Rabbi Jay Michaelson is a contributing columnist for the Forward and for Rolling Stone. He is the author of 10 books, and won the 2023 New York Society for Professional Journalists award for opinion writing.
Jay MichaelsonContributing Columnist
By Jay Michaelson
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Opinion American Jews were played — now what?
It is now obvious that antisemitism was never the real reason for the Trump administration’s attacks on universities. What lessons can we learn from this great exploitation?
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Opinion Have we become the ‘ordinary Germans’ now?
How can American Jews stand by while thousands of innocent people are illegally arrested, imprisoned and tortured?
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Opinion Mamdani’s victory is an opportunity for Jews to relearn the art of disagreement
New Yorkers voted for affordability, not criticism of Israel. But American Jews can still learn from this election.
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Opinion Being Jewish in America today feels like walking multiple tightropes at once
After another antisemitic attack, American Jews are right to be unnerved — but not deterred from our values or our resilience
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Opinion We must face reality — the Gaza war is now a war of annihilation
Canceling Israel’s critics won’t change the reality of what is unfolding in Gaza
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Opinion I supported Israel’s actions in Gaza in October 2023 — not anymore
Critics were wrong that Israel’s 2023 actions constituted genocide — but they are right in 2025
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Opinion Stephen Miller’s cavalier cruelty misses the whole point of Passover
The White House Deputy Chief of Staff seems to have forgotten that we, too, were once strangers in Egypt
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Culture Before I learned Kabbalah, I learned from David Lynch
There are many layers to our experience of reality, some hidden from view — David Lynch helped reveal them.
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