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Why Liberals Love to Explain Donald Trump to Each Other

August 19, 2016 in Daily Beast

Donald Trump’s Supreme Court Pick Would Kill the ‘Right to Remain Silent’ Warning

August 11, 2016 in Daily Beast

Pokemon Go and the End of Religious Experience

August 09, 2016 in Forward

Donald Trump’s Top Funder Is Just Like Him: Tacky and Cruel

August 03, 2016 in Daily Beast

The RNC Can Legally Dump Donald Trump but It Has to Act Fast

August 03, 2016 in Daily Beast

Utah Blames the Weather, Not Homophobia, for Teen Suicide Epidemic

July 29, 2016 in Daily Beast

Courts Crush Voter Suppression Just in Time for Election Day

July 29, 2016 in Daily Beast

Tim Kaine: Least Jewish Democrat Ever

July 28, 2016 in Forward

Will Bill Clinton’s Spiritual Masterpiece Humanize Hillary for America?

July 27, 2016 in Forward

Could Republicans’ Supreme Court Obstructionism Cost them the Senate?

July 27, 2016 in Daily Beast

Inconvenient Truths at the DNC

July 26, 2016 in Forward

Tim Kaine, a Pope Francis Catholic, Defies Religious Stereotypes

July 22, 2016 in Daily Beast

Why President Donald Trump Would Be Israel’s Worst Nightmare

July 21, 2016 in Forward

Mike Pence, Trump’s VP Pick, Is Too Anti-Gay Even for Republicans

July 15, 2016 in Daily Beast

Fighting ISIS With Ruthless Progressivism

July 14, 2016 in Forward

What Can Jews and White Allies Do About Police Violence?

July 08, 2016 in Forward

Reclaiming Progressive Patriotism in the Age of Donald Trump

July 04, 2016 in Forward

Why C-FAM, the Catholic Fundamentalists You’ve Never Heard Of, Just Cozied Up to Iran

July 03, 2016 in Daily Beast

Is Donald Trump-Style Populism Just Human Nature?

June 29, 2016 in Forward

Why the Supreme Court – and Justice Kennedy – Saved Abortion Again

June 27, 2016 in Daily Beast

The Progressive Case Against Elizabeth Warren for VP

June 26, 2016 in Daily Beast

The Right Wins as It Loses on Affirmative Action at the Supreme Court

June 23, 2016 in Daily Beast

Supreme Court, Broken by GOP, Couldn’t Decide Crucial Immigration Case

June 23, 2016 in Daily Beast

Why the Next Supreme Court Is Poised to Roll Back Gun Rights

June 22, 2016 in Daily Beast

Decoding an Anti-Semitic Meme Donald Trump Supporters Took From Anime

June 17, 2016 in Forward

If Omar Mateen Was Gay, the Orlando Attack Was More Homophobic, Not Less

June 15, 2016 in Daily Beast

Is Orlando About Islamist Terrorism, Homophobia, Mental Illness or Guns?

June 13, 2016 in Forward

Donald Trump Is a Candidate for White Supremacists — Not Jews

June 10, 2016 in Forward

Republicans Have Crippled the Supreme Court

June 07, 2016 in Daily Beast

Why I Fell Out of Love with Kabbalah

June 07, 2016 in Forward

The Christian Right Mastermind Behind Citizens United Says It’s Good for Democracy

June 05, 2016 in Daily Beast

From Donald Trump to Europe and Israel, The Rise of the Global Right

May 30, 2016 in Forward

Transgender Panic Isn’t Hate—It’s Ignorance

May 23, 2016 in Daily Beast

Supreme Court Strikes Down Blocking Black Jurors—But It Will Keep Happening Anyway

May 23, 2016 in Daily Beast

The Real Christian Preacher Sex Scandal Is How Many There Are

May 22, 2016 in Daily Beast

On Airport Security, America Should Take a Lesson from Israel

May 21, 2016 in Forward

It’s not just Garland: GOP is Causing a Judicial Emergency

May 16, 2016 in Daily Beast

SCOTUS Dodges Bullet on Obamacare Contraception Controversy

May 16, 2016 in Daily Beast

Why is the Left Silent About Gaza Tunnels?

May 13, 2016 in Forward

Transgender Rights Pits Corporations vs. Conservatives

May 11, 2016 in Daily Beast

How Loretta Lynch Helped the Transgender Movement Come of Age

May 10, 2016 in Daily Beast

Listening to Beyonce as a White American Jew

May 08, 2016 in Forward

Kenya May End Forced Anal Exams of Suspected Gays

May 04, 2016 in Daily Beast

Why the Merrick Garland Fight Could Be Good for Democracy

April 29, 2016 in Daily Beast

A Jewish Tribute to Prince, Holy Unifier of Spirit and Sex

April 22, 2016 in Forward

I’m Seeking Freedom From the Organized Jewish Community This Passover

April 21, 2016 in Forward

Arizona’s Nonpartisan Redistricting Plan Is a Slam Dunk at the Supreme Court

April 20, 2016 in Daily Beast

Supreme Court Rules to Let Victims of Iranian Terror Go After $1.75 Billion

April 20, 2016 in Daily Beast

Why This Is An Off Year for New Haggadot — and That’s Not a Bad Thing

April 20, 2016 in Forward

Do Obama’s Immigration Opponents Deserve to Be at the Supreme Court?

April 18, 2016 in Daily Beast

Supreme Court Proposes a Compromise in Obamacare Case

April 14, 2016 in Daily Beast

Anti-LGBT Laws are Losing on Their Own Terms

April 07, 2016 in Daily Beast

Obama’s Nuclear Option for the Supreme Court: Order the Senate Back to Work

April 06, 2016 in Daily Beast

Does Donald Trump Respect Women More Than Pro-Lifers Do?

April 05, 2016 in Forward

In Response to North Carolina’s Law, a Jewish Case for Intersectionality

April 01, 2016 in Forward

Billionaires Try to Buy the Supreme Court

March 29, 2016 in Daily Beast

North Carolina’s Anti-LGBT Law Is Based on a Total Lie

March 24, 2016 in Daily Beast

Christian Right Says No Means Yes in Supreme Court Obamacare Fight

March 23, 2016 in Daily Beast

Trump Is Not Hitler and He’s Not Haman — He’s Ahasuerus

March 22, 2016 in Forward

AIPAC’s Ovation for Trump is Not at All Surprising

March 22, 2016 in Daily Beast

Senate GOP Must Choose: Merrick Garland, Hillary Clinton, or Donald Trump

March 18, 2016 in Daily Beast

D.C.’s Dueling Supreme Court Strategies

March 17, 2016 in Daily Beast

Merrick Garland for Supreme Court: A Good Man About to Go Through GOP Hell

March 16, 2016 in Daily Beast

Meet the Evangelical Christians Behind Ted Cruz — They’re Super Jewy

March 14, 2016 in Forward

Israel’s Cult Crackdown Could Snare Yoga, Rabbis, and Meditation

March 13, 2016 in Daily Beast

What Jewish Law Says About Crumbling Indian Point Nuclear Plant

March 11, 2016 in Forward

Dear Caitlyn Jenner, Please Reconsider Your Support of Ted Cruz

March 08, 2016 in Daily Beast

The Harlem Preacher Hooked on Hate

March 06, 2016 in Daily Beast

Likely Supreme Court Nominee Judge Jane Kelly Is a True Moderate

March 04, 2016 in Daily Beast

After Scalia’s Death, Don’t Let GOP Senators Break Their Sacred Oath

March 03, 2016 in Forward

Welcoming Everything You Experience (with Koshin Paley Ellison)

March 01, 2016 in Huffington Post

Will Scalia’s Death Protect Abortion? Deadlock in Texas Case Will Limit Damage

March 01, 2016 in Daily Beast

The Everything, The Nothing, and Justice

March 01, 2016 in Tikkun

Cruz Sugar Daddy Funds a Fake Black GOP Group

February 26, 2016 in Daily Beast

It’s Time for Jews To Pray and Preach About Abortion — Like Christians Do

February 24, 2016 in Forward

20 Years After a Bus Bombing, the Inspiration of Two Lives Unlived

February 24, 2016 in Forward

This Anti-BDS Video Is Pure Hilarity — and Accidental Genius

February 23, 2016 in Forward

Have Obama’s Supreme Court Picks Really Been Silent on Abortion?

February 22, 2016 in Daily Beast

Could Obama Sue Senate Republicans for Stonewalling a Supreme Court Nominee?

February 19, 2016 in Daily Beast

Dear Bernie Fans, a Vote for Him Is a Vote for Donald Trump

February 16, 2016 in Daily Beast

GOP Cynicism on the Supreme Court Reaches a New Low

February 15, 2016 in Daily Beast

Does Ted Cruz Think He’s the Messiah?

February 14, 2016 in Daily Beast

Why Jewish Republicans Should Look Past Marco Rubio — to Michael Bloomberg

February 08, 2016 in Forward

The Oscars Are Too White — and That’s a Jewish Problem

February 01, 2016 in Forward

What Kind of Jew Is Bernie Sanders?

January 31, 2016 in Daily Beast

Wishing Your Opponents Dead Is Not Good for Israelis or Palestinians

January 25, 2016 in Forward

Why Most Jewish Environmentalism Is Useless — on Tu B’Shvat and Every Other Day

January 22, 2016 in Forward

How Citizens United Gave Us Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump

January 20, 2016 in Daily Beast

When the Supreme Court Busts a Union

January 11, 2016 in Daily Beast

How David Bowie Made It OK To Be a Wandering Jewish Misfit

January 11, 2016 in Forward

You Think the World Is Going to Hell in 2016? It’s Actually Getting Better.

January 11, 2016 in Forward

The World’s Leading Kabbalist, Guru to Billionaires, Is Going to Jail

January 07, 2016 in Daily Beast

Alabama Chief Justice Screwed 66 Judges

January 06, 2016 in Daily Beast

Bill Cosby, Tamir Rice, And The Power of Prosecutors

January 01, 2016 in Daily Beast

The Brave Woman and Unlikely Heroes Who Brought Down Bill Cosby

December 30, 2015 in Daily Beast

Unlike New Year’s Eve, Judaism Makes Endings Meaningful

December 29, 2015 in Forward

How Jewish Leaders Can Keep the LGBT Debate Honest

December 28, 2015 in Forward

The Religious Right Is Right to Be Scared: Christianity Is Dying in America

December 26, 2015 in Daily Beast

How ‘Star Wars’ Became America’s Talmud [SPOILER ALERT!]

