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28 Days, 28 Ideas #27: Spiritual Birthright

Alef: The Next Conversation

Chanukah in June

American Jewish Life

The Witch of Endor

Anan Ben-David

Apocalypse Now: Climate Change and Israel

Joseph Rabinovitch

Baruch Spinoza

Jacob Frank

Sabbetai Tzvi

Ashe

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

BeliefNet

A Balancing Meditation (Hesed, Gevurah, Tiferet)

CNN

Jewish LGBT leaders need to build a movement

Duke Law Journal

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

Ein Shemesh

A Presence in the Wood

Eating Meditation for Passover

Lecha Dodi

Forward

How I’m Losing My Love for Israel

Ephryme: Engaged Hip Hop Jew

A ‘New Jew’ Goes to Auschwitz

A Missing Culprit, but Culpability All Around

Allowing the Yetzer Tov to Win

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

Do Jews Have a Jesus Problem?

Shifting from Myth to Function

Freedom from the Slavery of Passover Seders

It’s a Purim World Out There

Environmentalism: Good for the Jews

One Who Speaks Does Not Know

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

Poets of the Desert and the Sea

Answers in the Seekers’ Language

God of Judgment, God of Love

In Defense of the Western Wall

Where the Light Gets in: The Crucible of Summer Camp

Getting Serious About Love

Peoplehood: There’s no there, there

The Virtues of the Unaffiliated

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

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

People Of the Chapbook: Jewish Poets as Jewish Teachers

Love is Not Blindness

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

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

As Winter Falls, a Time To Learn From the Orthodox

Memo to Michael Steinhardt: Duh

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

Yom Kippur: A Personal Journey

Conservative Judaism at a Crossroads

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

Portrait of the Artist as a Nice Jewish Boy

The People’s Bible

Shrine of False Messiah in Turkey May Be Razed

No Crystals Needed: Why Meditation is Not Spirituality

The Other Disappeared

Leonard Cohen: Poet of the Holy Sinners

The Attraction of Irrelevance: Tazria/Metzora

Take Back the (Seder) Night

Boston Rabbinical Program Challenges Denominational Boundaries

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

Spiritual Pioneers See a Different Shade Of Judaism: Green

Judaism and the Culture of Outburst

The Graphic (Novel) Side of Israel

Renewing Ecstatic Spirituality to the Beat of a Drum

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

In Jerusalem, Fundamentalism on the March

Two Lawyers, Three Opinions

Old Labels Feel Stiff for ‘Flexidox’

Religion is Actually Spirituality

Dylan’s Religious Revival: Modern Times and the Timeless

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

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

Exploring the New Jewish Spiritualities

The Jewish Goddess: Past and Present

Book of Esther gets Novel Makeover

A Jew and a lawyer are sitting in a bar…

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

The Unity of Opposites

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

Holy Feast, Holy Fast Food, Judaism and Righteous Ambivalence

Jewish Paganism: Oxymoron or Innovation?

Disabuse Community of Intolerance

Fragments of a Lost Jewish World

Sukkot: From humble to inspired

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

A Little off the Top: The Controversy About Circumcision

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

Male and Female Created He Them

Judaism, Meditation, and the B-Word

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

‘Religion Is Actually Spirituality’: An Exchange

The Myth of Authenticity

Mystery Sells: What the Kabbalah Centre Actually Teaches

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

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

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

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

Taking Avatar Seriously: Environmentalisms, Spiritual and Practical

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

Practicing What He Preaches, Reggae Singer Reveals His Soul

Revealing Ourselves Through Our Masks

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

A Watershed Year for Gays of Faith

A Festival of Rebellion Reminds Us What Matters Most

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

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

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

An Orthodox Poet tackles God and Sex

Un-Righteous Indignation: Anger Management–Kosher Style

Why Is This Night Different? Who’s Asking?

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

What Religious Arguments Are Really About

Memento Mori: Jewish Spirituality and the Sanctification of the World

Religion within the Bounds of Reason..and Love

Peoplehood vs. Israel

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

Are Corporations Evil?

G-dcast

G-dcast: Parshat Shelach Lecha

Ginosko Literary Journal

Seven Ideas Suggested by Empty Air

Hadassah

Gedaliah in the Eye of the Beholder

Huffington Post

The Truth About Burning Man

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

Is Guilt a Good Thing?

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

The Emptiness of Anger

Eat Your Way to Enlightenment

How a Dog Taught me the Dharma

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

The One Secret to Making the Most of Unwanted Downtime

Pure Politics: The Koh Nomination Fight Drags On

Why It Matters that Adam Lambert is (Probably) Gay

What It’s Like to Spend Five Months in Silence

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

Susan Boyle, Gay Marriage, and Not Trusting Your Gut

What is the Real World, Anyway

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

The Gay Generation Gap: Reflections on the National Equality March

Will Spirituality Ever Be Serious?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

An Introduction to Kabbalah Part 7: Use Your Illusion

Are People Good At Heart?

Call Their Bluff: The Case for Letting Republicans Filibuster

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

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

Meditation on the Run

The Deep Truths are the Simple Ones

A Better Way to Believe in God

Human Rights Campaign

Brit Hitvada’ut: A Coming Out Ceremony

Isabella Freedman Jewish Center

The Gifts of Difference

JBooks

Book Review, Achieving the Ordinary

Priests by Birth: The Strange Essentialism of We Jews

Kabbalah: The Whistle Stop Tour

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

JTA

Why Obama is Good for Israel

Jbooks

Book Review, Achieving the Ordinary

Priests by Birth: The Strange Essentialism of We Jews

Kabbalah: The Whistle Stop Tour

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

Jerusalem Post

Homelands of the Heart

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

Jewcy

The Israeli-American Prime Minister Bids Farewell

Are there any Jews in Narnia?

