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Yitz Landes

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Book History, medieval Hebrew manuscripts, TV, and the New York Knickerbockers

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 01/10/2026
Man, imagine you're minding your own business, getting kind of drunk with your friends at a picturesque brewery in Maine, when suddenly John Roberts walks by and you get to start heckling him. Must have felt incredible. That's the dream. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/u...
The chief justice used to preside over a Supreme Court whose members were afforded more privacy and freedom than many other public officials. Once, years ago, Mr. Lipson and the chief justice found themselves up the peninsula from Port Clyde without a car, Mr. Lipson recalled in an interview. So he stuck out his thumb by the side of the road and a pickup truck pulled over. He and the nation’s top jurist hopped in the back and hitchhiked back to town.

Now, Mr. Lipson said, he is cautious about introducing his friend to strangers. This year, on an outing to nearby Monhegan Island, people recognized the chief justice as he walked by a brewery and started to chant: You should be ashamed.
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Yitz Landes @yitzl.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
For those who wanted this on t-shirt: here it is. www.etsy.com/listing/4521...
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Yitz Landes @yitzl.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
I made this and put it on Insta and apparently it’s making the rounds, lol this city. Knicks in Five!!
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Yitz Landes @yitzl.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
I’ve got a piece in here! First installment in a series of studies on the history of “Talmudic Philology.” Was a total pleasure working with Daniel and Greg, and it’s an honor to be part of this lineup!
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Yitz Landes @yitzl.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Fantastic new resource for scholars of Hebrew manuscripts, Jewish Art, and the Hebrew Bible--an online digital edition of the (now lost) Cairo Codex of the Prophets, prepared by Elvira Martín-Contreras! biblioteca.cchs.csic.es/Codice-Profe...
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Home. The Cairo Codex of the Prophets: digital edition
The Cairo Prophets codex, also known as Codex Cairensis or Codex Prophetarum Cairensis, is one of the oldest known biblical manuscripts and a fundamental resource for the study of the Hebrew Bible. Th...
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Theodor Dunkelgrün @theodunkelgrun.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
By way of introduction: my book, The Multiplicity of Scripture: The Making of the Antwerp Polyglot Bible (Toronto: PIMS 2025) pims.ca/publication/... Available in North America via @uoftpress.bsky.social, in Europe via @brepols.net, and in digital form by @degruyterbrill.bsky.social
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The Multiplicity of Scripture: The Making of the Antwerp Polyglot Bible – Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
I keep going back to this. This is a taunt. They're taunting us. There is no other possible interpretation of what they're doing. But media simply ignores this deranged behavior, because if they talk about it, one must conclude that DHS is a rogue agency, of villainous paramilitary thugs.
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Kaan A. 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @evcilemu.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
ICE mustn't only be abolished, at this point. Its members should be investigated and prosecuted if need be. This is literally fucking Gestapo behaviour. This is state terrorism of the sort you see in bona fide totalitarian countries which existed in the 20th century.
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Yitz Landes @yitzl.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
I don't know why, but basically every day of my life, wherever I am, I get asked for directions. Over a decade ago, when I was living in Jerusalem, a black SUV pulled up next to me as I was walking and *the former mayor*—Uri Lupolianski—pulled down his window and asked me how to get somewhere.
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
losing my mind at the "she should have followed directions" people really? really? you're cool with "if you don't follow directions, they get to kill you"? that seems like a good state of affairs to you? that seems like how law enforcement ought to work: instant obeisance or death?
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Yitz Landes @yitzl.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Mark Levine being sworn in as NYC Comptroller on a JPS Tanakh
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Yitz Landes @yitzl.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
My phone’s insistence on autocorrecting to “Chanukah sumac” has gotten me wondering how exactly I can incorporate sumac into my Chanukah cooking
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Yitz Landes @yitzl.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
I love Kolek. And yes, I’m gonna go there: there’s no way Thibs would’ve played him this much (if at all).
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Yitz Landes @yitzl.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
The study of rabbinic literature today lost a giant: Prof. Menahem Kahana of the Hebrew University. I have much to say abt Kahana, my teacher, & I hope to do so in the coming weeks. Right now I remember his friendship with my father z”l, to whom he recently dedicated an article. חבל על דאבדין
An article by Menham Kahana from Tarbitz 90.2, dedicated to the memory of David Landes
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Yitz Landes @yitzl.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
The primary fight we’ve all been waiting for: AIPAC vs. JFREJ
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
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Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz
Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison
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Yitz Landes @yitzl.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
ימא טבא ללישנא דרבנן Now out: The collected articles of Shamma Friedman on rabbinic Hebrew and Aramaic www.bialik-publishing.co.il/Lishana-Dera...
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הבית של ספרי האיכות ותרגומי המופת כבר 90 שנה
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Lonsdale is, among other things, the founding board chairman of that "University of Austin" thing that Bari Weiss is backing. That's the school that "prepares thoughtful and ethical innovators, builders, leaders, public servants and citizens through open inquiry and civil discourse."