December 23, 2015 in Forward

The Dangers of the Oscar Wilde Defense: How Cosby’s Countersuit Could Backfire

December 17, 2015 in Daily Beast

Affirmative Action May Be Doomed—But It’s Already a Confused Mess

December 13, 2015 in Daily Beast

Moderate Marco? Rubio Wants to Undo Gay Marriage, End Obama’s LGBT Protections

December 10, 2015 in Daily Beast

SCOTUS to Decide Whose Votes Count in Racially Tinged ‘One Person, One Vote’ Case

December 08, 2015 in Daily Beast

Saying Kaddish Isn’t Always Profound — and Yet

December 07, 2015 in Forward

Don’t Be Surprised When Student Activists Connect Israel to Campus Rape

December 03, 2015 in Forward

America’s Creepy HIV+ Registry

December 01, 2015 in Daily Beast

Will Pseudoscience Undo Roe v. Wade?

November 30, 2015 in Daily Beast

‘Civil Rights’ Means Anti-Gay for Some Republicans

November 27, 2015 in Daily Beast

Orange County’s Secret Informant Program

November 23, 2015 in Daily Beast

What Does Meditation Have To Do With Fighting ISIS Terror?

November 23, 2015 in Forward

Salt Lake City Elects Gay Mayor, While Utah Exports Anti-Gay Hate

November 22, 2015 in Daily Beast

Yes, We Still Need a Transgender Day of Remembrance (and Resilience)

November 20, 2015 in Daily Beast

Arkansas ‘Spanking Judge’ Traded Lighter Sentences for Sex, Commission Says

November 20, 2015 in Daily Beast

Are Jews Who Support Republicans Duped — Or Deliberately Blind?

November 20, 2015 in Forward

The World Runs on Palm Oil, and That’s Fueling Climate Change

November 16, 2015 in Daily Beast

Right Now, It’s Like That

November 12, 2015 in Jewish Publications (other)

Houston’s Anti-LGBT Campaign Was Led by Wingnut Who Would Expel All Gays

November 10, 2015 in Daily Beast

Do Endless Denominational Turf Wars Even Matter Anymore?

November 09, 2015 in Forward

A Lawsuit Cannot Stop the ‘Facebook Intifada.’ You Might.

November 04, 2015 in Forward

Oops: College Names Anti-Rape Program After a Wife-Beating Law

November 02, 2015 in Daily Beast

Evangelical Family Wants Religious Exemption for Teaching Their Kids

November 02, 2015 in Daily Beast

Ben Carson’s Church Believes the U.S. Government Will Team Up With the Antichrist

October 31, 2015 in Daily Beast

How Dennis Hastert Is Like Jared Fogle and Jerry Sandusky

October 28, 2015 in Daily Beast

The Death Penalty Election: A Louisiana Parish Is Ground Zero for the Capital Punishment Debate

October 26, 2015 in Daily Beast

Why Is Chabad Helping Christian Extremists?

October 26, 2015 in Forward

What Benjamin Netanyahu’s Insane Holocaust Claim Really Means

October 21, 2015 in Daily Beast

Hummus for Peace: As Extremists on Both Sides Escalate, the Israeli/Palestinian Peace Camp Looks Increasingly Impotent

October 20, 2015 in Daily Beast

Who Is To Blame for the Bloodshed and Despair in Israel? Everyone.

October 16, 2015 in Forward

The Intifada Will Be Instagrammed: How Social Media Has Already Enflamed the Latest Israel-Palestine Conflict

October 14, 2015 in Daily Beast

Why Ben Carson’s Rant About Gun Control and the Holocaust Is So Dangerous

October 09, 2015 in Forward

Why Saudi Arabia Gets Away With Murder

October 09, 2015 in Daily Beast

Why Judaism is Most Meaningful in Times of Grief

October 03, 2015 in Forward

Let’s Stop Being Embarrassed by Spirituality

October 02, 2015 in Daily Beast

In Praise of Self-Helpless

October 01, 2015 in Reality Sandwich

Pennsylvania’s A.G. Charged With Perjury Again in Her Effort to Smear Opponent

October 01, 2015 in Daily Beast

How Prosecutors Get Away With Cutting Black Jurors

September 28, 2015 in Daily Beast

America’s Newest Saint: Missionary or Mass Murderer?

September 23, 2015 in Daily Beast

Can Pope Francis Unite American Catholics?

September 21, 2015 in Daily Beast

Why This Hasid Was Right To Flip the Bird to Kapparot Protester

September 21, 2015 in Forward

Ann Coulter Defends ‘F–king Jews’ Rant

September 17, 2015 in Daily Beast

Oklahoma’s Governor Won’t Save Death Row Inmate Richard Glossip, but the Public Just Might

September 16, 2015 in Daily Beast

Why Oregon’s Gay Marriage-Abstaining, Hitler Photo-Hanging Judge Is Right

September 09, 2015 in Daily Beast

Forgiveness Is Good for You—So Why Can’t You Do It?

September 06, 2015 in Daily Beast

What Is a Jewish Response to Virginia On-Air Gun Killings?

August 29, 2015 in Forward

Progressive Judaism Won’t Win in My Lifetime. And That’s OK.

August 26, 2015 in Forward

Will The Rentboy.Com Bust Be The ‘Stonewall’ of Sex Work?

August 26, 2015 in Daily Beast

Is Josh Duggar the Biggest Family-Values Hypocrite Ever? Not Even Close

August 21, 2015 in Daily Beast

A Tale of Two Trans Americas

August 19, 2015 in Daily Beast

95% of Prosecutors Are White and They Treat Blacks Worse

August 17, 2015 in Daily Beast

It’s Not Just Bad Cops: Prosecutors Run Wild

August 08, 2015 in Daily Beast

It’s Not Just Bad Cops: Prosecutors Run Wild

August 08, 2015 in Daily Beast

Mormons: Come Look at Our Secret Stone

August 06, 2015 in Daily Beast

Satanic Panic Strikes After Gory Florida Murders

August 06, 2015 in Daily Beast

Hate Obamacare? Wanna Fire Gays? Create a Fake Church!

August 04, 2015 in Daily Beast

Jerusalem Pride Organizer: “It Was Horrible”

August 03, 2015 in Forward

Why We Should Ignore the Nuts on Both Sides of Iran Deal Debate

August 03, 2015 in Forward

2022 Olympics Will Be Held in a Human Rights Disaster Zone

July 30, 2015 in Daily Beast

The Ultra-Orthodox Hatred Behind the Stabbing at Jerusalem Gay Pride

July 30, 2015 in Forward

Quaaludes, Cosby’s Alleged Rape Drugs of Choice, Were Somehow Even Scarier Than You Think

July 27, 2015 in Daily Beast

To some, Planned Parenthood is immoral; to others, it’s doing God’s work

July 24, 2015 in Religion News Service

Why U. of California Should Dump ‘Three D’ Definition of Anti-Semitism

July 22, 2015 in Forward

Tibetan Monk Dies in Prison, and a Thousand Tibetans Take to the Streets

July 16, 2015 in Daily Beast

What It Was Like to Transition 50 Years Ago

July 11, 2015 in Daily Beast

Joe Biden Takes a Marriage Equality Victory Lap

July 10, 2015 in Daily Beast

Gay Marriage’s #1 Foe Could Get Indicted

July 09, 2015 in Daily Beast

Biden: Next Fight Is LGBT Discrimination

July 09, 2015 in Daily Beast

Map: The States Still Fighting Gay Marriage

July 09, 2015 in Daily Beast

4 Reasons Why Sheldon Adelson Anti-BDS Campaign Will Backfire

July 06, 2015 in Forward

Russian City Bans Yoga, Calling It a Cult

July 02, 2015 in Daily Beast

Supreme Court: If It’s Worth It for Corporations, Pollution May Be Okay

June 29, 2015 in Daily Beast

Did The Four Dissenting Justices In Gay Marriage Case Just Suggest Treason?

June 27, 2015 in Daily Beast

Supreme Court On Gay Marriage: It’s Here, And There’s No Going Back

June 26, 2015 in Daily Beast

The Profoundly Jewish Lesson of the Supreme Court’s Gay Marriage Ruling

June 26, 2015 in Forward

How Conservatism Kept Obamacare Alive

June 25, 2015 in Daily Beast

Supreme Court: Institutional Racism is Real

June 25, 2015 in Daily Beast

Jewish Response to Dylann Roof? Dump Delusion of ‘Moderate’ GOP

June 23, 2015 in Forward

Pope Francis’ environmental encyclical is even more radical than it appears

June 19, 2015 in Religion News Service

The Jewish Leadership We Need

June 18, 2015 in Forward

The ‘Natural Family’: The Latest Weapon in the Christian Right’s New Global War on Gays

June 14, 2015 in Daily Beast

Is India’s “Hitler Ice Cream” Tasteless? Ignorant? Anti-Semitic? Or all of the above?

June 12, 2015 in Daily Beast

Why North Carolina’s unprecedented exemption is wrong for America

June 12, 2015 in Religion News Service

Is Jewish Reaction to Jerusalem Passport Case Opportunistic — or Delusional?

June 11, 2015 in Forward

New Poll Shows Near-Supermajority on Same-Sex Marriage, Obamacare

June 08, 2015 in Daily Beast

Why Caitlyn Jenner Is an American Triumph — and Good for the Jews

June 08, 2015 in Forward

We’re meditating all wrong, says ‘Buddha from Brooklyn’

June 04, 2015 in Religion News Service

Why Jewish Fundamentalism Is More Brazen Than Ever — and Not Just on the Plane

June 03, 2015 in Forward

This Could Be the Supreme Court’s Busiest Month in History

June 01, 2015 in Daily Beast

SCOTUS: Abercrombie & Fitch Discriminated Against Muslim Job Applicant

June 01, 2015 in Daily Beast

Can Ecstasy Replace Xanax?

