Jay Michaelson

Michaelson's journalistic work has focused on the intersections of religion and law. He has written on the Supreme Court,{{Cite web |last=Michaelson |first=Jay |date=2022-06-23 |title=The Supreme Court Has Endangered the Future of Gun Control |url=https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/06/supreme-court-gun-case-endangers-the-future-of-gun-control.html |access-date=2022-07-12 |website=Intelligencer |language=en-us |archive-date=July 12, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220712183118/https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/06/supreme-court-gun-case-endangers-the-future-of-gun-control.html |url-status=live }} the legal recognition of psychedelics, LGBT issues,{{Cite web |last=Michaelson |first=Jay |date=2022-07-07 |title=Why Same-Sex Marriage May Not Be Doomed at the Supreme Court |url=https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/07/same-sex-marriage-may-not-be-doomed-at-the-supreme-court.html |access-date=2022-07-12 |website=Intelligencer |language=en-us |archive-date=July 12, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220712183117/https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/07/same-sex-marriage-may-not-be-doomed-at-the-supreme-court.html |url-status=live }} climate change,{{Cite news|last=Michaelson|first=Jay|date=2019-09-16|title=Why Your Carbon Footprint Is Meaningless|language=en|work=The Daily Beast|url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/why-your-carbon-footprint-is-meaningless|access-date=2021-10-28|archive-date=October 28, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211028154042/https://www.thedailybeast.com/why-your-carbon-footprint-is-meaningless|url-status=live}} antisemitism,{{Citation|title=The Daily Beast's Jay Michaelson Talks About Trump's Role In The Recent Rise Of Anti-Semitic Tweets|url=https://soundcloud.com/siriusxm-news-issues/the-daily-beasts-jay-michaelson-talks-about-trumps-role-in-the-recent-rise-of-antisemitic-tweets|language=en|access-date=March 7, 2019|archive-date=July 24, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220724131224/https://soundcloud.com/siriusxm-news-issues/the-daily-beasts-jay-michaelson-talks-about-trumps-role-in-the-recent-rise-of-antisemitic-tweets|url-status=live}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/pittsburgh-synagogue-shooting-is-a-moment-of-reckoning-for-american-jews|title=Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting Is a Moment of Reckoning for American Jews|last=Michaelson|first=Jay|date=October 28, 2018|access-date=March 7, 2019|language=en|archive-date=March 23, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190323111231/https://www.thedailybeast.com/pittsburgh-synagogue-shooting-is-a-moment-of-reckoning-for-american-jews|url-status=live}} voter suppression,{{Cite news|url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/republicans-have-a-secret-weapon-in-the-midterms-voter-suppression|title=Republicans Have a Secret Weapon in the Midterms: Massive Voter Suppression|last=Michaelson|first=Jay|date=October 12, 2018|access-date=March 7, 2019|language=en|archive-date=March 7, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190307005021/https://www.thedailybeast.com/republicans-have-a-secret-weapon-in-the-midterms-voter-suppression|url-status=live}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-supreme-court-just-let-ohio-commit-a-massive-purge-of-its-voters|title=The Supreme Court Just Let Ohio Commit a Massive Purge of Its Voters|last=Michaelson|first=Jay|date=June 11, 2018|access-date=March 7, 2019|language=en|archive-date=August 8, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200808232042/https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-supreme-court-just-let-ohio-commit-a-massive-purge-of-its-voters|url-status=live}} judicial nominations,{{Cite news|url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/thomas-farr-devised-ways-to-keep-blacks-from-voting-mitch-mcconnell-wants-to-make-him-a-judge|title=He Kept Black People From Voting. GOP Wants Him as a Judge.|last=Michaelson|first=Jay|date=November 19, 2018|access-date=March 7, 2019|language=en|archive-date=December 7, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181207100932/https://www.thedailybeast.com/thomas-farr-devised-ways-to-keep-blacks-from-voting-mitch-mcconnell-wants-to-make-him-a-judge|url-status=live}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-right-thinks-kavanaughs-toxic-masculinity-is-just-being-a-man|title=The Right Thinks Toxic Masculinity Is Just 'Being a Man'|last=Michaelson|first=Jay|date=October 4, 2018|access-date=March 7, 2019|language=en|archive-date=November 9, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201109043719/https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-right-thinks-kavanaughs-toxic-masculinity-is-just-being-a-man|url-status=live}} and other subjects, and has been featured on CNN,{{Cite web|url=https://www.jaymichaelson.net/does-donald-trump-bear-responsibility-for-pittsburgh/|title=Does Donald Trump Bear Responsibility for Pittsburgh? {{!}} jaymichaelson.net|date=October 30, 2018|language=en-US|access-date=March 7, 2019|archive-date=March 8, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190308081638/https://www.jaymichaelson.net/does-donald-trump-bear-responsibility-for-pittsburgh/|url-status=live}} MSNBC,{{Citation|last=Jay Michaelson|title=Is EPA Chief Scott Pruitt "Too Corrupt to Fire"? Katy Tur & Jay Michaelson, 4/4/2018|date=April 5, 2018|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qsL4X-y_uM|access-date=March 7, 2019|archive-date=September 25, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190925231732/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qsL4X-y_uM&gl=US&hl=en|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=https://www.msnbc.com/ronan-farrow-daily/watch/gays-under-attack-over-ebola-351937091634|title=Gays under attack over Ebola|work=MSNBC|access-date=February 21, 2020|archive-date=November 12, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201112033333/https://www.msnbc.com/ronan-farrow-daily/watch/gays-under-attack-over-ebola-351937091634|url-status=live}} and Meet the Press.{{cite web|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/watch/meet-the-press/prayer-breakfast-dispute-christianity-and-the-crusades-395920963698|title=Prayer Breakfast Dispute: Christianity and the Crusades|work=NBC News|access-date=April 16, 2020|archive-date=March 4, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304202500/http://www.nbcnews.com/watch/meet-the-press/prayer-breakfast-dispute-christianity-and-the-crusades-395920963698|url-status=live}}

