Puff pastry by yours truly 😇
Beef wellington: one of the greatest Thanksgiving centerpieces to play the game.
November 28, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Puff pastry by yours truly 😇
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The soft launch of our house cider, “Goodman’s Own A to J ‘Proper Scrumpy’” was very successful.
November 28, 2025 at 12:54 PM
The soft launch of our house cider, “Goodman’s Own A to J ‘Proper Scrumpy’” was very successful.
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At the bargaining table with @haw-uaw.bsky.social, the Harvard administration has repeatedly refused to agree to any contractual protections against discrimination or harassment. Their rationale? Harvard already has comprehensive policies and procedures for such things that work perfectly well!
"Summers has continued to teach at Harvard since, interrupted by brief stints in Washington, and currently holds Harvard’s highest faculty distinction as a University Professor. This semester, he is teaching two large undergraduate courses and one graduate class."
When former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers was pursuing a romantic relationship with a woman he described as a mentee, he turned to a longtime associate for guidance: Jeffrey E. Epstein.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
November 17, 2025 at 3:17 AM
At the bargaining table with @haw-uaw.bsky.social, the Harvard administration has repeatedly refused to agree to any contractual protections against discrimination or harassment. Their rationale? Harvard already has comprehensive policies and procedures for such things that work perfectly well!
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I am very honored that my book Babylonian Jews and Sasanian Imperialism in Late Antiquity won the National Jewish Book Award for Scholarship!!
Cheaper paperback version now slated to appear in just a few months, but for now the book is available here: www.cambridge.org/core/books/b...
Cheaper paperback version now slated to appear in just a few months, but for now the book is available here: www.cambridge.org/core/books/b...
January 23, 2025 at 2:47 PM
I am very honored that my book Babylonian Jews and Sasanian Imperialism in Late Antiquity won the National Jewish Book Award for Scholarship!!
Cheaper paperback version now slated to appear in just a few months, but for now the book is available here: www.cambridge.org/core/books/b...
Cheaper paperback version now slated to appear in just a few months, but for now the book is available here: www.cambridge.org/core/books/b...
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For the past year I’ve spoken against instrumentalizing charges of antisemitism and attacks on free speech and academic freedom, and for justice & peace in Israel-Palestine. I’ve seen colleagues & students targeted for harassment because of their identities or their politics. 🧵1/
January 22, 2025 at 9:40 PM
For the past year I’ve spoken against instrumentalizing charges of antisemitism and attacks on free speech and academic freedom, and for justice & peace in Israel-Palestine. I’ve seen colleagues & students targeted for harassment because of their identities or their politics. 🧵1/
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My new essay comic, Antisemitism in a Time of Genocide, is now up at Le Monde Diplomatique in France.
I’ll thread the 8 panels in English here, and link to the French at the end.
I’ll thread the 8 panels in English here, and link to the French at the end.
January 22, 2025 at 8:12 PM
My new essay comic, Antisemitism in a Time of Genocide, is now up at Le Monde Diplomatique in France.
I’ll thread the 8 panels in English here, and link to the French at the end.
I’ll thread the 8 panels in English here, and link to the French at the end.
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“fix your hearts or die” is as about as good a life philosophy as one can get, RIP to David Lynch for fixing mine
January 16, 2025 at 7:48 PM
“fix your hearts or die” is as about as good a life philosophy as one can get, RIP to David Lynch for fixing mine
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the spread of misinformation on bluesky is really quite harrowing. always feed your cat every time he meows. he has never been fed. he is starving.
January 16, 2025 at 5:31 PM
the spread of misinformation on bluesky is really quite harrowing. always feed your cat every time he meows. he has never been fed. he is starving.
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2ar2oyle already climbing the charts. true gargoyles are saying, water
January 13, 2025 at 7:37 PM
2ar2oyle already climbing the charts. true gargoyles are saying, water
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Thoguhts Of Life—Ive replaced evero screen in my goon cave w/ a diff. translation of the Epic Of Gilgamesh. My mind has become rather Honed
December 31, 2024 at 10:47 AM
Thoguhts Of Life—Ive replaced evero screen in my goon cave w/ a diff. translation of the Epic Of Gilgamesh. My mind has become rather Honed
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Still a newcomer to Gilgamesh but these guys arrest me every reading - the text is so intensely focused on the human that somehow I am startled to remember there are giants, scorpion men, things of that nature in the world
Half humans, half scorpions guard the entrance to Mount Mashu where the sun rises and sets in the Epic of Gilgamesh.
To go beyond that point is to enter totally unknown territory.
To go beyond that point is to enter totally unknown territory.
