Congratulations to the new @yiddishbookcenter.bsky.social Translation Fellows! They include Vivi Lachs (London Yiddish Songbook), Ellen Cassedy (two Bella Chagall memoirs), and @drberger.bsky.social (anthology of contemporary Yiddish poetry).
www.yiddishbookcenter.org/translation-...
America is losing a talented researcher today.
Rümeysa Öztürk, whose abduction by masked men prompted a search and her eventual release by ICE, has returned to Turkey. She wants to resume a career without "state-imposed violence and hostility."
www.bostonglobe.com/2026/04/17/m...
International Conference: American Jewish Landscapes After October 7
April 19-20, 2026jewishstudies.unc.edu/event/conference-america...
Such a pleasure to be able to attend this conference at Carolina Center for Jewish Studies this coming Sunday and Monday. I get to read and talk about poetry, what could be bad, with people whose work I admire incl Jessica Jacobs, Maya Arad, et al.!
It’s not whether these men were “right” or “wrong.”
Though I’ve documented plenty of instances of them being wrong.
It’s whether they were good faith actors.
They were not.
They were political actors and spreaders of doubt.
Anyone who validates them shows us they are missing the moment.
can we redeem JD Vance and Ross Douthat for cash and keep Hampshire going for a few more years?
dicks outa davenports is the name of my bare naked ladies cover band…
Tomorrow it will be Too Hot. I know it.
My polite response, not vitriolic, is that you are not "sparking productive conversations across divides," but cementing an official discourse that supports the dismantling of scientific research and public health. Also, your "we" does not include my patients or those I care about. Have a day.
the season of nice weather in Baltimore (which we are currently in) is about the length of time of an avocado's ripeness
it's so you can open it to smoke
I regularly read the New York Times and I also hate it, but also the piece in the Magazine about people in a vegetative state was a first-class piece of work that everyone should read.
Douthat is a Christian fascist.
I'm a Hampshire College grad. I applied early decision. Hampshire and its professors made me who I am today. It forced me to write. Its flexibility to take courses outside of campus let me complete an undergraduate degree focused on Eastern Orthodoxy. Its approach to schooling shaped my thought.
Y HOOMANS GO TO MOON BUT CANNOT DO DIS
*murmurs, unintelligible hoomanspeak*
ITS RUFFTORICAL QUESTSHUN DIS PRESS CONFURENCE OVER
Since I have no control over this decision and uninformed speculation is what social media is for: someone I am close to is deciding between Penn and Columbia for college. Would you suggest P, C, or neither? Show your work
really hits the spot
ross douthat is a good example of a person who loves fascism, and is saying that Orban is not a fascist because he wants Orban to return to power and reinstate fascism.
oh my god. was trump told to tell the press that the image was "doctored," but misunderstood and told everyone that he was depicted as a "doctor"? Captain Obvious ™ @TheFungi669•4h Karoline Leavitt: "President Trump's Truth Social post depicting him as Jesus was a doctored image." 5:37 PM • 4/14/26 • 1.2M Views
Probably
I saw Gallego trending and thought we were into a Rosalia de Castro renaissance :(
but R Hillel has something to say bout it too, y' know
it is not upon you to complete the work but man i want that work done asap
As a person containing multitudes, I don't ask for someone to do it, but I would be happy if it happened.
Thank god the uber-rich can finally enjoy themselves.
Headline: Someone Has to Be Happy. Why Not Lauren Sánchez Bezos? As half of an unfathomably powerful couple, Subhead: Mrs. Sánchez Bezos seems to have influenced the uber-rich to stop apologizing, and start enjoying themselves.
When the headline asks a question answered by the subhead.
It's so funny to me that right-wingers love to pretend to love the Middle Ages and the Crusades and all that and then complain that the Pope shouldn't get involved in politics.
I'm such a Lucas Originalist I don't even watch the movies I just read the '74 first draft while listening to Holst's 'The Planets'
"what if it's My Favorite State?"
see above
Leana Wen is in the Washington Post arguing that raw milk is probably fine because it only hurts babies and those who choose to drink it
To remember Yom Hashoah, don't support state murder, or genocide, or mass killing, or whatever term you feel comfortable countenancing.