articles » by publication

Advocate.com

April 01, 2013 | Advocate.com

Op-ed: Guess What — We’re the Oppressors

American Jewish Life

November 01, 2007 | American Jewish Life

The Witch of Endor

September 01, 2007 | American Jewish Life

Anan Ben-David

July 01, 2007 | American Jewish Life

Joseph Rabinovitch

July 01, 2007 | American Jewish Life

Apocalypse Now: Climate Change and Israel

May 01, 2007 | American Jewish Life

Baruch Spinoza

March 01, 2007 | American Jewish Life

Jacob Frank

January 01, 2007 | American Jewish Life

Sabbetai Tzvi

Anthologies

September 18, 2012 | Anthologies

Exploring the Edge Realms of Consciousness

BeliefNet

January 01, 2008 | BeliefNet

A Balancing Meditation (Hesed, Gevurah, Tiferet)

Bloggingheads.tv

August 02, 2010 | Bloggingheads.tv

Values Added: Sex and the Bible

CNN

June 29, 2010 | CNN

Jewish LGBT leaders need to build a movement

Daily Beast

April 02, 2013 | Daily Beast

An Often-Overlooked Clause in the Constitution Points the Way to Same-Sex Marriage

March 18, 2013 | Daily Beast

The ‘Religious Liberty’ Bullies and Their Fight Against LGBT Equality

December 01, 2012 | Daily Beast

Orthodox Rabbis Say Gay ‘Cure’ Therapy Doesn’t Work

November 30, 2012 | Daily Beast

Why I Supported The Palestine U.N. Vote

November 19, 2012 | Daily Beast

Who Wins This No-Win Situation?

November 03, 2012 | Daily Beast

Stop Moping! The Marathon Is Exactly What New York Needs Right Now

October 18, 2012 | Daily Beast

DOMA Ruling Seems Good For Gays, But Supreme Court May Not Buy It

October 17, 2012 | Daily Beast

The Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy to Lie About Climate Change Has Worked

September 20, 2012 | Daily Beast

Blue Jays Suspend Yunel Escobar for Gay Slur, But That’s Not the Real Issue

June 06, 2012 | Daily Beast

Media Ignores Rash of Assaults on Transgender Women

May 31, 2012 | Daily Beast

DOMA Ruling Is Test for Conservative Federalists

May 21, 2012 | Daily Beast

30-Day Sentence for Dharun Ravi in Rutgers Spying Case Is Right

May 05, 2012 | Daily Beast

Could an African LGBT Activist Win the Nobel Peace Prize?

May 03, 2012 | Daily Beast

Dan Savage Was Wrong, And So Was Amanda Marcotte At Slate

May 02, 2012 | Daily Beast

Is Dan Savage the Gay Santorum?

March 20, 2012 | Daily Beast

“Get Out!” Says Christian-Supremacist Pastor. Does Rick Santorum Agree?

March 19, 2012 | Daily Beast

Can You Be a Zionist If No One Thinks You Are?

March 16, 2012 | Daily Beast

Jury Did the Right Thing in Ravi Case

Duke Law Journal

April 01, 2000 | Duke Law Journal

On Listening to the Kulturkampf: How America Overruled Bowers v. Hardwick, even though Romer v. Evans didn’t

Ein Shemesh

October 01, 2007 | Ein Shemesh

Seasons Going North

Forward

April 16, 2013 | Forward

Confusing Israel’s Doves and Hawks

April 15, 2013 | Forward

Was Justin Bieber Right About Anne Frank?

March 18, 2013 | Forward

The Movement To Rebrand Discrimination as ‘Religious Freedom’

March 14, 2013 | Forward

Making Sense of the Holiday Season’s Onslaught of New Haggadahs

February 21, 2013 | Forward

The Wrong Way To Fight BDS

February 06, 2013 | Forward

Get Ready for Jewish iSpirituality

January 08, 2013 | Forward

Build on Gay Marriage Victories

January 04, 2013 | Forward

Watching as Israel’s Election Approaches

December 06, 2012 | Forward

Michaelson Answers Dershowitz

November 20, 2012 | Forward

In Praise of New Age Judaism

November 07, 2012 | Forward

Bad Night for the Jewish Echo Chamber

October 24, 2012 | Forward

Jewish Romney Voters Are Fig Leaf for Christian Right

October 22, 2012 | Forward

Obama Won by Talking Like a Republican

October 08, 2012 | Forward

The Way I Was

October 02, 2012 | Forward

Bob Dylan’s Best and Worst Album Covers

September 05, 2012 | Forward

The Gospel According to Feuding Academics

July 30, 2012 | Forward

When the Right Is Right About the Left

May 31, 2012 | Forward

Bible Codes a Lie That Won’t Die

May 08, 2012 | Forward

Man in Search of God

April 08, 2012 | Forward

An Anthem for LGBT Youth

April 03, 2012 | Forward

Why Are American Jews So Liberal?

April 01, 2012 | Forward

J Street’s Blind Spot Is Class

March 23, 2012 | Forward

‘Tis the Season for New Haggadot

March 20, 2012 | Forward

An Act of LGBT Censorship in Seattle

February 24, 2012 | Forward

You Can’t Pray the Gay Away

February 12, 2012 | Forward

Jewish Roots of the New Testament

February 02, 2012 | Forward

Alleged Child Molesting Pastor Wrapped in Torah Scrolls

January 30, 2012 | Forward

Conservatives Have Jewish Values, Too: Cantor, Adelson and Kristol May Be Wrong, But Not Un-Jewish

January 06, 2012 | Forward

Fighting Back Against Fundamentalism

December 20, 2011 | Forward

Why Does the Heckler Get a Veto?

