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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

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 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

‘Religious Freedom’ Not to Serve Jews?

June 14, 2014 in Yahoo News

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

April 01, 2013 in Advocate

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

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 Journal

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

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

April 10, 2012 in Shma

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 Haaretz

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 Quarterly

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

Taking Avatar Seriously: Environmentalisms, Spiritual and Practical

January 13, 2010 in Forward

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

January 01, 2010 in JBooks

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

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A Missing Culprit, but Culpability All Around

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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

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Free Will: The Last Gasp of the Unenlightened Mind

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How a Dog Taught me the Dharma

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Monotheism and the Spirits of Nature

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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 Best Gay Poetry 2008

Why Ramakrishna Matters

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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

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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

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Seven Ideas Suggested by Empty Air

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The Israeli-American Prime Minister Bids Farewell

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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

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June 23, 2008 in Jewcy

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June 03, 2008 in Reality Sandwich

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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

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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’?

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February 01, 2008 in Zeek

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)

January 01, 2008 in BeliefNet

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

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It’s the Deep Structure, Stupid

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As Winter Falls, a Time To Learn From the Orthodox

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The Witch of Endor

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

September 26, 2007 in Forward

Yom Kippur: A Personal Journey

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Jewish Hipster Cool is Dead

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How Not To Believe in God

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Conservative Judaism at a Crossroads

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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)

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Portrait of the Artist as a Nice Jewish Boy

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Free Will: The Last Gasp of the Unenlightened Mind

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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

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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?

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

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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

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The Graphic (Novel) Side of Israel

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

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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

December 21, 2006 in White Crane

Gay History in the Making, I Guess

December 07, 2006 in MyJewishLearning.com

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

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Old Labels Feel Stiff for ‘Flexidox’

October 13, 2006 in Forward

Brit Hitvada’ut: A Coming Out Ceremony

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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

Spirituality in a Time of Seriousness

August 01, 2006 in Zeek

Achieving the Ordinary (Review of Lev Raphael)

August 01, 2006 in JBooks

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 MyJewishLearning.com

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)

Fetishizing the Trigger: How spirituality turns to fundamentalism

October 01, 2005 in Zeek

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

October 01, 2005 in JBooks

Kabbalah: The Whistle Stop Tour

October 01, 2005 in JBooks

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

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Geoengineering: A Climate Change Manhattan Project

January 01, 1998 in Stanford Environmental Law Journal

Rethinking Regulatory Reform: Toxics, Politics, and Ethics

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