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writer, educator, lover & critic of Jewish literature & film. Career coach for English majors & other humanities types. Latest book: MOVIE-MADE JEWS: AN AMERICAN TRADITION https://helenemeyers.com/
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Love seeing this fab film get the love it deserves (especially since it almost didn't get made because it was too Jewish--and some otherwise very smart feminists read it as a backlash film!)

submitted 13 hours ago • 1 comment

“It was Duty who gave the call . . . to shoot indiscriminately at the Matinecock Indians, so that they could safely settle and begin to spread the good news of Christian brotherly love.”—Taffy Avner Brodesser #SundaySentence

submitted 20 hours ago • 0 comments

An advisor like that is worth a price above rubies—as is an advisee who is smart enough to know she has been handed a gem for a lifetime

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Missed this in Jan, but even more relevant now. "You see, taxes are an implicit acknowledgment that I exist within society and not above it. That my fate is tethered to the fate of humanity at large. That I am not the special little boy I’ve always believed myself to be."

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

In praise of competent and caring professionals. We should be letting them do their jobs and not put obstacles in their way that make all of us less safe.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Nice looking bird with a smart, pithy message.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

This hits differently in these times than it did in 1979.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Turns out those basic research and critical thinking skills associated with the humanities might be valuable after all, eh?

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

As usual, @effinbirds.com nail it!

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

The psychoanalytic concept of projection at work.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Also useful to note that DVDs often have director commentary and special features that are not available through streaming.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

So looking forward to the writing that emerges from this visionary and much-needed program. Congrats, mazel/mazal tov to all!

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

In praise of science

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Annie Lee (1935-2014), Blue Monday

submitted 14 days ago • 3 comments

A bit of much-needed Zen

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

“The price tag is also equivalent to a year’s rent for a one-bedroom apartment for 1,177 people, which would constitute roughly 80% of New Orleans’ unhoused population.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Re-upping my review of @filmmakerjulie.bsky.social and @mohusseini.com’s short doc THE PATH FORWARD over @lilithmagazine.bsky.social just because 😏 lilith.org/2024/09/the-...

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments

This looks 🔥🔥

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Bitches do it best!

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

Today’s library haul @chrisyogerst.bsky.social @helenemeyers.bsky.social

submitted 20 days ago • 2 comments

As we begin the celebration of Black History Month, I am thinking of those who stood up, spoke out, and took action when they saw injustices in the world – people like my friend, John Lewis. Carrying that spirit and their legacy with me this month and always.

submitted 23 days ago • 470 comments

In praise of science (she says in a Brooklyn stage whisper)

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

@barbrastreisand.bsky.social's "Don't Lie to Me" came to mind for some inexplicable reason today. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNrj...

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

Jews need to call out antisemitism on the left and the right (including in higher ed). But we shouldn't let corrupt, anti-democratic pols instrumentalize antisemitism (i.e., use legitimate Jewish fear & pain to do their nefarious work). Just saying.

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

Yesterday's @jwaonline.bsky.social's academic advisory council meeting confirmed yet again that they are the real, visionary deal.

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

Yep. And reflected in voting patterns.

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/u...

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

That punim and that wagging tail! Pure joy.

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

"'The editing became extremely intrusive. It was very much toning down of my voice, toning down of the feel, and a lot of pressure for what I considered false equivalence.' And, increasingly, attempts 'to dictate the subject.'” www.cjr.org/analysis/pau...

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

Another @effinbirds.com zeitgeist post

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

A beautiful story about chef Charles Phan, whose memory is clearly a blessing. Thanks for this much-needed gift, @marjorieingall.bsky.social

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

As always, amazing resources from @jwaonline.bsky.social

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

For the evening crowd

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) has provided real-time data and analysis about disease outbreaks and emerging health threats without a break every week since 1960. Until today.

submitted 31 days ago • 147 comments