Jay Michaelson
National News
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- Yuri Foreman: Future Rabbi, Present World Champion
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Community News
- Hasidic Village’s Neighbors Have Slaughterhouse Blues
- Former Agriprocessors CEO Rubashkin Sent to Prison
- Sy Syms, Retail Magnate and Y.U. Benefactor, Dies at 83
International News
- Funding for Overseas Jews In Disarray as Agencies Duel
- Perfect Storm: Wide Gaps, Weak Leaders, Elusive Peace
- The Life, Death and Judaica of a Russian Oligarch
Israel News
- Ethiopian Jews Celebrate a Festival, Gain Israeli Attention for Their Traditions
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- Amid Growing Crisis, U.S. Asks Israel for Action To Boost Abbas
Arts & Culture
- Darwin and Gods — for Kids
- Pannonica
- Magen Tzedek: Model of the Jewish Future or Show Without an Audience?
- Mahmoud Darwish: If He Were Another
- Internet: The Hatred Super-Highway
- How, Why, Who Hates Us
Fast Forward
- Building Identity Through Art
- An Honest Marriage of Vermont and Judaism
- Where ‘Love’ First Appears
- Dirty Sayings Never Get Old
- Two-Way Giving
- Schmutz Sandwich Anyone?
The Shmooze
- A New Yad for the Bar-Mitzvah Set
- Vienna Event Misplaces the ‘Hatikvah’
- Costco Gets Into the Torah Business
- Sir Ian Knows What It’s Like
- Prestigious Award for Israeli Choreographer
- MacFarlane’s Not-So-Funny Jew Joke
Forward Forum
- An American Yom Tov
- Trying Terrorists
- The Wages of Liberal Guilt
- A Time for Counting
- Freezing Progess, Not Settlements
- Missing the Abu Mazen Opportunity
Editorial
Magen Tzedek: Model of the Jewish Future or Show Without an Audience?
By Jay Michaelson
Religion is Actually Spirituality
By Jay Michaelson
Love Is Not Blindness
By Jay Michaelson
Since the publication of “How I’m Losing My Love for Israel,” a personal essay describing my fatigue as a liberal Zionist, the most disturbing responses have not been the vitriolic e-mails or online comments, nor the thoughtful and well-reasoned replies from the likes of Daniel Gordis and Jonathan Sarna. Rather, I have been most troubled by the statements of many Jewish professionals — rabbis, federation leaders, nonprofit directors — who have told me, “Thank you for saying what I cannot.”Read More
How I’m Losing My Love For Israel
By Jay Michaelson
Eprhyme — Engaged and Diverse Hip Hop Jew
By Jay Michaelson
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- Answers in the Seekers’ Language
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- Where the Light Gets In
- Behind a Veil of Words
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- Peoplehood: There’s No There There
- The Virtues of the Unaffiliated
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- How I Finally Learned To Stop Worrying and Love (Okay, Like) Christmas
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- The People’s Bible
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- Leonard Cohen: Poet of the Holy Sinners
- The Attraction of Irrelevance
- Take Back The (Seder) Night
- Boston Rabbinical Program Challenges Denominational Boundaries
- Where the Borscht Sounds Like the Sea
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- The Graphic (Novel) Side of Israel
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- The Hidden and The Manifest
- In Jerusalem, Fundamentalism on the March
- Two Lawyers, Three Opinions
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- Dylan’s Religious Revival: Modern Times and the Timeless
- A Conversation With the Bad Boy Rabbi
- Grassroots Spirituality: As Jews in the Woods Grows, It Weighs Whether to Open Its Doors
- You Are, Therefore I Am
- Exploring the New Jewish Spiritualities
- The Jewish Goddess, Past and Present
- Book of Esther Gets Novel Makeover
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- Rabbi Was a Master of Practical Kabbalah
- The Unity of Opposites
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- Holy Feast, Holy Fast
- Jewish Paganism: Oxymoron or Innovation?
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