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CNN | Josh Shapiro and American Jewish Anxiety

Saturday, August 3rd, 2024 | Multimedia, Law/Politics/Religion

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It’s Yom Kippur, and Humanity is Deeply Flawed

Oct 13th, 2024 in ARC
Denying Ourselves to Death

Oct 9th, 2024 in Both/And
This is the most disorienting Rosh Hashanah in memory

Oct 2nd, 2024 in Forward
The Real Opus Dei: Human Trafficking, Cult-Like Abuse… and the Supreme Court

Oct 2nd, 2024 in Both/And
‘Megalopolis’ is an aesthetically brilliant, morally bankrupt film that traffics in homophobic and antisemitic clichés

Oct 1st, 2024 in Forward
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Donald Trump swayed quietly to music for 38 minute

Donald Trump swayed quietly to music for 38 minutes at a campaign event yesterday. This isn't just weird -- it's a defining moment of his cognitive decline. Details, and Trump's playlist, in Both/And this week - jaymichaelson.substack.com.

I think it's helpful to share good news, since the

I think it's helpful to share good news, since there's so much bad news. Here's some of that. This isn't to deny the severity of the wealth gap or persistent inequality or anything else - only to note that there is far less extreme poverty now than a generation ago, thanks to a variety of factors including economic policies, growth, technology, and aid.

This Sunday, I'll be giving an online talk for the

This Sunday, I'll be giving an online talk for the Congregational Church of Middlebury, VT, which you can attend from your sofa. I'll be talking about navigating the many emotions that arise around the climate crisis so we can be more resilient and effective. October 20 at 1130am ET.

Link in bio or head to www.midducc.org .

On the occasion of #yomkippur , I'm sharing some d

On the occasion of #yomkippur , I'm sharing some dark thoughts about the last year of "discourse" around Israel/Palestine, and how humanity may not be up to the challenges of the 21st century. In @arcmagazine . arcmag.org

#existentialpooh My next post will build out some

#existentialpooh

My next post will build out some of the backstory behind this one.

As my hometown prepares for a deluge of Biblical p

As my hometown prepares for a deluge of Biblical proportions, climate denial remains a potent political force. Our very human capacities for narrative and meaning may prove to be our undoing. In the newsletter today - jaymichaelson.substack.com.

I'm proud to be part of the (re-)launch of ARC mag

I'm proud to be part of the (re-)launch of ARC magazine ( @arc.magazine.jcdc ), formerly Religion & Politics. ARC is doing great work right out of the gate: intelligent, timely, and put together with care. For the magazine's launch, I wrote an essay on anti-mask laws and the potent, perennial symbolism of the mask as symbol and weapon. It's up now at arcmag.org and there's a link in my bio as well.

This is a trick question! #panentheism #satchitan

This is a trick question!

#panentheism #satchitananda #captcha

There's a lot going on. (Link in bio) @jdforward

There's a lot going on.

(Link in bio)

@jdforward

Turns out, Leonard Leo was only the tip of the ice

Turns out, Leonard Leo was only the tip of the iceberg. I'm proud to present this conversation with author Gareth Gore, whose explosive new book on Opus Dei was published this week by @simonbooks . This is not some bigoted conspiracy theory -- the book is loaded with citations, data, and hard facts about this extreme-right effort to influence governments around the world -- and its success in doing so in the US. Up now at jaymichaelson.substack.com.

There's really a lot of bad things happening right

There's really a lot of bad things happening right now. I find it oddly comforting to have them all on one map.

Come to think of it, this is how I run my life as well. Chaos in a list isn't entirely chaos.

(I don't quite share the World Economic Forum's risk assessment priorities here, but what do I know.)

On the questionable morality of Coppola's #megalop

On the questionable morality of Coppola's #megalopolis . In @jdforward today.

The first of several October 7 remembrances I'll b

The first of several October 7 remembrances I'll be offering in the coming week -- this one in the Berman Archive at @stanford . (Link in bio for the whole thing and many other excellent contributions.)

#psychedelic problems ( also #mystical problems )

#psychedelic problems

( also #mystical problems )

or maybe not a problem?

In a sense, the Harris campaign is betting on spir

In a sense, the Harris campaign is betting on spirituality: that enough Americans are exhausted by meanness and will choose something better. I hope they're right. This week in the newsletter - jaymichaelson.substack.com .

#decency

Here's my latest in @jdforward ....

Here's my latest in @jdforward ....

Tomorrow night, I'll be giving a free online talk

Tomorrow night, I'll be giving a free online talk about #project2025 , focused on its impact on the American Jewish community. There's a link in the image and a link in my bio -- advance registration is required. I look forward to this timely conversation with @jfasd_org !

I guess it makes a kind of sense that the fate of

I guess it makes a kind of sense that the fate of democracy lies in the hands of the least-informed people in the country.

By the way, what I also like about this image is how it recognizes the peril of the undecided voters. They're aware that they're in trouble, they're flying the SOS flag. A lot of their troubles are quite real. I think the fault lies in our education and media systems for totally failing to equip them to think critically (not just mime doing so) and tease apart truth from falsehood.

In the newsletter this week, I'm launching a new o

In the newsletter this week, I'm launching a new occasional feature, called "Both/And Conversations." That's probably self-explanatory. Here's the first one, with poet Eden Pearlstein of @ayinpress .

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