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Yitz Landes @yitzl.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Jordan Penkower passed away in September & barely a day goes by without his name coming up in my conversations with other scholars. This tribute by Yosef Ofer does an excellent job at summarizing Penkower’s main contributions to the study of the text of the Hebrew Bible. brill.com/view/journal...
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Munich Research Centre for Jewish-Arabic Cultures @jacculturelmu.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
We have big news to share: Our head Prof Ronny Vollandt, together with Prof Nathan Gibson (Frankfurt), will receive funding for a 21-year long-term project on Arabic translations of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It will be based at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and the Academy in Mainz.
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New Academy Project “Biblia Arabica: Critical edition and comprehensive digital inventory of Arabic Old Testament manuscripts and their paratexts” – Biblia Arabica
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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 01/12/2025
It was SUCH a wonderful discussion with Alison Stewart (including a poignant question about how I kept my sanity while working on the book) and you can listen right here:
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The Groundbreaking Case that Helped Make Spousal Rape Illegal | All Of It | WNYC
When Greta Rideout pressed charges against her husband John in 1978, spousal rape was only considered a crime in four states. Rideout was one of the first women to press rape charges ...
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Yitz Landes @yitzl.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
I am not joking when I say that this Mishpacha magazine interview with the Satmar askan Moishe Indig on his relationship with Mamdani is one of the most important articles you can read on the recent mayoral election here in NYC mishpacha.com/the-kingmake...
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The Kingmaker from Williamsburg - Mishpacha Magazine
“How could you endorse Mamdani?” Tough questions for Satmar askan Rabbi Moishe Indig
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Yitz Landes @yitzl.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
It’s not every day that one of these 13th-14th century Masoretic Bibles from Spain goes up for sale… www.sothebys.com/en/buy/aucti...
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A Rare Hebrew Bible with Micrographic Masorah, Spain c. 1300 | Important Judaica | 2025 | Sotheby's
<p>A Rare Hebrew Bible with Micrographic Masorah</p><p><em>[Toledo, late 13th-early 14th century]</em></p><p><br></p><p>249 folios (10 1/4 x 9 in.; 260 x 230 mm), manuscript on parchment. Bound in ela...
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Yitz Landes @yitzl.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Cannot lift this up enough. It’s as if the art of printing books has been forgotten. The books I bought at SBL barely survived the train ride back to NYC.
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Yitz Landes @yitzl.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Today in class it came up that it would be very cool if Spike Lee paired two Genizah fragments together and then it would be “A Spike Lee Join”
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Yitz Landes @yitzl.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
This is going to be one of the wildest congressional primaries we have ever seen www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/u...
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George Conway, a Vocal Foe of Trump, Eyes Congressional Run
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Krista Dalton @kristadalton.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
I am pleased to announce that John Penniman, Emanuel Fiano, and I are launching a new book series for the study of religion in late antiquity with Fordham University Press. If you have a book-in-progress looking for a home, please reach out to discuss your project! fordhampress.com/theoria
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Yitz Landes @yitzl.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Lot of great stuff in the RLC section at SBL this year! Attend, ask questions, say hi, spread the word!
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Think the marriage of convenience between the historically antisemitic far-right and the Israeli right has been bad for Diaspora Jews? Wait until you see the divorce.
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Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
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Yitz Landes @yitzl.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Remarkably brilliant, experienced, and—other than Khan—surprisingly mainstream group of transition co-chairs for Mamdani. www.transition2025.com
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A New Era for NYC
Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani is ready to work to make New York safe and affordable for all of its residents.
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Yitz Landes @yitzl.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
One of my main takeaways from this election night is: I want some of whatever the @hellgateny.com livestream hosts are smoking
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
If only someone could have possibly predicted this might happen.
Tweet from Ben Shapiro: “No to the groypers.
No to cowards like Tucker Carlson, who normalize their trash.
No to those who champion them. 
No to demoralization.
No to bigotry and anti-meritocratic horseshit.
No to anti-Americanism.
No.”
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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Can we at least give Canada a break on the tariffs now?
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Yitz Landes @yitzl.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Co-sign
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 31/10/2025
sure, you might not be able to eat or go to the doctor, but check out how nice Trump's new marble shitter is
I renovated the Lincoln Bathroom in the White House. It was renovated in the 1940s in an art deco green tile style, which was totally inappropriate for the Lincoln Era. I did it in black and white polished Statuary marble. This was very appropriate for the time of Abraham Lincoln and, in fact, could be the marble that was originally there!
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
This is a response to a post I made about a white man who was arrested yesterday with guns and ammo, planning to attack multiple synagogues across the US South. Personally, I think it is bad that a growing portion of the left now dismisses actual antisemitism as just being pro-Israel propaganda.
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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 28/10/2025
Lmao what (from today's Breaker newsletter)
(Exclusive.) Bari Weiss this week clocks up four weeks on the job as chief booker (sorry, editor-in-chief) of CBS News. Breaker hears that she has unimpressed staffers with a series of bold ideas in the 9 am call. 

