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 It’s time for liberal Jews to shake off the dust, arise, and save democracy
Everything has its season; this is not the season for despair
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Opinion Project 2025 would be the end of the American Jewish dream
The far-right nationalist project, coordinated by the Heritage Foundation, would be very bad news for Jews
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Politics What would Donald Trump do in Gaza?
Some critics of the Biden administration say there's no difference between the two candidates on Israel policy. They're dead wrong.
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Opinion To save Israel, give Netanyahu a plea deal
It's time to give Bibi a way out — for the sake of the country's future
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Opinion How much more injustice will Trump’s Jewish supporters tolerate?
If we put up with criminality, we have sold our Jewish birthright for a bowl of nationalist porridge
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Opinion The Gaza War is neither a genocide nor a mission — it’s Revisionist Zionism in action
Right-wing Zionists say, 'We live in a tough neighborhood, so we have to be tough.' But has their ‘Shock and Awe’ strategy backfired?
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Opinion Student activists aren’t antisemites; they’re partners in a dance of death
With their extremist rhetoric and tactics, demonstrators risk becoming a mirror-image of their opponents on the far right
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Opinion Can American Jews step back from the brink of conspiratorial paranoia?
We need to stop falling for exaggerations and lies
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