a Ceasefire? (Both/And)
Bibi's War (Rolling Stone)
On the Breakdown of Civil Discourse (CNN)
What Then? (Both/And)
Misusing the word 'genocide' harms int'l human rights (Forward)
The Israel-Hamas War Has Scrambled ‘Cancel Culture’ Tribes (Daily Beast)
Israel/Palestine: Poetry Edition (Both/And)
What does Jewish law say about the war between Israel and Hamas? (Forward)
What’s Jewish About Psychedelics? | Chochmat HaLev
Spare us your explanations — now is the time for grief (Forward)
What Can Help? (Both/And)
Your Jewish Friends are Not Okay Right Now (Both/And)
Digging Deeper into Christian Nationalist Messianism (Both/And)
The Love and Dread of Autumn (Both/And)
Dianne Feinstein was tenacious and contradictory (Forward)
Why Sukkot is my favorite Jewish holiday (Forward)
The Trans Conversation We’re Not Having (Both/And)
Both/And with Jay Michaelson | Substack
Lauren Boebert Beetlejuice Scandal (Forward)
Why do Trump and Netanyahu hate liberal Jews? (Forward)
2023 Adamah Meditation Retreat
A Guide to Buddhism for the Perplexed Meditator (IJS Course)
Why carrying Narcan is a mitzvah (Forward)
The Georgia Trump Indictments (Daily Beast)
Donald Trump faces his personal Yom Kippur (Forward)
Giant vacuum cleaners might help save the planet (CNN)
What Jewish law says about Dianne Feinstein and how old is too old (Forward)
Why Don’t Some of Trump’s Critics Want Him Prosecuted? (Daily Beast)
Should Jews to give up our Teslas? (Forward)
This rabbi isn't celebrating (or dismissing) the Trump indictments (Forward)
Donald Trump hiding ancient oil lamps? (Forward)
The GOP’s double standard on antisemitism (CNN Opinion)
SCOTUS Anti-Gay Web Designer Case (CNN Tonight)
The Supreme Court Sold Its Soul to the Christian Right (Rolling Stone)
The Supreme Court’s Decision on Anti-LGBTQ Discrimination Is Incoherent (Daily Beast)
What Was Affirmative Action Really About? (Rolling Stone)
Crackpot MAGA Theory Loses at the Supreme Court (Rolling Stone)
Are Psychedelics Theologically Significant for Judaism?
Mystics Summit Registration
Pat Robertson Is Dead. His Dystopian Legacy Lives On. (Rolling Stone)
GOP Position on Gun Control (CNN Tonight)
Guns and Religion (State of Belief Podcast, June 2023)
Gender in Jewish Tradition, Values, and Theology (event)
Why 'Patriots' Will Always Hate Queers Like Us (Rolling Stone)
Boring is Good: The Moral Case for Joe Biden (Rolling Stone)
WGUV Interview on Heresy of Jacob Frank
Psychedelics and Judaism Event (April 27, 2023)
GOP: Break the Rule of Law to Protect Donald Trump (Rolling Stone)
Shuffle Synchronicities Podcast
A Place for the Primal | My Jewish Learning
Talk Gnosis: Jacob Frank (podcast audio)
Talk Gnosis: Jacob Frank (video)
At Florida Universities, Big Brother DeSantis (Rolling Stone)
The One Fierce Heart Podcast
There Are Lots of Jews in Hollywood. Let a Rabbi Explain Why (Rolling Stone)
Supreme Court case on Independent State Legislature Theory (New York)
New Books Network Podcast, "The Heresy of Jacob Frank"
Supreme Court Poised to Chip Away at Same-Sex Marriage (Daily Beast)
Enoughness (Ten Percent)
Evolve Podcast on Jacob Frank
Vote Like Your Family Depends on It (Rolling Stone)
Queer Bible Commentary
 
The Allure of the Antinomian (Evolve)
Republican Voter Suppression 2022 (Rolling Stone)
The Joy and Dread of Autumn (Ten Percent)
GOP Makes it Harder for Trans People to Vote (Rolling Stone)