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.{{cite web|url=http://www.politicalresearch.org/resources/reports/full-reports/redefining-religious-liberty/#|title=Redefining Religious Liberty The Covert Campaign Against Civil Rights|publisher=|access-date=November 10, 2014|archive-date=November 10, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141110044021/http://www.politicalresearch.org/resources/reports/full-reports/redefining-religious-liberty/|url-status=live}} Michaelson's work on this issue gained prominence a year later after the Hobby Lobby Supreme Court case{{cite web|url=http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2014/03/24/why-corporations-dont-deserve-religious-freedom/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140327220153/http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2014/03/24/why-corporations-dont-deserve-religious-freedom/|url-status=dead|archive-date=March 27, 2014|title=Why corporations don't deserve religious freedom|work=Reuters|date=March 24, 2014}} and he has written many articles on religious liberty in Reuters,{{cite web|url=http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2014/06/30/supreme-courts-hobby-lobby-decision-puts-faith-in-compromise/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140707105521/http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2014/06/30/supreme-courts-hobby-lobby-decision-puts-faith-in-compromise/|url-status=dead|archive-date=July 7, 2014|title=Supreme Court's Hobby Lobby decision puts faith in compromise|work=Reuters|date=June 30, 2014}} The Washington Post{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/religion/a-religious-freedom-proposal-that-i-can-agree-with-commentary/2015/04/06/695b7132-dc9d-11e4-b6d7-b9bc8acf16f7_story.html|title=A 'religious freedom' proposal that I can agree with (Commentary)|author=Jay Michaelson – Religion News Service|date=April 6, 2015|newspaper=Washington Post|access-date=October 2, 2015|archive-date=October 4, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151004120135/https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/religion/a-religious-freedom-proposal-that-i-can-agree-with-commentary/2015/04/06/695b7132-dc9d-11e4-b6d7-b9bc8acf16f7_story.html|url-status=live}} and other publications.

