Jay Michaelson
Author
Rabbi Dr. Jay Michaelson is a journalist, scholar, and meditation teacher. He is a frequent contributor to New York and The Daily Beast, and an editor and podcast host at Ten Percent Happier, as well as a visiting fellow at the Center for LGBTQ & Gender Studies in Religion. Jay co-leads the Hazon meditation retreat and is authorized to teach in a Theravadan Buddhist tradition. He holds a PhD in Jewish Thought from Hebrew University, a JD from Yale, and nondenominational rabbinic ordination, and worked as a professional LGBTQ activist for ten years. His tenbooks include Everything is God: The Radical Path of Nondual Judaism and his newest, The Heresy of Jacob Frank: From Jewish Messianism to Esoteric Myth.