Dr. Rebecca J. Epstein-Levi
@rjelevi.bsky.social
Ethicist, half-assed text nerd. Sexual ethics & Jewish text. Queer. AuDHD. She/her.
Current project: The Neurodivergent Talmud
Book: When We Collide: Sex, Social Risk, and Jewish Ethics (IUP 2023)
RJELevi.com
Current project: The Neurodivergent Talmud
Book: When We Collide: Sex, Social Risk, and Jewish Ethics (IUP 2023)
RJELevi.com
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When We Collide
When We Collide is a landmark reassessment of the significance of sex in contemporary Jewish ethics. Rebecca Epstein-Levi offers a fresh and vital exploratio...
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Hey, new followers! Since I have your attention, I published a book last year!
As we face another Trump administration, it's increasingly important to make a forceful case for the moral worth of sexual divergence, and that's what I do in "When We Collide: Sex, Social Risk, and Jewish Ethics:"
As we face another Trump administration, it's increasingly important to make a forceful case for the moral worth of sexual divergence, and that's what I do in "When We Collide: Sex, Social Risk, and Jewish Ethics:"
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I'm supporting @scarleteen.org with their annual fundraising appeal. This year, we're funding health benefits for staff and volunteers and I have GREAT NEWS: We've got some matching donors in the house! Donations through my fundraising page are doubled up to $1,000...
Scarleteen Staff and Volunteer Healthcare Fund
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November 11, 2025 at 5:24 PM
I'm supporting @scarleteen.org with their annual fundraising appeal. This year, we're funding health benefits for staff and volunteers and I have GREAT NEWS: We've got some matching donors in the house! Donations through my fundraising page are doubled up to $1,000...
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One result of AI ruining everything is a knee-jerk 'get computers out of classrooms' which really sucks for some disabled kids who have really benefited from access to tech. This is a really frustrating game of whack-a-mole.
His students suddenly started getting A’s. Did a Google AI tool go too far?
A Chrome browser tool features a movable bubble that provides information without typing a prompt, spurring a rise in AI cheating on tests.
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November 11, 2025 at 12:05 AM
One result of AI ruining everything is a knee-jerk 'get computers out of classrooms' which really sucks for some disabled kids who have really benefited from access to tech. This is a really frustrating game of whack-a-mole.
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It's that time of year again: @scarleteen.com is holding their annual fundraiser to support inclusive, comprehensive, loving sex ed, and this year, they're raising money for health benefits for paid staff. I set a goal of $500 for my personal fundraiser, but please help me get way over the top!
Scarleteen Staff and Volunteer Healthcare Fund
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November 10, 2025 at 9:51 PM
It's that time of year again: @scarleteen.com is holding their annual fundraiser to support inclusive, comprehensive, loving sex ed, and this year, they're raising money for health benefits for paid staff. I set a goal of $500 for my personal fundraiser, but please help me get way over the top!
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Resources like Scarleteen are under attack right now thanks to a hostile, censorious, puritan government. And, as illustrated last night, health care precarity in the US is a really big problem. Health educators deserve health care!
It's that time of year again: @scarleteen.com is holding their annual fundraiser to support inclusive, comprehensive, loving sex ed, and this year, they're raising money for health benefits for paid staff. I set a goal of $500 for my personal fundraiser, but please help me get way over the top!
Scarleteen Staff and Volunteer Healthcare Fund
{{MetaTags.description}}
www.classy.org
November 10, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Resources like Scarleteen are under attack right now thanks to a hostile, censorious, puritan government. And, as illustrated last night, health care precarity in the US is a really big problem. Health educators deserve health care!
Apparently after several months of being fine with my tea habit, my body has again decided that caffeine and adderall don’t mix, HUMPH. I suppose it’s back to only having good tea for breakfast on Shabbos.
November 10, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Apparently after several months of being fine with my tea habit, my body has again decided that caffeine and adderall don’t mix, HUMPH. I suppose it’s back to only having good tea for breakfast on Shabbos.
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Your generosity means so much for our team here at Scarleteen! We’re so grateful to continue doing this work alongside colleagues and supporters like you. Sincerely, thank you!
November 7, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Your generosity means so much for our team here at Scarleteen! We’re so grateful to continue doing this work alongside colleagues and supporters like you. Sincerely, thank you!
Also relevant to this is that our solar install is underway (awesome!) and the noise DIRECTLY OVER MY HEAD is making it impossible for me to string two coherent thoughts together, let alone process what I've assigned for the week enough to actually prep for normal class.
