Jay Michaelson

Jay Michaelson (born May 5, 1971[1]) is a writer in the United States. He is the legal affairs columnist at The Daily Beast[2] and an editor at 10% Happier,[3] a meditation platform.

Since 2013, Michaelson's work at The Daily Beast has focused on law, religion, and LGBT issues.[4] Michaelson twice won the New York Society for Professional Journalists award for opinion writing, most recently in 2014.[5] In addition to covering the Supreme Court,[6][7] he has written widely on subjects including antisemitism,[8][9] voter suppression,[10][11] and judicial nominations.[12] [13] His recent work has been featured on CNN,[14] MSNBC,[15][16] and Meet the Press.[17]

In 2013, Michaelson wrote the first long-form report on the right-wing religious exemptions movement, Redefining Religious Liberty: The Covert Campaign Against Civil Rights.[18] Michaelson's work on this issue gained prominence a year later after the Hobby Lobby Supreme Court case[19] and he has written many articles on religious liberty in Reuters,[20] The Washington Post[21] and other publications.

From 2004 to 2017, Michaelson was a columnist and contributing editor to The Forward[22] newspaper. In 2009, his essay entitled "How I'm Losing My Love for Israel" generated substantial controversy in the Jewish world, including responses [23] from Daniel Gordis,[24] and Jonathan Sarna,[25] and prefigured the estrangement of progressive American Jews from the government of Israel. Michaelson was listed in the Forward 50 list of the most influential American Jews in 2009.

Meditation teaching

Michaelson is also a rabbi and teaches meditation in Buddhist, Jewish, and secular contexts. He is a teacher of jhana meditation in the Theravadan Buddhist lineage of Ayya Khema and Michaelson's teacher Leigh Brasington;[26] co-leads Jewish meditation retreats at the Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center; and since 2018 has written for the 10% Happier meditation platform. Michaelson has written several books on meditation and spirituality[27] and was ordained as a rabbi in 2013. He is a frequent contributor to Tricycle: The Buddhist Review. [28]

LGBTQ Activism

Michaelson is Jewish and openly gay and was a professional religious LGBTQ activist from 2004-2013.[29] He was the founder and executive director of Nehirim, an LGBTQ Jewish organization, from 2004 to 2013. His 2009 book God vs. Gay? The Religious Case for Equality was an Amazon bestseller and Lambda Literary Award finalist,[30] and Michaelson spoke at over 100 places of worship during the 2009-15 debates about same-sex marriage. Michaelson was called one of the "Most Inspiring LGBT Religious Leaders" in 2011 by the Huffington Post[31] and one of "Our Religious Allies" by the LGBT newspaper The Advocate.[32]

In 2014, Michaelson co-founded a project at The Daily Beast entitled Quorum: Global LGBT Voices, which features TED-style talks by LGBT leaders from the Global South.[33]

Academic work

Michaelson holds a Ph.D. in Jewish Thought from Hebrew University, where he wrote his dissertation on the antinomian heretic Jacob Frank. He is an affiliated assistant professor at Chicago Theological Seminary. He previously held teaching positions at Boston University and Yale University.

Michaelson graduated from Columbia College of Columbia University in 1993, and from Yale Law School in 1997. His work on Jewish philosophy and mysticism includes "Queering Martin Buber: Harry Hay's Erotic Dialogical" (Shofar, 2018)[34], "Conceptualizing Jewish Antinomianism in the 'Words of the Lord' by Jacob Frank" (Modern Judaism, 2017)[35]; "The Repersonalization of God: Monism and Theological Polymorphism in Zoharic and Hasidic Imagination" (Imagining the Jewish God, 2016)[36] and "Queer Theology and Social Transformation Twenty Years after Jesus ACTED UP" (Theology and Sexuality, 2015).[37] His legal academic work includes the 1998 Stanford Environmental Law Journal article[38][39] on geoengineering and climate change was described as "seminal" by Salon Magazine[40] and he is regarded as an early advocate of the policy.[41] Other legal academic work was published in the Yale Law Journal[42] and Duke Law Journal.[43]

Books
  • Enlightenment by Trial and Error[44] (2019)
  • The Gate of Tears: Sadness and the Spiritual Path[45] (2015)
  • Evolving Dharma: Meditation, Buddhism, and the Next Generation of Enlightenment[46] (2013)
  • God vs. Gay?: The Religious Case for Equality[47] (2011)
  • Everything is God: The Radical Path of Nondual Judaism[48] (2009)
  • Another Word for Sky: Poems[49] (2007)
  • God in Your Body: Kabbalah, Mindfulness and Embodied Spiritual Practice[50] (2006)