From 2004 to 2017, Michaelson was a columnist and contributing editor to The Forward{{cite web|url=http://www.forward.com/authors/jay-michaelson/|title=Jay Michaelson|date=March 13, 2016|work=The Forward|access-date=October 28, 2009|archive-date=October 16, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091016165606/http://www.forward.com/authors/jay-michaelson/|url-status=live}} newspaper. In 2009, his essay entitled "How I'm Losing My Love for Israel" generated substantial controversy in the Jewish world, including responses{{cite web|url=http://www.forward.com/articles/117305/|title=Where Is the Love for Israel?|date=October 21, 2009|work=The Forward|access-date=October 28, 2009|archive-date=October 26, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091026154341/http://www.forward.com/articles/117305/|url-status=live}} from Daniel Gordis,{{cite web|url=http://www.forward.com/articles/116597/|title=No Right to Exhaustion|author=Daniel Gordis|date=October 12, 2009|work=The Forward|access-date=October 28, 2009|archive-date=October 17, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091017064339/http://www.forward.com/articles/116597/|url-status=live}} and Jonathan Sarna,{{cite web|url=http://www.forward.com/articles/115588/|title=After Utopia, Loving Israel|author=Jonathan D. Sarna|date=September 30, 2009|work=The Forward|access-date=October 28, 2009|archive-date=October 5, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091005020012/http://www.forward.com/articles/115588/|url-status=live}} 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.

Michaelson's scholarly work in religious studies has focused on mystical experience, antinomianism, and sexuality. Michaelson holds a PhD in Jewish Thought from Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he wrote his dissertation on the antinomian heretic Jacob Frank. His 2022 book on Frank, The Heresy of Jacob Frank: From Jewish Messianism to Esoteric Myth, was published by Oxford University Press and won the National Jewish Book Award for scholarship.{{cite web | url=https://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/pb-daily/72nd-national-jewish-book-award-winners | title=72nd National Jewish Book Award Winners | Jewish Book Council | date=January 18, 2023 }} He was an affiliated assistant professor at Chicago Theological Seminary and a visiting fellow at the Center for LGBTQ and Gender Studies in Religion{{Cite web |title=Resource Speakers Jay Michaelson - CLGS |date=April 24, 2014 |url=https://www.clgs.org/multimedia-speaker/jay-michaelson/ |access-date=2022-07-12 |language=en-US |archive-date=May 17, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210517091955/https://www.clgs.org/multimedia-speaker/jay-michaelson/ |url-status=live }} and has held teaching positions at Boston University Law School and Yale University. Michaelson graduated from Columbia College of Columbia University in 1993, and from Yale Law School in 1997.

Since 2021, Michaelson's work has focused on the intersection of psychedelics, law, and religion. In March, 2025, he co-organized the first-ever conference on the legal recognition of religious psychedelic use in Christian, Jewish, and Muslim communities.{{cite web|url=https://psychedelicsandreligion.info/ |title=Psychedelics and Monotheistic Traditions: Sacramental Practice and Legal Recognition}} He has written{{cite web|url=https://jaymichaelson.substack.com/p/psychedelics-and-judaism-new-skin |title=Psychedelics and Judaism: New Skin for the Old Ceremony}} and spoken{{cite web|url= https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQPTb5u9F-U |title=Are Psychedelics Theologically Significant for Judaism?}} widely on the religious significance of psychedelic practice in Judaism. Michaelson is an affiliated researcher of Harvard Law School's Program in Psychedelic Use, Law, and Spiritual Experience.{{cite web|url=https://petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/jay-michaelson/ |title=Psychedelic Use, Law, and Spiritual Experience (PULSE) Affiliated Researcher}}

Michaelson's other academic work in religious studies includes "Queering Martin Buber: Harry Hay's Erotic Dialogical" (Shofar, 2018),{{Cite journal|title=Jay Michaelson, "Queering Martin Buber: Harry Hay's Erotic Dialogical"|journal = Shofar|volume = 36|issue = 3|pages = 31–59|jstor=10.5703/shofar.36.3.0031|doi=10.5703/shofar.36.3.0031|year = 2018|last1 = Jay Michaelson}} "Conceptualizing Jewish Antinomianism in the 'Words of the Lord' by Jacob Frank" (Modern Judaism, 2017);{{Cite journal|title=Conceptualizing Jewish Antinomianism in the "Words of the Lord" by Jacob Frank|journal=Modern Judaism – A Journal of Jewish Ideas and Experience|volume=37|issue=3|pages=338–362|doi=10.1093/mj/kjx031|year=2017|last1=Michaelson|first1=Jay}} "The Repersonalization of God: Monism and Theological Polymorphism in Zoharic and Hasidic Imagination" (Imagining the Jewish God, 2016),{{Cite journal|url=https://www.academia.edu/36154891|title=The Repersonalization of God: Monism and Theological Polymorphism in Zoharic and Hasidic Imagination|journal=Imagining the Jewish God (Graven Images)|last1=Michaelson|first1=Jay|date=January 2016 |access-date=March 7, 2019|archive-date=July 24, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220724131257/https://www.academia.edu/36154891|url-status=live}} "Queer Theology and Social Transformation Twenty Years after Jesus ACTED UP" (Theology and Sexuality, 2015),{{Cite journal|title=Queer Theology and Social Transformation Twenty Years after Jesus ACTED UP|journal=Theology & Sexuality|volume=21|issue=3|pages=189–197|doi=10.1080/13558358.2015.1222675|year = 2015|last1 = Michaelson|first1 = Jay|s2cid=151477639}} and "Kabbalah and Queer Theology: Resources and Reservations" (Theology and Sexuality, 2012).{{cite journal | url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1179/1355835813Z.0000000003?journalCode=yths20 | doi=10.1179/1355835813Z.0000000003 | title=Kabbalah and Queer Theology | date=2012 | last1=Michaelson | first1=Jay | journal=Theology & Sexuality | volume=18 | pages=42–59 | s2cid=142104995 | url-access=subscription }}

