Look, there is no way to avoid TPUSA. You can give trolls a C-, B, B+. It won't matter. They can even get an A overall but if you give the feedback the very constructive OU instructor did, you're on the list. The assignment could be 2% of the grade (it might be in that class!). There is no defense.

Mimesis with 2 y o and stuffed animals. 4 y o does their own thing.

Guys, if you haven’t had a chance to read Rafe’s “When a Human Gives Birth to a Raven” (open access with UCP) do it! It’s a game-changer! If you don’t have time for the entire book, my review came out this week with AJS Review.

Thanks @monikaamsler.bsky.social for this iconic pic of the wonderful panel in which #SarahIlesJohnston, #JeremyMcInerney, #KarenBritt, #RaananBoustan, #BlakeLeyerle, and #Denisa Hradilová, engaged my book in dialogue with their own work on art, hybrids, monsters, animals, and menageries! 1/x

Gilah Kletenik and Rafael Neis are at it again, in Ep. 5 "Jewish Studies, Naturally." For the full episode, visit the link in bio or click on the link below. #jewishstudies #aderaba #podcast #nature @postrafelite.bsky.social youtu.be/p6yp7m-Ob2E?...

#USPATH feels so good to be in a trans majority space talking about the issues

Am I the only one who pronounces it as Bloo-skee?

Season 1, Episode 4: "What's Wrong with the West" just dropped! Come for the insightful analysis and critique of contemporary investment in a so-called "Western" tradition currently ascendent in right-wing circles, including by specific Jewish groups. beacons.ai/aderaba @postrafelite.bsky.social

Season 1, Ep 2 of ADERABA: What’s Bad about Being in the Image of God? Hosts Gilah Kletenik & Rafe Neis unpack how this idea shaped Jewish & Christian thought—its dangers, its hierarchies, and its potential for rethinking human dignity & ecology today. #aderaba #talmud #philosophy #theology

You can now read and download the Introduction to my new book Slavery and the Jews of Medieval Egypt - to be published in January. press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Season 1, Ep 3 of ADERABA: Why Halakhah is NOT Law We unpack the history and politics of reducing halakhah to “Jewish law,” its Christian inflections, and its impact on Jewish legal thought today. Heated (and personal!) lawyer–rabbi debate inside. #halakhah #jewishstudies #judaism #law #philosophy

Jews and stomach problems have apparently been a theme for a while. (from Berakhot 55a)

More self-promotion: a lecture I gave earlier this year about radical forms of democracy in antiquity (and the lessons they might offer us) can now be seen on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=iluz... #democracy #anarchism #canpol #antiquity

there is an hour and a half of SPX left so make sure you find all of the clues to discover the true meaning of zines

what we’ve seen from the right is the most insane case of cancel culture i’ve ever witnessed. the left has never even done close to a fraction of a fraction of what they want to do now

Rafael Neis offers a response to panelists, highlighting the unique position of both author and artist.

I am having a hard time reconciling "Charlie Kirk was a fierce advocate of open dialogue and free expression" with "we must identify and persecute everyone who is insufficiently mournful"

Spoiler: what do Augustine, Hitler, Augustine, Obama and (Mike) Pence have in common? Gilah Kletenik and I argue about the value of the idea that humans are in the divine image.

Episode 2 of ADERABA out today! WHAT IS BAD ABOUT BEING IN THE IMAGE OF GOD? Two clips below 👇🏻 Full episode on YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, etc. youtube.com/shorts/gK8z5... youtube.com/shorts/vWyNJ...

I am teaching Ancient Law this semester. It's a surprisingly tough subject to teach if you live/are affected in any way by the present. myriad presumptions we have about law are hard to bear when certain people are criminalized for existing.

My hometown school librarian is now being counter-sued... Here's how to donate to the GoFundMe to help legal fees: www.gofundme.com/f/legal-supp...

This episode is for people who teach/study/have interest in: #religion #religiousstudies #ancienthistory #antiquity #lateantiquity #jewishstudies #talmud #classics #transgender #trans #transgenderstudies #cis #cisstudies #gender #sex #sexgender #trancestors #history #ancientjudaism #bible

ADERABA features hosts Gilah Kletenik and me. Our podcast name is Aramaic for "On the contrary." We expect contrary takes on Jewish themes, Talmud, philosophy, bible, law, gender, and more

ADERABA first episode just dropped! Have Trans People Always Existed - What Would the Rabbis Say? Subscribe eg here podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a... Clip below has split screen with Gilah on top, me on bottom, talking about Adam's gender.

New Podcast! ADERABA: Jewish Studies on the Contrary. episode 1 - "Have Trans People Always Existed? What Would the Rabbis Say?" - drops tomorrow Fri 9/5! open.spotify.com/show/4Ly49AO...

New podcast episode! Lydia Bremer-McCollum interviews Monika Amsler about The Babylonian Talmud and Late Antique Book Culture. newbooksnetwork.com/the-babyloni...