May 30, 2015 in Daily Beast

Indiana’s First Church of Pot

May 29, 2015 in Daily Beast

The Nakedness of the Bible

May 24, 2015 in Forward

How Irish Gay Marriage Isn’t Like America’s

May 22, 2015 in Daily Beast

Shavuot, a Holiday To Celebrate Complexity and Nuance

May 20, 2015 in Forward

The Case for Serial’s Adnan Syed Just Got Busted Wide Open

May 19, 2015 in Daily Beast

2015 Is the Hottest Year On Record

May 16, 2015 in Daily Beast

A ‘Fight of the Century’ Over ‘Pinkwashing’ and Israel

May 15, 2015 in Forward

No ghost in the machine: Anti-humanism of ‘Ex Machina’ makes it the post-Christian film of the year

May 08, 2015 in Washington Post

Pope Francis: A Mensch in Rome?

May 01, 2015 in Hadassah

Why Are Two Wealthy Gay Men Hosting a Benefit for Ted Cruz? Israel.

April 26, 2015 in Daily Beast

Why Birthright Next Was Doomed From the Start

April 24, 2015 in Forward

What We Learned from the Global Activists at Quorum: Global LGBT Voices

April 22, 2015 in Forward

American Jews Should Have a New Goal — Recognizing Palestine

April 20, 2015 in Forward

Bobby Jindal Is Doubling Down on RFRA

April 15, 2015 in Daily Beast

The Kardashians Take Jerusalem

April 13, 2015 in Daily Beast

Who’s Against Videotaping Police?

April 09, 2015 in Daily Beast

Leading Christian Conservative Wants You to Start Fasting to Stop Gay Marriage

April 07, 2015 in Daily Beast

So, Why Are Bob Dylan’s Videos So Violent Anyway?

April 06, 2015 in Forward

Arkansas Governor’s Surprise Announcement Is Still Not Enough to Protect LGBTs from Discrimination

April 01, 2015 in Daily Beast

It’s not as simple as homophobic thugs vs. civil rights in Indiana

April 01, 2015 in Reuters

Mike Pence Still Isn’t Telling the Truth

March 31, 2015 in Daily Beast

‘Moderate’ Israeli Rabbi Calls Obama a Biblical Mass Murderer

March 31, 2015 in Daily Beast

Where did Indiana law come from? A brief history of religious freedom

March 31, 2015 in Religion News Service

The Texas-Sized Anti-Gay Backlash

March 29, 2015 in Daily Beast

A Haggadah for Just About Every Taste

March 27, 2015 in Forward

Young V. United Parcel Service: For Conservative Reasons, Supreme Court Rules For Pregnant Women—And Against Corporations

March 25, 2015 in Daily Beast

Is anti-Semitism really increasing on US college campuses?

March 24, 2015 in Washington Post

The Backlash to the Anti-Gay Backlash: “Religious Freedom” Bills Fail, As More People See What They’re Really About

March 23, 2015 in Daily Beast

We Might Have Lost — But We Were Right About Bibi

March 19, 2015 in Forward

The GOP’s Sex Trafficking Shell Game: How Laws Against ‘Sex Trafficking’ End Up Hurting Women

March 19, 2015 in Daily Beast

St. Lucian LGBT Activist Kenita Placide’s Resilience in the Face of Tragedy, Murder, Arson, and Violence

March 18, 2015 in Daily Beast

In the grips of Jewish fundamentalism: New memoir sheds light on Hasidic community

March 17, 2015 in Washington Post

Georgia Bill Helps Wife Beaters

March 13, 2015 in Daily Beast

A Great Utah Compromise on LGBT Equality? There’s No Such Thing

March 13, 2015 in Daily Beast

Jeb Bush’s Lurch to the Right

March 12, 2015 in Forward

A Letter to the Israeli Voter

March 10, 2015 in Forward

Florida Quietly Bans the Words ‘Climate Change’ in Environmental Protection Docs

March 09, 2015 in Daily Beast

Salmon Vs. Gold Splits Alaska GOP

March 09, 2015 in Daily Beast

Bibi Shows How Fear Makes Bad Policy

March 09, 2015 in Forward

Evangelicals & ISIS Feel Fine About the End of the World

March 08, 2015 in Daily Beast

Quorum Video: India’s Meena Seshu on listening to LGBTs, Sex Workers, and the Poor

March 04, 2015 in Daily Beast

The Technicality That Could Save Obamacare—and the Supreme Court’s Reputation

March 04, 2015 in Daily Beast

Early Signs Say Obamacare Will Survive

March 04, 2015 in Daily Beast

Cheating Hasids Out of a Future

February 26, 2015 in Forward

Quorum Video: Sochi’s Pro-Gay Protester Speaks Out

February 25, 2015 in Daily Beast

Moderates Want More Marriage—of Any Kind

February 24, 2015 in Daily Beast

Learning To Embrace the Hybrid Jew

February 23, 2015 in Forward

Armageddon for Climate Change Deniers

February 23, 2015 in Daily Beast

America’s Deadly Trans Backlash

February 23, 2015 in Daily Beast

Tennessee Lawmaker: State Constitution Needs More God

February 18, 2015 in Daily Beast

Israel’s Calls for Jews to Flee Europe Aren’t the Answer

February 18, 2015 in Daily Beast

The Right’s Very Own Activist Judge Issues Immigration Ruling Filled With Republican Talking Points

February 17, 2015 in Daily Beast

The Right’s Very Own Activist Judge Issues Immigration Ruling Filled With Republican Talking Points

February 17, 2015 in Daily Beast

Arkansas’ Almost Kosher Anti-Gay Law

February 16, 2015 in Daily Beast

Arkansas’ Almost Kosher Anti-Gay Law

February 16, 2015 in Daily Beast

Religious Right In Knots Over 50 Shades

February 15, 2015 in Daily Beast

Kansas’s Big Gay Rollback a Sign of Conservative Desperation

February 11, 2015 in Daily Beast

Even in Repressive Contexts, Online Activism Makes LGBT Lives Visible

February 11, 2015 in Daily Beast

‘The Crusades Were Great, Actually!’

February 10, 2015 in Daily Beast

Is Alabama’s Anti-Gay Judge on the Right Side of the Law?

February 09, 2015 in Daily Beast

Can Monks Really Go Into 200-Year Trances?

February 08, 2015 in Daily Beast

Thailand’s Transgender People Aren’t Just ‘Ladyboys’ Anymore

February 08, 2015 in Daily Beast

Breaking Down President Obama’s Point About Christian Crusades and Islamic Extremism

February 07, 2015 in Huffington Post

Was Obama right about the Crusades and Islamic extremism?

February 06, 2015 in Washington Post

You’ll Pry This Foie Gras From My Cold, Dead Hands

February 06, 2015 in Daily Beast

Don’t Get Your Hopes Up, Tibet: Why Obama’s Meeting With The Dalai Lama Is An Empty Gesture

February 05, 2015 in Daily Beast

How Hasidism Bridges Boundary Between Christianity and Judaism

February 04, 2015 in Forward

Why Megachurch Concept of Sin Is So Dangerous

February 01, 2015 in Forward

My Big Fat Anti-Gay Wedding Cake: When Haters Cry Discrimination

January 26, 2015 in Daily Beast

It’s Time for the Jewish Megachurch

January 25, 2015 in Forward

Right Wing #Fail on ‘Jihadi Hobby Lobby’

January 25, 2015 in Daily Beast

Tibet’s Monks Are Setting Themselves on Fire Again

January 20, 2015 in Daily Beast

Who Would Jesus Torture?

January 18, 2015 in Daily Beast

Gay Marriage Likely Back in the Hands of One Supreme Court Justice

January 16, 2015 in Daily Beast

Russia’s “Trans Driving Ban” Doesn’t Really Target LGBT Community. It Actually Targets the Mentally Ill

January 15, 2015 in Daily Beast

How to Measure What Muslims Really Believe

January 10, 2015 in Daily Beast

How To Respond to Bloody Paris Terror? With Reason — and Rage

January 09, 2015 in Forward

The Back Alley, Low Blow-Ridden Fight to Stop Gay Marriage in Florida Is Finally Over

January 05, 2015 in Daily Beast

The Evangelical Apocalypse Is All Your Fault

January 04, 2015 in Daily Beast

Live-Blogging Jewishly in a Weird Evangelical Christian World

January 01, 2015 in Forward

6 Reasons ‘Pinkwashing’ Israel on Gay Rights Is So Wrong

December 30, 2014 in Forward

How Canadian Oilmen Pinkwash the Keystone Pipeline

December 28, 2014 in Daily Beast

Enough With the Menorah Selfies Already!

December 22, 2014 in Forward

New York’s Conservative Fracking Ban

December 20, 2014 in Daily Beast

Israel Never Would’ve Killed ‘The Interview’ — So Why Did We?

December 19, 2014 in Forward

The Straight Hero of Cameroon’s Gays

December 18, 2014 in Daily Beast

Church Sex Scandals Are Rooted in Theology

December 15, 2014 in Daily Beast

Do LGBTs Owe Christians an Olive Branch? Try The Other Way Around

December 14, 2014 in Daily Beast

Is there a right way to respond to extreme homophobia?

December 11, 2014 in Washington Post

Coming to Terms With Death of the Jewish Mainstream

December 10, 2014 in Forward

How Maurice Tomlinson Was Outed in Jamaica—and Forced Into Exile

December 09, 2014 in Daily Beast

In Florida, ’Tis The Season for Satan

December 07, 2014 in Daily Beast

Sneer and Clothing in Miami: Inside The $3 Billion Woodstock of Contemporary Art

December 06, 2014 in Daily Beast

Meet Krampus, the Seriously Bad Santa

December 05, 2014 in Daily Beast

The Laws That Killed Eric Garner

December 03, 2014 in Forward

Dear Evangelicals: You’re Being Had

November 30, 2014 in Daily Beast

Extreme Weather? Blame the End Times

November 28, 2014 in Daily Beast

I Admit It — I’m Binational-Curious

November 25, 2014 in Forward

An Unjust System Cannot Produce Justice

November 25, 2014 in Forward

No Wonder Cosby’s Keeping Quiet: He Could Still Be Prosecuted

November 23, 2014 in Daily Beast

Catholic Church: Religious Freedom Trumps Civil Rights

November 23, 2014 in Daily Beast

The Outrageous Celibacy Requirement for Gay Blood Donors

November 22, 2014 in Daily Beast

Is India’s Fallen ‘God-Man’ So Different From a Megachurch Pastor?