I have just decided to replace normal class on Tuesday with extended office hours so everyone can come talk about their final projects, and I can already feel my blood pressure dropping.
November 7, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Also relevant to this is that our solar install is underway (awesome!) and the noise DIRECTLY OVER MY HEAD is making it impossible for me to string two coherent thoughts together, let alone process what I've assigned for the week enough to actually prep for normal class.
I have just decided to replace normal class on Tuesday with extended office hours so everyone can come talk about their final projects, and I can already feel my blood pressure dropping.
November 7, 2025 at 5:00 PM
I have just decided to replace normal class on Tuesday with extended office hours so everyone can come talk about their final projects, and I can already feel my blood pressure dropping.
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I’m delighted to announce that my book, When We Collide: Sex, Social Risk, and Jewish Ethics, has won the Jordan Schnitzer Book Award in the Philosophy & Jewish Thought category. I’m also honored to be in such excellent company with the other awardees. Mazel Tov all around!
November 6, 2025 at 11:12 PM
I’m delighted to announce that my book, When We Collide: Sex, Social Risk, and Jewish Ethics, has won the Jordan Schnitzer Book Award in the Philosophy & Jewish Thought category. I’m also honored to be in such excellent company with the other awardees. Mazel Tov all around!
Faintly absolutely refused to let the vet do an ultrasound on her, despite gabapentin and sedation. The vet's notes say she was "very naughty," and I am weirdly offended on her behalf.
(My vet is great, this is not a systemic problem).
(My vet is great, this is not a systemic problem).
November 7, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Faintly absolutely refused to let the vet do an ultrasound on her, despite gabapentin and sedation. The vet's notes say she was "very naughty," and I am weirdly offended on her behalf.
(My vet is great, this is not a systemic problem).
(My vet is great, this is not a systemic problem).
I’m delighted to announce that my book, When We Collide: Sex, Social Risk, and Jewish Ethics, has won the Jordan Schnitzer Book Award in the Philosophy & Jewish Thought category. I’m also honored to be in such excellent company with the other awardees. Mazel Tov all around!
November 6, 2025 at 11:12 PM
I’m delighted to announce that my book, When We Collide: Sex, Social Risk, and Jewish Ethics, has won the Jordan Schnitzer Book Award in the Philosophy & Jewish Thought category. I’m also honored to be in such excellent company with the other awardees. Mazel Tov all around!
This!
That is: the myth of the autonomous self-possessed individual is a problem! Refusal to take embodiment seriously is a problem! None of this is manifested in our society by our increased freedom from the enforcement of various social roles based on reproductive anatomy
November 6, 2025 at 2:27 PM
This!
I am 100% not an organizer or an expert in political data, so take my opinion for what it’s worth, but I’m fairly convinced that taking the harm these people do very seriously while ridiculing and belittling the harmdoers themselves is The Way.
There are many things to love about Mamdani’s victory speech, but one of my favorites is the way he reduces The Ghoul to just another shitty landlord. Which, at the end of the day, he is.
November 5, 2025 at 11:02 PM
I am 100% not an organizer or an expert in political data, so take my opinion for what it’s worth, but I’m fairly convinced that taking the harm these people do very seriously while ridiculing and belittling the harmdoers themselves is The Way.
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It's telling that they're saying "No Zionists are welcome in the Mamdani movement" while also totally dismissing Brad Lander, a self-described liberal Zionist, as part of the movement.
For the "Free Press," being a Zionist equates to being a Likudnik who supports Israel's military action.
For the "Free Press," being a Zionist equates to being a Likudnik who supports Israel's military action.
Bari Weiss's website is being about as normal as I expected
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November 5, 2025 at 3:58 PM
It's telling that they're saying "No Zionists are welcome in the Mamdani movement" while also totally dismissing Brad Lander, a self-described liberal Zionist, as part of the movement.
For the "Free Press," being a Zionist equates to being a Likudnik who supports Israel's military action.
For the "Free Press," being a Zionist equates to being a Likudnik who supports Israel's military action.
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I am taking particular pleasure in the complete collapse of trans-as-unbeatable-wedge-issue narrative this morning. It might be an 80-20 issue in voters minds, but it has to be on voters minds to matter. The results in VA demonstrate that it is very much not on voters minds.
November 5, 2025 at 2:21 PM
I am taking particular pleasure in the complete collapse of trans-as-unbeatable-wedge-issue narrative this morning. It might be an 80-20 issue in voters minds, but it has to be on voters minds to matter. The results in VA demonstrate that it is very much not on voters minds.
