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Lex Rofeberg @lexaphus.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Gus Kenworthy has great penmanship. Sorry I typoed, *peenmanship*.

Lex Rofeberg @lexaphus.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Deborah Lipstadt's "clarification." If you're saying "What's the problem? I referred to a white Christian 19-year-old's antisemitism as being part of 'intifada' and that's logical actually"... Maybe just take a step back from participating in conversations about antisemitism? You're not helping.

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Lex Rofeberg @lexaphus.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

It makes Jews much less safe when we presume all antisemitism comes from Muslims, and imply it couldn’t possibly be Christians. Sincerely, A Jew who lived in Jackson, loved living there, wore a yarmulke every day, and is unsurprised a white, religious Christian man set fire to the synagogue there

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Lex Rofeberg @lexaphus.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Wow it’s worse than they predicted. Zohran got elected and immediately there are all these floating monsters in the New York City sky, trying to prey on our children and take their parents’ money. #Socialism #ChagTurkeySameach

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Lex Rofeberg @lexaphus.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Thank goodness that the ADL calmed us all down less than 6 months ago, reminding us it’s silly to presume that Elon Musk’s gesture was anything other than an “awkward gesture in a moment of enthusiasm,” and centrists shook their finger at us wacky leftists who thought maybe he kinda likes Nazis!

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Lex Rofeberg @lexaphus.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

It's horrific that in our world "Palestinian children deserve to eat" is seen as "controversial." That Jewish orgs need to debate whether it's "mission-aligned" to sign onto that statement. Not complicated! Sign on! Individuals: www.foodaidforgaza.org Jewish Orgs: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

"Torah is clear: If there's a hungry person, one must feed them.

- Shulchan Aruch"

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Lex Rofeberg @lexaphus.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

"Israeli bombs do not distinguish between Hamas supporters and the thousands of Palestinians in Gaza who have turned out to protest Hamas. And the use of mass starvation as a military tactic? This is beyond inhuman. It is genocide." Important piece from @jaymichaelson.bsky.social.

Image of a Forward article by Jay Michaelson, with the headline "I supported Israel's actions in Gaza in October 2023 -- not anymore" and the sub-header "Critics were wrong that Israel's 2023 actions constituted genocide -- but they are right in 2025."

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Lex Rofeberg @lexaphus.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

"US Texts Barnard Employees and Asks if They Are Jewish" www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/n...

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Lex Rofeberg @lexaphus.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Here's a non-exhaustive list of terminated Jewish Studies NEH grants. To the rooftops: there's no sliver of a goal of "fighting antisemitism" when it comes to the decimation of higher ed. They're not "trying to fight antisemitism," but doing it inexpertly. "Combating antisemitism" is fully pretext.

Image, entitled "NEH Grants 2025"

Terminated Awards Filtered: 9
Total Value: $2,458,916

Below, 9 projects with the word "Jewish" in the title. Sample titles include "In the Shadow of the Holocaust" and "Reimagining Jewish Life in the Modern Middle East, 1800-Present."

Projects are from states all around the country.

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Lex Rofeberg @lexaphus.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

@returnstosender.bsky.social: "Our NEH grant for 'In the Shadow of the Holocaust: Short Fiction by Jewish Writers from the Soviet Union' has been terminated." This project doesn't support "the furtherance of the President’s agenda.'" Imagine believing Trump wants to "fight antisemitism."

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Lex Rofeberg @lexaphus.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Some of my students agree (this is generated from an exercise where I've asked folks to come up with alt titles for Numbers/Bamidbar/Arithmoi):

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Lex Rofeberg @lexaphus.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

This goes viral every once in a while. But the wild thing about it isn't "LOL, funny that pdf comes off as if it's a religion," but rather "No PDF starts as a PDF. So in this framework, we all have our religious-identities not because we're born that way, but because we 'convert' to them."

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Lex Rofeberg @lexaphus.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

When people voice concern about antisemitism on campus, ask their thoughts about antisemitism toward non-Zionist Jews at UCLA, to glean if they’re interested in antisemitism…or just in squashing the voices of non-Zionists (Jews and otherwise). newvoices.org/2025/03/23/b...

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Lex Rofeberg @lexaphus.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Disgusting. ADoLatry strikes again. At some point a pro-Palestine Jew — from outside the US and attending an American university — is gonna be detained or deported. And a bunch of Jewish “legacy” institutions theoretically committed to “global Jewish peoplehood” (ADL first) will applaud that too.

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Lex Rofeberg @lexaphus.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

I'm devastated about this to a degree that's maybe not reasonable. ATH was so special for so many. - Race off the school bus in middle school - Run to the tv at 4:00 Central Time - Learn what simultaneously intense and loving arguments look like That was the routine. So grateful I had it.

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Lex Rofeberg @lexaphus.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

What a surreal encapsulation of anti-Palestinian racism. A Jewish and pro-Israel man shoots and injures 2 people because he thinks they're Palestinian. They're actually Israeli. The two victims respond by assuming the shooter was Palestinian and an antisemite, with one posting "death to Arabs."

"Miami Herald article: Why were 2 people shot in Miami Beach? Suspect told cops that he 'saw 2 Palestinians' -- by David J. Neal"

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Lex Rofeberg @lexaphus.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

With love, we are really missing the core of the story with Musk. Whether or not what he did was a Nazi salute, he has publicly professed support for a far-right German party that many (including, funny enough, the ADL) see as the heirs to Nazism in Germany -- and which has been growing in support.

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Lex Rofeberg @lexaphus.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

In case anyone was nervous about lack of Jewish representation, the Rambam (Moses Maimonides) is prominently featured in the world’s only penis museum — the Icelandic Phallological Museum.

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Lex Rofeberg @lexaphus.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

PSA (Paddington Service Announcement): The USA release-date for Paddington 3 has shifted from January to **February 14th, 2025**. Mark your calendars for this 3rd installment in the PCU now! Our next #MarmaladeEscapade awaits us in just a couple months, on Valentine's Day.

Poster advertising "Paddington in Peru" the 3rd movie in the Paddington series. Image includes Paddington the bear, holding a sandwich, and text reads "PADDINGTON IN PERU: LOST IN THE JUNGLE -- THIS FEBRUARY"

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Lex Rofeberg @lexaphus.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

In just over 2 months (since Nobody Wants This season 1 dropped), usage of the derogatory word "Shiksa" has gotten so thoroughly normalized that the NYT is publishing articles implying it's just a benign, neutral word for "non-Jewish woman." My fellow Jews, can we please stop with this?

text from a New York Times article: "The Netflix Series 'Nobody Wants This' centers a 'hot rabbi' falling for a blond shiksa (non-Jew) who is only dimly aware of Judaism but who is presented as a luminous, lovely contrast to the domineering, whining and otherwise repellent Jewish women in his orbit."

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Lex Rofeberg @lexaphus.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

I am publicly thanking you for responding to feedback and publicly referring to Field of 68 Fashion Correspondent Kam Jones by his full name last night. Also noting that the second part of this has aged pretty well!

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Lex Rofeberg @lexaphus.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Jonathan Greenblatt, focusing on the left again as white supremacists fill Trump's cabinet. Some responses: 1. AIPAC spends a huge amount of money to influence Congress. When you say "saying true things is antisemitism" it makes people not take you seriously when you call out actual antisemitism!

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