Fresh Baked Bread
Reality Sandwich, June 27, 2008

Are there any Jews in Narnia?
Jewcy, June 23, 2008

Embracing Even the Hatred: A Personal Dharma Journey
Reality Sandwich, June 3, 2008

Is Environmentalism a Jewish Issue?
World Jewish Digest, June, 2008

The Lame Duck in Israel
Jewcy, May 29, 2008

Where the Light Gets in: The Crucible of Summer Camp
Forward, May 22, 2008

The Gods of Drowning
Jewcy, May 21, 2008

Israel, Injustice, and Philip Glass’s Call to Arms
Jewcy, May 1, 2008

Jewish Intelligent Design Proponents are Jewish Uncle Toms
Jewcy, April 20, 2008

Getting Serious About Love
Forward, April 17, 2008

Peoplehood: There's no there, there
Forward, April 16, 2008

God as a Mask of Pain (Hebrew)
Maariv, April 4, 2008

Sick Enough for Religion
Zeek, April, 2008

Mixing Heresy and High Fashion
Jewcy, March 31, 2008

Polytheism and Nonduality
Reality Sandwich, March 21, 2008

Sexual Hypocrisy Is Not A Jewish Value
Jewcy, March 19, 2008

The Virtues of the Unaffiliated
Forward, March 19, 2008

Chilluf Chomrim (Hebrew)
Maariv, March 18, 2008

Anti-Folk Hits The Right Note: Kimya Dawson Breaks Through With 'Juno'
Forward, March 12, 2008

The Blues, Prayer, and Unrequited Love
Zeek, March, 2008

The Path Of the Just: Is Mussar the ‘New Kabbalah’?
Forward, February 28, 2008

Boundaries and the Boundless: Homosexuality as Liminality
in Jews and Sex, Nathan Abrams ed. Published Feb. 2008

Is 'Cassandra's Dream' About Soon-Yi?
Jewcy, February 14, 2008

Polytheism and Nonduality
Zeek, February, 2008

Why Obama is Good for Israel
JTA, February 1, 2008

Hot is the New Cool
Shma, February, 2008

People Of the Chapbook: Jewish Poets as Jewish Teachers
Forward, January 23, 2008

Ayahuasca and Kabbalah
Reality Sandwich, January 15, 2008

New Psychedelics Are Transforming the Future of Spirituality
Jewcy, January 7, 2008

A Balancing Meditation (Hesed, Gevurah, Tiferet)
BeliefNet, posted January, 2008

Thinking Green: It’s Not Just a Virtue — It’s Your Jewish Duty
Forward, December 24, 2007

How I Finally Learned To Stop Worrying and Love (Okay, Like) Christmas
Forward, December 19, 2007

It's the Deep Structure, Stupid
Zeek, December, 2007

As Winter Falls, a Time To Learn From the Orthodox
Forward, November 28, 2007

The Witch of Endor
American Jewish Life Heretic of the Month, Nov/Dec, 2007

A BuJu Responds to Sam Harris
Zeek, November, 2007

Memo to Michael Steinhardt: Duh
Forward, October 17, 2007

Seasons Going North (poem)
Ein Shemesh, October, 2007

Sometimes God Just Wants to Dance
The Jewish Chronicle, October 5, 2007

The New Atheism: What's a Liberal, Spiritual Jew to Do?
Forward, September 26, 2007

Jewish Hipster Cool is Dead
Shma, September, 2007

Straw Gods: Christopher Hitchens' God is Not Great
Hadassah, Fall, 2007 (not available online)

Yom Kippur: A Personal Journey
Forward, September 12, 2007

How Not to Believe in God
World Jewish Digest, September, 2007

Anan Ben-David
American Jewish Life Heretic of the Month, Sept/Oct, 2007

The Gifts of Boredom
Zeek, September, 2007

Conservative Judaism at a Crossroads
Forward, August 29, 2007

Entering the Gate of Sadness
Zeek, August, 2007

Who's Your Daddy?: The Bible's Many Vocies on Homosexuality (Review of Jennings, Jacob's Wound
Forward, July 18, 2007