There are many things to love about Mamdani’s victory speech, but one of my favorites is the way he reduces The Ghoul to just another shitty landlord. Which, at the end of the day, he is.
November 5, 2025 at 6:31 PM
There are many things to love about Mamdani’s victory speech, but one of my favorites is the way he reduces The Ghoul to just another shitty landlord. Which, at the end of the day, he is.
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New favourite example of structural ambiguity
November 5, 2025 at 4:54 AM
New favourite example of structural ambiguity
It is truly weird to read good election news and to be, for once, hopescrolling.
November 5, 2025 at 4:54 AM
It is truly weird to read good election news and to be, for once, hopescrolling.
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I used the weird manufactured controversy about @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social's public stances re: sex work to do a mini sex workers' rights explainer for @damemagazine.bsky.social
The Complicated Politics Around Sex Work and the NYC Mayoral Race - Dame Magazine
My first sign that something was a little off with some of the New York City mayoral race coverage came on September 3, courtesy of a New York Times piece that purported to document a pattern of Democ...
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November 4, 2025 at 5:15 PM
I used the weird manufactured controversy about @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social's public stances re: sex work to do a mini sex workers' rights explainer for @damemagazine.bsky.social
Having actual federal representation would be nice!
PUGS CAN'T VOTE, BUT YOU CAN
Today is the LAST day to register to vote in the special election. Make sure you, your family, friends, and neighbors are registered.
You can check your registration status here: iwillvote.com?utm_so...
Early vote: Nov 12-26. Election day: Dec 2nd.
Let's flip this.
Today is the LAST day to register to vote in the special election. Make sure you, your family, friends, and neighbors are registered.
You can check your registration status here: iwillvote.com?utm_so...
Early vote: Nov 12-26. Election day: Dec 2nd.
Let's flip this.
November 3, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Having actual federal representation would be nice!
Reposted by Dr. Rebecca J. Epstein-Levi
PUGS CAN'T VOTE, BUT YOU CAN
Today is the LAST day to register to vote in the special election. Make sure you, your family, friends, and neighbors are registered.
You can check your registration status here: iwillvote.com?utm_so...
Early vote: Nov 12-26. Election day: Dec 2nd.
Let's flip this.
Today is the LAST day to register to vote in the special election. Make sure you, your family, friends, and neighbors are registered.
You can check your registration status here: iwillvote.com?utm_so...
Early vote: Nov 12-26. Election day: Dec 2nd.
Let's flip this.
November 3, 2025 at 6:42 PM
PUGS CAN'T VOTE, BUT YOU CAN
Today is the LAST day to register to vote in the special election. Make sure you, your family, friends, and neighbors are registered.
You can check your registration status here: iwillvote.com?utm_so...
Early vote: Nov 12-26. Election day: Dec 2nd.
Let's flip this.
Today is the LAST day to register to vote in the special election. Make sure you, your family, friends, and neighbors are registered.
You can check your registration status here: iwillvote.com?utm_so...
Early vote: Nov 12-26. Election day: Dec 2nd.
Let's flip this.
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Treksky, do your stuff.
TREKKIES OF BLUESKY: I just got the cursed idea to try and acquire a near-enough replica of Janeway's coffee mug for my basically-not-on-here best friend's birthday/Xmas. Turns out this is the hardest of the Trek mugs to acquire.
Can anyone help me out?
Can anyone help me out?
November 3, 2025 at 6:02 AM
Treksky, do your stuff.
TREKKIES OF BLUESKY: I just got the cursed idea to try and acquire a near-enough replica of Janeway's coffee mug for my basically-not-on-here best friend's birthday/Xmas. Turns out this is the hardest of the Trek mugs to acquire.
Can anyone help me out?
Can anyone help me out?
November 3, 2025 at 5:58 AM
TREKKIES OF BLUESKY: I just got the cursed idea to try and acquire a near-enough replica of Janeway's coffee mug for my basically-not-on-here best friend's birthday/Xmas. Turns out this is the hardest of the Trek mugs to acquire.
Can anyone help me out?
Can anyone help me out?
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So I have a few days to make a decision about a work travel thing I hadn't initially planned to do but now have reason to reconsider. Can people who *actually know something on the topic* tell me whether there is good reason to be more concerned now about air safety than usual?
October 30, 2025 at 10:42 PM
So I have a few days to make a decision about a work travel thing I hadn't initially planned to do but now have reason to reconsider. Can people who *actually know something on the topic* tell me whether there is good reason to be more concerned now about air safety than usual?