November 29, 2011 | Forward

Pinkwashing Is Not Black and White

November 04, 2011 | Forward

How Gay Rights Teaches Us Torah: Our Faith Grows Because Text Offers Room to Interpret Issues

September 08, 2011 | Forward

Don’t Call the Rabbi, Make Your Own Rituals

June 27, 2011 | Forward

A Modest Proposal on Circumcision

May 18, 2011 | Forward

The Mississippi Floods: Punishment From an Angry God?

May 02, 2011 | Forward

Prime Time for Eprhyme

April 12, 2011 | Forward

The Four Sons as Characters from Glee

April 08, 2011 | Forward

For John Zorn, It’s Jewish Music as Bitches’ Brew

April 05, 2011 | Forward

Why is your Haggadah Different from Others?

April 01, 2011 | Forward

Not for the Sake of Heaven: Debased Discourse in a New Gilded Age

February 08, 2011 | Forward

Gay and Orthodox: And Cleaving Strongly to Both

January 14, 2011 | Forward

The Problem of Spiritual Experience: Is Mysticism in the Mind of the Beholder?

December 03, 2010 | Forward

Don’t Trust Your Gut

October 27, 2010 | Forward

Rethinking Egalitarianism

September 07, 2010 | Forward

More than Words: How to Make Yom Kippur Help, not Hinder, the Work of Repentance

August 18, 2010 | Forward

Gay Marriage and ‘Religious Freedom’

July 28, 2010 | Forward

Are Corporations Evil?

July 21, 2010 | Forward

Perplexed by the Guides? When It Comes to Kabbalah, Some Introductions Are More Illuminating Than Others

June 30, 2010 | Forward

Peoplehood vs. Israel

June 02, 2010 | Forward

Religion within the Bounds of Reason..and Love

May 19, 2010 | Forward

Memento Mori: Jewish Spirituality and the Sanctification of the World

April 21, 2010 | Forward

What Religious Arguments Are Really About

March 17, 2010 | Forward

Why Is This Night Different? Who’s Asking?

March 10, 2010 | Forward

It’s Complicated: Why Ambivalence is Good for Israel…and American Jews

February 21, 2010 | Forward

Un-Righteous Indignation: Anger Management–Kosher Style

January 13, 2010 | Forward

Taking Avatar Seriously: Environmentalisms, Spiritual and Practical

December 23, 2009 | Forward

The Myth of Authenticity

December 17, 2009 | Forward

‘Religion Is Actually Spirituality’: An Exchange

November 18, 2009 | Forward

Magen Tzedek: Model of the Jewish Future or Show Without an Audience?

October 28, 2009 | Forward

Religion is Actually Spirituality

October 21, 2009 | Forward

Love is Not Blindness

September 18, 2009 | Forward

How I’m Losing My Love for Israel

September 11, 2009 | Forward

Ephryme: Engaged Hip Hop Jew

August 14, 2009 | Forward

A ‘New Jew’ Goes to Auschwitz

August 14, 2009 | Forward

A Missing Culprit, but Culpability All Around

July 10, 2009 | Forward

Allowing the Yetzer Tov to Win

June 03, 2009 | Forward

Why Straight People Go to Gay Synagogues — and What We Can Learn From Them

April 29, 2009 | Forward

Do Jews Have a Jesus Problem?

April 20, 2009 | Forward

The Attraction of Irrelevance: Tazria/Metzora

April 15, 2009 | Forward

Shifting from Myth to Function

April 11, 2009 | Forward

Freedom from the Slavery of Passover Seders

March 13, 2009 | Forward

It’s a Purim World Out There

February 05, 2009 | Forward

Environmentalism: Good for the Jews

January 09, 2009 | Forward

One Who Speaks Does Not Know

December 11, 2008 | Forward

Coming Out: It’s the Jewish Thing to Do At Hanukkah

November 07, 2008 | Forward

Poets of the Desert and the Sea

September 19, 2008 | Forward

Answers in the Seekers’ Language

September 12, 2008 | Forward

God of Judgment, God of Love

July 17, 2008 | Forward

In Defense of the Western Wall

May 22, 2008 | Forward

Where the Light Gets in: The Crucible of Summer Camp

April 17, 2008 | Forward

Getting Serious About Love

April 16, 2008 | Forward

Peoplehood: There’s no there, there

March 19, 2008 | Forward

The Virtues of the Unaffiliated

March 12, 2008 | Forward

Anti-Folk Hits The Right Note: Kimya Dawson Breaks Through With ‘Juno’

February 28, 2008 | Forward

The Path Of the Just: Is Mussar the ‘New Kabbalah’?

January 23, 2008 | Forward

People Of the Chapbook: Jewish Poets as Jewish Teachers

December 24, 2007 | Forward

Thinking Green: It’s Not Just a Virtue — It’s Your Jewish Duty

December 19, 2007 | Forward

How I Finally Learned To Stop Worrying and Love (Okay, Like) Christmas

November 28, 2007 | Forward

As Winter Falls, a Time To Learn From the Orthodox

October 17, 2007 | Forward

Memo to Michael Steinhardt: Duh

September 26, 2007 | Forward

The New Atheism: What’s a Liberal, Spiritual Jew to Do?