November 21, 2014 in Daily Beast

RFRA Madness: What’s Next for Anti-Democratic ‘Religious Exemptions’

November 16, 2014 in Daily Beast

Gay Marriage Chaos Begins

November 11, 2014 in Daily Beast

Rabbis on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

November 11, 2014 in Forward

It Gets Better—but Mostly if You Live in a Rich, Democratic Country

November 11, 2014 in Daily Beast

Mother’s Little Anti-Psychotic Is Worth $6.9 Billion A Year

November 09, 2014 in Daily Beast

All The Wrong Reasons to Ban Gay Unions

November 07, 2014 in Daily Beast

How ‘Klinghoffer’ Stereotypes Both Sides

October 27, 2014 in Forward

Liberian Pastors Blame Ebola on Gays, The Right Blames Obama

October 26, 2014 in Daily Beast

The Real Enemy of Marital Bliss Are Those Most Opposed to Marriage Equality

October 25, 2014 in Daily Beast

Why AIPAC Is Anti-Israel

October 25, 2014 in Forward

Egypt’s LGBTs Fight Grindr Crackdown

October 18, 2014 in Daily Beast

Is Brooklyn Becoming Unsafe for Gays? It Depends On Which Ones

October 18, 2014 in Daily Beast

Live-Blogging The Rapture and the Demise of Nicolas Cage

October 16, 2014 in Forward

Same-Sex Marriage Wins at SCOTUS

October 06, 2014 in Forward

Supreme Court to Gay-Marriage Foes: Get Lost

October 06, 2014 in Daily Beast

Catholic University’s Harvey Milk Ban Reflects A Church In Transition

October 03, 2014 in Daily Beast

Facebook Apologizes For, but Doesn’t Retract, Discriminatory ‘Real Name’ Policy

October 01, 2014 in Daily Beast

We Are All Pamela Geller

September 29, 2014 in Forward

Is Caring About Climate Change an Essential Part of LGBT Identity?

September 21, 2014 in Daily Beast

Let’s Make Climate Change the New ‘Third Rail’ of American Politics

September 19, 2014 in Forward

Facebook’s ‘Real Name Policy’ Is a Real Drag

September 18, 2014 in Daily Beast

Kazhakstan Crazies Want Gay DNA Tests

September 15, 2014 in Daily Beast

Rick Warren’s Troubling Africa Mission

September 14, 2014 in Daily Beast

As Gaza Recedes in the Rear View Mirror

September 13, 2014 in Forward

How Ruth Calderon Transforms Israeli Politics — and Talmud

September 12, 2014 in Forward

Judging Ray Rice Instead of Ourselves

September 11, 2014 in Forward

The Hateful Pastor All Too Happy to Be Left Behind When It Comes to Gays

September 06, 2014 in Daily Beast

The Very Jewish Reasons Why Gay Men Loved Joan Rivers

September 05, 2014 in Forward

What Judaism Can Learn From Burning Man

September 04, 2014 in Forward

How Do We Avenge Steven Sotloff’s Death?

September 03, 2014 in Forward

Mickey Mouse Takes Deadmau5 to Court

September 03, 2014 in Daily Beast

Jewish Emphasis on Life Makes Death Rituals a Gift to World

August 26, 2014 in Forward

Thank You, New York Times, for Being Stupid About Burning Man

August 21, 2014 in Huffington Post

Jail Won’t Stop Russia’s Anti-Gay Psycho

August 20, 2014 in Daily Beast

Why Jews Should Care About Ferguson

August 19, 2014 in Forward

‘Unhappy Happiness,’ Or What Rabbi Nachman And Pharell Have in Common

August 16, 2014 in Forward

Getting Serious About the Mystery

August 13, 2014 in Forward

What ‘Dead Poets Society’ Taught Me About Living Deliberately

August 12, 2014 in Forward

Iran’s New Gay Executions

August 12, 2014 in Daily Beast

‘Magic in the Moonlight’ Isn’t That Bad and Neither Is Woody Allen

August 05, 2014 in Forward

The Uganda Ruling is Good For Everyone But Gays

August 01, 2014 in Daily Beast

8 Reasons Menachem Creditor Is Wrong To Be ‘Done Apologizing’ for Israel

July 29, 2014 in Forward

State Department Highlights Actual Oppression Against Christians

July 28, 2014 in Daily Beast

Richard Linklater’s ‘Boyhood’ Captures the Spirit of the Time

July 24, 2014 in Forward

Dan Markel’s Meaningful Life Ends in Senseless Death

July 21, 2014 in Forward

The Kremlin’s Favorite Anti-Gay Hate Group is Coming to Utah

July 19, 2014 in Daily Beast

5 Ways To Turn Down the Social Media Flame

July 16, 2014 in Forward

What Did You Expect?

July 08, 2014 in Forward

Why Progressives Just Woke Up and Killed ENDA

July 08, 2014 in Daily Beast

The Christian Do-Gooders Secretly Attacking Gays

July 07, 2014 in Daily Beast

Ten Reasons Women Are Losing While Gays Keep Winning

July 06, 2014 in Daily Beast

Reb Zalman, the Prophet of Both-And

July 03, 2014 in Forward

Supreme Court’s Hobby Lobby decision puts faith in compromise

June 30, 2014 in Reuters

Gay Rights & Religious Freedom: Can We Find Common Ground?

June 30, 2014 in Moment

Why Hobby Lobby Will Be Bad for Conservatives

June 30, 2014 in Daily Beast

At the United Nations, It’s Human Rights, Putin-Style

June 26, 2014 in Daily Beast

Why I’m a Liberal — and I Hate the Nanny State

June 24, 2014 in Forward

Death of the Jewish Left

June 23, 2014 in Forward

How We Know the Bible Was Written by Human Hands

June 22, 2014 in Forward

How the LGBT Experience Will Transform the Practice of Mindfulness

June 17, 2014 in Huffington Post

Obama Takes Gay Rights Into His Own Hands

June 16, 2014 in Daily Beast

Right-Wing Activists: Yep, ‘Religious Freedom’ Protects Discrimination Against Jews

June 14, 2014 in Daily Beast

Southern Baptist Convention: Trans People Don’t Exist

June 12, 2014 in Daily Beast

Why Simon Greer Firing Means Much More Than Another Jill Abramson #Pushy Affair

June 11, 2014 in Forward

Eric Cantor Killed By Monster He Helped Create

June 11, 2014 in Forward

Include Me Out of This Jewish Community

June 10, 2014 in Forward

Homophobia in Russia Is Taking a Kafkaesque Turn

June 09, 2014 in Daily Beast

233 Reasons Why Bob Dylan Is Right To Detest His Fans

June 03, 2014 in Forward

The U.N.’s Next President Is a Gay-Hating Friend of Uganda’s Corrupt Dictator

June 03, 2014 in Daily Beast

Kirk Cameron Changes His Tune on Same-Sex Marriage

May 28, 2014 in Daily Beast

Were Christians Right About Gay Marriage All Along?

May 27, 2014 in Daily Beast

Why Do Jews Meditate? It’s All in the Worrying!

May 26, 2014 in Forward

I Am 1 Billionth ‘Anti-Semite’

May 20, 2014 in Forward

Pennsylvania. Oregon. Is Gay Marriage Unstoppable?

May 20, 2014 in Daily Beast

Americans Celebrating Our LGBT Victories Need To Be More Cognizant That Elsewhere, Repression Is Winning

May 17, 2014 in Daily Beast

Embracing the Irrationality of Circumcision and Kashrut

May 12, 2014 in Forward

Reb Zalman’s December Song

April 23, 2014 in Forward

Brunei Returns to the Stoning Age

April 22, 2014 in Daily Beast

The Hedonistic, Possibly Holocaust-Denying Sect That’s Hoodwinking Republican Congressmen

April 19, 2014 in Daily Beast

When Jesus Died at Auschwitz

April 17, 2014 in Forward

Lars Von Trier’s ‘Nymph()maniac’ Is Uncomfortable But Thought-Provoking

April 14, 2014 in Forward

4 Lessons for Jews From the Overland Park Rampage

April 14, 2014 in Forward

Why Abbas Was Right to Blink

April 08, 2014 in Forward

The Core Mormon Teaching the LDS Church Didn’t Jettison

April 07, 2014 in Daily Beast

The Year of Magical Thinking

April 05, 2014 in Forward

All The 2014 Haggadah Info You’ll Ever Need

April 03, 2014 in Forward

Delaware’s Affluenza Case Affects Justice, Too

April 01, 2014 in Daily Beast

Why Africa’s Turning Anti-Gay

March 31, 2014 in Daily Beast

For a Keystone XL Pipeline Grand Bargain

March 29, 2014 in Forward

Noah v. Kitschy Jesus: A Tale of Two Movies

March 27, 2014 in Religion Dispatches

Contraception Looks Like a Loser at the Supreme Court

March 25, 2014 in Daily Beast

Why corporations don’t deserve religious freedom

March 24, 2014 in Reuters

Bernie Madoff, Our Convenient Scapegoat

March 24, 2014 in Forward

Do Corporations Believe in God? The ‘Hobby Lobby’ Case Has the Answer

March 22, 2014 in Daily Beast

Fred Phelps, Friend of the Gays

March 20, 2014 in Daily Beast

Only One Way To Change Hillel: Leave

March 17, 2014 in Forward

How Anti-Gay Will Mississippi’s ‘New’ Religious Freedom Bill Be?

