This is a running joke in my house whenever we realize that something will likely remain beyond our reach forever... The bar is so low and the thirst for repentant traitors is so thirsty...

Joel S.@joelhs.bsky.social · yesterday

I have a permanent TT job that I like, which makes me luckier than a lot of very deserving people in academia. But sometimes I think about how easy it would be to write about how much the liberal arts hates Jews, do the right-wing grievance circuit, and cash in. More money for less work, probably.

You never get your perfect case, but this is a potentially strong indication of our present direction; a small glimmer of hope where none should have been needed in the first place. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

NSW judge says anti-Israel graffiti case went ‘haywire’ when vandalism was labelled antisemitic

Mohommed Farhat spray-painted slogans and torched a car in Woollahra. He pleaded guilty but supreme court judge says case appears to be a ‘miscarriage of justice’

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A Texas Tech professor was told her course on the Holocaust could stay in the university’s core curriculum only if she agreed to cut the content about queer victims of Nazism. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/u...

Texas Tech University Is Using A.I. to Cut Left-Leaning Content

Texas Tech is using A.I. to cut left-leaning content in its curriculum. Some say the effort to ferret out forbidden topics is a dystopian academic nightmare.

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This was some of my best art during the second Iraq war. We had a party and I glued crayons to the wall, so people could poop and draw. It was glorious. Guess the toilet would need to be golden now.

The author's confidence in their excessive moral worth is at one astounding and pedestrian: "Grief over dead children in Gaza may have a genuine quality, albeit as a naïve response to propaganda..."

The Jewish Chronicle@jewishchron.bsky.social · 4d ago

If the Chinese regime is funding pro-Gaza marches on London’s streets, democracy is at risk www.thejc.com/opinion/if-t...

26% of American Jews say they would be more involved in American Jewish life if there were more “spaces where non-Zionist and anti-Zionist views can be expressed without being labelled antisemitic.” www.sajr.co.za/some-young-j...

Some young Jews are pulling back from Jewish life over Israel discourse, study finds

JTA – Nearly four in 10 Jewish young adults say events affecting Jews in recent years have led them to pull back from Jewish spaces or become more selective about where they participate, with disagree...

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Incredible new resource: Mapping database of all of the Holocaust monuments and memorials in the Czech Republic. One of the principle investigators told me that the list I compiled in my diss from 40 years of Jewish newsletters proved extremely helpful. No attribution. zachovanipameti.udu.cas.cz/en

Holocaust Monuments and Memorials in the Czech Republic

Explore more than 600 Holocaust monuments and memorials in a unique database and specialized map of the Czech Republic.

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We're thrilled to see this book come out in print! It is the first produce of our Publishing Symposium Series, supported by the S. Rubenstein Family Foundation.

Jacob Ari Labendz (Lion Swan)@labendz.bsky.social · 3w ago

Turns out, no one is too refined to make an unboxing video... including yours truly and @rkpejsova.bsky.social. You can purchase "Keeping Contact" with a 30% discount directly from Purdue University Press: www.press.purdue.edu/9781626712652/ youtu.be/XQJko4RPGtc?...

Turns out, no one is too refined to make an unboxing video... including yours truly and @rkpejsova.bsky.social. You can purchase "Keeping Contact" with a 30% discount directly from Purdue University Press: www.press.purdue.edu/9781626712652/ youtu.be/XQJko4RPGtc?...

Keeping Contact Unboxing

YouTube video by Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, RCNJ

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ChatGPT could not identify this and got most things wrong. Google Image search led to a claim, with a shocking amount of "evidence" that these are Syriac-Jewish migrants in Scandinavia. Gemini said, likely most convincingly, that it is an early Jewish LGBTQ group in the Netherlands. I hate this.

Using AI to do an image search is wild. Each returns something different. Much of it is bananas. How is anyone relying on this shit.

My co-editor, @rkpejsova.bsky.social, and I spoke with Purdue University Press about our new edited volume, "Keeping Contact: Jewish Cultural Initiatives across Cold War Borders" (PUP, 2026) The post includes a code for 30% off ours and other books! www.press.purdue.edu/blog/2026/07...

