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November 18, 2019 |

Enlightenment by Trial and Error: Dan Harris and Jay Michaelson at the Rubin Museum of Art

Dan Harris interviews Jay about his new book Enlightenment by Trial and Error.

November 18, 2019 |

Unorthodox Podcast: Jay Michaelson and Liel Leibovitz on Spirituality and Politics

Two spiritually-interested spiritual Jews: one conservative, one liberal. What's at the root of their disagreement?

September 12, 2019 |

Wholehearted Podcast: Slow Down, Help Out, Wake Up

Koshin Paley Ellison, Jay Michaelson, and Jessica Morey come together to share stories of awakening through authentic relationship with others.

September 4, 2019 |

Engineering Enlightenment? Mindfulness in a Transhuman Future

Buddhism has been reformed and secularized for over 120 years. What happens when the brain can be modified directly to emulate the highest states of liberation?

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August 21, 2019 |

Guided Meditation: Happiness for Grumpy People

You can be deeply happy and a grumpy, cynical person at the same time. This three-minute meditation shows you how

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October 29, 2018 |

Does Donald Trump Bear Responsibility for Pittsburgh?

CNN's Out Front, with Jake Tapper, discusses the aftermath of the Pittsburgh massacre.

October 11, 2018 |

What will Brett Kavanaugh’s SCOTUS confirmation mean for the environment?

Jay Michaelson talks with WBAI's TrumpWatch program about Justice Brett Kavanaugh and the environment.

May 14, 2018 |

Understanding the Gaza-Israel Border Violence

Palestinian leaders called for a "day of rage" over Trump's new embassy in Jerusalem. Jay Michaelson reports on the violent protests happening at the Gaza border.

Palestinian leaders called for a "day of rage" over Trump's new embassy in Jerusalem. Jay Michaelson reports on the violent protests happening at the Gaza border.

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April 27, 2018 |

Meditation, Buddhism, and Toxic Masculinity

At this March, 2018, talk at Smith College, Prof. Michaelson discusses the ways in which the dharma can reduce and increase toxic masculinity.

April 9, 2018 |

Fusion.net: Religious Freedom Legislation Is Really Anti LGBT

Jay Michaelson and Saeed Jones talk to Fusion.net about the real motivations behind "religious freedom" laws.

April 5, 2018 |

Is EPA Chief Scott Pruitt “Too Corrupt to Fire”? | MSNBC

Jay Michaelson joins MSNBC's Katy Tur to discuss the scandals plaguing the EPA administrator.

April 1, 2018 |

Coming Out of the Casket

Jay joins Myq Kaplan for a wide-ranging chat about heresy, neurosis, and lots of other things.

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March 17, 2018 |

Prosecutorial Misconduct: The Hidden Driver of Mass Incarceration

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March 7, 2018 |

Judaism and Evolving Dharma

Jay joins the Judaism Unbound podcast for a discussion of 21st century Judaism in an era of multicultural exchange.

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February 22, 2018 |

Water Has No Need of Opposites

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November 8, 2017 |

Anger, activism, and responsibility | Lama Surya Das and Jay Michaelson

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November 3, 2017 |

Bloggingheads: How the Bible’s Sex-Positive Values Were Lost

On this episode of Bloggingheads.tv, author-scholars David Carr and Jay Michaelson discuss some of the Bible's repressed sex-positive messages, and how they were turned into sex-negative ones

October 18, 2017 |

Xenophobia and Antisemitism in the Age of Donald Trump | SUNY New Paltz

Dr. Michaelson reviews the data on increased xenophobia in the Trump era, and calls for a richer understanding of antisemitism and its relationship to nationalist populism.  [Click here to watch]

October 8, 2017 |

Guided Meditation for Pessimists | 10% Happier

It all comes down to this.

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July 6, 2017 |

Spiritual Practice and Political Activism in the Age of Fake News

In this talk from 2017, Jay offers a few principles for integrating our spiritual development with real, practical, messy, and painful political engagement.

June 26, 2017 |

SCOTUS Puts Travel Ban on Life Support | MSNBC

Jay Michaelson discusses the Trump travel ban on the Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell [Click here to watch]

June 12, 2017 |

Engineering Enlightenment: Next-Generation Mindfulness in a Transhuman Future

Woodenfish Forum: "Buddhism and New Technology," Shanghai, China; June 12, 2017

May 12, 2017 | ,

Retreat or Resist? Dharma Practice in the Age of Trump

This talk was given by Rabbi Dr. Jay Michaelson on May 2, 2017, at the Mindful Reflection Community of Unity Temple in Oak Park, Chicago.

May 7, 2017 |

Religious Liberty and LGBT Equality at the Supreme Court | NPR

Jay is interviewed on public radio's State of Belief show.

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May 4, 2017 |

Queering Jewish Theology

Rabbi Dr. Jay Michaelson delivers the 2017 Gilberto Castaneda lecture, "Queering Jewish Theology," at Chicago Theological Seminary.

April 3, 2017 |

Making the Shadow Your Teacher | Tricycle

In this dharma talk hosted on Tricycle, Jay explores how true happiness can emerge, paradoxically, from accepting sadness.  [Click here to watch]

February 8, 2017 |

Religious Liberty, Civil Rights, And Public Policy | Pitt Law School

Dr. Jay Michaelson and Prof. Ira Karoll debate liberal vs. conservative understandings of religious liberty.

January 19, 2017 |

Lama Surya Das: Awakening Now

Episode 37: Lama Surya Das has on Jay Michaelson to talk about anger, activism, and our responsibility to others.

January 1, 2017 |

Mystic-Skeptic Podcast: Buddhism and Judaism, A Comparison, Part 1

Jay joins David Daniel Gonzalez to discuss the relationship between American Jews and Buddhism, and what different spiritualities have in common.

December 23, 2016 |

Sixty-Second Sermon: The Reason for the Season

In this Sixty-Second Sermon Rabbi Jay Michaelson reflects on how a calendar quirk helps remind us of what’s most valuable about the holidays.

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