@jaymichaelson

@jaymichaelson has been a member of Linktree for 5 years and joined in December 2020. The social media accounts linked to from @jaymichaelson are: • Instagram • YouTube • Amazon • Substack Besides social media accounts, jaymichaelson has populated their site with: • Fragments of My Teacher on Shavuot • Benjamin Todd: The Worst AI Risks Are Not What You Think • Sympathy for Sixty Million Conservatives • The Most Surprising Thing About Disclosure Day • Five Spiritual Lessons from the Greatest Comeback in NBA History • Obviously God is nonbinary | The Forward • Mosaic: Psychedelics and Religious Traditions • What would Donald Trump do in Gaza? • 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? • 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 • CNN's Jay Michaelson on Josh Shapiro and American Jewish Anxiety | August 3, 2024 • 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) • 194. White Flag with Joe Walsh: Jay Michaelson • 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) • The Moral Case for Defending Trans People (CNN Tonight) • 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)