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Rafe Neis (((they/them)))
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🏳️‍⚧️ 🎨✍🏻 🦋 Londoner in the Middle West. Historian of late antiquity and Talmud scholar. Comics artist and painter. First Gen x 3.
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And now you, of course, in all your queer glory (in all senses), light the sky up for those of us who maybe *have* been defeated by the academy, and who also know as you do, that the academy needs to be burned down, but not in the way that its current attackers think!
But more importantly, I remember that visit, it was one of my first invitation invitations, and I was pretty nervous... when we use the Time Machine to go back in the past, let me know that you a fellow queer are there?
And would find a way to unnecessarily but also very necessarily make queerness part of the story... even at the Shabbat table of my rather conservative parents. 😆.
Oh my gods! 😳😳😳 whaaa!!! I did not know this 🥲. (I did have a blue stripe, a manga-like blue lowlight 😂). But I'm super touched and grateful to you for sharing this. My youngest sibling used to call my ostentatious queerness, my "lesbian toothbrush." I could be talking about brushing my teeth 1/
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Gilah Kletenik and Rafael Neis are at it again, in Ep. 5 "Jewish Studies, Naturally." For the full episode, visit the link in bio or click on the link below.

#jewishstudies #aderaba #podcast #nature @postrafelite.bsky.social

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Jewish Studies, Naturally
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Did a tiny hike with these lovely people before listening to a fantastic summary of law and policy in today's ever shifting world.
#USPATH feels so good to be in a trans majority space talking about the issues
Am I the only one who pronounces it as Bloo-skee?
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Season 1, Episode 4: "What's Wrong with the West" just dropped!

Come for the insightful analysis and critique of contemporary investment in a so-called "Western" tradition currently ascendent in right-wing circles, including by specific Jewish groups.

beacons.ai/aderaba
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Season 1, Ep 2 of ADERABA: What’s Bad about Being in the Image of God?

Hosts Gilah Kletenik & Rafe Neis unpack how this idea shaped Jewish & Christian thought—its dangers, its hierarchies, and its potential for rethinking human dignity & ecology today.

#aderaba #talmud #philosophy #theology
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You can now read and download the Introduction to my new book Slavery and the Jews of Medieval Egypt - to be published in January. press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
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Season 1, Ep 3 of ADERABA: Why Halakhah is NOT Law

We unpack the history and politics of reducing halakhah to “Jewish law,” its Christian inflections, and its impact on Jewish legal thought today. Heated (and personal!) lawyer–rabbi debate inside.
#halakhah #jewishstudies #judaism #law #philosophy
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Jews and stomach problems have apparently been a theme for a while. (from Berakhot 55a)
Lit had a paper called "'Their Backs toward the Temple, and Their Faces toward the East:' The Temple and Toilet Practices in Rabbinic Palestine and Babylonia" 🤣
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More self-promotion: a lecture I gave earlier this year about radical forms of democracy in antiquity (and the lessons they might offer us) can now be seen on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=iluz... #democracy #anarchism #canpol #antiquity
Radical Antiquity: Ancient Lessons for Modern Democracy
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there is an hour and a half of SPX left so make sure you find all of the clues to discover the true meaning of zines
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what we’ve seen from the right is the most insane case of cancel culture i’ve ever witnessed. the left has never even done close to a fraction of a fraction of what they want to do now
Thank you for reading 💜 and also for getting what the book is about 🥹
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I am having a hard time reconciling "Charlie Kirk was a fierce advocate of open dialogue and free expression" with "we must identify and persecute everyone who is insufficiently mournful"
After Charlie Kirk's death, teachers and professors nationwide fired or disciplined over social media posts
At least a dozen faculty and staff have faced fallout over insensitive comments online.
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Spoiler: what do Augustine, Hitler, Augustine, Obama and (Mike) Pence have in common?

Gilah Kletenik and I argue about the value of the idea that humans are in the divine image.
Episode 2 of ADERABA out today!

WHAT IS BAD ABOUT BEING IN THE IMAGE OF GOD?

Two clips below 👇🏻

Full episode on YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, etc.

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ADERABA S1 E2 CLIP 2 - "What's Bad About Being in the Image of God?"
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