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👇🎯 I was very early here but also tried Mastodon, stayed on Twitter longer than Jacob bc certain prof. networks (esp. 🇪🇺/🇬🇧 based scholars, policy folks, & journalists) were still there, left here for a bit post-10/7/23 bc the antisemitism here was awful, & came back & now find Bluesky useful. But 👇💯

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One odd thing about Twitter/ Bluesky discourse from my perspective is… I didn’t leave Twitter for Bluesky. I left twitter. Then well over a year later, there was Bluesky, and I joined it. (In between, tried Threads and Mastadon.) If Bluesky disappeared tomorrow I wouldn’t go back to Twitter.

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Maybe Happy Ending made my heart so happy. I am so glad to have seen it. If you are in New York- or if comes to your city when their tour launches next year- go see it. It is joy and love.

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@j9love.bsky.social and I published our ungrading article with JSEPA and had a great experience.

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In honor of Ryan Coogler's masterful film Sinners going on sale to rent or buy digitally today, here's my Substack on how the film's creative showcase of Black and non-white cultures is the argument for diversity, equity and inclusion Hollywood needs. loom.ly/UxXM3vs

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When we talk about antisemitism, most of the discussion is about motivations. Let's talk about effects. The most productive way to think about it is imo in terms of an attack on Jews' civil rights: exclusion, discrimination, violence on the rights to equal access to civic life and public space. 1/

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

The relationship that the Jewish community has to the State of Israel is more fraught than people outside our community know.

submitted 13 days ago • 6 comments

This has been a heavy day for many reasons, so I am going to say goodnight with a timeline cleanse- my view of Ghost from my yoga mat this morning.

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

Would really appreciate if Twitter's antisemites would make up their minds over whether Jews should all go to Israel or get out of Israel. The entire worldview seems undertheorized, feels like they need to sit down and hash out the basics at a meeting of the Elders of Anti-Zion.

submitted 17 days ago • 23 comments

So the event was held at a Jewish Museum, was intended for Jewish Attendees (not Israelis), and was led by an interfaith coalition supporting refugees (including in Gaza). This was unquestionably an antisemitic hate crime.

submitted 18 days ago • 14 comments

Also true of when people go out of their way to silence protest/speech on campus that takes pains to focus on Israel/not conflate the state with Jews. Some think “if we call all protest extreme antisemitic speech, we’ll end the speech!” No. You’ll get more extreme and even antisemitic speech.

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I would have gone much farther at a much earlier date, but I do think we've crossed some sort of line when the President Emeritus of the Union for Reform Judaism, the largest formal Jewish denomination in the US, is calling Israel's war "inhumane." www.haaretz.com/opinion/2025...

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Always good when the state empowers someone to decide who is and isn't a "real Jew"

submitted 19 days ago • 2 comments

Make your voice heard here - there is a 3 day comment period. For those who have done this before (e.g.: @donmoyn.bsky.social), do you tend to comment anonymously, or do you leave your name? www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Working on a paper and raging about citation politics (h/t @maxliboiron.bsky.social). I refuse to cut citations for word count purposes (especially for an online journal). Hoping I can lobby the editors because the citations are ~1/4 of the words, and each deserves to be included. #AcademicSky

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

Meanwhile, if Trump actually does pivot away from Israel in the Middle East, the domestic swerve on antisemiticism will get very ugly very fast, in ways that will take all the pleasure out of seeing post-leopard Horowitz, Slotkin, Weiss and Ackman.

submitted 23 days ago • 4 comments

“Dozens of groups joined the task force, but an ‘overwhelming number’ had something in common, Mr. Carafano said during a Jan. 2024 meeting: They weren’t Jewish. A short list of initial members that Heritage posted online consisted mainly of conservative and Christian organizations.”

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

people need to internalize, very quickly, that federal research grants are a hypercompetitive contracting process not charity, and that what Uncle Sam gets in return for that money is American dominance in the future

submitted 22 days ago • 163 comments

Before everyone goes into conspiracy theories, here is the occam's razor reason.

submitted 22 days ago • 5 comments

Important context for why the EBU might be keeping Israel in Eurovision, thus incentivizing the protection of KAN (the Israeli EBU member) as a free press. BIbi has threatened KAN before, but values Eurovision participation more. No Eurovision=no reason to keep from taking over the medium.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Made it to Convocation. Train home already delayed at least an hour

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Loving how there are no NJ Transit trains and Amtrak still manages to be delayed on these here tracks. Will I make it to Convocation?

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

NYU Wagner convocation is today. As soon as I heard about the potential NJ Transit strike I got Amtrak tickets (I'm lucky thue an option at my station). This empty parking lot is wild. I don't get this close to the front when I get here by 6:15 am, let alone 11:30 am.

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

I think the position that Israel should not be allowed to perform in Eurovision is completely reasonable and fine as a position. The conspiracy theories about the Israeli performers are not.

submitted 24 days ago • 3 comments

For those who have commented on this or other regulation - do you comment anonymously or post your name? (Can DM your answer if you prefer)

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Every thing I love is under attack.

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

Today👇🏼

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Princeton folks: come hear Lila Corwin Berman and me talk about American Jewish Philanthropy. We will be at TJC on Wed 5/14 at 7:30 pm.

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"The Harvard report on antisemitism + anti-Israel bias claims to document a crisis of antisemitism on campus. But what it actually reveals is Harvard’s willingness to redefine Jewish identity in ideological terms: to exclude + erase Jews who dissent from Zionism. I know this b/c I am one of them."

submitted 31 days ago • 5 comments

Insightful conversation here from @eotaxprof.bsky.social and @countingcharity.bsky.social #nonprofitsky theconversation.com/can-trump-st...

submitted 31 days ago • 2 comments

on this date eight years ago, Tom Holland wowed Zendaya on Lip Sync Battle with his cultural critique of impervious surface stormwater runoff.

submitted 33 days ago • 19 comments

🚨BREAKING: Jefferson Griffin, the Republican candidate in the 2024 North Carolina state Supreme Court election, finally conceded six months after losing the race to incumbent Justice Allison Riggs, a Democrat, the Associated Press reported. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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