Rachel Elise Greiner

Nuremburg trials is the moderate position

Hebrew calligraphy in dark green stretches in lines across the image. Negative space makes room for a simple representation of an inflatable frog costume with a blue bandana. That shape consists of the English translation of the Hebrew, in a lighter green, and in much smaller text. -- Famously, the Egyptian tyrant causes Egypt to be overrun with frogs because he refuses to free the Hebrew people, but there are additional details that make this a fun one to ponder. For one, the Hebrew says "the frog came up" - ONE frog - even though the rest of the time it says "frogs." So there are a few explanations rabbis have come up with to explain this. One is that a single frog multiplied to create swarms. A more creative explanation is that there was a singular giant frog who traveled and brought destruction. Jewish social media was sharing videos of the Portland Frog protester with the caption, "One Big Frog! One Big Frog!" Of course the frog protesters did multiply, and many were seen in crowds all over the world on "No Kings" Day. This calligraphic work takes the verses addressing the frog plague and combines them to form a simple rendering of the Portland Frog protester. The frog figure itself is made up of the English translations of the Hebrew around it. At the bottom left my signature is in the shape of a lily pad.

"Tzefardea Tzedek" (Frog of Righteousness)

As soon as the Portland Frog became a meme, Jewish social media blew up with jokes about the 2nd Passover plague - tzefarde'a (frogs) - and the Rabbinical commentary around it. I knew I had to make a calligraphy piece encompassing all of it. (more in alt.)

I've now been allowed and asked to share more details about what's going down at the University of Oregon, which involves imminent announcement of firings, among others, of tenure-track and tenured faculty. Given the units impacted (see below), please share this with your professional networks in related disciplines and start getting ready to put pressure (or begin putting pressure already) on the University of Oregon upper admin to abandon this alleged plan before they finalize it. It appears that, with no prior consultations, the departments of Religion and Classics (two separate units), and the programs in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, German & Scandinavian, Judaic Studies, Arabic Studies, and Holocaust Studies (the latter five all parts of a previously-consolidated mega unit called the Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages) are facing imminent announcement of elimination (expected the week of Sept 7), with layoffs of pre-tenure, tenured, and career faculty in these units. The reason given is "financial exigency" -- upper administrations of several universities across the country (and in blue states like Oregon also) appear to be giddy to use the context of Trump attacks on higher ed to dismantle the humanities. Faculty at OU won a faculty union not long ago; this may be, in part, a retaliation for that, I've been told. The union is working with AAUP, etc.; my understanding is that the maximum spotlight is needed at this point.

A massive attack on several humanities units (Arabic Studies, Judaic Studies, Holocaust Studies, Classics, Religion, German & Scandinavian, Russian/East European/Eurasian Studies) *and* tenure now unfolding at the University of Oregon (a blue state!). Closure of units and faculty layoffs threatened.

UNC Asheville administrator out of job after she was filmed in undercover DEI video The former employee’s remarks in the video “do not represent the practices of UNC Asheville,” a spokesperson said.

“At the opening of the video, the unidentified interviewer told Pugh, “I’m so glad that you guys are still doing equity work.” Pugh responded by saying, “I mean, we probably still do anyway, but you know, gotta keep it quiet.””

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My work was written about in this very thoughtful article! ingeveb.org/blog/farbind...

The NPR article dances around this but reading between the lines it appears that ICE grabbed this guy because he's in a gay marriage.

Yes, my economic plan will cause short term pain. But after that you won't feel the pain anymore because you'll be dead

YouTube video by Farbindungen Yiddish Conference Krisko resepyes far der idisher baleboste: A Short Yiddish and Cooking Experiment | Rachel Greiner

Recording from my recent presentation!

Why does 25% AfD among young men spark a thousand "what is going on with young men?" posts yet Die Linke 34% among young women generates...nothing at all?

Yes, young men voting for the radical right is an important phenomenon. But so is young women going rad left *at even higher rates*.

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THIS IS A SIGN THAT PRESSURE WORKS

Don’t give in to fascists when you still have the option of resisting

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This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942.

I know. I was there in those camps.

The geometry of remembering An essay on genocide, collective memory, and talking to the dead.

Some thoughts on remembering vs talking to the dead and how old Ashkenazi rituals of ancestral connection might serve us in a time of genocide – a new essay for @vashtimedia.bsky.social vashtimedia.com/the-geometry...