Jay Michaelson

Jay Michaelson (www.metatronics.net) is a writer, scholar, and activist. He is a columnist for the Forward newspaper, the Huffington Post, an Reality Sandwich magazine. A recent visiting professor at Boston University Law School, Jay's environmental writing includes the seminal 1998 article "Geoengineering: A Climate Change Manhattan Project," the first scholarly study of geoengineering approaches to climate change. Jay is also a religious activist; his books on religion include Everything is God: The Radical Path of Nondual Judaism (2009) and God in Your Body: Kabbalah, Mindfulness, and Embodied Spiritual Practice (2006), and he is the director of Nehirim, a national organization devoted to the inclusion of sexual minorities within religious communities. Jay holds a J.D. from Yale Law School and is completing his Ph.D. in religious studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.