September 12, 2007 | Forward

Yom Kippur: A Personal Journey

August 29, 2007 | Forward

Conservative Judaism at a Crossroads

July 18, 2007 | Forward

Who’s Your Daddy?: The Bible’s Many Vocies on Homosexuality (Review of Jennings, Jacob’s Wound)

July 10, 2007 | Forward

Portrait of the Artist as a Nice Jewish Boy

June 19, 2007 | Forward

The People’s Bible

May 18, 2007 | Forward

Shrine of False Messiah in Turkey May Be Razed

May 11, 2007 | Forward

Judaism and the Culture of Outburst

May 04, 2007 | Forward

No Crystals Needed: Why Meditation is Not Spirituality

April 27, 2007 | Forward

The Other Disappeared

April 20, 2007 | Forward

Leonard Cohen: Poet of the Holy Sinners

March 30, 2007 | Forward

Take Back the (Seder) Night

March 16, 2007 | Forward

Boston Rabbinical Program Challenges Denominational Boundaries

February 09, 2007 | Forward

Where the Borscht Sounds Like the Sea: Another Side of Woody Guthrie

February 02, 2007 | Forward

Spiritual Pioneers See a Different Shade Of Judaism: Green

January 19, 2007 | Forward

The Graphic (Novel) Side of Israel

December 29, 2006 | Forward

Renewing Ecstatic Spirituality to the Beat of a Drum

November 24, 2006 | Forward

The Hidden and the Manifest: A conversation with Rabbi Jill Hammer about Judaism and the senses

November 17, 2006 | Forward

In Jerusalem, Fundamentalism on the March

November 03, 2006 | Forward

Two Lawyers, Three Opinions

October 13, 2006 | Forward

Old Labels Feel Stiff for ‘Flexidox’

October 06, 2006 | Forward

Dylan’s Religious Revival: Modern Times and the Timeless

September 29, 2006 | Forward

Interview, A Conversation With the Bad Boy Rabbi (Niles Goldstein)

August 04, 2006 | Forward

Grassroots Spirituality: As Jews in the Woods Grows, It Weighs Whether to Open Its Doors

May 12, 2006 | Forward

Exploring the New Jewish Spiritualities

May 05, 2006 | Forward

The Jewish Goddess: Past and Present

March 10, 2006 | Forward

Book of Esther gets Novel Makeover

March 03, 2006 | Forward

A Jew and a lawyer are sitting in a bar…

February 03, 2006 | Forward

Rabbi Was a Master of Practical Kabbalah- On Rabbi Yitzhak Kadouri z”l

January 27, 2006 | Forward

The Unity of Opposites

January 20, 2006 | Forward

Israel’s ‘Mystical City’ Opens Its Doors to Outsiders

December 23, 2005 | Forward

Holy Feast, Holy Fast Food, Judaism and Righteous Ambivalence

December 09, 2005 | Forward

Jewish Paganism: Oxymoron or Innovation?

November 11, 2005 | Forward

Disabuse Community of Intolerance

October 28, 2005 | Forward

Fragments of a Lost Jewish World

October 14, 2005 | Forward

Sukkot: From humble to inspired

September 02, 2005 | Forward

A Little off the Top: The Controversy About Circumcision

July 22, 2005 | Forward

Standing Again With Lilith; The Long and Winding Roads of Jewish Feminism

July 01, 2005 | Forward

Male and Female Created He Them

June 10, 2005 | Forward

Judaism, Meditation, and the B-Word

May 13, 2005 | Forward

An Awakened Soul- The Lives and Lessons of Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalom

May 13, 2005 | Forward

A Theory of Everything- Understanding God, Love… and Franz Rosenzweig

February 04, 2005 | Forward

He Wandered the Earth as an Exiled Man: A review of Bob Dylan, Chronicles: Volume One

November 26, 2004 | Forward

The Buddha from Brooklyn: A lama talks about enlightenment… with a Yiddish twang

November 19, 2004 | Forward

The Holy Fool: How One Writer Conveys Spiritual Truths That Are Seriously Funny

November 05, 2004 | Forward

Setting Yiddishkeit to Mambo, Metal, and Surf: Jewish novelty records, in 2004

October 22, 2004 | Forward

Mysticism and Mortgages: New Books Blend Kabbalah, Psychotherapy and Self-Help

September 03, 2004 | Forward

Mystery Sells: What the Kabbalah Centre Actually Teaches

July 16, 2004 | Forward

Two new books join the effort to create a “neo-Hasidic bookshelf.”

June 11, 2004 | Forward

Notes on Camp: How a Summer Choice for Kids Became a Linchpin of Jewish Continuity

May 14, 2004 | Forward

Secrets of the Rebbetzin: Hadassah Gross’s Penetrating Insights Into Kabbalah, Love and Yearning

May 07, 2004 | Forward

It’s All in the Mix: A DJ Spins Eclectic Combinations

April 30, 2004 | Forward

It Is Not Good for Man To Be Alone: New Books Wrestle With Homosexuality in the Jewish Tradition

April 09, 2004 | Forward

Practicing What He Preaches, Reggae Singer Reveals His Soul

March 05, 2004 | Forward

Revealing Ourselves Through Our Masks

February 27, 2004 | Forward

For This Scholar, the Body Is the Window to the Soul

January 02, 2004 | Forward

A Watershed Year for Gays of Faith

December 19, 2003 | Forward

A Festival of Rebellion Reminds Us What Matters Most

November 14, 2003 | Forward

A Prayer Group of Their Own: Kol Zimrah and Other Do-It-Yourself Minyans Unite the Independent-Minded

September 26, 2003 | Forward

High Holy Days: Rabbi Cowan Speaks Out About Meditation, Action and New Job

August 29, 2003 | Forward

You Keep on Knockin’ But You Can’t Come In What ‘the Sixties’ Wrought: Religion Is a Counterculture

June 20, 2003 | Forward

An Orthodox Poet tackles God and Sex

G-dcast

June 17, 2009 | G-dcast

G-dcast: Parshat Shelach Lecha

Gay and Lesbian Review

April 07, 2012 | Gay and Lesbian Review

Faeries in America

Haaretz

February 13, 2012 | Haaretz

Revealing the Jewish roots of the Christian Bible

Hadassah

September 03, 2012 | Hadassah

Review of James Kugel, ‘In the Valley of the Shadow’

September 07, 2011 | Hadassah

Perils of the Day of Judgment

October 01, 2010 | Hadassah

Defining God Upward

September 01, 2009 | Hadassah

Gedaliah in the Eye of the Beholder

Huffington Post

November 06, 2012 | Huffington Post

Genesis 23:1-25:18: The Life Of Sarah?