New Book Explores Communication and Cultural Practices Among Jewish Diaspora During Cold War - Purdue University Press

Purdue University Press spoke with editors Rebekah Klein-Pejšová and Jacob Ari Labendz about their new book, Keeping Contact: Jewish Cultural Initiatives

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Check out our new project at OyKay. Feel free to DM if you or someone you know is interested in supporting our work. www.youtube.com/shorts/W7Vy5...

24. července 2026

YouTube video by Oy Kay TV

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Genesis (car) ad today just straight-up told the truth: "Living in your purpose is the ultimate luxury."

Dropped on my birthday, no less! www.northjersey.com/story/news/2...

North Jersey native has spent years fighting White supremacists

Threats, health setbacks and decades of activism haven't stopped one man's mission to expose extremist movements.

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Try to stop me from assigning this in my fall course on the Holocaust: "Foreskin Reconstruction in the Warsaw Ghetto: A Surgical Strategy for Survival" Halioua, et. al., in "Urology" (July 22, 2026).

Baller move.

Liam Hoare 🇺🇦@liamhoare.com · last mo.

This morning I was in Braunau am Inn attending the opening of a police station in the house in which Adolf Hitler was born. Read my report @haaretzcom.bsky.social

Does anyone have a digital copy of Ivanov's "Pozor Sionizmus!" in Czech or Slovak? I'll be your best friend!

Did they tell this guy to glue his arms to his sides? He looks like he's all "humphy."

I need to hear him say, "China, China, China."

When Mitch McConnell returns to Capitol Hill, it is the responsibility of the first Democratic senator who sees him in the chamber to scream, "Help! It's a ghost." and run away.

It's a privilege to share the wonderful news that the first book to emerge from our Publishing Symposium Series has just hit the bookshelves. We'll plan some events in the coming academic year. For now, with gratitude to all contributors, I encourage y'all to get a coffee and start reading!

Jacob Ari Labendz (Lion Swan)@labendz.bsky.social · last mo.

New Book TODAY! "Keeping Contact: Jewish Cultural Initiatives across Cold War Borders" (Purdue) Many thanks to our contributors and a mutual mazel tov to my dear friend and co-editor @rkpejsova.bsky.social. Available for free on JSTOR for those who celebrate. www.press.purdue.edu/9781626712652/

New Book TODAY! "Keeping Contact: Jewish Cultural Initiatives across Cold War Borders" (Purdue) Many thanks to our contributors and a mutual mazel tov to my dear friend and co-editor @rkpejsova.bsky.social. Available for free on JSTOR for those who celebrate. www.press.purdue.edu/9781626712652/

Keeping Contact

Keeping Contact: Jewish Cultural Initiatives Across Cold War Borders builds upon discussions of Jewish survival and cultural viability after the Holocaust in...

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Impulse bought a new mustache mug (I collect), so I had to drink more coffee in the late afternoon. This one is perfect... and my mustache is dry as a bone!

Whereas in a physical casino, you must take a break from gambling to poop, with online prediction markets, you’re most likely to gamble away your fortunes while pooping.

The first time I saw this was on a tram in Prague, many years ago. I think they were Danish or Dutch tourists. I shuckled in solidarity.

Dexerto@dexerto.bsky.social · last mo.

A Norway fan has gone viral for not taking part in their Row celebration after matches and won't do it if they win the World Cup "It’s factually wrong; they didn’t row, they sailed over the Atlantic”

As long as they get to determine what women may or may not do with their bodies…

Rima I Anabtawi@rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · last mo.

The Pro-Family Party.. just not THAT kind of family. Last month, the Texas Republican Party included in its platform a ban on foreigners using American surrogates, arguing the practice allows children born under these circumstances to obtain U.S. citizenship. www.texastribune.org/2026/07/07/t...

Reading an article by Shlomo Lappin in Quillette for work and found this doozey of a phrase: "... and it was only annulled on 16 December 1991 after the fall of the Soviet Union."

This is disturbing... All the more-so when I realized that 7K was not a new resolution but the number of images this disgusting person produced and circulated.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2mo ago

The expanded class action suit accuses X “of shielding child predators by obstructing police investigations into Grok-generated child sex abuse materials (CSAM).” CW for descriptions of child harm and sexual assault.