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 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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Opinion 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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Opinion 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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Culture ‘Megalopolis’ is an aesthetically brilliant, morally bankrupt film that traffics in homophobic and antisemitic clichés
Francis Ford Coppola's Ayn Randian 'fable' ignores the real crises affecting America
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Opinion Memo to Bill Ackman and Donald Trump: Spreading conspiracy theories isn’t good for the Jews
Wealthy Jewish supporters of Donald Trump are embracing the sort of propaganda they should be warning against
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Opinion Are Jewish Republicans willing to put up with Holocaust denial?
JD Vance's refusal to criticize Tucker Carlson and far-right conspiracy theorists should be a wakeup call to Jewish Trump supporters
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