"But fueling Jewish studies on the fumes of the Trump administration’s attack on higher education is not a win. It’s a trap, and one we fear will bring ill consequences to our field, our universities, and American Jews." From @lilacb.bsky.social, Kate Rosenblatt, and me.

ADERABA first episode just dropped! Have Trans People Always Existed - What Would the Rabbis Say? Subscribe eg here podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a... Clip below has split screen with Gilah on top, me on bottom, talking about Adam's gender.

New Podcast! ADERABA: Jewish Studies on the Contrary. episode 1 - "Have Trans People Always Existed? What Would the Rabbis Say?" - drops tomorrow Fri 9/5! open.spotify.com/show/4Ly49AO...

🐣 Our SBL Review Symposium for Mike Chin’s new monograph “Life” has just been published with Religious Studies Review 51/2. Have a look here, especially if you are interested in ancient natural history or new ways of writing old history: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/17480922...

beautiful symposium for a beautiful book don't miss @postrafelite.bsky.social's cartoon about creation - a beautifully meditative way to start the morning

Closer to my own scholarly field, if you’re interested in the rabbis and haven’t read Max Strassfeld’s “Trans Talmud” and @postrafelite.bsky.social’s “When A Human Gives Birth to a Raven,” you should rectify that right quick: www.ucpress.edu/books/trans-... www.ucpress.edu/books/when-a...

Also Sarra Lev’s “And the Sages Did Not Know”: www.pennpress.org/978151282518...

I’ve adored every single @restingdinoface.bsky.social book I’ve read. Riley Black is a wonderfully lyrical storyteller, and the temporal scope of her work is really fortifying and hopeful in ways you might not expect. (This is to say: today is an awesome day to buy trans writers’ books!)

Travel book. First a work trip, then to my nephews bar mitzvah. @laurarsamotin.bsky.social’s fiction, Abe Mezrich poetry, @postrafelite.bsky.social study, and my beloved Me’am Loez to keep up with the parsha. Gotta be ready for anything.

Thrilled to share my review of @postrafelite.bsky.social's marvelous book, which is a rich and erudite dive into the rabbis' world as well as a really exciting theoretical intervention! Plus it's open-access, so you can go read it RIGHT NOW! I hope this review whets your appetite for it!!!

Also I finished (for now) my map of Berakhot 30b-33a:

The admin that cites its concern about antisemitism to justify deporting students who write op-eds for Palestine, is now defending the German far-right party with a neo-Nazi wing, the party that calls for "moving beyond" Holocaust memory. You know, because they care so much about antisemitism.

The Vice President of the United States is tweeting in support of a German far-right party with an openly neo-Nazi wing, which has called to “move beyond” historical guilt for the Holocaust. Never, ever take these people seriously when they claim to care so deeply about antisemitism.

I trace the idea - that what you see can impact your soul, psyche, and FETUS (!) - across ancient Jewish and other traditions in my book THE SENSE OF SIGHT IN RABBINIC CULTURE: JEWISH WAYS OF SEEING IN LATE ANTIQUITY. "LOVE at first SIGHT" comes from this ancient understanding of power of vision

@postrafelite.bsky.social picks up R. Yohannan, maternal imprinting & related topics in their book (Free download) "When a Human Gives Birth to a Raven: Rabbis and the Reproduction of Species" Check out their post, and art, on the UC Press blog www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/6... 5/6

@postrafelite.bsky.social's book is $35 or free download. I've had it on my shelf since it came out but haven't had a chance to dig in yet. I'm hoping to do so soon. We're both local to each other but haven't met yet. I'm hoping to fix that too. www.ucpress.edu/books/when-a... 6/6

Comic on Talmud bavli hagigah 12a-b. It is taught, Rabbi Yose says: Woe to creatures, who see and don't know what they see, who stand, and don't know on what they stand. On what does the earth stand On pillars... on water... on mountains... upon wind... upon a storm, hanging on the Holy One's arm.

I’m greatly enjoying @postrafelite.bsky.social’s “When a Human Gives Birth to a Raven,” but I can’t resist doing this Very Serious marginalia whenever hedgehogs are mentioned.

My dream way of being read! Journal... will you commission a book review by this extremely prickly reader of my book??

Finishing up comic for Mike Chin's recent book on LIFE. Image of person with large mustache declaring 10 entities (or words) were created on 1st day: heaven, earth, tohu bohu light dark wind & water, unit of day, unit of night

Talmud Bavli Hagigah 12a-b The quasi forbidden, demi secret mysteries of Creation unraveled but also obscured in the Babylonian Talmud. #Comics #wip #comix #esoterica #forbidden #secret Image description in next skeet.

FNAR commenced studying Chumish Bereshis (Genesis, hebrew Pentateuch). E and T duly consumed lettered honey. Image description in next skeet. #indoctrination #hebrewBible #genesis #transparenting