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Annette Yoshiko Reed
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Stendahl Chair at Harvard Divinity School / studying demons, apocalypses, and ancient identities, between memory and forgetting

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Annette Yoshiko Reed is an American religious historian. She holds the Krister Stendahl Chair at Harvard Divinity School. Reed's research interests span the topics of Second Temple Judaism, early Christianity, and Jewish/Christian relations in Late Antiquity, with particular attention to retheorizing religion, identity, difference, and forgetting. She is the daughter of political scientist Steven Reed and his wife Michiko. .. more

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Annette Yoshiko Reed @annetteyreed.bsky.social · 6d
A piece about me in my high school alum bulletin :) exeter.edu/annette-yosh...
Annette Yoshiko Reed '91: Rediscovered Stories - Phillips Exeter Academy
Annette Yoshiko Reed ’91 examines cultural and religious forgetting.
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Arthur Urbano @arturoviaggia.bsky.social · 2h
Suggestions for scholarship on Egyptian/Alexandria clothing in the 2nd/3rd century CE?

🏺AncientBluesky #Classics #LateAntiquity

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Annette Yoshiko Reed @annetteyreed.bsky.social · 2h
What could go wrong?

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Reuters @reuters.com · 2h
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Nearly two dozen arrested as faith leaders protest outside Chicago-area ICE facility
Nearly two dozen people were arrested as faith leaders protested on Friday outside a federal immigration facility near Chicago, authorities said, the latest sign of tensions over the Trump administration's aggressive enforcement push.
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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 2h
Hold up
ner experience of texting with vesus. Here s everytning she shared. What is Text With Jesus? Text With Jesus offers users an interactive experience with a religious deity. In other words, us s can text questions to Jesus and get a response. (Premium users can also converse with Satan.) While testing the app, Thompson was curious to ask Jesus why bad things happen to good people.

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 2h
AI in education is not saving time but the subject of unbelievably time-consuming efforts, paperwork and rule-setting

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 2h
AI in education is being used to displace academic governance of technologies in education - only managers have decisionmaking power to introduce it

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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 3h
WE WON. I am *begging* you to take note of who did this. *Not* UCLA admin—they’re still scuttling around behind closed doors, attempting to appease—but FACULTY AND STAFF, led by AAUP.
veenadubal.bsky.social Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 3h
BREAKING: In AAUP et al v. Trump (wall-to-wall union lawsuit challenging the administration’s unlawful use of TItle VI to reshape the University of California system), the faculty and staff of the UC system WON!!!

We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org

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Andrew Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 8h
fascinating attempt to square a circle of evidence on "when was sacrifice abolished?" in the late roman empire (open access!)

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A Legal Exemption for the Temple Cults of Rome and Alexandria in the Fourth Century | The Journal of Roman Studies | Cambridge Core
A Legal Exemption for the Temple Cults of Rome and Alexandria in the Fourth Century
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NBC10 Philadelphia @nbcphiladelphia.com · 8h
The app Text With Jesus uses artificial intelligence and chatbots to offer spiritual guidance to users who are looking to connect with a higher power: on.nbc10.com/7XM8xrf
People can text with Jesus on a controversial new app. How does it work?
Artificial intelligence app Text With Jesus lets users chat with biblical figures and it is raising debate over faith and technology.
on.nbc10.com

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The Harvard Crimson @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social · 13h
Harvard professors responded with outrage to a tranche of emails showing a close yearslong correspondence between former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers and sex offender Jeffrey E. Epstein.

Shawn A. Boehmer and Veronica H. Paulus report.

www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Harvard Faculty Disturbed by Revelations of Summers’ ‘Cozy Friendship’ With Epstein | News | The Harvard Crimson
Harvard professors responded with outrage to a tranche of emails showing a close yearslong correspondence between former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers and sex offender Jeffrey E. Epstein,…
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Annette Yoshiko Reed @annetteyreed.bsky.social · 13h
Or, as the NYT prefers, “underage women”

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Shaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social · 14h
remembering that “my friend richard pervo” stuff this AM. would be nice if our anger right now filters down to our guild.

love to the women who have been fighting to make our spaces safer for years. 💜

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 14h
The Epstein emails are a “skeleton key” for understanding a culture “in which the wealthy and powerful appear not as master operators but as bumbling sycophants, eager to cozy up to influence no matter how villainous or depraved,” @cwarzel.bsky.social argues.
The Dumb Truth at the Heart of the Epstein Scandal
When QAnon meets Veep
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Annette Yoshiko Reed @annetteyreed.bsky.social · 14h
Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings. (4/20)

#blueskyartchallenge #art #painting
Is there a painting that digitization captures as poorly as this one? Whistler’s “Nocturne: Blue and Gold – Old Battersea Bridge” from the 1870s, which in person breathes and glistens like nightfall

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Ellie Leonard @redpencilscript.bsky.social · 22h
To be very clear, Virginia Giuffre was made to say she mistakenly identified Alan Dershowitz as one of the people who sexually abused her. Here is the proof from this week's Epstein files dropped by the House Oversight Committee.