Fasting from a Functional Perspective
MyJewishLearning.com, July, 2007

Portrait of the Artist as a Nice Jewish Boy
Forward, July 10, 2007

Apocalypse Now: Climate Change and Israel
American Jewish Life, July/Aug, 2007

Joseph Rabinovitch
American Jewish Life, Heretic of the Month, July/Aug, 2007

Free Will: The Last Gasp of the Unenlightened Mind
Zeek, July 2007

The People's Bible
Forward, June 19, 2007

Why I Study Sabbateanism
Zeek, June 2007

Balancing Hesed, Gevurah, and Tiferet (audio)m
Beliefnetk, June 2007

Shrine of False Messiah in Turkey May Be Razed
Forward, May 18, 2007

Judaism and the Culture of Outburst
Forward, May 11, 2007

No Crystals Needed: Why Meditation is not Spirituality
Forward, May 4, 2007

Baruch Spinoza
American Jewish Life, Heretic of the Month, May/June, 2007

Fantasy and Totalitarianism: On Ministering to Special Cases
Zeek, May 2007

The Other Disappeared
Forward, April 27, 2007

Leonard Cohen: Poet of the Holy Sinners
Forward, April 20, 2007

The Attraction of Irrelevance: Tazria/Metzora
Forward, April 20, 2007

Getting Serious About a Religion of Love
Zeek, April 2007

Take Back the (Seder) Night
Forward, Mar. 30, 2007

Jacob Frank
American Jewish Life Heretic of the Month, Mar/Apr, 2007

Boston Rabbinical Program Challenges Denominational Boundaries
Forward, Mar. 16, 2007

Conservative Judaism: Good for the Gays?
Tikkun, March/April 2007 (not yet online)

Keep Your Godwrestling, Thanks: The Use and Limits of Jewish Theology
Zeek, March 2007

YHVH Means What Is: Integrating Judaism and Buddhism, and Why I Bother
Ashe, Winter 2007 (guest editor of journal)

Where the Borscht Sounds Like the Sea: Another Side of Woody Guthrie
Forward, Feb. 9, 2007

Spiritual Pioneers See a Different Shade Of Judaism: Green
Forward, Feb. 2, 2007

Stop Seeking: Paradoxes of the Spiritual Path
Zeek, February 2007

Shortbus: Best Gay Movie Ever
White Crane, Winter 2006-2007

Sabbetai Tzvi
American Jewish Life Heretic of the Month, Jan/Feb., 2007

Into Life: On Parshat Va'era
Torah Queeries, January 20, 2007

The Graphic (Novel) Side of Israel
Forward, Jan. 19, 2007

Zeek is not a Gay Magazine (but it is out)
Zeek, January 2007

Renewing Ecstatic Spirituality to the Beat of a Drum
Forward, Dec. 29, 2006

Gay History in the Making, I Guess
MyJewishLearning.com, Dec. 7, 2006

Religion and Insanity
Zeek, December 2006

The Hidden and the Manifest
A conversation with Rabbi Jill Hammer about Judaism and the senses
Forward, Nov. 24, 2006

In Jerusalem, Fundamentalism on the March
On the recent Jerusalem Pride parade, and protests
Forward, Nov. 17, 2006

Two Lawyers, Three Opinions
Forward, Nov. 3, 2006

Kashrut and Nonduality
Zeek, November 2006

Researching Judaism Online: Paths through the Minefield
Religious Studies Review, October 2006

Demons, Dybbuks, Ghosts, & Golems: The sinister power of life-force gone awry.
MyJewishLearning.com, Oct. 30, 2006

Old Labels Feel Stiff for 'Flexidox'
Forward, Oct. 13, 2006

Brit Hitvada'ut: A Coming Out Ceremony
Human Rights Campaign, Oct. 11, 2006

Dylan's Religious Revival: Modern Times and the Timeless
Forward, Oct. 6, 2006

Yom Kippur and Nonduality
Zeek, October 2006

Shatnez and Civilization: The Queer Path of the Boundary Crosser
Tikkun, August 2006 (pdf)