Michaelson is also the author of several legal-academic articles including "Rethinking Regulatory Reform: Toxics, Politics and Ethics" (Yale Law Journal, 1996),{{cite web|url=http://www.yale.edu/yalelj/105/105-7.html|title=Yale Law Journal – Archive|publisher=|access-date=October 2, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151004042353/http://www.yale.edu/yalelj/105/105-7.html|archive-date=October 4, 2015|url-status=dead}} and "On Listening to the Kulturkampf, Or, How America Overruled Bowers v. Hardwick, Even Though Romer v. Evans Didn’t" (Duke Law Journal, 2000).{{cite web|url=http://scholarship.law.duke.edu/dlj/vol49/iss6/|title=Duke Law Journal|publisher=|access-date=October 2, 2015|archive-date=September 20, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150920010330/http://scholarship.law.duke.edu/dlj/vol49/iss6/|url-status=live}} and "Hating the Law for Christian Reasons: The Religious Roots of American Antinomianism"{{cite web | url=https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2150722 | ssrn=2150722 | doi=10.2139/ssrn.2150722 | title=Hating the Law for Christian Reasons: The Religious Roots of American Antinomianism | date=2012 | last1=Michaelson | first1=Jay }} (Jews and the Law, 2014).{{cite web | url=https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/jews-and-the-law-ari-mermelstein/1119712104 | title=Jews and the Law|Hardcover }} His 1998 Stanford Environmental Law Journal articlehttp://elj.stanford.edu/elj/public/archives/author.shtml#m {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100709002315/http://elj.stanford.edu/elj/public/archives/author.shtml#m |date=July 9, 2010 }} Stanford Environmental Law JournalOnline : http://www.metatronics.net/lit/geo2.html {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150519071152/http://www.metatronics.net/lit/geo2.html|date=May 19, 2015}} on geoengineering and climate change, described as "seminal" by Salon{{cite web|author=Elizabeth Svoboda|title=The sun blotted out from the sky|url=http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/04/02/geoengineering/|work=Salon|date=April 2, 2008|access-date=October 28, 2009|archive-date=May 24, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090524142857/http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/04/02/geoengineering/|url-status=live}} was the first legal analysis of geoengineering in legal academic literature.{{cite web|author=Graeme Wood|date=July 1, 2009|title=Re-Engineering the Earth|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200907/climate-engineering|work=The Atlantic|access-date=March 8, 2017|archive-date=January 4, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100104003432/http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200907/climate-engineering|url-status=live}}

