Across all religious groups, 50% or more oppose laws that make it illegal to ship abortion pills. Read more about Americans’ conflicting views on abortion rights and access to medication abortion in this Spotlight Analysis from PRRI Public Fellow @michalraucher.bsky.social

Please read and share. www.jta.org/2025/07/25/i...

Some exciting news coming out of the religious challenges to abortion bans! religiondispatches.org/religious-ch... @prri.org

FSR is hiring a Blog Submissions Editor! Applications are due in one week - May 27, 2025. For info on apply, visit www.fsrinc.org/fsr-is-hiring/

Breaking News: Newark's mayor, Ras Baraka, was arrested while he and three members of Congress from New Jersey were protesting at an immigration detention center in the city. He was taken to an ICE facility in Newark, his aides said. nyti.ms/3Z680Un

Nice to see moral leadership from our rabbis.

AAUP has just published a memo laying out the many legal reasons why universities should not hand over the names & nationalities of their students or faculty, as the Trump admin has asked. Please share freely with your friendly university admin! @aaup.bsky.social www.aaup.org/news/institu...

We just watched Sen Cory Booker while eating dinner. We rarely watch TV during dinner. My kids were riveted. @booker.senate.gov

“If you are not heartbroken by America then you do not love America enough.” -Senator Cory Booker of NJ, 19 hours into a filibuster @booker.senate.gov

Not sure how cuts to the U.S. Dept of Education will impact higher ed? Join @higheredlabor.bsky.social for a virtual discussion of what higher ed loses when the DoEd is destroyed and how we can respond collectively. 4/1 at 8pm on Zoom. tinyurl.com/Apr1HELU

#Measles isn't just a childhood rash. It can cause severe pneumonia, brain damage, and even reactivate years later as a fatal form of dementia. A public health scholar explains the long-term risks: buff.ly/8uVMNYz Peter Kasson, Georgia Institute of Technology 🩺#medsky #vaccines 🧪

Keep going, Senator!!!

At @religionnews.com.web.brid.gy, @jackjenkins.me examines how conservative Christian activists are adopting legal strategies similar to those used in the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2022 Dobbs decision to challenge same-sex marriage rights in the country. religionnews.com/2025/03/26/s...

The Trump administration is making moves to ban abortion and prohibit access to medication abortion, but is that what Americans want? Join us tomorrow at 1pm eastern / 10 am pacific to discuss Americana’s views on the legality of abortion.

Proud to have worked on @nexusproject.bsky.social's Fighting Antisemitism, Protecting Democracy: A Strategy for the Trump Era, a look at what actually fighting antisemitism would entail... www.axios.com/2025/03/31/c...

Proud to be a Rutgers faculty member today.

If you receive an invitation to review for JFSR, please accept it! #ReviewForJFSR #FSRFridays @michalraucher.bsky.social @respitina.bsky.social

@nexusproject.bsky.social is also working on this!!!

Louder so the people in the back can hear you!!!! This is not about our safety as Jews. During Trump 1, Jews stood side by side with immigrants. The current administration is using our safety as an excuse to create a wedge between us now.

There have been repugnant and sometimes antisemitic protests on college campuses that must be addressed. But using them as an excuse to cut $400 million from Columbia — funds that enrich and sometimes save the lives of thousands — doesn’t make Jewish students or Jews safer.

Thinking of submitting an article and curious what our reviewers are looking for? Dr. Christy Cobb, and Dr. Sailaja V. Krishnamurti, two JFSR board members, talk about their process for reviewing articles. #reviewforJFSR #womenshistorymonth @respitina.bsky.social @michalraucher.bsky.social

Curious about the Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion? Follow here for a series about the journal with two of our incredible board members!

This season of Love is Blind is soooooo boring, but I am appreciating the frequent conversations about politics. Women lecturing men about the importance of abortion and LGBTQ rights should honestly be a subgenre of TV. #loveisblind

Ok he keeps mispronouncing names and not even asking if he’s pronouncing them correctly (as opposed to Sen Durbin who is asking). It’s such an obnoxious antisemitic micro aggression to just bulldoze over peoples names. Signed, a person whose name has been mispronounced for decades.

US Senate committee on the judiciary is holding another hearing on antisemitism and the chair of the committee (Sen Chuck Grassley) just repeatedly mispronounced “Elie Wiesel.” If that’s not symbolism for something…

The Feinstein Center at Temple University announces its annual summer fellowship to support research in the American Jewish experience. Predoctoral and postdoctoral scholars studying any area of American Jewish life are eligible for the grant of up to $4,000. liberalarts.temple.edu/research/lab...

At this point there are just a few things that make me feel a little bit better about the world: 1. Teaching about abortion; 2. Discussing Israel/Palestine with college students; 3. Snuggling (not necessarily in that order)

NEW: A national survey released today by PRRI tracks Americans’ views on LGBTQ rights across all 50 states and the District of Columbia and provides an updated profile of LGBTQ Americans, based on interviews with more than 22,000 adults throughout 2024. Full report: www.prri.org/research/lgb...

“Our message to Palestinians is that you are not alone, our attention has not wavered, and we are committed to fighting with every breath we have to stop ethnic cleansing in Gaza.”

Today in the New York Times --communal leadership at its most powerful – prominent figures & trusted voices refusing Trump-Netanyahu with clarity and unusual unity in a loving show of solidarity with Palestinians. #saynotoethniccleansing www.saynotoethniccleansing.org

It’s interesting watching @nexusproject.bsky.social fill the gap the ADL has left open, given that these days the ADL couldn’t spot an antisemite if he threw a Nazi salute on Inauguration Day. (Is the ADL on BlueSky? Or would even having an account here be too disloyal to their good buddy Elon?).

As a proud IUD holder, I am in love with this!!!!

In my class, I usually spend some time looking at how maps are politicized, how they are part of narratives, and of course how they have changed over the last 100 years. I might start assigning this piece along with this discussion!

Israel police raid prominent East Jerusalem bookshop, arrest owners, confiscate books: "They went through books with Google Translate and took everything they didn't like"

February 8, 2025

New findings from PRRI show support for Christian nationalist ideology at the state level. Learn more: www.prri.org/research/sup...

Getting ready for my first teaching gig of the repro shabbat season. Takeaways: 1. Jews have been involved in repro health and rights for a century; 2. Jews have abortions; 3. Jews understand those abortions to be consistent with their religious and cultural identities.

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A New York doctor who prescribes abortion pills online has been indicted in Louisiana.

Texas saw a 12.7% rise in infant mortality after implementing a strict #abortion ban. The increase was 7x higher than the rest of U.S., primarily affecting babies with severe congenital malformations. https://buff.ly/4aW6mK5

After creating an account months ago, then forgetting I created an account, then forgetting my password when I remembered I created an account, and finally resetting my password and logging in again, I guess I'm here now.