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 ‘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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Opinion How Rabbi Michael Lerner merged spirituality and social justice and influenced a generation of progressives
The founder of Tikkun, who coined the term 'politics of meaning' was a prophet for our time
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Opinion American Jews’ traumatized responses to antisemitism and anti-Zionism are hurting our children
The surge in antisemitism is real, but exaggerating it doesn't help anybody
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Opinion Responding to Walz pick, the Right resorts to antisemitism-baiting
No, Gov. Shapiro was not passed over because he was Jewish
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Politics Josh Shapiro would make a great vice president — but I’m relieved he’s not running
Shapiro is a Jewish American dream; his candidacy would have been a distraction
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Opinion JD Vance’s weird ideas about parenthood: a Jewish critique
Vance's hyper-natalist obsession goes counter to Jewish traditions — and a few Catholic ones too
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