Last week, following the jewel heist at The Louvre, Weiss suggested they interview author Dan Brown. Staffers questioned what expertise in the matter Brown would provide CBS News viewers? Brown is well known as the bestselling author of the 2003 mystery novel, The Da Vinci Code, about a murder at The Louvre. 

On Tuesday’s 9 am call, Weiss suggested a story about how people who are scared of climate change aren’t having children. “She is showing her worst self,” one CBS News journalist told Breaker. “People are running to avoid her.”
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Once again, the main day of Tea Party protests had about 300,000 nationwide, but saw endless coverage. The No Kings protests had about 7,000,000 nationwide, and many media outlets reacted with a yawn. No Kings was nearly 25x as big as the Tea Party but the Tea Party got 25x the attention.
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Yitz Landes @yitzl.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
A take for this first Sunday of early voting: Much of the Jewish pushback against Mamdani is in effect a reaction to the unstated realization that liberal democracy is in decline (or has failed)—and instead of doubling down on democracy, some have decided to push for more tribalism.
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
You sought to access her private gynecological records,” Mamdani said, re: what Cuomo's legal team did as part of the defense... “She cannot speak up for herself because you lodged a defamation case against her. I, however, can speak. What do you say to the 13 women that you sexually harassed?”
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Cuomo Stunned Into Silence When Faced With His Sexual Assault Accuser
Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani revealed that one of the women who had accused Andrew Cuomo of harassment was in the debate audience.
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Garrett Epps @garrettepps.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Dry run for stealing 2026 midterms.
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Craig Harrington @craigipedia.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
I’m not being pejorative. Donald Trump isn’t an all powerful dictator, but he is effectively America’s king. He does not exist outside the law, he exists above the law *and* is the lawgiver. He doesn’t just have impunity, he has immunity. He is a king. This is what having a king looks like.
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Yitz Landes @yitzl.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Suzanne Schneider: “Taken as a whole, the grant attempts to shore up the beleaguered concept of the “Judeo-Christian,” instilling the dangerous idea that antisemitism is best combatted by leaning upon supposed bonds of civilizational kinship.” jewishcurrents.org/the-meaning-...
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The Meaning of Trump’s $10 Million Grant to a Jewish Nonprofit
The administration is boosting an older, neoconservative politics even as US–Israel relations are increasingly contested on the right.
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Yitz Landes @yitzl.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Alright I’ve seen enough: Mike Brown for mayor of New York.
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Rowdy @r0wdy.sk33t.expert · 23/10/2025
political instincts on fire, yucking it up with the incumbent mayor who stunk so bad he basically got booted from his party and then dropped out of the race
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Yitz Landes @yitzl.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Brown’s coaching of the Knicks is night and day compared to that of Thibs. And—while acknowledging how much this team owes Thibs—I love to see it.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22/10/2025
Chris Murphy: "There's a lot of history that has taken place in the East Wing & it was just destroyed without any conversation in the public, without any consent of Congress. It's absolutely illegal. That visual is powerful b/c you're watching destruction of the rule of law as those walls come down"
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Yitz Landes @yitzl.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Scheduling a mayoral debate for the same time as the Knicks opener is ridiculous
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
How many classes today were canceled because a whole suite of EdTech services are built atop AWS? You know what platform never crashes?
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