The Lame Duck in Israel

The Gods of Drowning

Israel, Injustice, and Philip Glass’s Call to Arms

Jewish Intelligent Design Proponents are Jewish Uncle Toms

Kabbalah is Over, But It Wasn’t Daphne Merkin Who Killed It

Mixing Heresy and High Fashion

Sexual Hypocrisy is Not a Jewish Value

Is ‘Cassandra’s Dream’ about Soon Yi?

New Psychedelics Are Transforming the Future of Spirituality

Lila

Intentional Sexuality: Possibilities and Perils

Lilith

Bottoming for God (PDF)

MNN

Plovers vs. Crows: Cape Cod’s Moral Dilemma

Maariv

What is the Connection between Monogamy and Monotheism

God and Pain

God as a Mask of Pain (Hebrew)

Chilluf Chomrim (Hebrew)

Michigan Journal of Gender & Law

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Moment

On Fire with Love and Ecstasy

Mosaic Torah Queeries

A Less Innocent Love: On Parshat Va’etchanan

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

Mother Nature Network

The Messy Yard of Tomorrow?

Sun Rises on Ancient Ritual

Silence is golden — and green

MyJewishLearning.com

Fasting from a Functional Perspective

Gay History in the Making, I Guess

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

Shabbat and Meditation: Just Be I

Reality Sandwich

The Jhanas: Meditative Absorptions

Free Will: The Last Gasp of the Unenlightened Mind

The Body of Being

Transformation of Consciousness as Messianic Age: A Kabbalistic View

The Blues, Prayer, and Unrequited Love

Sick Enough for Spirituality

The Gifts of Boredom

Intentional Sexuality: Possibilities and Perils

Too Much Fun

Stop Seeking: Paradoxes of the Spiritual Path

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

Fresh Baked Bread

Embracing Even the Hatred: A Personal Dharma Journey

Polytheism and Nonduality

Ayahuasca and Kabbalah

Fetishizing the Trigger

Spirituality and States: Getting Beyond the Good Stuff

Vedanta and Kabbalah: Nonduality East and West

Nonduality in Buddhism and Judaism

Spirituality and the Sanctification of the World

Religion Dispatches

Does the Bible Really Call Homosexuality an “Abomination”?

Shma

Hot is the New Cool

Jewish Hipster Cool is Dead

Signs of the Apocalypse: Rapture

for the apocalypse will be infinitely silent

Slate

Is happiness worth losing your memory?

Stanford Environmental Law Journal January

Geoengineering: A Climate Change Manhattan Project

The Jewish Chronicle

Sometimes God Just Wants to Dance

The Passionate Torah: Sex and Judaism

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

Tikkun

Conservative Judaism: Good for the Gays?

Prayer and Nonduality

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

Ten Reasons Gay Rights is a Religious Issue

Torah Queeries

Liberation from Passover

Into Life: On Parshat Va’era

White Crane

Shortbus: Best Gay Movie Ever

Doubt as Dharma

World Jewish Digest

Is Environmentalism a Jewish Issue?

How Not To Believe in God

Yale Law Journal

Rethinking Regulatory Reform: Toxics, Politics, and Ethics

Zeek

In Defense of Spiritual Vulgarity

Monotheism and the Spirits of Nature

Rethinking Jewish Spirituality

Peoples of the Blog

The Trouble with Business

The Dream of the Magician

A Jewish Perspective on the Jhanas, part 1

A Jewish Perspective on the Jhanas, part 2

Is Life but a Dream

Why Ramakrishna Matters

Spirituality as Satanism

Against Integration

Monogamy and Monotheism

Sick Enough for Religion

The Blues, Prayer, and Unrequited Love

Polytheism and Nonduality

It’s the Deep Structure, Stupid

A BuJu Responds to Sam Harris

The Gifts of Boredom

Entering the Gate of Sadness

Free Will: The Last Gasp of the Unenlightened Mind

Why I Study Sabbateanism

Getting Serious About a Religion of Love

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

Stop Seeking: Paradoxes of the Spiritual Path

Fantasy and Totalitarianism: On Ministering to Special Cases

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

Religion and Insanity

Kashrut and Nonduality

Beyond Oneness

Yom Kippur and Nonduality

Spirituality in a Time of Seriousness

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

Fear of Fun

The Freedom of Being

Flakes- Why ‘spiritual’ people are often so unreliable

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

Christmas in Jerusalem: Zionism, Ordinariness, and the Situation

Hitler and God: The Perils of Pantheism

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

Fetishizing the Trigger: How spirituality turns to fundamentalism

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

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

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

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

Impermanence

Hedgehogs, foxes, and dilettantes

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

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

The Knowing: A mystical poem

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

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

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

How can you be gay and Jewish?

The Spiritual Foundations of Bushism

Hasidism and Homoeroticism

How I Finally Learned to Accept Christ in My Heart

Wrestling with Steve Greenberg

Life During Wartime, or, Freedom and the Ordinary

Passion and Violence

You are God in Drag: Notes from and after retreat

Thinking despite Doubt and Feeling despite Truth

Energy

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

What is Burning Man?

The Queer Guy at the Strip Club

Jewish Enlightenment : Neo-Hasidism and Vedanta

The Nonduality Dialogues

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