October 31, 2012 | Huffington Post

Straight Talk About Gay Marriage: 4 Points for Undecided Voters to Consider

October 11, 2012 | Huffington Post

Why Big Bird Matters

October 02, 2012 | Huffington Post

An Elegy for Brooklyn, in the Shadow of Barclays

September 26, 2012 | Huffington Post

Nan Hayworth Is Not a New York Republican, and the Tea Party Is in the Details

September 26, 2012 | Huffington Post

LGBT New Yorkers Need to Hold Our Enemies Accountable (And Let’s Start With Greg Ball)

September 12, 2012 | Huffington Post

Why Burning Man Didn’t Suck This Year… and What We Can Learn From It

September 09, 2012 | Huffington Post

Beyond ‘Letting Go’

August 07, 2012 | Huffington Post

When Jesus Healed a Same-Sex Partner

May 24, 2012 | Huffington Post

How to Tell Love From Hate: The Bible vs. Pastor Charles Worley

May 09, 2012 | Huffington Post

Obama’s Same-Sex Marriage Announcement: A Victory for Religion

March 12, 2012 | Huffington Post

Why the Story of Adam and Eve Is Right and Kirk Cameron Is Wrong: The Religious Value of Love

February 23, 2012 | Huffington Post

Why Didn’t Burning Man’s Organizers See This Coming? Because They Couldn’t See Themselves

February 08, 2012 | Huffington Post

It’s Schadenfreude Time: Santorum Messes Up the Republican Party

January 17, 2012 | Huffington Post

In LGBT Debates, Discomfort Is Part of the Point

January 04, 2012 | Huffington Post

Santorum’s Homophobia Problem

November 30, 2011 | Huffington Post

Airport Security and Non-Self

October 05, 2011 | Huffington Post

Six Things Liberal Critics Don’t Understand About the Occupy Wall Street Protests

October 04, 2011 | Huffington Post

Getting Over the Judging God — A Yom Kippur Reflection

July 27, 2011 | Huffington Post

Why Liberals Should Be Outraged by the Tim DeChristopher Sentence

June 20, 2011 | Huffington Post

What’s Between New York’s State Senate and Marriage Equality? About Fifteen Words

June 15, 2011 | Huffington Post

An Open Letter to State Senator Greg Ball About Marriage Equality and Religion

May 22, 2011 | Huffington Post

Why 300 (Mostly Straight) Religious Leaders Are Gathering in Washington to Support LGBT Equality

May 16, 2011 | Huffington Post

Boredom: A Gift for the Soul?

April 25, 2011 | Huffington Post

After Passover, The Exodus To True Spiritual Freedom Continues

April 15, 2011 | Huffington Post

Who are the Real Sodomites?

March 15, 2011 | Huffington Post

‘All is One’ in Traffic Jams

March 03, 2011 | Huffington Post

The Path to Enlightenment: Sometimes Assertion, Sometimes Surrender

December 26, 2010 | Huffington Post

Why the Holidays Suck – and What We Can Do About It

November 16, 2010 | Huffington Post

Pass the John Tyner Bill: Get Government Off Our Backs and Out of Our Buttocks

November 02, 2010 | Huffington Post

What Would it Mean to Turn Back the Clock to 1960? A Tax Hike on the Super-Rich

October 18, 2010 | Huffington Post

Responding to Gay Suicides: What Teens Can Do

September 27, 2010 | Huffington Post

The End of Rockefeller Republicanism: Dispatch From Putnam County, New York

June 17, 2010 | Huffington Post

A Better Way to Believe in God

June 11, 2010 | Huffington Post

The Deep Truths are the Simple Ones

May 24, 2010 | Huffington Post

Meditation on the Run

April 02, 2010 | Huffington Post

An Introduction to Kabbalah, Part 10: The Kabbalah of Inspiration

March 04, 2010 | Huffington Post

An Introduction to Kabbalah Part 9: Can You Ever Have Too Much Love?

February 22, 2010 | Huffington Post

Call Their Bluff: The Case for Letting Republicans Filibuster

February 21, 2010 | Huffington Post

Are People Good At Heart?

February 03, 2010 | Huffington Post

An Introduction to Kabbalah Part 8: What are the Sefirot?

January 28, 2010 | Huffington Post

An Introduction to Kabbalah Part 7: Use Your Illusion

December 22, 2009 | Huffington Post

The Meaning of Avatar: Everything is God (A Response to Ross Douthat and other naysayers of ‘pantheism’)

December 21, 2009 | Huffington Post

How A Nice Jewish Boy Learned To Like Christmas … Because Of Paganism

December 09, 2009 | Huffington Post

It’s Not Just Tiger: Monogamous Marriage Is An Anomaly

November 15, 2009 | Huffington Post

Reflections of a Jewish Gay Rights Advocate on Visiting the Martin Luther King, Jr, Museum: An Open Letter to Ruben Diaz, Sr., and other Latino and African-American Opponents of Gay Rights

November 06, 2009 | Huffington Post

An Introduction To Kabbalah, Part 4: Kabbalah As A Spiritual Practice

October 29, 2009 | Huffington Post

An Introduction To Kabbalah, Part 3: Three Answers To The Ultimate Question

October 22, 2009 | Huffington Post

An Introduction to Kabbalah, Part 2: God Does Not Exist, God is Existence Itself

October 15, 2009 | Huffington Post

An Introduction To Kabbalah, Part 1: What Is Kabbalah?