March 11, 2014 in Daily Beast

The Surprising Jewish Flavor of Hayao Miyazaki, King of Japanese Animation

March 06, 2014 in Forward

5 Reasons You Should Talk to BDS Supporters

March 04, 2014 in Forward

Hobby Lobby Discriminates in the Name of Religion With Help from Orthodox Outliers

March 03, 2014 in Forward

The Perils of Hope (Shma)

March 01, 2014 in Jewish Publications (other)

Why Some Freedom of Religion Claims Are Morally Bogus

February 27, 2014 in On Faith

Will Arizona Go the Anti-Gay Way of Uganda?

February 25, 2014 in Forward

Putin’s Post-Sochi LGBT Crackdown

February 24, 2014 in Daily Beast

Jesus’ Advice to the ‘Turn the Gays Away’ Crowd: Religious Liberty Does Not Mean Discrimination

February 24, 2014 in Huffington Post

Call It Sochifreude

February 19, 2014 in Forward

Why Woody Allen’s Thing for Younger Women Doesn’t Make Him a Pedophile

February 10, 2014 in Forward

Why Climate Change Denial Is Biggest Conservative Lie of All

February 08, 2014 in Forward

What’s More American Than Bob Dylan — and Super Bowl Car Ad?

February 04, 2014 in Forward

Why Jews Should Tune In to the Mindfulness Revolution

February 03, 2014 in Forward

Philip Glass Is Getting Older — for Better or Worse

February 01, 2014 in Forward

There’s a Good Reason for ‘Singling Out’ Israel

January 25, 2014 in Forward

Are Social Conservatives Finally Growing Up?

January 16, 2014 in Forward

Climate Change is a Sin—Here’s How to Repent For It

January 15, 2014 in Religion Dispatches

Judging Menachem Stark’s Jewish Life — Not Just His Death

January 06, 2014 in Forward

David Cooper, Father of BuJu

January 02, 2014 in Forward

Have We Reached the End of Traditional Religion?

December 31, 2013 in Forward

Obamacare ‘Pajama Boy’ Controversy Wrapped in Anti-Semitism

December 28, 2013 in Forward

Holiday Season Underlines Shifts in Judaism as Self-Definition Fades

December 24, 2013 in Forward

Adam Levine Is Sexy and Jewish. So What?

December 23, 2013 in Forward

How Should We Feel About the Pew Study of #JewishAmerica?

December 23, 2013 in Forward

Yes, Marina Abramović Is Selling Out—and That’s OK

December 18, 2013 in The Atlantic

In Pursuing Bob Dylan for Hate Speech, Croatian Group Denies Holocaust

December 05, 2013 in Forward

‘Hunger Games’ Is a Tea Party Dystopia

December 05, 2013 in Daily Beast

What Does the ASA Boycott Mean? They Don’t Know.

December 04, 2013 in Daily Beast

Bar Mitzvah Boy Talks Gay Marriage

December 02, 2013 in Forward

On Thanksgiving, Confronting Our Country’s Bitter Past of Slavery

November 27, 2013 in Forward

New Study: Three-Quarters of American Giving Goes to Religion

November 25, 2013 in Religion Dispatches

Seeking Harmony and Finding Transcendence at The Cloisters

November 15, 2013 in Forward

Will Mindfulness Change the World? Daniel Goleman Isn’t Sure

November 14, 2013 in Religion Dispatches

Occupy the Dharma: How Contemplative Practice Will Save the World

November 14, 2013 in Tikkun

The Shocking Scandal at the Heart of American Zen

November 14, 2013 in Daily Beast

Answer This Question: Why Be Jewish?

November 11, 2013 in Forward

George W. Bush Embraces Jews for Jesus

November 08, 2013 in Forward

Zen and the Art of the BuJu

November 08, 2013 in Forward

Meditation isn’t a “hippie indulgence”

November 03, 2013 in Salon

Lou Reed: The Artist in Leather

October 27, 2013 in Huffington Post

Beat Poet Finally Found What He Was Looking For

October 23, 2013 in Forward

Once Again, the Anti-Defamation League Defames

October 22, 2013 in Daily Beast

Meditation is Not Religion or Spirituality—It’s Technology

October 22, 2013 in Religion Dispatches

Was Goenka a Guru?

October 14, 2013 in Huffington Post

Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, Israel’s Pragmatic Kingmaker

October 08, 2013 in Daily Beast

Bagels Aren’t Enough

October 07, 2013 in Religion Dispatches

We’re Here, We’re Pro-Israel/Pro-Peace, We’re Used to It. Now What?

September 30, 2013 in Daily Beast

S.N. Goenka: The Man who Taught the World to Meditate

September 30, 2013 in Huffington Post

Can Catholic Church Thrive Without ‘Obsession’ on Gays and Abortion?

September 30, 2013 in Forward

Bob Dylan Rescues His Worst Album

September 18, 2013 in Forward

Kabbalah and Queer Theology: Resources & Reservations

September 09, 2013 in Theology & Sexuality Journal

Chelsea Manning’s Identity Crisis Is One Jews Should Relate To

September 04, 2013 in Forward

Lead-Footed Suburbanites vs. Park Slope Stroller Moms: A Modest Proposal

August 22, 2013 in Huffington Post

Meditation: Natural or Unnatural?

August 12, 2013 in Huffington Post

The Loophole in Russia’s Anti-Gay Law

August 07, 2013 in Huffington Post

Forgetting the Mideast Conflict Is Easy in Israel — and That’s a Big Problem

August 04, 2013 in Forward

Argle-Bargle: What Justice Scalia Still Doesn’t Get About Marriage

July 07, 2013 in Huffington Post

Mixed Blessing of Supreme Court’s Decisions on Gay Marriage and Voting Rights

June 27, 2013 in Forward

The Other Gay Rights Case: Why Today’s Obscure Supreme Court Decision Is More Important Than We Think

June 20, 2013 in Huffington Post

The Creeping Jewish Fundamentalism in Our Midst

May 27, 2013 in Forward

Jewish Lessons of Murder in Greenwich Village

May 20, 2013 in Forward

Mission Not Accomplished: The Anti-Gay Murder of Mark Carson Should Be a Wake-Up Call

May 19, 2013 in Huffington Post

Darkness Dancing: Why Peter Rauhofer Mattered

May 10, 2013 in Huffington Post

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

April 19, 2013 in Religion Dispatches

Confusing Israel’s Doves and Hawks

April 16, 2013 in Forward

Was Justin Bieber Right About Anne Frank?

April 15, 2013 in Forward

SCOTUS, civil religious court

April 04, 2013 in Salon

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

April 02, 2013 in Daily Beast

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

April 01, 2013 in LGBT Publications

Marriage Equality: A Civil Religious Moment

March 28, 2013 in Religion Dispatches

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

March 18, 2013 in Daily Beast

The Movement To Rebrand Discrimination as ‘Religious Freedom’

March 18, 2013 in Forward

Redefining Religious Liberty: The Covert Campaign Against Civil Rights

March 18, 2013 in Political Research Associates

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

March 14, 2013 in Forward

The Non-Essential(ist) Harry Hay

March 01, 2013 in Gay and Lesbian Review

Let’s Get Real: Wisdom 2.0 Wraps Up

February 25, 2013 in Tricycle

The Dharma is Out of Control

February 23, 2013 in Tricycle

Who’s Afraid of Wisdom?

February 22, 2013 in Tricycle

Wisdom 2.0 Opens With a Challenge

February 22, 2013 in Tricycle

The Wrong Way To Fight BDS

February 21, 2013 in Forward

Get Ready for Jewish iSpirituality

February 06, 2013 in Forward

Build on Gay Marriage Victories

January 08, 2013 in Forward

Watching as Israel’s Election Approaches

January 04, 2013 in Forward

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

January 02, 2013 in Religion Dispatches

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

December 18, 2012 in Religion Dispatches

Michaelson Answers Dershowitz

December 06, 2012 in Forward

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

December 02, 2012 in Religion Dispatches

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

December 01, 2012 in Daily Beast

Why I Supported The Palestine U.N. Vote

November 30, 2012 in Daily Beast

In Praise of New Age Judaism

November 20, 2012 in Forward

Who Wins This No-Win Situation?

November 19, 2012 in Daily Beast

What’s next for gay marriage: Conservatism

November 10, 2012 in Salon

Bad Night for the Jewish Echo Chamber

November 07, 2012 in Forward

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

November 06, 2012 in Huffington Post

A response to a stiff-necked playwright

November 05, 2012 in Jewish Publications (other)

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

November 03, 2012 in Daily Beast

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

October 31, 2012 in Huffington Post

Jewish Romney Voters Are Fig Leaf for Christian Right

October 24, 2012 in Forward

Obama Won by Talking Like a Republican

October 22, 2012 in Forward

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

October 18, 2012 in Daily Beast

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

October 17, 2012 in Daily Beast

Why Big Bird Matters

October 11, 2012 in Huffington Post

The Way I Was

October 08, 2012 in Forward

Bob Dylan’s Best and Worst Album Covers

October 02, 2012 in Forward

An Elegy for Brooklyn, in the Shadow of Barclays

October 02, 2012 in Huffington Post

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

September 26, 2012 in Huffington Post

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

September 26, 2012 in Huffington Post

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

September 20, 2012 in Daily Beast

Exploring the Edge Realms of Consciousness

September 18, 2012 in Anthologies

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

September 12, 2012 in Huffington Post

Beyond ‘Letting Go’

September 09, 2012 in Huffington Post

The Gospel According to Feuding Academics

September 05, 2012 in Forward

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

September 03, 2012 in Hadassah

Ecce Homo (Review)

September 01, 2012 in Gay and Lesbian Review

When Jesus Healed a Same-Sex Partner

August 07, 2012 in Huffington Post

When the Right Is Right About the Left

July 30, 2012 in Forward

Apocalypse Now and Then: Our Global Death Wish

July 28, 2012 in Religion Dispatches

Olympic Committee Opposes Memorial for Israeli Athletes Killed in Munich

July 20, 2012 in Religion Dispatches

Meditation is Very Relaxing, Says New York Times

June 20, 2012 in Religion Dispatches

Media Ignores Rash of Assaults on Transgender Women

June 06, 2012 in Daily Beast

DOMA Ruling Is Test for Conservative Federalists

May 31, 2012 in Daily Beast

Bible Codes a Lie That Won’t Die

May 31, 2012 in Forward

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

May 24, 2012 in Huffington Post

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

May 21, 2012 in Daily Beast

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

May 16, 2012 in Religion Dispatches

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

May 16, 2012 in Lambda Literary

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

May 09, 2012 in Huffington Post

Man in Search of God

May 08, 2012 in Forward

Could an African LGBT Activist Win the Nobel Peace Prize?

