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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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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Opinion Gaza ceasefire is the result of political machination — not Donald Trump
Politically, Netanyahu could have survived a deal earlier, but he made a political calculation not to strike one
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Opinion We can be thankful this year — and Jewish wisdom can help
Yes, we are living in a time of uncertainty and dread, but Jews have some experience with that.
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Politics Just about every interpretation of Trump’s narrow election victory is wrong
What happened on Nov. 5 was not a referendum on anything other than discontent
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Opinion Once again, I’m an outsider in America — like liberal Jews always were
For a time, it seemed as if Jews had joined the American mainstream; this election proves that was never the case
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Politics Trump’s NYC rally was a morally disgusting glimpse of the MAGA future
Trump's rally at Madison Square Garden showed the ugliest sides of his nationalist movement
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Politics Can American Jews stop demonizing each other?
The point isn’t to agree — it’s to disagree with reality, rather than with caricature
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Opinion This is the most disorienting Rosh Hashanah in memory
A metastasizing war inspires uncertainty, anxiety and ambivalence
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