October 11, 2009 | Huffington Post

The Gay Generation Gap: Reflections on the National Equality March

September 29, 2009 | Huffington Post

Will Spirituality Ever Be Serious?

September 11, 2009 | Huffington Post

Keep Your Shoes On: A Modest Proposal for Rational Airport Security

September 08, 2009 | Huffington Post

The Truth About Burning Man

August 24, 2009 | Huffington Post

Is Guilt a Good Thing?

August 10, 2009 | Huffington Post

It is love that matters, not the sex of one’s beloved”: Leaders of LGBT Jewish Synagogues & Organizations Respond to the Attack in Tel Aviv

July 27, 2009 | Huffington Post

The Emptiness of Anger

July 14, 2009 | Huffington Post

Eat Your Way to Enlightenment

July 08, 2009 | Huffington Post

How a Dog Taught me the Dharma

June 23, 2009 | Huffington Post

The Perfect Storm is Coming: Why New York’s Legislative Chaos May Be Good News for Marriage Equality

June 08, 2009 | Huffington Post

The One Secret to Making the Most of Unwanted Downtime

June 03, 2009 | Huffington Post

Pure Politics: The Koh Nomination Fight Drags On

May 20, 2009 | Huffington Post

Why It Matters that Adam Lambert is (Probably) Gay

May 18, 2009 | Huffington Post

What It’s Like to Spend Five Months in Silence

May 04, 2009 | Huffington Post

Get the Story: Why We Misunderstand Swine Flu, the Financial Crisis, and other Non-Narrative News

April 20, 2009 | Huffington Post

Susan Boyle, Gay Marriage, and Not Trusting Your Gut

April 06, 2009 | Huffington Post

What is the Real World, Anyway

March 28, 2009 | Huffington Post

An Ancient Basis for Tomorrow’s Financial Regulations: Rethinking Usury Law

Human Rights Campaign

October 11, 2006 | Human Rights Campaign

Brit Hitvada’ut: A Coming Out Ceremony

JBooks

January 01, 2010 | JBooks

Not a Guide, but an Example: Paradoxes of Spiritual Writing

August 01, 2006 | JBooks

Achieving the Ordinary (Review of Lev Raphael)

October 01, 2005 | JBooks

Priests by Birth: Review of Adin Steinsaltz’s We Jews

October 01, 2005 | JBooks

Kabbalah: The Whistle Stop Tour

Jerusalem Post

November 06, 2011 | Jerusalem Post

A 20th-century solution to 21st-century problems

July 04, 2006 | Jerusalem Post

Homelands of the Heart

October 11, 2005 | Jerusalem Post

It’s the Deity, Stupid: Learning from the Kabbalah Center

Jewish Journal

November 05, 2012 | Jewish Journal

A response to a stiff-necked playwright

Jewish Quarterly

July 23, 2010 | Jewish Quarterly

The Smile on the Dog: A Conversation on God with Rebecca Goldstein

Jewish publications (other)

October 15, 2010 | Jewish publications (other)

DIY: Fighting homophobic bullying in the Jewish world

June 27, 2010 | Jewish publications (other)

Chanukah in June

February 27, 2010 | Jewish publications (other)

28 Days, 28 Ideas #27: Spiritual Birthright

February 16, 2010 | Jewish publications (other)

The Gifts of Difference

February 01, 2008 | Jewish publications (other)

Why Obama is Good for Israel

October 05, 2007 | Jewish publications (other)

Sometimes God Just Wants to Dance

October 01, 2005 | Jewish publications (other)

A Presence in the Wood

April 01, 2005 | Jewish publications (other)

Eating Meditation for Passover

June 21, 2004 | Jewish publications (other)

Lecha Dodi

Journal of Law in Society

December 01, 2005 | Journal of Law in Society

In Praise of the Pound of Flesh: Legalism, Multiculturalism, and the Problem of the Soul

Lambda Literary

May 16, 2012 | Lambda Literary

“Through the Door of Life: A Jewish Journey between Genders” by Joy Ladin

January 24, 2012 | Lambda Literary

‘Emma Goldman: Revolution as a Way of Life’ by Vivian Gornick

September 14, 2011 | Lambda Literary

‘The Man in the Gray Flannel Skirt’ by Jon-Jon Goulian

July 04, 2011 | Lambda Literary

‘Dendrophile’ by Justin Vivian Bond

February 14, 2011 | Lambda Literary

“Coming to Life” by Joy Ladin

Literary Journals

August 15, 2008 | Literary Journals

Seven Ideas Suggested by Empty Air

May 19, 2008 | Literary Journals

Intentional Sexuality: Possibilities and Perils

January 01, 2007 | Literary Journals

YHVH Means What Is: Integrating Judaism and Buddhism, and Why I Bother

Maariv

September 05, 2008 | Maariv

What is the Connection between Monogamy and Monotheism

August 04, 2008 | Maariv

God and Pain

April 04, 2008 | Maariv

God as a Mask of Pain (Hebrew)

March 18, 2008 | Maariv

Chilluf Chomrim (Hebrew)

Michigan Journal of Gender & Law

Check back soon for articles from Michigan Journal of Gender & Law.

Moment

September 30, 2011 | Moment

“Belief in God” is not a Jewish Value

November 01, 2009 | Moment

On Fire with Love and Ecstasy

Mother Nature Network

July 20, 2010 | Mother Nature Network

Plovers vs. Crows: Cape Cod’s Moral Dilemma

November 09, 2009 | Mother Nature Network

Silence is golden — and green

June 09, 2009 | Mother Nature Network

The Messy Yard of Tomorrow?