Michaelson is an ordained rabbi, and teaches meditation in Buddhist, Jewish, and secular contexts.{{cite magazine|url=https://www.wired.com/2013/06/meditation-mindfulness-silicon-valley/|title=In Silicon Valley, Meditation Is No Fad. It Could Make Your Career|author=Noah Shachtman|date=June 18, 2013|magazine=WIRED|access-date=March 8, 2017|archive-date=January 20, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170120034305/https://www.wired.com/2013/06/meditation-mindfulness-silicon-valley/|url-status=live}} His books on meditation and spirituality include Evolving Dharma: Meditation, Buddhism, and the Next Generation of Enlightenment{{Cite web |date= |title=Evolving Dharma: Meditation, Buddhism, and the Next Generation of Enlightenment by Jay Michaelson |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781583947142 |access-date=2022-07-12 |website=www.publishersweekly.com}} and Everything Is God: The Radical Path of Nondual Judaism.{{cite web | url=https://www.shambhala.com/everything-is-god-578.html | title=Everything is God }} From 2018-22, he was a teacher, editor{{Cite web |title=Meditation and Pride |url=https://www.tenpercent.com/meditationweeklyblog/meditationandpride |access-date=2022-07-12 |website=Ten Percent Happier |language=en-US |archive-date=July 12, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220712183821/https://www.tenpercent.com/meditationweeklyblog/meditationandpride |url-status=live }} and podcast host at [http://www.tenpercent.com Ten Percent Happier],{{Cite web|url=http://www.10percenthappier.com/blog|title=10% Happier|access-date=March 7, 2019|archive-date=March 27, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190327074819/https://www.10percenthappier.com/blog|url-status=live}} a meditation app and podcast network. He is also a teacher of jhāna meditation in the Theravādan Buddhist lineage of Ayya Khema and Michaelson's teacher Leigh Brasington{{cite book |last=Michaelson |first=Jay |title=Evolving Dharma: Meditation, Buddhism, and the Next Generation of Enlightenment |publisher=North Atlantic Books |year=2013 |isbn=9781583947159 |page=244}} and co-leads Jewish meditation retreats at the Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center.{{Cite web |date=2019-10-11 |title=Why a Jewish Meditation Retreat? |url=https://hazon.org/why-a-jewish-meditation-retreat/ |access-date=2022-07-12 |website=Hazon |language=en-US |archive-date=April 11, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210411001450/https://hazon.org/why-a-jewish-meditation-retreat/ |url-status=live }}

Michaelson is a rabbi and openly gay. He was a professional religious LGBTQ activist from 2004 to 2013.{{cite news|last=Rock|first=Ben|title='God vs. Gay?' author comes to Nashville|url=http://www.outandaboutnewspaper.com/article/5415#.UDQCskLlf0c|access-date=August 21, 2012|newspaper=Out & About Newspaper|date=May 1, 2012|archive-date=July 24, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220724131257/https://www.thecamsites.com/30-dirty-sex-talk-examples-guaranteed-to-make-him-crazy/#.UDQCskLlf0c|url-status=live}}{{Cite web |title=Jay Michaelson |url=https://lgbtqreligiousarchives.org/profiles/jay-michaelson |access-date=2022-07-12 |website=LGBTQ Religious Archives Network |archive-date=July 24, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220724131229/https://lgbtqreligiousarchives.org/profiles/jay-michaelson |url-status=live }} 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,{{Cite web|url=https://www.lambdaliterary.org/awards/24th-annual-lambda-literary-award-finalists/|title=24th Annual Lambda Literary Award Finalists And Winners|last=Reese|first=Jenn|date=April 16, 2012|website=Lambda Literary|access-date=March 7, 2019|archive-date=February 16, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190216145507/http://www.lambdaliterary.org/awards/24th-annual-lambda-literary-award-finalists/|url-status=live}} 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{{cite news|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/20/lgbt-religious-leaders-most-inspiring_n_1022043.html|title=Inspiring LGBT Religious Leaders|date=October 20, 2011|newspaper=The Huffington Post|last1=Raushenbush|first1=Rev Paul Brandeis|access-date=February 21, 2020|archive-date=July 5, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170705214903/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/20/lgbt-religious-leaders-most-inspiring_n_1022043.html|url-status=live}} and one of "Our Religious Allies" by the LGBT newspaper The Advocate.{{cite web|url=http://www.advocate.com/news/news-features/2012/04/06/easter-treat-christians-your-side|title=An Easter Treat Christians on Your Side - Advocate.com|publisher=|date=April 6, 2012|access-date=October 2, 2015|archive-date=October 4, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151004124840/http://www.advocate.com/news/news-features/2012/04/06/easter-treat-christians-your-side|url-status=live}}

In 2014, Michaelson co-directed a project at The Daily Beast entitled Quorum: Global LGBT Voices, which features TED-style talks by LGBT leaders from the Global South.{{cite web|url=http://quorum.thedailybeast.com/|title=Quorum: Global LGBT Voices – Alice Nkom|publisher=|access-date=October 2, 2015|archive-date=October 4, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151004084142/http://quorum.thedailybeast.com/|url-status=live}} Other LGBTQ-focused work includes the chapter on Exodus in the Queer Bible Commentary{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=68mPEAAAQBAJ | title=The Queer Bible Commentary, Second Edition | isbn=9780334060789 | last1=West | first1=Mona | last2=Shore-Goss | first2=Robert | date=September 30, 2022 | publisher=SCM Press }} (2022).

