This book attempts to give voice to these diverse imaginings of the Jewish God, and offers these collected essays and poems as a living text meant to provoke a substantive and nourishing dialogue. The contributors to this volume are committed to this form of textual reasoning. Includes Dr. Michaelson’s essay “The Repersonalization of God: Monism and Theological Polymorphism in Zoharic and Hasidic Imagination.”

Beside Still Waters: A Journey of Comfort and Renewal is a book for mourners, for those who will someday become mourners, and for those anticipating their own journey out of this life.  It offers Jewish liturgy both classical and contemporary for different stages along the mourner’s path.

This anthology engages with the growing complexity of what it means to be at once Jewish and to participate in secular legal systems as lawyers, judges, legal thinkers, civil rights advocates, and teachers. Includes Dr. Michaelson’s essay “Hating the Law for Christian Reasons: The Religious Roots of American Antinomianism.”

This collection of essays is a heartfelt tribute to Michael Bernard Kelly’s work and solidifies his legacy as one of Australia’s leading gay activists and religious commentators. Includes Jay Michaelson’s reflection, “A Gay Pilgrim’s Progress.”  Published July 2022.

Inspired by the pioneering work of Jewish feminists, Andrew Ramer draws from traditional midrashim and homoerotic love poems from medieval Spain to craft stories that anchor queer lives in the three-thousand-year-old history of the Jewish people. Includes a forward by Rabbi Jay Michaelson.

This wide-ranging anthology takes a close look at the breadth of human sexuality from a Jewish perspective. Features Jay Michaelson’s essay on “Queering Tshuvah.”

Eleven prominent authorities on climate change consider the legal, policy, and philosophical issues presented by geoengineering. The book asks: When, if ever, are decisions to embark on potentially risky climate modification projects justified? And who should authorize such projects and by what moral and legal right? Includes Jay Michaelson’s article, “Geoengineering and Climate Management: From Marginality to Inevitability.” Published August 2013.

A diverse group of authors journey into the fringes of human consciousness, tackling psychic and paranormal phenomena, lucid dreaming, synchronistic encounters, and more. Collected from the online magazine Reality Sandwich, and featuring Jay’s essay on Buddhist absorption states, “The Jhanas.” Published June 2012.

Queer Religion provides a systematic and detailed overview of the challenges and issues that the intersections of religion, same-sex desire, and gender variance have generated, both now and in the past. It focuses upon the development of these areas of overlap through modern religious history, LGBT liberation movements, and the emergence of queer theory. Published December 2011, it features Dr. Michaelson’s scholarly essay “Queering Kabbalistic Gender Dimorphism.”

The first anthology of its kind, with poets representing several countries (the United States, Singapore, Korea, Australia, the United Kingdom, India, Malaysia, Japan and elsewhere), Collective Brightness gathers over 100 established and emerging contemporary LGBTIQ poets writing from and about various faiths, religions and spiritual traditions. Published October 2011, including poetry by Jay.

Includes Jay’s memoir-essay, “Loneliness and the Sanctuary of Spirit.” Published November 2010.

Making Prayer Real is a no-holds-barred look at why so many of us find synagogue services and prayer at best difficult, and at worst, meaningless and boring—and how to make it more satisfying. Includes an essay and interview with Jay Michaelson. Published in February, 2010.

Torah Queeries brings together some of the world’s leading rabbis, scholars, and writers to interpret the Torah through a “bent lens”. With commentaries on the fifty-four weekly Torah portions and six major Jewish holidays, the concise yet substantive writings collected here open up stimulating new insights and highlight previously neglected perspectives. Featuring three commentaries by Jay Michaelson. Published in 2009.

Seeking to deepen the Jewish conversation about sexuality, The Passionate Torah brings together brilliant thinkers in an attempt to bridge the gap between the sacred and the sexual. Includes Jay’s essay “On the Religious Significance of Homosexuality, or Queering God, Torah, and Israel.” Published in 2009.

Featuring work from 50 gay poets, readers will find herein a mix of established poets and exciting new voices, including Carl Phillips, Rane Arroyo, David Bergman, Timothy Liu, Jay Michaelson, Brad Gooch, Reginald Shepard, Jeff Mann, Steve Fellner, Jee Leong Koh, Steven Cordova, Jericho Brown, and many others.

Edited by Nathan Abrams in 2008, and featuring the essay “Boundaries and the Boundless: Homosexuality as Liminality” by Jay Michaelson

Edited by Daniel Pinchback and Ken Jordan in 2008. Features the essay “Ayahuasca and Kabbalah” by Jay Michaelson.

Edited by Christine DiThomas and published in 2008,this volume features two visual gallery sections replete with diverse and engaging imagery by over sixty world-class artists, and a comprehensive section of writings and transcripts on the notion of end times. Featuring the poem “for the apocalypse will be infinitely silent” by Jay Michaelson.

Edited by Rabbi N. Rose, Jo Ellen Green Kaiser, and Margie Klein, and published in 2007, Righteous Indignation gathers the voices of leading progressive Jewish social justice activists for the first time in one groundbreaking volume. Featuring “The Significance of Sex: Social Order & Post-Mythic Religion” by Jay Michaelson.

A finalist for Best LGBT Anthology for the Lambda Literary Awards, Charmed Lives offers readers a collection of over thirty short works of fiction and personal essays as an alternative to the stories that society often tells about gay men. Includes “The Verse” by Jay Michaelson. Published in 2006.