Interview, A Conversation With the Bad Boy Rabbi (Niles Goldstein)
Forward, September 29, 2006

Book Review, Achieving the Ordinary
JBooks.com, August 2006

A Less Innocent Love: On Parshat Va'etchanan
Mosaic Torah Queeries, August 2006

Spirituality in a Time of Seriousness
Zeek, August 2006

Grassroots Spirituality: As Jews in the Woods Grows, It Weighs Whether to Open Its Doors
Forward, August 4 2006

Book Review, You Are, Therefore I Am
Forward, July 28, 2006

Article, David's Deadly Slings: Iran, Hamas, and the Convergence Plan
World Jewish Digest, July 24, 2006

Homelands of the Heart
Jerusalem Post, July 4, 2006

My Journey to Flexidoxy, or, At Home on the Slippery Slope
Zeek, July 2006

Fear of Fun
Zeek, June, 2006

Exploring the New Jewish Spiritualities

Forward, May 12, 2006

Shabbat and Meditation: Just Be It

MyJewishLearning.com, May 2006

The Jewish Goddess: Past and Present

Forward, May 5, 2006

It's the Purity, Stupid: Reading Leviticus in Context
Why "God hates fags" just like God hates shrimp
Jewish Mosaic Torah Queeries, April 28, 2006

The Freedom of Being
A nondual approach to Shabbat
Zeek, April, 2006

The Mikva
Short story
Ashe Journal, Spring, 2006

The Verse
Short story
Blithe House Quarterly, Spring, 2006

Spiritual Teacher
poem (sorry, not available on their website)
White Crane, Spring, 2006

Finding Poetry in the Language of Silence
On Jason Schneiderman & Ilya Kaminsky
Forward, March 17, 2006

Book of Esther Gets Novel Makeover
On JT Waldman's Megillat Esther
Forward, March 10, 2006

A Jew and a Lawyer Are Sitting in a Bar...
The deeper meaning of lawyer jokes
Forward, March 3, 2006

Flakes
Why 'spiritual' people are often so unreliable
Zeek, March, 2006

Rabbi Was a Master of Practical Kabbalah
On Rabbi Yitzhak Kadouri z"l
Forward, February 3, 2006

How We Connect: Surface in Substance in Jewish Community
The new Jewish culture and its imitators
World Jewish Digest, February 2, 2006

Friends in High Places
An interview with Congressmen Barney Frank and Gary Ackerman
Zeek, February, 2006

The Unity of Opposites
Why has Chabad become so successful?
Forward, January 27, 2006

Doubt as Dharma
Embracing even the hatred
White Crane, Winter, 2006

Israel's "Mystical City" Opens its Doors to Outsiders
A neo-Kabbalist visits Tsfat
Forward, January 20, 2006

Christmas in Jerusalem
Zionism, Ordinariness, and the Situation
Zeek, January, 2006

Alone in Berlin
The young poet who would become Abraham Joshua Heschel
Nextbook, December 27, 2005

Holy Feast, Holy Fast
Food, Judaism and Righteous Ambivalence
Forward, December 23, 2005

Jewish Paganism: Oxymoron or Innovation?
Forward, December 9, 2005

Toward a Queer Jewish Theology

Shma, December, 2005

Hitler and God
The Perils of Pantheism
Zeek, December, 2005

Disabuse Community of Intolerance
On the recent rabbinic sex scandals
Forward, November 11, 2005

Fresh Baked Bread
Ideas about the thing, and the thing itself
Zeek, November, 2005

Fragments of a Lost Jewish World
On Moris Farhi's "Young Turk"
Forward, October 28, 2005

Priests by Birth
A review of Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz' We Jews
Jbooks.com, October, 2005

A Presence in the Wood
poem
Ein Shemesh, October, 2005

Sukkot: From humble to inspired
Building temporary homes
Forward, October 14, 2005