May 05, 2012 in Daily Beast

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

May 03, 2012 in Daily Beast

Is Dan Savage the Gay Santorum?

May 02, 2012 in Daily Beast

Israeli Conservative Movement Will Ordain Gay Rabbis

April 30, 2012 in Religion Dispatches

How is a “Spiritual Person” Supposed to Act?

April 19, 2012 in Reality Sandwich

Transgender, Scientologist, “Cult Hero”

April 19, 2012 in Religion Dispatches

‘Abomination’ is Hate Speech (Shma)

April 10, 2012 in Jewish Publications (other)

An Anthem for LGBT Youth

April 08, 2012 in Forward

Faeries in America

April 07, 2012 in Gay and Lesbian Review

Why Are American Jews So Liberal?

April 03, 2012 in Forward

J Street’s Blind Spot Is Class

April 01, 2012 in Forward

‘Tis the Season for New Haggadot

March 23, 2012 in Forward

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

March 20, 2012 in Daily Beast

An Act of LGBT Censorship in Seattle

March 20, 2012 in Forward

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

March 19, 2012 in Daily Beast

Jury Did the Right Thing in Ravi Case

March 16, 2012 in Daily Beast

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

March 12, 2012 in Huffington Post

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

March 12, 2012 in Newsweek

You Can’t Pray the Gay Away

February 24, 2012 in Forward

All Your Dead Mormons Are Belong To Us

February 23, 2012 in Religion Dispatches

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

February 23, 2012 in Huffington Post

Revealing the Jewish roots of the Christian Bible

February 13, 2012 in Jewish Publications (other)

Jewish Roots of the New Testament

February 12, 2012 in Forward

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

February 08, 2012 in Huffington Post

Why Climate Change is Bad for the Jews

February 07, 2012 in Zeek

Alleged Child Molesting Pastor Wrapped in Torah Scrolls

February 02, 2012 in Forward

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

January 30, 2012 in Forward

A Nobel Prize for LGBT Civil Rights?

January 26, 2012 in Religion Dispatches

The Polyamory Trap

January 26, 2012 in Salon

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

January 24, 2012 in Lambda Literary

In LGBT Debates, Discomfort Is Part of the Point

January 17, 2012 in Huffington Post

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

January 17, 2012 in 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

January 09, 2012 in Religion Dispatches

Fighting Back Against Fundamentalism

January 06, 2012 in Forward

Santorum’s Homophobia Problem

January 04, 2012 in Huffington Post

Why Does the Heckler Get a Veto?

December 20, 2011 in Forward

Matisyahu Shaves His Beard

December 13, 2011 in Religion Dispatches

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

December 10, 2011 in Religion Dispatches

Airport Security and Non-Self

November 30, 2011 in Huffington Post

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

November 30, 2011 in Religion Dispatches

Pinkwashing Is Not Black and White

November 29, 2011 in Forward

Who Would Jesus Bully?

November 25, 2011 in Religion Dispatches

The Gift of the Gay Rights Debate

November 14, 2011 in Tikkun

God, gay dichotomy must end

November 11, 2011 in Times Union

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

November 06, 2011 in Jerusalem Post

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

November 04, 2011 in Forward

Dispelling the Myth of God versus Gay

November 01, 2011 in USA Today Magazine

#Occupy: A Deeper Form of Protest?

October 28, 2011 in Religion Dispatches

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

October 27, 2011 in Religion Dispatches

The Religious Duty to Come Out

October 11, 2011 in Religion Dispatches

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

October 05, 2011 in Religion Dispatches

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

October 05, 2011 in Religion Dispatches

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

October 05, 2011 in Huffington Post

Getting Over the Judging God — A Yom Kippur Reflection

October 04, 2011 in Huffington Post

“Belief in God” is not a Jewish Value

September 30, 2011 in Moment

Does Religion Justify the Murder of Troy Davis?

September 21, 2011 in Religion Dispatches

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

September 14, 2011 in Lambda Literary

Don’t Call the Rabbi, Make Your Own Rituals

September 08, 2011 in Forward

Perils of the Day of Judgment

September 07, 2011 in Hadassah

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

September 01, 2011 in Religion Dispatches

Is Life But a Dream?

August 08, 2011 in Reality Sandwich

Why Liberals Should Be Outraged by the Tim DeChristopher Sentence

July 27, 2011 in Huffington Post

Integration isn’t Everything

July 15, 2011 in Reality Sandwich

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

July 14, 2011 in Religion Dispatches

‘Dendrophile’ by Justin Vivian Bond

July 04, 2011 in Lambda Literary

The Battle Beneath the Battle: Do Gay People Exist?

June 27, 2011 in Religion Dispatches

A Modest Proposal on Circumcision

June 27, 2011 in Forward

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

June 20, 2011 in Huffington Post

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

June 15, 2011 in Huffington Post

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

June 08, 2011 in Religion Dispatches

Tree of Life, Book of Job

June 01, 2011 in Religion Dispatches

Judaism 2030: Visions of a Jewish Tomorrow

May 25, 2011 in Zeek

Tornado Hits the Heartland: Is God Punishing Us?

May 23, 2011 in Religion Dispatches

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

May 22, 2011 in Huffington Post

The Mississippi Floods: Punishment From an Angry God?

May 18, 2011 in Forward

Boredom: A Gift for the Soul?

May 16, 2011 in Huffington Post

Prime Time for Eprhyme

May 02, 2011 in Forward

After Passover, The Exodus To True Spiritual Freedom Continues

April 25, 2011 in Huffington Post

Who are the Real Sodomites?

April 15, 2011 in Huffington Post

The Four Sons as Characters from Glee

April 12, 2011 in Forward

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

April 11, 2011 in Reality Sandwich

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

April 08, 2011 in Forward

Why is your Haggadah Different from Others?

April 05, 2011 in Forward

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

April 01, 2011 in Forward

Hysterical Heretical Hollywood Humanism: The Theology of The Adjustment Bureau

March 16, 2011 in Religion Dispatches

‘All is One’ in Traffic Jams

March 15, 2011 in Huffington Post

The Path to Enlightenment: Sometimes Assertion, Sometimes Surrender

March 03, 2011 in Huffington Post

“Coming to Life” by Joy Ladin

February 14, 2011 in Lambda Literary

The Tea Party are Sodomites

February 14, 2011 in Religion Dispatches

Gay and Orthodox: And Cleaving Strongly to Both

February 08, 2011 in Forward

Should Gays and Lesbians Argue Scripture? A Dialogue

January 18, 2011 in Religion Dispatches

Hasidism and “Nature”: Negation and Affirmation

January 17, 2011 in Zeek

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

January 14, 2011 in Forward

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

December 26, 2010 in Huffington Post

Geoengineering and Climate Management: From Marginality to Inevitablity

December 14, 2010 in Tulsa Law Review

Don’t Trust Your Gut

December 03, 2010 in Forward

Sex and Civilization: The Body as Battleground

November 18, 2010 in Religion Dispatches

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

November 16, 2010 in Huffington Post

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

November 08, 2010 in Religion Dispatches

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

November 02, 2010 in Huffington Post

Rethinking Egalitarianism

October 27, 2010 in Forward

Responding to Gay Suicides: What Teens Can Do

October 18, 2010 in Huffington Post

DIY: Fighting homophobic bullying in the Jewish world

October 15, 2010 in Jewish Publications (other)

Defining God Upward

October 01, 2010 in Hadassah

Story is the Peril of Service

October 01, 2010 in Zeek

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

September 27, 2010 in Huffington Post

Political Consequences of a Judging God: A Yom Kippur Reflection

September 17, 2010 in Religion Dispatches

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

September 09, 2010 in Zeek

Meditation and “Drugs”

September 07, 2010 in Reality Sandwich

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

September 07, 2010 in Forward

Why it’s good for Jews to Meditate

August 20, 2010 in Zeek

Gay Marriage and ‘Religious Freedom’

August 18, 2010 in Forward

The Anti-Defamation League Jumps the Shark

August 13, 2010 in Religion Dispatches

Simple Truths vs. Esoteric Ones

August 09, 2010 in Reality Sandwich

Values Added: Sex and the Bible

August 02, 2010 in Bloggingheads.tv

Are Corporations Evil?

July 28, 2010 in Forward

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

July 23, 2010 in Jewish Publications (other)

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

July 21, 2010 in Forward

Plovers vs. Crows: Cape Cod’s Moral Dilemma

July 20, 2010 in Mother Nature Network

Ten Reasons Gay Rights is a Religious Issue

July 15, 2010 in Tikkun

Does the Bible Really Call Homosexuality an “Abomination”?

July 01, 2010 in Religion Dispatches

Peoplehood vs. Israel

June 30, 2010 in Forward

Jewish LGBT leaders need to build a movement

June 29, 2010 in CNN

Chanukah in June

June 27, 2010 in Jewish Publications (other)

A Better Way to Believe in God

June 17, 2010 in Huffington Post

Spirituality and the Sanctification of the World

June 15, 2010 in Reality Sandwich

The Deep Truths are the Simple Ones

June 11, 2010 in Huffington Post

Religion within the Bounds of Reason..and Love

June 02, 2010 in Forward

Meditation on the Run

May 24, 2010 in Huffington Post

Jewish Enlightenment : Neo-Hasidism and Vedanta

May 23, 2010 in Zeek

Memento Mori: Jewish Spirituality and the Sanctification of the World

May 19, 2010 in Forward

Nonduality in Buddhism and Judaism

May 03, 2010 in Reality Sandwich

The Nonduality Dialogues

May 03, 2010 in Zeek

What Religious Arguments Are Really About

April 21, 2010 in Forward

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

April 02, 2010 in Huffington Post

Why Is This Night Different? Who’s Asking?

