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Rafe Neis (((they/them))) @postrafelite.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

It is this fucking simple. Here are four fully enclosed toilet stalls in a bathroom for all genders. If this can be done at @ UM school if Ed, it can be done everywhere. #transwhilepeeing #transwhilepooping #allgenderbathrooms

Photograph of Bathroom with 3 fully enclosed stalls, plus a store at the end for PWD. At the UM school of education.

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Rafe Neis (((they/them))) @postrafelite.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Also for Chanukah shopping ;-)) get this!

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Rafe Neis (((they/them))) @postrafelite.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Welcome to being a trans person and having your reasonable coworkers speak this way about you. (Nope it's not an "issue"... it, me)

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Rafe Neis (((they/them))) @postrafelite.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

The things we do to keep our own spirits up, while piously pretending its "for the sake of the children" Video: grownup and two little ones doing silly dancing on living room floor.

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Rafe Neis (((they/them))) @postrafelite.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Mimesis with 2 y o and stuffed animals. 4 y o does their own thing.

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Monika Amsler @monikaamsler.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Guys, if you haven’t had a chance to read Rafe’s “When a Human Gives Birth to a Raven” (open access with UCP) do it! It’s a game-changer! If you don’t have time for the entire book, my review came out this week with AJS Review.

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Rafe Neis (((they/them))) @postrafelite.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Thanks @monikaamsler.bsky.social for this iconic pic of the wonderful panel in which #SarahIlesJohnston, #JeremyMcInerney, #KarenBritt, #RaananBoustan, #BlakeLeyerle, and #Denisa Hradilová, engaged my book in dialogue with their own work on art, hybrids, monsters, animals, and menageries! 1/x

In front of powerpoint project of drawing of image of demon from
Incantation bowl, a white besuited person with short brown hair speaks into a mic.

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Rafe Neis (((they/them))) @postrafelite.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

I've had to go to half caff in the AMs so my vyvanse can do its thing

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Rafe Neis (((they/them))) @postrafelite.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

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!

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Rafe Neis (((they/them))) @postrafelite.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

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?

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Rafe Neis (((they/them))) @postrafelite.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

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. 😆.

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Rafe Neis (((they/them))) @postrafelite.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

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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Aderaba Podcast @aderaba.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

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 youtu.be/p6yp7m-Ob2E?...

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Jewish Studies, Naturally

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Rafe Neis (((they/them))) @postrafelite.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Did a tiny hike with these lovely people before listening to a fantastic summary of law and policy in today's ever shifting world.

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Rafe Neis (((they/them))) @postrafelite.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

#USPATH feels so good to be in a trans majority space talking about the issues

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Rafe Neis (((they/them))) @postrafelite.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Am I the only one who pronounces it as Bloo-skee?

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Aderaba Podcast @aderaba.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

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 @postrafelite.bsky.social

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Aderaba Podcast @aderaba.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

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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Craig Perry @caperry.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

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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Aderaba Podcast @aderaba.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

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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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Jews and stomach problems have apparently been a theme for a while. (from Berakhot 55a)

"With regard to what Rav Yehuda said in praise of one who prolongs his time in the bathroom, the Gemara asks: Is that a virtue? Wasn’t it taught in a baraita: Ten things bring a person to suffer from hemorrhoids: One who eats the leaves of bulrushes, grape leaves, tendrils of grapevines, the palate and tongue of an animal, as well as any other part of the animal which is not smooth and which has protrusions, the spine of a fish, a salty fish that is not fully cooked, and one who drinks wine dregs, and one who wipes himself with lime and clay, the materials from which earthenware is made, and one who wipes himself with a stone with which another person wiped himself. And some say: One who suspends himself too much in the bathroom as well. This proves that prolonging one’s time in the bathroom is harmful."

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Rafe Neis (((they/them))) @postrafelite.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

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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Christopher B. Zeichmann @cbzeichmann.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

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

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Radical Antiquity: Ancient Lessons for Modern Democracy

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Diskette Press @ PCX 38 @diskettepress.com · 14/09/2025

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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onion person @junlper.beer · 13/09/2025

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

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Rafe Neis (((they/them))) @postrafelite.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Thank you for reading 💜 and also for getting what the book is about 🥹

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

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"

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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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Rafe Neis (((they/them))) @postrafelite.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

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.

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Rafe Neis (((they/them))) @postrafelite.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Thank you for the shoutout! episode 2 is just out. Also about the reverberations of ancient Jewish sources into the present. Aderaba: WHAT'S WRONG WITH THE IMAGE OF GOD? Gilah Kletenik and I talk about this ancient concept and its ambivalent meanings. open.spotify.com/episode/1sPN...

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What's Bad about Being in the Image of God?

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Rafe Neis (((they/them))) @postrafelite.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Another taster clip for E2 of ADERABA! Burning question: is Gilah Kletenik in the image of God OR in the image of Lilith? Listen to the full episode to find out: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a... open.spotify.com/show/4Ly49AO... youtube.com/shorts/gK8z5...

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What's Bad About Being in the Image of God?

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Rafe Neis (((they/them))) @postrafelite.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

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. youtube.com/shorts/gK8z5... youtube.com/shorts/vWyNJ...

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

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Rafe Neis (((they/them))) @postrafelite.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

I am teaching Ancient Law this semester. It's a surprisingly tough subject to teach if you live/are affected in any way by the present. myriad presumptions we have about law are hard to bear when certain people are criminalized for existing.

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Rafe Neis (((they/them))) @postrafelite.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

I assume that this is for books that acknowledge the existence of genders and sexualities beyond cis, binary, heterosexuality? 😡😤🤬🤬

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Rafe Neis (((they/them))) @postrafelite.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

ADERABA features hosts Gilah Kletenik and me. Our podcast name is Aramaic for "On the contrary." We expect contrary takes on Jewish themes, Talmud, philosophy, bible, law, gender, and more

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Rafe Neis (((they/them))) @postrafelite.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

ADERABA first episode just dropped! Have Trans People Always Existed - What Would the Rabbis Say? Subscribe eg here podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a... Clip below has split screen with Gilah on top, me on bottom, talking about Adam's gender.

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Rafe Neis (((they/them))) @postrafelite.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

New Podcast! ADERABA: Jewish Studies on the Contrary. episode 1 - "Have Trans People Always Existed? What Would the Rabbis Say?" - drops tomorrow Fri 9/5! open.spotify.com/show/4Ly49AO...

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Welcome to ADERABA!

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Ancient Jew Review @ancientjewreview.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

New podcast episode! Lydia Bremer-McCollum interviews Monika Amsler about The Babylonian Talmud and Late Antique Book Culture. newbooksnetwork.com/the-babyloni...

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