Rabbi Jay Michaelson is a contributing columnist for the Forward and the writer of Both/And with Jay Michaelson. 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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Trump's rally at Madison Square Garden showed the ugliest sides of his nationalist movement
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The point isn’t to agree — it’s to disagree with reality, rather than with caricature
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A metastasizing war inspires uncertainty, anxiety and ambivalence
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Francis Ford Coppola's Ayn Randian 'fable' ignores the real crises affecting America
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Wealthy Jewish supporters of Donald Trump are embracing the sort of propaganda they should be warning against
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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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The founder of Tikkun, who coined the term 'politics of meaning' was a prophet for our time
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The surge in antisemitism is real, but exaggerating it doesn't help anybody
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