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Sari Fein, PhD @sarifein.bsky.social · Aug 1

PSA

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · Aug 1

Today is August 1.

Asking an academic how their book is going is a felony.

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Sari Fein, PhD @sarifein.bsky.social · Jul 31

Recommended read for anyone interested in magic, gender, and Judaism.

Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · Jul 28

Some posts I've been dreaming of writing for ages, and this is one of them.

On Jewish women's folk rituals--

On wise women,

healers,

banishers of the evil eye (puh puh puh 🪬🧿 )

and more, across the globe

with MUSIC

a BOOK LIST

and links to contemporary teachers --

come and learn.

Jewish women's folk ritual

wise women, healers, banishers of the evil eye (puh puh puh 🪬🧿 ) and more, across the globe

www.lifeisasacredtext.com

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Sari Fein, PhD @sarifein.bsky.social · Jul 31

Such a great post and book list! I am designing and teaching a college course on magic from Jewish antiquity to the present in the fall, with a somewhat inevitable focus on gender. I didn't know about all of these practices, and I will definitely point my students towards these resources.

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Sari Fein, PhD @sarifein.bsky.social · Apr 25

This is very surprising, as I am not a theologian. But there's something about late antique Jewish liturgical poetry that just was the perfect invitation to theologize (queerly)...

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Sari Fein, PhD @sarifein.bsky.social · Apr 25

I think I just wrote a piece of queer theology?

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Sari Fein, PhD @sarifein.bsky.social · Mar 24

Still looking for a fascinating session to be a part of at #AARSBL 2025? Consider SBL's Social History of Formative Christianity and Judaism unit's panel on "the street"!

"Street Style" for Paris Fashion Week for Fall 2025

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Sari Fein, PhD @sarifein.bsky.social · Mar 5

I'm delighted to be a co-organizer of this important and timely conference. If you're in the area this week, please join us! @smithcollege.bsky.social

Flyer for Women and Religious Leadership Symposium, March 6-8, Smith College

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Sari Fein, PhD @sarifein.bsky.social · Feb 5

I'm excited to be offering a lecture in the Emerging Voices in Judaic Studies Series at @utknoxville.bsky.social tomorrow evening (5 Feb). Jewish history, women's history, reproduction, magic! You can register for the link here: calendar.utk.edu/event/sari-f...

Sari Fein, “'I urge the Spirit Who Sits on the Womb': Jewish Women’s Reproductive Practice in the Ancient World”

In the ancient world, reproduction was critically important yet fraught with risk. Survival of not only the family but the community itself was dependent upon women's success in conceiving, bearing, a...

calendar.utk.edu

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Sari Fein, PhD @sarifein.bsky.social · Jan 29

First week of classes at @smithcollege.bsky.social , let's go!
This semester, teaching Motherhood in Early Judaism, Women and Gender in Jewish History, and Sacred Space in Jewish Antiquity ✨

Smiling white woman with green glasses and a green top in an office setting with piles of books and a window in the background.

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Sari Fein, PhD @sarifein.bsky.social · Jan 23

Me!

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Shaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social · Jan 15

good morning to humanities professors trying to teach empathy in an increasingly cruel world, and only humanities professors.

i hope your coffee is really good today.

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Sari Fein, PhD @sarifein.bsky.social · Jan 7

I feel this lion's pain.

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Sari Fein, PhD @sarifein.bsky.social · Dec 22

With the most fabulous chair!

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Sari Fein, PhD @sarifein.bsky.social · Dec 17

Great conversation which wove between queer time, queer reproduction, birth, transness, angels, and the end of the world. Many thanks to the chair and my fellow panelists!

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Sari Fein, PhD @sarifein.bsky.social · Dec 17

Happening now at the AJS annual conference: "Queering the Futures of the Past: Reading Ancient Jewish Eschatology with Queer Theory" with @shaynasheinfeld.bsky.social , @brownsmith.bsky.social , Caryn Tamber-Rosenau, @jaedarising.bsky.social and myself. Join us!

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Karolina Krasuska @karolinakrasuska.bsky.social · Dec 15

TOMORROW!

AJS goers! Join us for the very 🔥roundtable

CROSS-DISCIPLINARY ENCOUNTERS IN GENDER AND SEXUALITY RESEARCH

Monday, Dec. 16, 10:30 ET / 16:30 Warsaw

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Ancient Jew Review @ancientjewreview.bsky.social · Dec 11

How to cite the Bible? Ethan Schwartz shares his handout for students.

Guide to Biblical Citations: Teaching Resource — ANCIENT JEW REVIEW

In my experience, teaching introductory-level classes in Bible and ancient Judaism is a constant process of realizing that things that are intuitive to me are not at all intuitive to my students.…

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Sari Fein, PhD @sarifein.bsky.social · Dec 10

Join us on Wednesday 12/18 at 3:30 PM ET in Zoom room 10!

Sari Fein, PhD @sarifein.bsky.social · Dec 10

Bringing students into the wild world of the rabbis in this setting is uniquely challenging but we all believe deeply in the benefits of making this literature accessible to all students.

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Sari Fein, PhD @sarifein.bsky.social · Dec 10

We're only a week away from the AJS online conference and I'm so excited to convene a panel on Teaching Rabbinic Literature in the Undergraduate Classroom with brilliant teachers Matthew Haas, @kristadalton.bsky.social, Erez DeGolan and Madeline Wyze.

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Sari Fein, PhD @sarifein.bsky.social · Nov 27

I will neither confirm nor deny this.
(Actually I spent the third day with my kids and sea lions, which would make a very good panel)

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Sari Fein, PhD @sarifein.bsky.social · Nov 27

Happy Bible nerd after 2 days of great panels (incl. teaching the Bible with film, color in ancient synagogues, maternal voices in deuterocanonical lit., a review panel for The Prophetic Body), great tacos, and great catch-ups with great people over (occasionally great) coffee. Thanks SD! #sblaar24

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British and Irish Association for Jewish Studies @biajs.bsky.social · Nov 12

Border-crossing in Jewish Studies

University of Glasgow
7-9 July 2025

CALL FOR PAPERS FOR #BIAJS2025

Proposals due by 30 Jan. See website for details of how plus guidance:

bajsbulletin.wpcomstaging.com/7944-2/

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Sari Fein, PhD @sarifein.bsky.social · Nov 22

Fully 40% of the people on this airplane flying from Boston to San Diego are frantically typing things about Bible on their laptops at 37000 feet (and I am proud to count myself among them). #sblaar24

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