Studying U.S. Jews and finding religion in unexpected places | Assoc Prof @SFSU @js_sfsu | Author: #BeyondTheSynagogue | Next: Mary Antin’s spiritual adventures
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#BeyondTheSynagogue: Jewish Nostalgia as Religious Practice is out in paperback!
Come for the fights about local pickles at artisanal delis—stay for the argument about what counts as U.S. Jewish religion.
nyupress.org/9781479803385/b…
ALT photo of the book Beyond the Synagogue: Jewish Nostalgia as Religious Practice by Rachel B. Gross with a National Jewish Book Award finalist sticker on a table surrounded by pothos leaves
Michal Raucher gives us a desperately needed perspective on how Jewish groups turning to halakha to fight abortion restrictions misrepresent both rabbinic legal approaches and religiously liberal Jews’ beliefs and practices @the_revealer #AmRel
therevealer.org/the-religion…
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ICYMI: I wrote about Tim Ballard, modern Mormonism, and the radicalization of the far-right.
Operation Underground Railroad was only one part of Ballard’s cultivated image as a heroic truth-teller. slate.trib.al/UUWiq5Y
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“Because one who does not know how to write thinks it no labour, I will describe it for you, if you want to know how great is the burden of writing: it mists the eyes, it curves the back, it breaks the belly and the ribs, it fills the kidneys with pain, and the body with all kinds of suffering… as the last port is sweet to the sailor, so the last line to the scribe.”
- a 10th-century scribe
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I cannot overstate how much of my time as a politically conscious disabled academic is spent reminding students that, yes, you’re allowed to have a body and reminding faculty that, no, you’re not allowed to punish students for it.
This September 1897 Rosh Hashanah blessing from the Emanu-El (now @jewishsf) is my current favorite thing. Thanks to @davidAMwilensky for sharing it in his latest Sunday newsletter from J.:
“To our readers, all hail! May the new year bring them life, health and happiness.”
ALT Page of the Emanu-El newspaper, San Francisco, September 24, 1897
“To our dear people of San Francisco—may the year approaching bring them the consummation of every noble wish for their own elevation, every plan for the happiness of the community, every desire to encompass the wellbeing of their households.”
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Attn: @davidAMwilensky, start thinking about @jewishsf costumes now
Yes it's early for Purim costume ideas but hear me out: Dress up as your favourite Jewish news outlet
Pictured: Hattie Kellert as Miss Jewish Times, 1898
(Congregation Shaar Hashomayim Archives)
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I started offering optional oral exams because @KristaNDalton explained how and why to do so, and it changed how I think about exams in general.
So glad to have Krista’s more thorough take on oral exams here—again a really useful reflection on the purpose and practice of exams.
Krista Dalton shares her process for giving oral finals and the benefits of personalized examination. buff.ly/3R0FQaa
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Someone blocked me for pointing out that this is not an Eleanor Roosevelt quotation. It’s Laurel Thatcher Ulrich! I won’t be silenced.
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I wrote this @RNS op-ed about why we must not miss the history of white Christian racism behind Florida's new K-12 curriculum.
Thanks to @Sacred_Writes @modmyth & @PaulODonnellEIC for guiding my ideas here.
religionnews.com/2023/08/28/…
Mazel tov, @JessicaKirzane! Thrilled for all of us who have learned to love Miriam Karpilove’s wry, insightful writing thanks to Jessica’s translations
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I loved interviewing people about how interning at @eldridgestreet changed their lives as part of my research for #BeyondTheSynagogue!
INTERNSHIP ALERT 🚨 We’re seeking one Public Programs & Communications Intern and one Education & Family Programs Intern for Fall 2023!
Application deadline is Wednesday, August 30!
To apply, visit eldridgestreet.org/opportuni…
#internship #museumintern #jobopportunity #nycmuseum
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