References
  1. ""Jay Michaelson" born - Google Search". www.google.com.
  2. "Jay Michaelson - The Daily Beast". The Daily Beast.
  3. "10% Happier".
  4. Jay Michaelson.net
  5. "Congratulations to the 2014 Deadline Club Award Winners".
  6. Michaelson, Jay (2019-02-27). "Supreme Court Could Bury Separation of Church and State Under a Maryland Cross". Retrieved 2019-03-07.
  7. Michaelson, Jay (2018-10-05). "Kavanaugh Doesn't Belong on the Supreme Court, But It Will Survive Him". Retrieved 2019-03-07.
  8. The Daily Beast's Jay Michaelson Talks About Trump's Role In The Recent Rise Of Anti-Semitic Tweets, retrieved 2019-03-07
  9. Michaelson, Jay (2018-10-28). "Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting Is a Moment of Reckoning for American Jews". Retrieved 2019-03-07.
  10. Michaelson, Jay (2018-10-12). "Republicans Have a Secret Weapon in the Midterms: Massive Voter Suppression". Retrieved 2019-03-07.
  11. Michaelson, Jay (2018-06-11). "The Supreme Court Just Let Ohio Commit a Massive Purge of Its Voters". Retrieved 2019-03-07.
  12. Michaelson, Jay (2018-11-19). "He Kept Black People From Voting. GOP Wants Him as a Judge". Retrieved 2019-03-07.
  13. Michaelson, Jay (2018-10-04). "The Right Thinks Toxic Masculinity Is Just 'Being a Man'". Retrieved 2019-03-07.
  14. "Does Donald Trump Bear Responsibility for Pittsburgh? | jaymichaelson.net". Retrieved 2019-03-07.
  15. Jay Michaelson (2018-04-05), Is EPA Chief Scott Pruitt "Too Corrupt to Fire"? Katy Tur & Jay Michaelson, 4/4/2018, retrieved 2019-03-07
  16. "Gays under attack over Ebola". MSNBC.
  17. "Prayer Breakfast Dispute: Christianity and the Crusades". NBC News.
  18. "Redefining Religious Liberty The Covert Campaign Against Civil Rights".
  19. "Why corporations don't deserve religious freedom". Reuters. 2014-03-24.
  20. "Supreme Court's Hobby Lobby decision puts faith in compromise". Reuters. 2014-06-30.
  21. Jay Michaelson - Religion News Service (6 April 2015). "A 'religious freedom' proposal that I can agree with (COMMENTARY)". Washington Post.
  22. "Jay Michaelson". The Forward. 13 March 2016.
  23. "Where Is the Love for Israel?". The Forward. 21 October 2009.
  24. Daniel Gordis (12 October 2009). "No Right to Exhaustion". The Forward.
  25. Jonathan D. Sarna (30 September 2009). "After Utopia, Loving Israel". The Forward.
  26. Michaelson, Jay (2013). Evolving Dharma: Meditation, Buddhism, and the Next Generation of Enlightenment. North Atlantic Books. p. 244. ISBN 9781583947159.
  27. Noah Shachtman (18 June 2013). "In Silicon Valley, Meditation Is No Fad. It Could Make Your Career". WIRED.
  28. "Dr. Jay Michaelson, Author at Tricycle: The Buddhist Review". Tricycle: The Buddhist Review. Retrieved 2019-06-11.
  29. Rock, Ben (May 1, 2012). "'God vs. Gay?' author comes to Nashville". Out & About Newspaper. Retrieved 21 August 2012.
  30. Reese, Jenn (2012-04-16). "24th Annual Lambda Literary Award Finalists And Winners". Lambda Literary. Retrieved 2019-03-07.
  31. Raushenbush, Rev Paul Brandeis (20 October 2011). "Inspiring LGBT Religious Leaders". The Huffington Post.
  32. "An Easter Treat Christians on Your Side - Advocate.com". 2012-04-06.
  33. "Quorum: Global LGBT Voices - Alice Nkom".
  34. Jay Michaelson (2018). "Jay Michaelson, "Queering Martin Buber: Harry Hay's Erotic Dialogical"". Shofar. 36 (3): 31–59. doi:10.5703/shofar.36.3.0031. JSTOR 10.5703/shofar.36.3.0031.
  35. Michaelson, Jay (2017). "Conceptualizing Jewish Antinomianism in the "Words of the Lord" by Jacob Frank". Modern Judaism - A Journal of Jewish Ideas and Experience. 37 (3): 338–362. doi:10.1093/mj/kjx031.
  36. Michaelson, Jay. "The Repersonalization of God: Monism and Theological Polymorphism in Zoharic and Hasidic Imagination". Academia.edu.
  37. Michaelson, Jay (2015). "Queer Theology and Social Transformation Twenty Years after Jesus ACTED UP". Theology & Sexuality. 21 (3): 189–197. doi:10.1080/13558358.2015.1222675.
  38. http://elj.stanford.edu/elj/public/archives/author.shtml#m Stanford Environmental Law Journal
  39. Online : http://www.metatronics.net/lit/geo2.html Archived 2015-05-19 at the Wayback Machine
  40. Elizabeth Svoboda. "The sun blotted out from the sky". Salon.
  41. Graeme Wood (1 July 2009). "Re-Engineering the Earth". The Atlantic.
  42. "Yale Law Journal - Archive". Archived from the original on 2015-10-04. Retrieved 2015-10-02.
  43. "Duke Law Journal".
  44. "Enlightenment by Trial and Error". Ben Yehuda Press. Retrieved 2019-11-28.
  45. "The Gate of Tears by Jay Michaelson". Ben Yehuda Press. Retrieved 2019-03-07.
  46. "Evolving Dharma". North Atlantic Books. Retrieved 2019-03-07.
  47. "God vs. Gay?". www.goodreads.com. Retrieved 2019-03-07.
  48. "Everything Is God". www.shambhala.com. Retrieved 2019-03-07.
  49. "Another Word for Sky". www.jewishbookcouncil.org. Retrieved 2019-03-07.
  50. "God in Your Body". www.goodreads.com. Retrieved 2019-03-07.
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