Jay Michaelson

Jay Michaelson (born May, 1971) is a writer and teacher in the United States who writes on law, religion, Judaism, and LGBT issues. Michaelson is legal affairs and religion columnist at The Daily Beast and a contributing editor to The Forward, newspaper. Michaelson has twice won the New York Society for Professional Journalists award for opinion writing, most recently in 2014.

After graduating Columbia College of Columbia University in 1993, Michaelson graduated Yale Law School in 1997. His 1998 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. Other legal academic work was published in the Yale Law Journal and Duke Law Journal.

Since 2004, Michaelson's legal and political writing has focused on religion, progressive politics, and LGBT issues. In 2009, his essay entitled "How I'm Losing My Love for Israel" generated substantial controversy in the Jewish world, including responses from Daniel Gordis, and Jonathan Sarna,. His recent work has been featured on MSNBC ("Gays under attack over Ebola") and Meet the Press ("Prayer breakfast dispute"). As a result, Michaelson was listed in the Forward 50 list of the most influential American Jews in 2009.

In 2013, Michaelson wrote a long-form report on the religious exemptions movement, Redefining Religious Liberty: The Covert Campaign Against Civil Rights.. Michaelson's work on this issue gained prominence a year later after the Hobby Lobby Supreme Court case. Since then he has appeared on NPR and at the Newseum and written many articles on religious liberty in Reuters, The Washington Post and other publications.

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