Jay Michaelson
@jaymichaelson.bsky.social
Writer, journalist (Rolling Stone, Forward, CNN), rabbi, professor (Emory Center for Psychedelics & Spirituality, Harvard Law School [2025]). Former lawyer & LGBTQ+ activist
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I usually look to @jaymichaelson.bsky.social for his brilliant application of Jewish insight to current politics. This piece in the Forward 2 days ago comes close... forward.com/opinion/7110...
We need something like the Declaration of Independence in listing the crimes of despotisim we're facing.
We need something like the Declaration of Independence in listing the crimes of despotisim we're facing.
Stephen Miller's cavalier cruelty misses the whole point of Passover
With his cavalier cruelty, Miller, the White House Deputy Chief of Staff, seems to have forgotten that we, too, were once strangers in Egypt.
forward.com
April 11, 2025 at 1:05 PM
I usually look to @jaymichaelson.bsky.social for his brilliant application of Jewish insight to current politics. This piece in the Forward 2 days ago comes close... forward.com/opinion/7110...
We need something like the Declaration of Independence in listing the crimes of despotisim we're facing.
We need something like the Declaration of Independence in listing the crimes of despotisim we're facing.
Same! Tell me how it goes.
March 20, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Same! Tell me how it goes.
I would say:
1) Donating money to the ACLU and other orgs suing the govt
2) Sharing true stories of the human impact of what's happening in a way that can appeal to moderates rather than only to people who agree with us
3) Picking one or two issues to focus attention & money on
4) +Self-care
1) Donating money to the ACLU and other orgs suing the govt
2) Sharing true stories of the human impact of what's happening in a way that can appeal to moderates rather than only to people who agree with us
3) Picking one or two issues to focus attention & money on
4) +Self-care
March 14, 2025 at 4:07 PM
I would say:
1) Donating money to the ACLU and other orgs suing the govt
2) Sharing true stories of the human impact of what's happening in a way that can appeal to moderates rather than only to people who agree with us
3) Picking one or two issues to focus attention & money on
4) +Self-care
1) Donating money to the ACLU and other orgs suing the govt
2) Sharing true stories of the human impact of what's happening in a way that can appeal to moderates rather than only to people who agree with us
3) Picking one or two issues to focus attention & money on
4) +Self-care