April 07, 2009 | Mother Nature Network

Sun Rises on Ancient Ritual

MyJewishLearning.com

June 01, 2007 | MyJewishLearning.com

Fasting from a Functional Perspective

December 07, 2006 | MyJewishLearning.com

Gay History in the Making, I Guess

October 30, 2006 | MyJewishLearning.com

Demons, Dybbuks, Ghosts, & Golems: The sinister power of life-force gone awry

May 01, 2006 | MyJewishLearning.com

Shabbat and Meditation: Just Be It

New Voices

Check back soon for articles from New Voices.

Newsweek

March 12, 2012 | Newsweek

Is It Fair to Punish Dharun Ravi Because Tyler Clementi Died?

Political Research Associates

March 18, 2013 | Political Research Associates

Redefining Religious Liberty: The Covert Campaign Against Civil Rights

Queer Religion

December 13, 2011 | Queer Religion

“Queering Kabbalistic Gender Play” in Queer Religion

Reality Sandwich

April 19, 2012 | Reality Sandwich

How is a “Spiritual Person” Supposed to Act?

August 08, 2011 | Reality Sandwich

Is Life But a Dream?

July 15, 2011 | Reality Sandwich

Integration isn’t Everything

April 11, 2011 | Reality Sandwich

Nonduality, Neuroscience, and Postmodernism: The Dream of the Self

September 07, 2010 | Reality Sandwich

Meditation and “Drugs”

August 09, 2010 | Reality Sandwich

Simple Truths vs. Esoteric Ones

June 15, 2010 | Reality Sandwich

Spirituality and the Sanctification of the World

May 03, 2010 | Reality Sandwich

Nonduality in Buddhism and Judaism

December 08, 2009 | Reality Sandwich

Vedanta and Kabbalah: Nonduality East and West

November 10, 2009 | Reality Sandwich

Spirituality and States: Getting Beyond the Good Stuff

October 08, 2009 | Reality Sandwich

Fetishizing the Trigger

September 11, 2009 | Reality Sandwich

The Jhanas: Meditative Absorptions

July 20, 2009 | Reality Sandwich

Free Will: The Last Gasp of the Unenlightened Mind

June 12, 2009 | Reality Sandwich

The Body of Being

March 20, 2009 | Reality Sandwich

Transformation of Consciousness as Messianic Age: A Kabbalistic View

February 27, 2009 | Reality Sandwich

The Blues, Prayer, and Unrequited Love

January 30, 2009 | Reality Sandwich

Sick Enough for Spirituality

December 15, 2008 | Reality Sandwich

The Gifts of Boredom

November 19, 2008 | Reality Sandwich

Intentional Sexuality: Possibilities and Perils

October 13, 2008 | Reality Sandwich

Too Much Fun

September 09, 2008 | Reality Sandwich

Stop Seeking: Paradoxes of the Spiritual Path

July 29, 2008 | Reality Sandwich

You are God in Drag: Eleven Notes Before and After Retreat

June 27, 2008 | Reality Sandwich

Fresh Baked Bread

June 03, 2008 | Reality Sandwich

Embracing Even the Hatred: A Personal Dharma Journey

March 21, 2008 | Reality Sandwich

Polytheism and Nonduality

January 15, 2008 | Reality Sandwich

Ayahuasca and Kabbalah

Religion Dispatches

April 19, 2013 | Religion Dispatches

“To the Wonder”: Terrence Malick’s Mystical Lens

March 28, 2013 | Religion Dispatches

Marriage Equality: A Civil Religious Moment

January 02, 2013 | Religion Dispatches

“Mad to Be Saved”: On the Road as Cautionary Tale

December 18, 2012 | Religion Dispatches

Why I’m Grateful for 2012, The Rapture, and other Millennial Delusions

December 02, 2012 | Religion Dispatches

Reparative Therapy is Quackery, Rabbis Agree—But that Doesn’t Mean it’s Okay to Be Gay

July 28, 2012 | Religion Dispatches

Apocalypse Now and Then: Our Global Death Wish

July 20, 2012 | Religion Dispatches

Olympic Committee Opposes Memorial for Israeli Athletes Killed in Munich

June 20, 2012 | Religion Dispatches

Meditation is Very Relaxing, Says New York Times

May 16, 2012 | Religion Dispatches

Traditional Marriage: One Man, Many Women, Some Girls, Some Slaves

April 30, 2012 | Religion Dispatches

Israeli Conservative Movement Will Ordain Gay Rabbis

April 19, 2012 | Religion Dispatches

Transgender, Scientologist, “Cult Hero”

February 23, 2012 | Religion Dispatches

All Your Dead Mormons Are Belong To Us

January 26, 2012 | Religion Dispatches

A Nobel Prize for LGBT Civil Rights?

January 17, 2012 | Religion Dispatches

The Good Liberal Fear of a Yoga Planet: The rationalist prejudice against spirituality

January 09, 2012 | Religion Dispatches

Why Rick Santorum Can’t Just Say “God Doesn’t Want You To Be Gay”: Gay rights and the collapse of pseudo-secularism

December 13, 2011 | Religion Dispatches

Matisyahu Shaves His Beard

December 10, 2011 | Religion Dispatches

Religious Belief or Mental Illness?: Jeff Nichols’ new film, “Take Shelter,” asks the question

November 30, 2011 | Religion Dispatches

Why an Orthodox Anti-Gay Declaration is Actually Good for the Gays

November 25, 2011 | Religion Dispatches

Who Would Jesus Bully?

October 28, 2011 | Religion Dispatches

#Occupy: A Deeper Form of Protest?