Inventions of Yom Kippur (My Jewish Learning)
Hazon Meditation Retreat
Yom Kippur for Buddhists Class
Purchase "The Heresy of Jacob Frank"
 
Old & New Heresies Event
Judaism Unbound Podcast on Jacob Frank
Accepting Life's Ups and Downs (Ten Percent)
The Paradox of Ethical Mysticism
Not Knowing (Ten Percent)
Same-Sex Marriage Might Not Be Doomed (New York)
Overturning Roe is Judicial Activism (Daily Beast)
Meditation and Pride (Ten Percent)
SCOTUS Puts Gun Control in Danger (New York)
Jews and Gun Violence Podcast (Identity/Crisis)
Fighting Back Against Anti-LGBTQ Laws (Daily Beast)
Second Amendment Lies (Rolling Stone)
Jews and Abortion Bans (Religion News)
Trump's Judges (Rolling Stone)
Just 10% Happier (Ten Percent)
How the F--k Did We Get Here? (Rolling Stone)
Supreme Court Set to Overturn Roe v. Wade (Daily Beast)
Poetry Reading, May 15
The Healthy Kind of Self-Doubt (Ten Percent)
UN Climate Recs Will Annoy Liberals (Daily Beast)
Gay Spirituality Event, April 7
Praying for Ukraine (Ten Percent)
Haggadahs (Forward)
Don't Say Gay Bill (New York)
Anti-Trans Laws (Daily Beast)
Kindness Even Now? (Event)
You Are Wiser Than Before (Ten Percent)
New UN Climate Change Report (Daily Beast)
Keep Your Meditation Fresh (Ten Percent)
Justice Breyer's Goodbye (Daily Beast)
Omicron Madness (Ten Percent)
Low Times at the High Court (State of Belief Podcast)
SCOTUS and Religious Schools (New York)
Contemplative Practice & Political Struggle (Rev Left Radio)
Gratitude and Kvetching (Ten Percent)
Christian Right and Supreme Court (Daily Beast)
Shelter from the Storm (Ten Percent)
Supreme Court Gun Case (New York)
Consolations of the Triple Gem
Reducing Eco-Anxiety (Ten Percent)
Strangeness of Yom Kippur (My Jewish Learning)
SCOTUS Abortion Case is a Bigger Threat than Texas (New York)
The Delta Variant (Ten Percent)
Texas Just Banned Abortion (New York)
This is Your Father's Supreme Court (New York)
Meditating in Summertime (Ten Percent)
SCOTUS: You Can't Turn Gays Away (Daily Beast)
SCOTUS Conservatives Deliver (Daily Beast)
Gratitude (Ten Percent Weekly)
Conservative Justices Save Obamacare (Daily Beast)
Supreme Court LGBTQ Case (Daily Beast)
The Anti-Trans Campaign Will Backfire (Daily Beast)
The One You Feed Podcast
BCBS Course on 'The Dharma of Yontiff'
Supreme Court & Voter Suppression (Daily Beast)
Texas Democrats vs. Jim Crow (Daily Beast)
Getting Back Into Shape -- Mindfully (Ten Percent)
Marjorie Taylor Greene is Nuts (Daily Beast)
Gregg Bordowitz review (Daily Beast)
Romemu Yeshiva Course
The 'Burger Ban' Lie (Daily Beast)
Hope is a Skill (Ten Percent)
Pandemic Harvest (Ten Percent)
Vaccine Passports (Daily Beast)
Cancel Culture (Daily Beast)
Seekers of Unity Podcast
Haggadahs 2021 (Forward)
The Beard (Ayin Press)
Filibuster (Daily Beast)
Christian Nationalism at SCOTUS (Daily Beast)
It Is What It Is (Ten Percent)
Hope (Ten Percent)
Trump Impeachment Defense (Daily Beast)
Biden Reclaims God from Zealots (Daily Beast)
Fake Donald Trump Park (Daily Beast)
Biden's AG, Merrick Garland (Daily Beast)
Trumpist Terrorists (Daily Beast)
How Are You? (Ten Percent)
Trump's Filthy Pardons (Daily Beast)
Pandemic Theater (Daily Beast)
Why Barr Did It (Daily Beast)
I Can't Stop My Thoughts! (Ten Percent)
GOP Tearing America Apart (Daily Beast)
All Daily Beast articles
Cortisol (Ten Percent)