Jenny Caplan

I am always here for Dayton content!

@hcrichardson.bsky.social always reminds us that art is an important part of the resistance. I’m excited that my husband will be debuting his Peace de Resistance exhibition on Friday, March 6 from 5-10 PM at Brick City Artworks in Dayton, OH. (1)

Birth of a book! Order your copy today!

Being a professor in 2026 is authentically responding to a student's curiosity and attempts to connect what we're learning in class to the complexities of their own life, while always assuming that anything you say or write is being recorded and could be sent to politicians and/or other groups.

Yes, checking in from Cincy. We're the purplest of the Ohio cities, but there's been BIG turn out at all the protests over the last year, so I expect folks to show up.

Wit Happens A collection that proves Jewish humor knows no geographic bounds. Searching for some well-traveled humor? Look no further than this in...

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Wit Happens: Global Jewish Humor Global Jewish Humor

@bookshop.org does good work supporting local and independent booksellers!

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The Purpose and Power of Jewish Humor: PW Talks with the Editors of ‘Wit Happens’ Scholars Jennifer Caplan, Jarrod Tanny, and Avinoam Patt discuss Jewish humor as a global phenomenon, as well as a historic strategy used by an often-threatened minority to cope with difficult times.

Heyo! Wit Happens is featured in @publisherswkly.bsky.social! We're so excited to get the word out since the book will be out in under a month! Pre-order links below!

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2026 CFP Midwest AAR Call for Papers Conference dates: April 16-18, 2026 Cincinnati, OH The Midwest American Academy of Religion seeks papers, panels, and other modes of scholarly presentation that engage the ...

One week to go to apply to present at the Midwest AAR regional meeting in Cincinnati! Apply! Encourage your students to apply! Regionals are great first academic conferences!

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Episode 136: How Jewish Women Shaped SNL | Jewish Women's Archive From "Jewess Jeans" to "Coffee Talk" to "Jacob the Bar Mitzvah Boy," Jewish women have left their mark on Saturday Night Live as cast members and as characters. In this episode of Can We Talk? we look...

Check out the new ep of the @jwaonline.bsky.social podcast about the Jewish women of SNL! I had a blast recording it!

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It is Citizen Kane compared to Death on the Nile.

A man collapsed in the Oval Office. The internet got the story wrong. A case study in how bad information can spread — and how hard it is to correct it.

A man collapsed in the Oval Office yesterday. The internet got the story wrong.

My experience struggling to correct the record — including on Bluesky! — and the warning signs as AI, aggregation, and social media increasingly drive our news consumption.

Say No to Trump’s “Loyalty Oath” Compact! Leaders at UC and across the country are facing federal interference that undermines the mission of higher education. Institutions of higher learning in the United States have been offered Trump’s “Co...

For those who are inclined to petitions, please sign this one, urging UC leadership to officially and publicly reject any strong-arm attempt to control higher ed!

#UCChooseIntegrity #RejectTheCompact #DefendDemocracy #AcademicFreedom

I, too, saw the OBC! I liked it a lot more than this season!

The WSUP spring/summer catalog is out, so #WitHappens is on the final approach to its 2/17/26 release date! Pre-order now (and please have your university library pre-order before money runs out for the year), and remember we're all happy to do in-person or Zoom events in the coming months!

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It's finally @newyorkcomiccon.bsky.social week! This is my first time at one of the BIG big Cons, so I am doing my introvert best to prepare, but I am excited and hope to see many folks (and even more amazing cosplay!) while I am there!

UC faculty, students hold “funeral” for higher education in protest of SB1 Faculty, students and community members gathered Wednesday afternoon, Sept. 17, 2025, on the steps of Tangeman University Center (TUC) for an obituary reading and funeral service for higher education ...

Kudos for our student paper for this write-up about the demonstration mourning all we have lost to SB1 and other attacks on higher ed.

Anyone around UC, please attend our memorial service for higher education Wednesday at 12:15.

The extremely online former NFL punter-turned-activist on his run for office Chris Kluwe looks to take his talents to the California Assembly

Got interviewed by @marisakabas.bsky.social, check it out!

HBI Research Awards

The 2026 HBI Research Awards application is open!

HBI awards grants each year to support research & artistic projects centered on Jewish women’s & gender studies. Awards are made to graduate students, early career, & established researchers. Apply by Sept. 2, 2025 www.brandeis.edu/hbi/programs...

This blatant Cincinnati erasure shall not stand!

Coming in early 2026! Stay tuned for more info!

Call me an Xennial, but Ferngully all the way.

The shayna punim on this boychik!

From Ben's beard, to Natasha Lyonne's presence, to the black and white cookies from Maisie's, to the synagogue as the local gathering place, to the Hanukkah decorations on Yancey St. is is clear that Judaism is the only religion on Earth-828.

I will be taking no questions at this time.

Meet the 2025-2027 Young Scholars in American Religion Cohort! The members of this cohort were chosen for their commitment to excellence in research, teaching, and interdisciplinary collaboration within the fields of American Religion. Learn more here: raac.indianapolis.iu.edu/programs/you...

Episode 60: The Rightwing Radicalization of White Christian Boys — The Revealer What factors are contributing to the rightwing momentum among adolescent males in the United States? Angela Denker, author of Disciples of White Jesus: The Radicalization of American Boyhood, joins us...

NEW podcast episode: "The Rightwing Radicalization of White Christian Boys"

@angeladenker.bsky.social, author of Disciples of White Jesus, discusses why teen Christian males are moving further to the right & what to do about it. Listen on Apple Podcasts & Spotify. therevealer.org/podcast/epis...

Today is D-Day, or Death Day for Ohio higher ed as SB1 goes into effect. The president of UC had the gall to email us all a list of changes and pretend they are good things.

I convinced my dean to bring him to campus last year and it was SO GREAT.