October 27, 2011 | Religion Dispatches

Swift-Boat Veterans of American Jewry Charge Anti-Semitism at Occupy Wall Street

October 11, 2011 | Religion Dispatches

The Religious Duty to Come Out

October 05, 2011 | Religion Dispatches

Honest Work: On Steve Jobs, #occupywallst, and Usury

October 05, 2011 | Religion Dispatches

Queer Repentance: On Not Surrendering to a Text, to Guilt, or to Habit

September 21, 2011 | Religion Dispatches

Does Religion Justify the Murder of Troy Davis?

September 01, 2011 | Religion Dispatches

Burning Man in the Age of Rick Perry: Revelation, Pluralism, and Moral Imperative

July 14, 2011 | Religion Dispatches

The Trouble With Harry (Potter): Religious Conservatives Do Have Something to Fear

June 27, 2011 | Religion Dispatches

The Battle Beneath the Battle: Do Gay People Exist?

June 08, 2011 | Religion Dispatches

Whatever Works: How Christians Talk About Homosexuality: A Conversation with Mark Jordan

June 01, 2011 | Religion Dispatches

Tree of Life, Book of Job

May 23, 2011 | Religion Dispatches

Tornado Hits the Heartland: Is God Punishing Us?

March 16, 2011 | Religion Dispatches

Hysterical Heretical Hollywood Humanism: The Theology of The Adjustment Bureau

February 14, 2011 | Religion Dispatches

The Tea Party are Sodomites

January 18, 2011 | Religion Dispatches

Should Gays and Lesbians Argue Scripture? A Dialogue

November 18, 2010 | Religion Dispatches

Sex and Civilization: The Body as Battleground

November 08, 2010 | Religion Dispatches

A Life After Death Double-Feature: Eastwood’s Hereafter and Noe’s Enter the Void

September 17, 2010 | Religion Dispatches

Political Consequences of a Judging God: A Yom Kippur Reflection

August 13, 2010 | Religion Dispatches

The Anti-Defamation League Jumps the Shark

July 01, 2010 | Religion Dispatches

Does the Bible Really Call Homosexuality an “Abomination”?

Salon

April 04, 2013 | Salon

SCOTUS, civil religious court

November 10, 2012 | Salon

What’s next for gay marriage: Conservatism

January 26, 2012 | Salon

The Polyamory Trap

Sh'ma

April 10, 2012 | Sh'ma

‘Abomination’ is Hate Speech

Shma

February 01, 2008 | Shma

Hot is the New Cool

September 01, 2007 | Shma

Jewish Hipster Cool is Dead

Signs of the Apocalypse: Rapture

November 01, 2008 | Signs of the Apocalypse: Rapture

for the apocalypse will be infinitely silent

Slate

October 04, 2005 | Slate

Is happiness worth losing your memory?

Stanford Environmental Law Journal

January 01, 1998 | Stanford Environmental Law Journal

Geoengineering: A Climate Change Manhattan Project

State of Belief

November 15, 2012 | State of Belief

God vs. Gay? If that’s the question, what’s the answer? (Transcript from State of Belief radio show)

The Passionate Torah: Sex and Judaism

June 01, 2009 | The Passionate Torah: Sex and Judaism

The Religious Significance of Homosexuality: Queering God, Torah, and Israel

Tikkun

November 14, 2011 | Tikkun

The Gift of the Gay Rights Debate

July 15, 2010 | Tikkun

Ten Reasons Gay Rights is a Religious Issue

November 01, 2009 | Tikkun

Prayer and Nonduality

October 01, 2009 | Tikkun

Transformation of Consciousness as Messianic Age: A Nondual, non-triumphalist view

March 01, 2007 | Tikkun

Conservative Judaism: Good for the Gays?

Times Union

November 11, 2011 | Times Union

God, gay dichotomy must end

Torah Queeries

April 10, 2009 | Torah Queeries

Liberation from Passover

January 20, 2007 | Torah Queeries

Into Life: On Parshat Va’era

August 01, 2006 | Torah Queeries

A Less Innocent Love: On Parshat Va’etchanan

April 28, 2006 | Torah Queeries

It’s the Purity, Stupid: Reading Leviticus in Context- Why “God hates fags” just like God hates shrimp

Tricycle

February 25, 2013 | Tricycle

Let’s Get Real: Wisdom 2.0 Wraps Up

February 23, 2013 | Tricycle

The Dharma is Out of Control

February 22, 2013 | Tricycle

Wisdom 2.0 Opens With a Challenge

February 22, 2013 | Tricycle

Who’s Afraid of Wisdom?

Tulsa Law Review

December 14, 2010 | Tulsa Law Review

Geoengineering and Climate Management: From Marginality to Inevitablity

USA Today Magazine

November 01, 2011 | USA Today Magazine

Dispelling the Myth of God versus Gay

White Crane

December 21, 2006 | White Crane

Shortbus: Best Gay Movie Ever

January 01, 2006 | White Crane

Doubt as Dharma

World Jewish Digest

June 01, 2008 | World Jewish Digest

Is Environmentalism a Jewish Issue?