March 17, 2010 in Forward

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

March 10, 2010 in Forward

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

March 04, 2010 in Huffington Post

28 Days, 28 Ideas #27: Spiritual Birthright

February 27, 2010 in Jewish Publications (other)

Call Their Bluff: The Case for Letting Republicans Filibuster

February 22, 2010 in Huffington Post

Un-Righteous Indignation: Anger Management–Kosher Style

February 21, 2010 in Forward

Are People Good At Heart?

February 21, 2010 in Huffington Post

The Gifts of Difference

February 16, 2010 in Jewish Publications (other)

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

February 03, 2010 in Huffington Post

An Introduction to Kabbalah Part 7: Use Your Illusion

January 28, 2010 in Huffington Post

LGBTs are in All of Israel — Not Just Tel Aviv

January 15, 2010 in Hadassah

Taking Avatar Seriously: Environmentalisms, Spiritual and Practical

January 13, 2010 in Forward

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

January 01, 2010 in Jewish Publications (other)

The Myth of Authenticity

December 23, 2009 in Forward

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

December 22, 2009 in Huffington Post

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

December 21, 2009 in Huffington Post

‘Religion Is Actually Spirituality’: An Exchange

December 17, 2009 in Forward

Impermanence

December 11, 2009 in Zeek

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

December 09, 2009 in Huffington Post

Vedanta and Kabbalah: Nonduality East and West

December 08, 2009 in Reality Sandwich

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

November 18, 2009 in Forward

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 15, 2009 in Huffington Post

Spirituality and States: Getting Beyond the Good Stuff

November 10, 2009 in Reality Sandwich

Silence is golden — and green

November 09, 2009 in Mother Nature Network

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

November 06, 2009 in Huffington Post

Prayer and Nonduality

November 01, 2009 in Tikkun

Beyond Oneness

November 01, 2009 in Zeek

On Fire with Love and Ecstasy

November 01, 2009 in Moment

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

October 29, 2009 in Huffington Post

Religion is Actually Spirituality

October 28, 2009 in Forward

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

October 22, 2009 in Huffington Post

Love is Not Blindness

October 21, 2009 in Forward

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

October 15, 2009 in Huffington Post

The Gay Generation Gap: Reflections on the National Equality March

October 11, 2009 in Huffington Post

Fetishizing the Trigger

October 08, 2009 in Reality Sandwich

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

October 01, 2009 in Tikkun

Will Spirituality Ever Be Serious?

September 29, 2009 in Huffington Post

How I’m Losing My Love for Israel

September 18, 2009 in Forward

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

September 11, 2009 in Huffington Post

The Jhanas: Meditative Absorptions

September 11, 2009 in Reality Sandwich

Ephryme: Engaged Hip Hop Jew

September 11, 2009 in Forward

The Truth About Burning Man

September 08, 2009 in Huffington Post

Gedaliah in the Eye of the Beholder

September 01, 2009 in Hadassah

In Defense of Spiritual Vulgarity

August 27, 2009 in Zeek

Is Guilt a Good Thing?

August 24, 2009 in Huffington Post

A ‘New Jew’ Goes to Auschwitz

August 14, 2009 in Forward

A Missing Culprit, but Culpability All Around

August 14, 2009 in Forward

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

August 10, 2009 in Huffington Post

The Emptiness of Anger

July 27, 2009 in Huffington Post

Free Will: The Last Gasp of the Unenlightened Mind

July 20, 2009 in Reality Sandwich

Eat Your Way to Enlightenment

July 14, 2009 in Huffington Post

Allowing the Yetzer Tov to Win

July 10, 2009 in Forward

How a Dog Taught me the Dharma

July 08, 2009 in Huffington Post

Monotheism and the Spirits of Nature

July 02, 2009 in Zeek

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

June 23, 2009 in Huffington Post

G-dcast: Parshat Shelach Lecha

June 17, 2009 in Jewish Publications (other)

The Body of Being

June 12, 2009 in Reality Sandwich

The Messy Yard of Tomorrow?

June 09, 2009 in Mother Nature Network

The One Secret to Making the Most of Unwanted Downtime

June 08, 2009 in Huffington Post

Pure Politics: The Koh Nomination Fight Drags On

June 03, 2009 in Huffington Post

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

June 03, 2009 in Forward

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

June 01, 2009 in Anthologies

The Lame Duck in Israel

May 29, 2009 in Jewcy

Why It Matters that Adam Lambert is (Probably) Gay

May 20, 2009 in Huffington Post

Rethinking Jewish Spirituality

May 20, 2009 in Zeek

What It’s Like to Spend Five Months in Silence

May 18, 2009 in Huffington Post

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

May 04, 2009 in Huffington Post

Do Jews Have a Jesus Problem?

April 29, 2009 in Forward

Peoples of the Blog

April 23, 2009 in Zeek

Susan Boyle, Gay Marriage, and Not Trusting Your Gut

April 20, 2009 in Huffington Post

The Attraction of Irrelevance: Tazria/Metzora

April 20, 2009 in Forward

Shifting from Myth to Function

April 15, 2009 in Forward

Freedom from the Slavery of Passover Seders

April 11, 2009 in Forward

Liberation from Passover

April 10, 2009 in Torah Queeries

Sun Rises on Ancient Ritual

April 07, 2009 in Mother Nature Network

What is the Real World, Anyway

April 06, 2009 in Huffington Post

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

March 28, 2009 in Huffington Post

The Trouble with Business

March 27, 2009 in Zeek

Transformation of Consciousness as Messianic Age: A Kabbalistic View

March 20, 2009 in Reality Sandwich

It’s a Purim World Out There

March 13, 2009 in Forward

The Dream of the Magician

March 06, 2009 in Zeek

The Blues, Prayer, and Unrequited Love

February 27, 2009 in Reality Sandwich

A Jewish Perspective on the Jhanas, part 2

February 05, 2009 in Zeek

Environmentalism: Good for the Jews

February 05, 2009 in Forward

Sick Enough for Spirituality

January 30, 2009 in Reality Sandwich

A Jewish Perspective on the Jhanas, part 1

January 29, 2009 in Zeek

One Who Speaks Does Not Know

January 09, 2009 in Forward

Is Life but a Dream

December 22, 2008 in Zeek

The Gifts of Boredom

December 15, 2008 in Reality Sandwich

Seven ideas suggested by empty air

December 15, 2008 in Literary Journals

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

December 11, 2008 in Forward

Foreign Thoughts

December 01, 2008 in Literary Journals

Why Ramakrishna Matters

November 28, 2008 in Zeek

Spirituality as Satanism

November 24, 2008 in Zeek

Intentional Sexuality: Possibilities and Perils

November 19, 2008 in Reality Sandwich

Poets of the Desert and the Sea

November 07, 2008 in Forward

for the apocalypse will be infinitely silent

November 01, 2008 in Anthologies

Too Much Fun

October 13, 2008 in Reality Sandwich

Answers in the Seekers’ Language

September 19, 2008 in Forward

Chaos, Law, and God: The Religious Meanings of Homosexuality

September 16, 2008 in Michigan Journal of Gender & Law

God of Judgment, God of Love

September 12, 2008 in Forward

Stop Seeking: Paradoxes of the Spiritual Path

September 09, 2008 in Reality Sandwich

What is the Connection between Monogamy and Monotheism

September 05, 2008 in Maariv

Against Integration

August 15, 2008 in Zeek

Seven Ideas Suggested by Empty Air

August 15, 2008 in Literary Journals

God and Pain

August 04, 2008 in Maariv

The Israeli-American Prime Minister Bids Farewell

July 30, 2008 in Jewcy

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

July 29, 2008 in Reality Sandwich

In Defense of the Western Wall

July 17, 2008 in Forward

Monogamy and Monotheism

June 30, 2008 in Zeek

Fresh Baked Bread

June 27, 2008 in Reality Sandwich

Are there any Jews in Narnia?

June 23, 2008 in Jewcy

Embracing Even the Hatred: A Personal Dharma Journey

June 03, 2008 in Reality Sandwich

Is Environmentalism a Jewish Issue?

June 01, 2008 in Jewish Publications (other)

Where the Light Gets in: The Crucible of Summer Camp

May 22, 2008 in Forward

The Gods of Drowning

May 21, 2008 in Jewcy

Intentional Sexuality: Possibilities and Perils

May 19, 2008 in Literary Journals

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

May 01, 2008 in Jewcy

Jewish Intelligent Design Proponents are Jewish Uncle Toms

April 20, 2008 in Jewcy

Getting Serious About Love

April 17, 2008 in Forward

Peoplehood: There’s no there, there

April 16, 2008 in Forward

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

April 15, 2008 in Jewcy

God as a Mask of Pain (Hebrew)

April 04, 2008 in Maariv

Sick Enough for Religion

April 01, 2008 in Zeek

Mixing Heresy and High Fashion

March 31, 2008 in Jewcy

Polytheism and Nonduality

March 21, 2008 in Reality Sandwich

Sexual Hypocrisy is Not a Jewish Value

March 19, 2008 in Jewcy

The Virtues of the Unaffiliated

March 19, 2008 in Forward

Chilluf Chomrim (Hebrew)

March 18, 2008 in Maariv

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

March 12, 2008 in Forward

The Blues, Prayer, and Unrequited Love

March 01, 2008 in Zeek

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

February 28, 2008 in Forward

Is ‘Cassandra’s Dream’ about Soon Yi?