It's the Deity, Stupid
Learning from the Kabbalah Center
The Jerusalem Post, October 11, 2005

Homosexuality, Judaism, and Guilt
When your conscience shouldn't be your guide
GLBTJews.org, October 10, 2005

Is happiness worth losing your memory?
On Jonathan Cott's On the Sea of Memory
Slate, October 4, 2005

Kabbalah: The Whistle-Stop Tour
Review of The Beliefnet Guide to Kabbalah
JBooks.com, October, 2005

Fetishizing the Trigger
How spirituality turns to fundamentalism
Zeek, October, 2005

A Little off the Top
The Controversy around Circumcision
Forward, September 2, 2005

Guilt and Groundedness
Religion, guilt, and the geology of the self
Zeek, September, 2005

Standing Again with Lilith
The Long and Winding Roads of Jewish Feminism
Forward, July 22, 2005

Male and Female Created He Them
On Shmuley Boteach, Otto Weininger, and Gender Binarism
Forward, July 1, 2005

Does Mysticism Prove the Existence of God?
Mysticism, nonduality, and what we can learn through meditation
Zeek, July, 2005

Judaism, Meditation, and the B-Word
A review of new meditation books by Rabbis Jonathan Slater and Dovber Pinson
Forward, June 10, 2005

Star Wars, George Bush, Judaism, and the Penis
From Baal and Asherah to Neo-cons and the Sith
Zeek, June, 2005

A Theory of Everything
Understanding God, Love... and Franz Rosenzweig
Forward, May 13, 2005

An Awakened Soul
The Lives and Lessons of Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi
Forward, May 13, 2005

When Dialogue Harms
How responsible political discourse can sometimes hurt the self
Zeek, May, 2005

The Virtues of Dialogue
Halacha and Homosexuality
Moment, April, 2005

Discipline
Hedgehogs, foxes, and dilettantes
Zeek, April, 2005

Eating Meditation for Passover
A four-worlds guided meditation on matza
Ein Shemesh, April, 2005

Shakey: An Essay on Anger
Working with anger on the contemplative path
Zeek, March, 2005

He Wandered the Earth as an Exiled Man
A review of Bob Dylan, Chronicles: Volume One
Forward, February 4, 2005

I Still Believe that People are Good at Heart
Spirituality and human nature
Zeek, February, 2005

The Knowing
A mystical poem
Zeek, January, 2005

Three Jewish Books on Sadness
A rabbi, a widow, and a therapist address the demon of sadness
Zeek, December, 2004

The Buddha from Brooklyn
A lama talks about enlightenment... with a Yiddish twang
Forward, November 26, 2004

The Holy Fool
How one writer conveys spiritual truths that are seriously funny
Forward, November 19, 2004

Setting Yiddishkeit to Mambo, Metal, and Surf
Jewish novelty records, in 2004
Forward, November 5, 2004

Am I Religious?
Religion, spirituality, and living as if it mattered
Zeek, November, 2004

Bush and National Security
A vote for Bush is a vote against security -- both Israel's and our own.
A Jewish Critique of Bushism, part eight
Jewsweek, October 25, 2004

Mysticism and Mortgages
New Books Blend Kabbalah, Psychotherapy, and Self-Help
Forward, October 22, 2004

Deconstructing Zell Miller
A close reading of right-wing political rhetoric
Zeek, October, 2004

Sacred Sexuality: Possibilities and Perils
(Note: only partial excerpt available online)
White Crane, Fall 2004

Bush, Trees, and the Evil Inclination
Environmentalism, Judaism, and the election.
A Jewish Critique of Bushism, part six
Jewsweek, September 21, 2004

The Pimping of God
How Bush uses religion to terrify voters into supporting him.
A Jewish Critique of Bushism, part five
Jewsweek, September 7, 2004

Mystery Sells
What the Kabbalah Centre actually teaches
Forward, September 3, 2004

How can you be gay and Jewish?
Zeek, September, 2004

Divided Loyalties
A Jewish Critique of Bushism, part four
Jewsweek, August 23, 2004