September 01, 2007 | World Jewish Digest

How Not To Believe in God

Yale Law Journal

May 01, 1996 | Yale Law Journal

Rethinking Regulatory Reform: Toxics, Politics, and Ethics

Zeek

February 07, 2012 | Zeek

Why Climate Change is Bad for the Jews

May 25, 2011 | Zeek

Judaism 2030: Visions of a Jewish Tomorrow

January 17, 2011 | Zeek

Hasidism and “Nature”: Negation and Affirmation

October 01, 2010 | Zeek

Story is the Peril of Service

September 09, 2010 | Zeek

The Hebrew Goddess: Complexity, Unity, Gender, and Society

August 20, 2010 | Zeek

Why it’s good for Jews to Meditate

May 23, 2010 | Zeek

Jewish Enlightenment : Neo-Hasidism and Vedanta

May 03, 2010 | Zeek

The Nonduality Dialogues

December 11, 2009 | Zeek

Impermanence

November 01, 2009 | Zeek

Beyond Oneness

August 27, 2009 | Zeek

In Defense of Spiritual Vulgarity

July 02, 2009 | Zeek

Monotheism and the Spirits of Nature

May 20, 2009 | Zeek

Rethinking Jewish Spirituality

April 23, 2009 | Zeek

Peoples of the Blog

March 27, 2009 | Zeek

The Trouble with Business

March 06, 2009 | Zeek

The Dream of the Magician

February 05, 2009 | Zeek

A Jewish Perspective on the Jhanas, part 2

January 29, 2009 | Zeek

A Jewish Perspective on the Jhanas, part 1

December 22, 2008 | Zeek

Is Life but a Dream

November 28, 2008 | Zeek

Why Ramakrishna Matters

November 24, 2008 | Zeek

Spirituality as Satanism

August 15, 2008 | Zeek

Against Integration

June 30, 2008 | Zeek

Monogamy and Monotheism

April 01, 2008 | Zeek

Sick Enough for Religion

March 01, 2008 | Zeek

The Blues, Prayer, and Unrequited Love

February 01, 2008 | Zeek

Polytheism and Nonduality

December 01, 2007 | Zeek

It’s the Deep Structure, Stupid

November 01, 2007 | Zeek

A BuJu Responds to Sam Harris

September 01, 2007 | Zeek

The Gifts of Boredom

August 01, 2007 | Zeek

Entering the Gate of Sadness

July 01, 2007 | Zeek

Free Will: The Last Gasp of the Unenlightened Mind

June 01, 2007 | Zeek

Why I Study Sabbateanism

May 01, 2007 | Zeek

Fantasy and Totalitarianism: On Ministering to Special Cases

April 01, 2007 | Zeek

Getting Serious About a Religion of Love

March 01, 2007 | Zeek

Keep Your Godwrestling, Thanks: The Use and Limits of Jewish Theology

February 01, 2007 | Zeek

Stop Seeking: Paradoxes of the Spiritual Path

January 01, 2007 | Zeek

Zeek is not a Gay Magazine (but it is out)

December 01, 2006 | Zeek

Religion and Insanity

November 01, 2006 | Zeek

Kashrut and Nonduality

October 01, 2006 | Zeek

Yom Kippur and Nonduality

August 01, 2006 | Zeek

Spirituality in a Time of Seriousness

July 01, 2006 | Zeek

My Journey to Flexidoxy, or, At Home on the Slippery Slope

June 01, 2006 | Zeek

Fear of Fun

April 01, 2006 | Zeek

The Freedom of Being

March 01, 2006 | Zeek

Flakes- Why ‘spiritual’ people are often so unreliable

February 01, 2006 | Zeek

Friends in High Places: An interview with Congressmen Barney Frank and Gary Ackerman

January 01, 2006 | Zeek

Christmas in Jerusalem: Zionism, Ordinariness, and the Situation

December 01, 2005 | Zeek

Hitler and God: The Perils of Pantheism

November 01, 2005 | Zeek

Fresh Baked Bread: Ideas about the thing, and the thing itself

October 01, 2005 | Zeek

Fetishizing the Trigger: How spirituality turns to fundamentalism

September 01, 2005 | Zeek

Guilt and Groundedness: Religion, guilt, and the geology of the self

June 01, 2005 | Zeek

Does Mysticism Prove the Existence of God? Mysticism, nonduality, and what we can learn through meditation

June 01, 2005 | Zeek

Star Wars, George Bush, Judaism, and the Penis- From Baal and Asherah to Neo-cons and the Sith

May 01, 2005 | Zeek

When Dialogue Harms- How responsible political discourse can sometimes hurt the self

April 01, 2005 | Zeek

Hedgehogs, foxes, and dilettantes

March 01, 2005 | Zeek

Shakey: An Essay on Anger- Working with anger on the contemplative path

February 01, 2005 | Zeek

I Still Believe that People are Good at Heart: Spirituality and human nature

January 01, 2005 | Zeek

The Knowing: A mystical poem

December 01, 2004 | Zeek

Three Jewish Books on Sadness: A rabbi, a widow, and a therapist address the demon of sadness

November 05, 2004 | Zeek

Am I Religious? Religion, spirituality, and living as if it mattered

October 01, 2004 | Zeek

Deconstructing Zell Miller: A close reading of right-wing political rhetoric

September 01, 2004 | Zeek

How can you be gay and Jewish?

August 01, 2004 | Zeek

The Spiritual Foundations of Bushism

July 01, 2004 | Zeek

Hasidism and Homoeroticism

June 01, 2004 | Zeek

How I Finally Learned to Accept Christ in My Heart

May 01, 2004 | Zeek

Wrestling with Steve Greenberg

April 01, 2004 | Zeek

Life During Wartime, or, Freedom and the Ordinary

March 01, 2004 | Zeek

Passion and Violence

February 01, 2004 | Zeek

You are God in Drag: Notes from and after retreat

January 01, 2004 | Zeek

Thinking despite Doubt and Feeling despite Truth

November 01, 2003 | Zeek

Energy

October 17, 2003 | Zeek

From Aleph to Tough: A Poet Who Does Not Merely Refer to Existing Tradition, but “Makes It New”

September 01, 2003 | Zeek

What is Burning Man?

August 01, 2003 | Zeek

Jay Michaelson is a writer, scholar, and activist who works at the intersections of spirituality, Judaism, sexuality, and law.