February 14, 2008 in Jewcy

Why Obama is Good for Israel

February 01, 2008 in Jewish Publications (other)

Polytheism and Nonduality

February 01, 2008 in Zeek

Hot is the New Cool (Shma)

February 01, 2008 in Jewish Publications (other)

People Of the Chapbook: Jewish Poets as Jewish Teachers

January 23, 2008 in Forward

Ayahuasca and Kabbalah

January 15, 2008 in Reality Sandwich

New Psychedelics Are Transforming the Future of Spirituality

January 07, 2008 in Jewcy

A Balancing Meditation: Hesed, Gevurah, Tiferet (BeliefNet)

January 01, 2008 in Jewish Publications (other)

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

December 24, 2007 in Forward

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

December 19, 2007 in Forward

It’s the Deep Structure, Stupid

December 01, 2007 in Zeek

As Winter Falls, a Time To Learn From the Orthodox

November 28, 2007 in Forward

The Witch of Endor

November 01, 2007 in Jewish Publications (other)

A BuJu Responds to Sam Harris

November 01, 2007 in Zeek

Memo to Michael Steinhardt: Duh

October 17, 2007 in Forward

Christopher Hitchens’ Straw Gods

October 15, 2007 in Hadassah

Sometimes God Just Wants to Dance

October 05, 2007 in Jewish Publications (other)

Seasons Going North

October 01, 2007 in Jewish Publications (other)

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

September 26, 2007 in Forward

Yom Kippur: A Personal Journey

September 12, 2007 in Forward

How Not To Believe in God

September 01, 2007 in Jewish Publications (other)

Anan Ben-David

September 01, 2007 in Jewish Publications (other)

The Gifts of Boredom

September 01, 2007 in Zeek

Jewish Hipster Cool is Dead (Shma)

September 01, 2007 in Jewish Publications (other)

Conservative Judaism at a Crossroads

August 29, 2007 in Forward

Entering the Gate of Sadness

August 01, 2007 in Zeek

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

July 18, 2007 in Forward

Portrait of the Artist as a Nice Jewish Boy

July 10, 2007 in Forward

Apocalypse Now: Climate Change and Israel

July 03, 2007 in Jewish Publications (other)

Free Will: The Last Gasp of the Unenlightened Mind

July 01, 2007 in Zeek

Joseph Rabinovitch

July 01, 2007 in Jewish Publications (other)

The People’s Bible

June 19, 2007 in Forward

Fasting from a Functional Perspective

June 01, 2007 in Jewish Publications (other)

Why I Study Sabbateanism

June 01, 2007 in Zeek

Shrine of False Messiah in Turkey May Be Razed

May 18, 2007 in Forward

Judaism and the Culture of Outburst

May 11, 2007 in Forward

No Crystals Needed: Why Meditation is Not Spirituality

May 04, 2007 in Forward

Fantasy and Totalitarianism: On Ministering to Special Cases

May 01, 2007 in Zeek

Baruch Spinoza

May 01, 2007 in Jewish Publications (other)

The Other Disappeared

April 27, 2007 in Forward

Leonard Cohen: Poet of the Holy Sinners

April 20, 2007 in Forward

Getting Serious About a Religion of Love

April 01, 2007 in Zeek

Take Back the (Seder) Night

March 30, 2007 in Forward

Boston Rabbinical Program Challenges Denominational Boundaries

March 16, 2007 in Forward

Conservative Judaism: Good for the Gays?

March 01, 2007 in Tikkun

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

March 01, 2007 in Zeek

Jacob Frank

March 01, 2007 in Jewish Publications (other)

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

February 09, 2007 in Forward

Spiritual Pioneers See a Different Shade Of Judaism: Green

February 02, 2007 in Forward

Stop Seeking: Paradoxes of the Spiritual Path

February 01, 2007 in Zeek

Into Life: On Parshat Va’era

January 20, 2007 in Torah Queeries

The Graphic (Novel) Side of Israel

January 19, 2007 in Forward

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

January 01, 2007 in Literary Journals

Sabbetai Tzvi

January 01, 2007 in Jewish Publications (other)

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

January 01, 2007 in Zeek

Renewing Ecstatic Spirituality to the Beat of a Drum

December 29, 2006 in Forward

Shortbus: Best Gay Movie Ever (White Crane)

December 21, 2006 in LGBT Publications

Gay History in the Making, I Guess

December 07, 2006 in Jewish Publications (other)

Religion and Insanity

December 01, 2006 in Zeek

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

November 24, 2006 in Forward

In Jerusalem, Fundamentalism on the March

November 17, 2006 in Forward

Two Lawyers, Three Opinions

November 03, 2006 in Forward

Kashrut and Nonduality

November 01, 2006 in Zeek

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

October 30, 2006 in Jewish Publications (other)

Old Labels Feel Stiff for ‘Flexidox’

October 13, 2006 in Forward

Brit Hitvada’ut: A Coming Out Ceremony

October 11, 2006 in Jewish Publications (other)

Dylan’s Religious Revival: Modern Times and the Timeless

October 06, 2006 in Forward

Yom Kippur and Nonduality

October 01, 2006 in Zeek

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

September 29, 2006 in Forward

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

August 04, 2006 in Forward

Achieving the Ordinary (Review of Lev Raphael) (JBooks)

August 01, 2006 in Jewish Publications (other)

Spirituality in a Time of Seriousness

August 01, 2006 in Zeek

A Less Innocent Love: On Parshat Va’etchanan

August 01, 2006 in Torah Queeries

Homelands of the Heart

July 04, 2006 in Jerusalem Post

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

July 01, 2006 in Zeek

Fear of Fun

June 01, 2006 in Zeek

Exploring the New Jewish Spiritualities

May 12, 2006 in Forward

The Jewish Goddess: Past and Present

May 05, 2006 in Forward

Shabbat and Meditation: Just Be It

May 01, 2006 in Jewish Publications (other)

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

April 28, 2006 in Torah Queeries

The Freedom of Being

April 01, 2006 in Zeek

Book of Esther gets Novel Makeover

March 10, 2006 in Forward

A Jew and a lawyer are sitting in a bar…

March 03, 2006 in Forward

Flakes- Why ‘spiritual’ people are often so unreliable

March 01, 2006 in Zeek

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

February 03, 2006 in Forward

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

February 01, 2006 in Zeek

The Unity of Opposites

January 27, 2006 in Forward

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

January 20, 2006 in Forward

Christmas in Jerusalem: Zionism, Ordinariness, and the Situation

January 01, 2006 in Zeek

Holy Feast, Holy Fast Food, Judaism and Righteous Ambivalence

December 23, 2005 in Forward

Jewish Paganism: Oxymoron or Innovation?

December 09, 2005 in Forward

Hitler and God: The Perils of Pantheism

December 01, 2005 in Zeek

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

December 01, 2005 in Journal of Law in Society

Disabuse Community of Intolerance

November 11, 2005 in Forward

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

November 01, 2005 in Zeek

Fragments of a Lost Jewish World

October 28, 2005 in Forward

Sukkot: From humble to inspired

October 14, 2005 in Forward

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

October 11, 2005 in Jerusalem Post

Is happiness worth losing your memory?

October 04, 2005 in Slate

A Presence in the Wood

October 01, 2005 in Jewish Publications (other)

Priests by Birth: The Strange Essentialism of Adin Steinsaltz’s We Jews (JBooks)

October 01, 2005 in Jewish Publications (other)

Kabbalah: The Whistle Stop Tour (JBooks)

October 01, 2005 in Jewish Publications (other)

Fetishizing the Trigger: How spirituality turns to fundamentalism

October 01, 2005 in Zeek

A Little off the Top: The Controversy About Circumcision

September 02, 2005 in Forward

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

September 01, 2005 in Zeek

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

July 22, 2005 in Forward

Male and Female Created He Them

July 01, 2005 in Forward

Judaism, Meditation, and the B-Word

June 10, 2005 in Forward

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

June 01, 2005 in Zeek

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

June 01, 2005 in Zeek

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

May 13, 2005 in Forward

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

May 13, 2005 in Forward

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

May 01, 2005 in Zeek

Hedgehogs, foxes, and dilettantes

April 01, 2005 in Zeek

Eating Meditation for Passover

April 01, 2005 in Jewish Publications (other)

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

March 01, 2005 in Zeek

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

February 04, 2005 in Forward

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

February 01, 2005 in Zeek

The Knowing: A mystical poem

January 01, 2005 in Zeek

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

December 01, 2004 in Zeek

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

November 26, 2004 in Forward

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

November 19, 2004 in Forward

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

November 05, 2004 in Forward

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

November 05, 2004 in Zeek

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

October 22, 2004 in Forward

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

October 01, 2004 in Zeek

Mystery Sells: What the Kabbalah Centre Actually Teaches

September 03, 2004 in Forward

How can you be gay and Jewish?

September 01, 2004 in Zeek

The Spiritual Foundations of Bushism

August 01, 2004 in Zeek

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

July 16, 2004 in Forward

Hasidism and Homoeroticism

July 01, 2004 in Zeek

Lecha Dodi

June 21, 2004 in Jewish Publications (other)

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

June 11, 2004 in Forward

How I Finally Learned to Accept Christ in My Heart

June 01, 2004 in Zeek

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

May 14, 2004 in Forward

Secrets of the Rebbetzin

May 14, 2004 in Forward

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

May 07, 2004 in Forward

Wrestling with Steve Greenberg

May 01, 2004 in Zeek

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

April 30, 2004 in Forward

Practicing What He Preaches, Reggae Singer Reveals His Soul

April 09, 2004 in Forward

Life During Wartime, or, Freedom and the Ordinary

April 01, 2004 in Zeek

Revealing Ourselves Through Our Masks

March 05, 2004 in Forward

Passion and Violence

March 01, 2004 in Zeek

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

February 27, 2004 in Forward

You are God in Drag: Notes from and after retreat

February 01, 2004 in Zeek

A Watershed Year for Gays of Faith

January 02, 2004 in Forward

Thinking despite Doubt and Feeling despite Truth

January 01, 2004 in Zeek

A Festival of Rebellion Reminds Us What Matters Most

December 19, 2003 in Forward

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

November 14, 2003 in Forward

Energy

November 01, 2003 in Zeek

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

October 17, 2003 in Zeek

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

September 26, 2003 in Forward

What is Burning Man?

September 01, 2003 in Zeek

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

August 29, 2003 in Forward

The Queer Guy at the Strip Club

August 01, 2003 in Zeek

An Orthodox Poet tackles God and Sex

June 20, 2003 in Forward

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

April 01, 2000 in Duke Law Journal

Geoengineering: A Climate Change Manhattan Project

January 01, 1998 in Stanford Environmental Law Journal

Rethinking Regulatory Reform: Toxics, Politics, and Ethics

May 01, 1996 in Yale Law Journal

Jay Michaelson is a writer working in two fields — as a columnist on law and religion, and a writer/teacher of contemplative practice.

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