Bush is Bad for Israel
With blunders in Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Iraq, the Bush administration has been a disaster for Israel.
A Jewish Critique of Bushism, part three
Jewsweek, August 23, 2004

The Spiritual Foundations of Bushism
Zeek, August, 2004

The Bush Theocracy
Are Jews safe when the American president wants to embed religion into the constitution itself?
A Jewish Critique of Bushism, part two
Jewsweek, July 19, 2004
 

Tales of the Masters
Two new books join the effort to create a "neo-Hasidic bookshelf."
Forward, July 16, 2004
 

Lecha Dodi
poem
Ein Shemesh, Summer, 2004
 

Lies without Words
The lies Bush tells are not particular untruths; they are the whole discourse which he promotes.
A Jewish Critique of Bushism, part one
Jewsweek, July 6, 2004
 

Hasidism and Homoeroticism
Zeek, July, 2004
 

Notes on Camp
How a summer choice for kids became a linchpin of Jewish Continuity
Forward, June 11, 2004
 

How I Finally Learned to Accept Christ in My Heart
Zeek, June, 2004
 

Secrets of the Rebbetzin
Hadassah Gross's Penetrating Insights into Kabbalah, Love, and Yearning
Forward, May 14, 2004
 

It's all in the Mix: DJ Spins Eclectic Combinations
Profile of Brooklyn musician DJ Handler
Forward, May 7, 2004
 

Wrestling with Steve Greenberg
Zeek, May, 2004
 

It is Not Good for Man to be Alone
Review of Rabbi Steve Greenberg's Wrestling with God and Men: Homosexuality
   in the Jewish Tradition
Forward, April 30, 2004
 

Practicing what he Preaches, Reggae Singer Reveals His Soul
Profile of Hasidic reggae artist Matisyahu
Forward, April 9, 2004
 

An Invitation to the Orchard
Review of Daniel Matt's new translation of the Zohar
Forward, April 2, 2004
 

New Haggada Highlights
Review of The Holistic Haggadah and Creating Lively Passover Seders
Forward, April 2, 2004
 

Life During Wartime, or, Freedom & the Ordinary
Zeek, April, 2004
 

Revealing Ourselves through our Masks
Essay on the holiday of Purim
Forward, March 5, 2004
 

Passion and Violence
Review of the notorious film, with scholarly Biblical and political analysis
Zeek, March, 2004
 

For this Scholar, the Body is the Window to the Soul
Forward, February 27, 2004
 

You are God in Drag
Notes from and after retreat
Zeek, February, 2004
 

A Watershed Year for Gays of Faith:
With Legal Equality in the National Dialogue, Activists Shift Focus to Public Acceptance
Forward, January 2, 2004
 

Marketing Undermines Judaism
Shma, January, 2004
 

Thinking despite Doubt and Feeling despite Truth
Essay on meditation and worldliness
Zeek, January, 2004
 

A Festival of Rebellion Reminds Us What Matters Most
Essay on Chanukah
Forward, December 19, 2003
 

A Prayer Group of Their Own:
Kol Zimrah and Other Do-It-Yourself Minyans Unite the Independent-Minded
Forward, November 14, 2003
 

Energy
Zeek, November, 2003
 

From Aleph to Tough:
A poet who does not merely refer to existing tradition, but "makes it new"
Review of Rodger Kamenetz, The Lowercase Jew
Forward, October 17, 2003
 

Rabbi Cowan Speaks Out About Meditation, Action and New Job
Forward, September 26, 2003
 

What is Burning Man?
Zeek, September, 2003
 

You Keep on Knockin' But You Can't Come In :
What 'the Sixties' Wrought: Religion Is a Counterculture
Review of Mark Oppenheimer, Knocking on Heaven's Door
Forward, August 29, 2003
 

The Queer  Guy at the Strip Club
Zeek, August, 2003
 

An Orthodox Poet Takes on God and Sex
Forward, June 20, 2003
 
 
 
 

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