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Jay Michaelson (born 1971) is a writer, teacher, and scholar in the USA. His work involves spirituality, Judaism, sexuality, and law. Jay Michaelson.net He is a columnist for The Forward and a featured blogger for the Huffington Post He has written three books, Everything is God: The Radical Path of Nondual Judaism (2009), God in Your Body: Kabbalah, Mindfulness, and Embodied Spiritual Practice (2006) and Another Word for Sky: Poems (2007). Michaelson has been a leading voice in "New Jewish Culture," alternative Jewish spirituality, and GLBT activism. He has written 200 articles for The Jerusalem Post, Slate, Tikkun, Zeek, Reality Sandwich, and other publications.

Michaelson has held teaching positions at Boston University, Yale University, and New York City College with a focus on religion, law, and ethics. His 1996 Stanford Environmental Law Journal article on geoengineering and climate change was described as "seminal" by Salon Magazine and he is regarded as an early advocate of the policy.

Michaelson has been noted as an innovator and occasional gadfly in the American Jewish community. He founded Zeek: A Jewish Journal of Thought and Culture in 2002 and Nehirim, an organization for GLBT Jewish culture and spirituality in 2004. In 2009, Michaelson's essay entitled "How I'm Losing My Love for Israel" generated substantial controversy in the Jewish world, eliciting responses from Daniel Gordis, Jonathan Sarna, and others. Forward, October 21, 2009

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