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Arthur Urbano @arturoviaggia.bsky.social · 1d
Check out the updated and streamlined version of the project website "Sons of Providence: The Jewish History of Providence College, 1917-1965" detailing research Jen Illuzzi and I did on Jewish students at Providence College (@provcollege.bsky.social) library-exhibits.providence.edu/s/sons-of-pr...
Sons of Providence · Welcome · pc-library-omeka-s-exhibits
library-exhibits.providence.edu

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Jesse @killgoldfish.bsky.social · 1d
Oh shit it was Circumstances?? Why haven’t we arrested Circumstances yet

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 1d
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Texas A&M adopts policy requiring professors to get OK from school president to discuss certain race and gender issues.
A photo of Texas A&M University’s logo

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Gary R Simonds @garys79.bsky.social · 1d
AMEN
#booksky
#readerssky

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 1d
More (51%) non-Orthodox rabbinical students are queer or trans (LGBTQ) than NOT, according to a new survey.

12% are nonbinary (58% women, 30% men)

16% are Jews by choice

12% ID as a race other than white.
What the first major study of the US rabbinate reveals - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
The rabbinate is older, happier and more diverse than previously known, according to the study.
www.jta.org

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Annette Yoshiko Reed @annetteyreed.bsky.social · 1d
& in many cases, these are precisely the men who argued most loudly against DEI, belittling Black women leaders in our universities—yet always quoted in NYT as if “reasonable”/representative. I have been mad about this for years but there’s something abt these jokey emails that makes me incandescent

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Annette Yoshiko Reed @annetteyreed.bsky.social · 1d
😬 “…the newly released messages offer the most detailed account yet of the depth of their relationship. Epstein donated millions of dollars to Harvard during Summers’s presidency from 2001 to 2006. The two continued to meet regularly after Epstein’s 2008 conviction for soliciting a minor.”

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Annette Yoshiko Reed @annetteyreed.bsky.social · 1d
Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings. (3/20)

#blueskyartchallenge #art #painting
John Singer Sargent, El Jaleo, 1882 - https://www.gardnermuseum.org/experience/collection/13259 / dark room, musicians in the back, woman in white skirt dancing

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Annette Yoshiko Reed @annetteyreed.bsky.social · 1d
Of course, in this case, the problem is with spelling… (their typo not mine)
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Open access! Special issue of Textual Reasoning, Vol. 16 No. 2 (2025): Elijiah Zvi Soloveitchik, The Jewish Jesus, and the Problem of Supercessionism journal.libraries.wm.edu/jtr?fbclid=I...
A Jew Who Loved Christianity As A Jew: The Strange Nineteenth-Century Orthodox Case of Elijiah Zvi Soloveitchik Shaul Magid From Volozhin to London: Elijah Zvi Soloveitchik’s Jewish-Christian Holy Spirit Shira Billet How Nice: On R. Elijah Zvi Soloveitchik and Christianity Martin Kavka Can God Reject the Jewish People?: Elijah Zvi Soloveitchik, Supersessionism, and Modern Jewish Thought Elias Sacks Response to Shaul Magid’s the Bible, the Talmud and the New Testament: Elijah Zvi Soloveitchik’s Commentary on the Gospels Susannah Ticciati

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Ellen Muehlberger @emuehlbe.bsky.social · 1d
if you've ever found yourself annoyed that someone is asking you to have a panel with more than just white men on it, and you reach for that little joke to complain about it, remember: you're not joking, you're enforcing

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d
Removing a monument honoring Black US soldiers has nothing to do with DEI. It’s erasure of history and it’s straight-up racism.

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Annette Yoshiko Reed @annetteyreed.bsky.social · 1d
Open access! Special issue of Textual Reasoning, Vol. 16 No. 2 (2025): Elijiah Zvi Soloveitchik, The Jewish Jesus, and the Problem of Supercessionism journal.libraries.wm.edu/jtr?fbclid=I...
A Jew Who Loved Christianity As A Jew: The Strange Nineteenth-Century Orthodox Case of Elijiah Zvi Soloveitchik Shaul Magid From Volozhin to London: Elijah Zvi Soloveitchik’s Jewish-Christian Holy Spirit Shira Billet How Nice: On R. Elijah Zvi Soloveitchik and Christianity Martin Kavka Can God Reject the Jewish People?: Elijah Zvi Soloveitchik, Supersessionism, and Modern Jewish Thought Elias Sacks Response to Shaul Magid’s the Bible, the Talmud and the New Testament: Elijah Zvi Soloveitchik’s Commentary on the Gospels Susannah Ticciati

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 1d
'The University of Cambridge has announced it has acquired and for the first time unsealed Levy’s personal archive, including letters, draft manuscripts, photographs and diary entries. It is expected the material will inform a wealth of new scholarship on her life, work and mental health.' 1/2
‘A girl of genius’: archives unsealed of Amy Levy, queer Jewish writer admired by Oscar Wilde
Levy’s work was ‘ahead of her time’ and speaks to current debate around feminism, LGBTQ+ literature and Jewish identity, say researchers
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Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham @paulgp.com · 2d
For folks (and journalists) who want to search the Oversight Committee email texts, I made a database for searching the 20k text files:

splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
Epstein Document Search
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app

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The Harvard Crimson @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social · 2d
Former Harvard President Lawrence Summers maintained a close personal relationship with convicted sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein until just months before his death, according to emails released by Congress.

Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.

www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Email Cache Reveals How Former Harvard President Larry Summers Stayed in Jeffrey Epstein’s Orbit | News | The Harvard Crimson
A new cache of emails released by a House committee paints a vivid portrait of the relationship between former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers and convicted sex offender Jeffrey E. Epstein. The…
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