HeyJaredBoth/And with Jay Michaelson
The intersection of politics/law/culture and spirituality/psychology/meditation. By a journalist/lawyer/rabbi/meditation teacher/professor.
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Suspended Between Belief and Unbelief (opens the original)
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Sukkot, the Jewish holiday taking place this week, has long been my favorite. It’s peculiar, pagan, and mostly free from problematic theology. It’s observed mostly at home, or rather, in temporary huts that religious Jews build for a week. And it operates almost entirely on the level of myth, psychology, ritual, and symbol: the parts of religion I love, without dubious explanations and attempts at sense-making. As such, It’s a kind of microcosm for my longtime religious practice, which for twent
How I Learned to Dance Again (opens the original)
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I want to share a part of my life I almost never write about, what it has meant to me for the last thirty years, how I was cut off from it for awhile, and how I got my groove back. I want to write about electronic dance music spaces, queer and otherwise, and how they have long been a core part of my spiritual practice. I don’t know how that sounds to you: surprising, ridiculous, trivial, banal. But I want to share something about this journey with those of you who have supported this newsletter.
Toy Guns that Spark and Flesh-colored Christs that Glow in the Dark: A Response to Sean Illing (opens the original)
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I’m Having a Gay Star Trek Day (opens the original)
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Over the last couple of years, I’ve stumbled into a microgenre that I might call “queer takes on cultural artifacts that I hadn’t realized were impactful to me in a distinctly queer way” – last year’s essay on on Nick Drake, for example. One day I’ll write the ur-text of this genre, about the 1989 film Dead Poets Society, but today being “Star Trek Day” — and the sixtieth anniversary of the first episode’s air date — that venerable science fiction franchise is my subject her
Reflections on Obvious Stupidity (opens the original)
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Donald Trump has been at it again.Faced with a torrent of horrible news — historically low approval ratings, a disastrous non-ending of the Iran war, extremely bad economic numbers, and the desertion of many of his supporters over betrayals over the Epstein Files, the war, and the economy — Trump has, as Roy Cohn taught him nearly half a century ago, worked feverishly to change the channel.And so we bring you: Lake America.I am fascinated by these tactics. Not because I take them seriously anymo
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