Her essay gutted me. What a loss.

Awful, awful news. Her essay was magnificent: www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

insert jokes about soft and hard power

marty supreme in romanian

do you need fifteen minutes of wholesome content?? when I went to the eras tour the dads were def a highlight youtu.be/R9XN1iOungs?...

not me googling is rozanov a jewish russian last name (it doesn't seem to be, alas) but a girl can dream

I love this holiday so, so much. feeling so lucky this year amidst everything.

COLD

love starting my days reporting weird antisemitic emails to our security team

legit did not know frank gehry was jewish. what a legend. from his nytimes obituary.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/arts/design/frank-gehry-dead.html

once again, i need a lev tahor podcast/documentary/anything apnews.com/article/colo...

Wake up dead man is a great movie andI had forgotten how fun it is to see a film in a packed theater. everyone in it is a perfect actor and having a blast. A plus all around

Do you know one of the biggest feuds in the Jewish world was between two factions in the ponevezh yeshiva named the haters and terrorists? anyway it finally ended and the haters won

anyway, good day for this perfect yehudim baim sketch www.facebook.com/watch/?v=433...

Today is Səgd (ስግድ), an ancient holy day for the Ethiopian Jewish community. Read this lovely article about it, which includes memory, theological reflection, and a recipe.

this is horrific and i am glad the university banned her. but also, it is incredibly funny that she couldn't do her antisemitism correctly when she said the blood libel is during sukkot, and not passover. www.timesofisrael.com/uk-universit...

Today I encountered the Poelei Agudat Israel hymn, a relatively small movement that tried to combine Haredi Jewish ideals with socialism. And I gotta say, it rules.

death by lightning is great. garfield hive rise up

some of the best political commentary i've seen in the past two years is in shem tov heavy two, the second chapter of the craziest israeli hip hop-era by tamir bar www.kan.org.il/content/dig/...

Breaking News: A jury found a man not guilty of assault for throwing a sandwich at a federal agent in Washington.

you know you have a real personal brand when multiple people send you this www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...

In a new article (open access!) I argue that the Ottoman state played a crucial role in creating Ashkenazi identity in Jerusalem - as an overarching category for Yiddish speaking Jews from Central and East European countries. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6V2... its his weekend, time to celebrate

i usually only post about reality tv, but yes this exactly.

is anyone watching i desperately need to discuss

The diplomat is so perfect

This is literally a running punchline on the third season of shababnikim and now it’s just real life yankiai.com

my favorite haredi tv dating show is coming back for a second season.

gut vinter

tv news: there's going to be a tv series about the kidnapping of yossele shumacher, one of the more bonkers episodes in jewish history variety.com/2025/tv/glob...

Super excited to finally see this piece of mine online.

The show platonic is legit really great?

Who else is in the small venn diagram of comparing their Jewish youth group experience to the teen mania documentary

SONS AND DAUGHTERS is my novel of the year and it isn’t even close

emerging from my self imposed social media blackout to ask...who will talk about this week's below deck with me??? that was WILD

new publication alert 🚨 academic.oup.com/edited-volum...

I cannot even begin to describe how perfect righteous gemstones is

Apply for the Institute for Advanced Israel Studies Fellowship 2025-2026: Diversifying the Israeli Diaspora www.brandeis.edu/israel-cente...

I talked to @npr.org about the wonderful and goofy world of Schlissel Challah one.npr.org/i/nx-s1-5343...

Several students who sheltered in place during Thursday’s deadly shooting at Florida State University shared a traumatizing coincidence: They had also endured the Parkland, Florida, school massacre in 2018.

eretz nehederet does the white lotus www.instagram.com/reel/DIPIOoF...

I have long held that my love of material comforts protects me from extreme religious opinions and therefore I relate the most to Piper

Betar USA is the far-right organization giving the Trump administration names of pro-Palestine students to deport. Today they confirmed they are going after the “wrong sort of Jews” as well. It was always inevitable that this “anti-antisemitism” campaign would be turned against Jews on the left.

I taught at USNA for two years and one of the classes I taught was titled Gender, ethnicity, and religion in the IDF. It was incredible and challenging to teach and it’s crazy to think that such a class would be likely banned today.

Good thread for other at-risk grants as well.

My @nehgov.bsky.social grant “In the Shadow of the Holocaust: Short Fiction by Jewish Writers from the Soviet Union” was canceled by “DOGE.” The project doesn’t support "the furtherance of the President's agenda.” Jews surviving genocide: out of step w/ the agenda of using Jews to destroy higher ed.

Val Kilmer. If he existed only to be the subject of this glorious @taffyakner.bsky.social profile, that would have been enough. www.nytimes.com/2020/05/06/m...

despite it all still pretty amazing to see your name and ideas in print 😍

In Weird Coincidences, I met Eli Sharvit when he was head of the Israeli navy and I worked at USNA. he visited USNA and they drafted me the Hebrew speaker to greet him and his delegation together with other top level USNA people. He was pretty surprised to be welcomed in Hebrew...

Media!! Wake up!!!!