Jay Michaelson is a writer, scholar, and activist. He is a columnist for the Forward, the Huffington Post, Zeek, and Reality Sandwich magazines, and the author of God in Your Body: Kabbalah, Mindfulness, and Embodied Spiritual Practice (2006), Another Word for Sky: Poems (2007), and Everything is God: The Radical Path of Nondual Judaism (Fall 2009). Jay holds a J.D. from Yale Law School, and is completing his Ph.D in Jewish Thought at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem; he has held teaching positions at Boston University Law School, City College of New York, and Yale University. He is the executive director of Nehirim, a national nonprofit organization which builds community for GLBT Jews, partners, and allies, and is a leading activist for the inclusion of GLBT people in religious communities. Jay has also preached on NPR, performed at CBGB's, taught Kabbalah and massage (separately) at Burning Man, and has just finished his first screenplay. In 2008-09, he spent five months on silent meditation retreat, mostly in Nepal.
