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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

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

November 15, 2012 in State of Belief

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 Sh'ma

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

“Queering Kabbalistic Gender Play” in Queer Religion

December 13, 2011 in Queer Religion

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

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 G-dcast

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 The Passionate Torah: Sex and Judaism

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

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

December 11, 2008 in Forward

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

December 01, 2008 in Michigan Journal of Gender & Law

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 Signs of the Apocalypse: Rapture

Too Much Fun

October 13, 2008 in Reality Sandwich

Answers in the Seekers’ Language

September 19, 2008 in Forward

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 World Jewish Digest

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

Hot is the New Cool

February 01, 2008 in Shma

Polytheism and Nonduality

February 01, 2008 in Zeek

Why Obama is Good for Israel

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)

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

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

A BuJu Responds to Sam Harris

November 01, 2007 in Zeek

The Witch of Endor

November 01, 2007 in American Jewish Life

Memo to Michael Steinhardt: Duh

October 17, 2007 in Forward

Sometimes God Just Wants to Dance

October 05, 2007 in Jewish publications (other)

Seasons Going North

October 01, 2007 in Ein Shemesh

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

Jewish Hipster Cool is Dead

September 01, 2007 in Shma

How Not To Believe in God

September 01, 2007 in World Jewish Digest

Anan Ben-David

September 01, 2007 in American Jewish Life

The Gifts of Boredom

September 01, 2007 in Zeek

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 01, 2007 in American Jewish Life

Joseph Rabinovitch

July 01, 2007 in American Jewish Life

Free Will: The Last Gasp of the Unenlightened Mind

July 01, 2007 in Zeek

The People’s Bible

June 19, 2007 in Forward

Fasting from a Functional Perspective

June 01, 2007 in MyJewishLearning.com

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

Baruch Spinoza

May 01, 2007 in American Jewish Life

Fantasy and Totalitarianism: On Ministering to Special Cases

May 01, 2007 in Zeek

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

Jacob Frank

March 01, 2007 in American Jewish Life

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

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 American Jewish Life

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

October 30, 2006 in MyJewishLearning.com

Old Labels Feel Stiff for ‘Flexidox’

October 13, 2006 in Forward

Brit Hitvada’ut: A Coming Out Ceremony

October 11, 2006 in Human Rights Campaign

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

Doubt as Dharma

January 01, 2006 in White Crane

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

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