• God in Your Body: Kabbalah, Mindfulness and Embodied Spiritual Practice{{Cite web|url=https://www.goodreads.com/work/best_book/175768-god-in-your-body-kabbalah-mindfulness-and-embodied-spiritual-practice|title=God in Your Body|website=www.goodreads.com|access-date=March 7, 2019|archive-date=July 24, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220724131300/https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/181897.God_in_Your_Body|url-status=live}} (2006)
• Another Word for Sky: Poems{{Cite web|url=https://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/book/another-word-for-sky|title=Another Word for Sky|website=www.jewishbookcouncil.org|access-date=March 7, 2019|archive-date=March 8, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190308081439/https://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/book/another-word-for-sky|url-status=live}} (2007)
• Everything is God: The Radical Path of Nondual Judaism{{Cite web|url=https://www.shambhala.com/everything-is-god-578.html|title=Everything Is God|website=www.shambhala.com|access-date=March 7, 2019|archive-date=March 8, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190308081610/https://www.shambhala.com/everything-is-god-578.html|url-status=live}} (2009)
• God vs. Gay?: The Religious Case for Equality{{Cite web|url=https://www.goodreads.com/work/best_book/15273785-god-vs-gay-the-religious-case-for-equality|title=God vs. Gay?|website=www.goodreads.com|access-date=March 7, 2019|archive-date=July 24, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220724131305/https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10397126-god-vs-gay|url-status=live}} (2011)
• Evolving Dharma: Meditation, Buddhism, and the Next Generation of Enlightenment{{Cite web|url=https://www.northatlanticbooks.com/shop/evolving-dharma/|title=Evolving Dharma|website=North Atlantic Books|language=en-US|access-date=March 7, 2019|archive-date=December 28, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191228131117/https://www.northatlanticbooks.com/shop/evolving-dharma/|url-status=live}}{{Cite web |date= |title=Evolving Dharma: Meditation, Buddhism, and the Next Generation of Enlightenment by Jay Michaelson |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781583947142 |access-date=2022-07-12 |website=www.publishersweekly.com}} (2013)
• The Gate of Tears: Sadness and the Spiritual Path{{Cite web|url=https://benyehudapress.com/books/the-gate-of-tears/|title=The Gate of Tears by Jay Michaelson|website=Ben Yehuda Press|language=en-US|access-date=March 7, 2019|archive-date=March 8, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190308081016/https://benyehudapress.com/books/the-gate-of-tears/|url-status=live}} (2015)
• Is: Heretical Blessings and Poems (as Yaakov Moshe) {{cite web | url=https://www.jaymichaelson.net/books/is/ | title=Is: Heretical Jewish Blessings and Poems | jaymichaelson.net | date=November 8, 2017 }} (2017)
• Enlightenment by Trial and Error{{Cite web|url=https://benyehudapress.com/books/jewish-enlightenment/|title=Enlightenment by Trial and Error|website=Ben Yehuda Press|language=en-US|access-date=November 28, 2019|archive-date=November 28, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191128180447/https://benyehudapress.com/books/jewish-enlightenment/|url-status=live}} (2019)
• The Heresy of Jacob Frank: From Jewish Messianism to Esoteric Myth{{Cite book |url=https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-heresy-of-jacob-frank-9780197651025?cc=us&lang=en& |title=The Heresy of Jacob Frank: From Jewish Messianism to Esoteric Myth |year=2022 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-765102-5 |location=Oxford, New York |access-date=July 12, 2022 |archive-date=July 12, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220712182216/https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-heresy-of-jacob-frank-9780197651025?cc=us&lang=en& |url-status=live }} (2022)
• The Secret that is Not a Secret: Ten Heretical Tales (forthcoming 2023)

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