Roadworks will tear us apart, again

I burn most of my calories on Peloton fuming about genre taxonomy.

My laser pointer didn’t work in class yesterday so instead I simply asked my students to visualize the course of the Oder River.

Bluesky abridged: Have you heard about the Cracker Barrel at the University of Chicago?

My fig tree runneth over.

I started my semester with a root canal. How are you gonna beat that, ChatGPT?

Having children dress as characters for book week teaches them to embrace naive mimesis. They should be encouraged to personify formal categories like omniscient naration, free indirect discourse, etc

If you are looking to read something on the history of Zionism that moves beyond the settler colonialism debate & shows how the pre-1948 conflict in Palestine is linked to pre-Holocaust Eastern Europe -- & the role of int'l law in this story -- here's a new piece by yours truly. cup.org/4lQfUL7

Why is everyone talking about the fall semester. It's May.

Tried to get my kids to stop fighting about what show to watch by quoting the Prophets. No luck with Amos 3:3: “Can two walk together, except they be agreed?” So I went back to Amos 3:2: “You only have I known of all the families of the earth: therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.”

They don’t understand. It’s not basketball weaving, it’s basket imbricating.

Nothing more annoying than dittographic Sumerograms.

Migraine and other Headaches in the... Of course I clicked. I needed to find out what headaches have to do with Sonderkommando testimonies. ...in the Mesopotamian Incantation Bowls. doi.org/10.1515/tc-2...

Personally, I won’t even say hello to A.I. Just a death stare.

Dear colleagues, experts, and everyone: What's the best single volume history of the Holocaust to assign as supplementary reading for an undergraduate course? Thanks, Sam

We all know about computers and data mining. But did you know about humans and doodoo mining?

“The Case of Mordecai vs. Haman: A struggle for an independent judiciary Before the Bar of Universal Justice Based on a Unique Interpretation of the Book of Esther,” by Rabbi Dr. Solomon M. Neches, 1951.

I spent an amazing few days last week @yiddishbookcenter.bsky.social talking to a group of middle and high school teachers from all kinds of schools around the country about Yiddish Holocaust poetry and how they can incorporate it into their teaching about the Holocaust.

Trying something new with my 8yo: Pokemon Go but pulling weeds in our yard.

Sarah Hamer-Jacklyn and the Yiddish Gothic -- take my new class, starting in August. Three short stories over three weeks. No previous Yiddish knowledge necessary.

I get through these sweltering July days by reminding myself that it’ll be pumpkin spice season in just three weeks.

How will professional cycling respond when AI reaches the Tour de France?

If you want to get the inside dope on the Tour de France, can’t beat this show:

Why does he have to bring Shakespeare into it?

In-class writing assignments. What am I missing?

What is “English paper”?

We are excited to announce that ebooks can now be purchased directly from sup.org! As a special introductory offer, we’re happy to give a 50% discount on all direct ebook purchases made during the month of July More information about our ebooks can be found here: www.sup.org/ebooks

Here’s the table of contents for “In the Shadow of the Holocaust: Short Fiction by Jewish Writers from the Soviet Union.” Harriet Murav & I translated Bergelson, Rubin, Kipnis, Gorshman, Gordon from Yiddish; Kalinovskaya & Khemlin from Russian www.sup.org/books/jewish... @stanfordpress.bsky.social

Museum rules: - Do not take pictures of pictures. - Do not sit on chairs.

Yiddish joke: A heretic lay on his deathbed and said to his son, “Your older brother converted, so he obviously won’t say Kaddish for me. Your sister has no obligation to say Kaddish. You’re the only one who can say Kaddish for me. I beg of you, when I’m gone—please don’t say Kaddish for me.”

Summer must-read

"I asked ChatGPT" "I asked Grok" Well I Googled it.

What a great privilege to get to know and support the truly stellar faculty at Johns Hopkins, especially early in their career. We just announced the 2025 cohort of Catalyst Award recipients. This award will allow them to move into new bold directions. research.jhu.edu/major-initia...

In these challenging times for our Hopkins researchers, any support can help keep their projects in the right direction. With 39 Discovery awards ($150K) and 20 Catalyst awards ($100K), our office is providing such support for team science and early-career faculty. hub.jhu.edu/2025/06/17/j...

Hi Playmobil, Who is we? I am a Maple Leafs fan from Hamilton, Ontario. You are a German toy company with American headquarters in New Jersey. I am not happy about the Florida Panthers winning the Stanley Cup. Why are you?

P'tcha or galareta (also known as "calves' foot jelly") is a traditional Ashkenazi Jewish dish. It is a kind of aspic prepared from calves' feet. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%27tcha

So summer camps pay random photo recognition companies for the privilege of giving them huge amounts of data for free, no strings attached. And the data = photographs of kids. Maybe this is not a great idea?

You can tell a lot about a country from whether it celebrates Father’s, Fathers’, or Fathers Day.

The @nytimes.com style guide recommends using the plural in reference to Lisa Murkowski.

The Universal Yiddish Library has launched: www.universalyiddishlibrary.org. It's going to be a long afternoon.

Shavuos marks the revelation at Sinai. Here’s a joke: Why do rich people get away with sins but poor people don't? It goes back to Mt Sinai. When Moses broke the tablets the rich & bossy people grabbed all the big pieces "steal" "murder" "philander" "covet". The shlimazels got stuck with "don't."

Spent a few minutes today wondering what Akkadian French is.

SO: Why not just make them at home? Me: Then they wouldn’t be heimish.

Two poetry books from New York: one by Ida, one for Ada. “In halb-shotn,” (In semi-shadow), Ida (Edith) Glasser-Andrews, 1922. “Adas liderbukh,” (Ada’s book of poems), Ephraim Auerbach, 1934.

Fresh in, Yiddish books from early-1970s Montreal. A veritable potpourri, rtl: 1) “In mayn gefalnkeyt,” M. M. Shaffir, 1975. Poems. 2) “Di mishpokhe in Kanada un Dos hoyzgezind fun Profesor Sidney Goldstein,” Sh. Shtern, 1975. Novellas. 3) “Midrash Rabbah Shir Hashirim” trans. Sh. Dunsky, 1973.

Intelligence is overrated and artificial things suck. What am I missing?

Try to write an abstract without the word “evince.” Impossible.

The Life Cycle of Leaven. Stage 1: moments after Passover.

Details about the book are here. Needless to say (I'll say it anyway), I'm available for appearances of all kinds!

I have four questions about this talking Haggadah: - Why? - Why? - Why? - Why?