December 18, 2024 at 11:51 AM
Still a newcomer to Gilgamesh but these guys arrest me every reading - the text is so intensely focused on the human that somehow I am startled to remember there are giants, scorpion men, things of that nature in the world
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Refusal, abolition, complete noncompliance—if you think otherwise you’re getting paid by somebody, somehow
The Humanities must firmly reject AI taking over our classrooms, our pedagogy. It’s the only way.
December 9, 2024 at 1:43 AM
Refusal, abolition, complete noncompliance—if you think otherwise you’re getting paid by somebody, somehow
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it is exaustin being so hansome all day
December 7, 2024 at 10:02 PM
it is exaustin being so hansome all day
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DUNE (dir. Villeneuve, 2021)
AJR Year 3 (2017): the most read essay was Daniel Machiela's "The Aramaic Language of the Dead Sea Scrolls: Why it Matters and What Lies Ahead." #AJRAnniversary
The Aramaic Language of the Dead Sea Scrolls: Why it Matters and What Lies Ahead — ANCIENT JEW REVIEW
Dr. Daniel Machiela on the linguistic makeup Aramaic at Qumran and the Bible.
buff.ly
November 15, 2024 at 5:32 PM
DUNE (dir. Villeneuve, 2021)
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A little joy for the day because Ancient Jew Review is 10 Years Old! Advisory Board member Andrew Jacobs reflects upon AJR's founders and the past decade.
Ancient Jew Review: The First Ten Years — ANCIENT JEW REVIEW
Advisory Board member Andrew Jacobs reflects upon the past 10 years of Ancient Jew Review.
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November 13, 2024 at 2:05 PM
A little joy for the day because Ancient Jew Review is 10 Years Old! Advisory Board member Andrew Jacobs reflects upon AJR's founders and the past decade.
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10 years ago we had an idea to make an online space to feature academic work about Jews and their neighbors in the ancient world. Feels like such a lifetime ago!
A little joy for the day because Ancient Jew Review is 10 Years Old! Advisory Board member Andrew Jacobs reflects upon AJR's founders and the past decade.
Ancient Jew Review: The First Ten Years — ANCIENT JEW REVIEW
Advisory Board member Andrew Jacobs reflects upon the past 10 years of Ancient Jew Review.
buff.ly
November 13, 2024 at 2:22 PM
10 years ago we had an idea to make an online space to feature academic work about Jews and their neighbors in the ancient world. Feels like such a lifetime ago!
Six months later, I have finally, I think, figured out this coffee cake. One more test bake.
Going to the hospital TO GIVE BIRTH TO HIM, I should clarify.
My grandfather passed last week, and I returned from the funeral in Los Angeles with his mother's coffee cake recipe which, according to family lore, she made and took a bite of right before going to the hospital (in 1926 Madison, WI).
September 20, 2024 at 3:57 PM
Six months later, I have finally, I think, figured out this coffee cake. One more test bake.
Going to the hospital TO GIVE BIRTH TO HIM, I should clarify.
My grandfather passed last week, and I returned from the funeral in Los Angeles with his mother's coffee cake recipe which, according to family lore, she made and took a bite of right before going to the hospital (in 1926 Madison, WI).
February 29, 2024 at 11:44 PM
Going to the hospital TO GIVE BIRTH TO HIM, I should clarify.
My grandfather passed last week, and I returned from the funeral in Los Angeles with his mother's coffee cake recipe which, according to family lore, she made and took a bite of right before going to the hospital (in 1926 Madison, WI).
February 29, 2024 at 11:34 PM
My grandfather passed last week, and I returned from the funeral in Los Angeles with his mother's coffee cake recipe which, according to family lore, she made and took a bite of right before going to the hospital (in 1926 Madison, WI).
I was one of those Americans, and the sequel to this is that so many of us had a lot of fun, and kept on asking Andrew and Robyn why they didn’t have another Super Bowl party. It was a while before they told us the truth
It turned out all of our grad school friends were incredibly annoying to watch the SB with - the Americans just wanted to do cultural critiques of the commercials, the Euros just complained it wasn't rugby. So for a decade we've had a 2 person party - with nachos! It's the best.
Although I couldn’t care less about football, Super Bowl Sunday is one of my favorite days of the year…because I’ve reframed it as National Junk Food Day, a glorious holiday dedicated to nachos, wings, dips, and other foods that make life worth living
January 22, 2024 at 3:45 AM
I was one of those Americans, and the sequel to this is that so many of us had a lot of fun, and kept on asking Andrew and Robyn why they didn’t have another Super Bowl party. It was a while before they told us the truth
Some personal news
January 11, 2024 at 2:06 AM
Some personal news
Baking thread 2024. Beer bread with honey and rosemary.
January 8, 2024 at 3:14 AM
Baking thread 2024. Beer bread with honey and rosemary.