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Jacques Berlinerblau

@jberlinerblau.bsky.social

Professor Georgetown University. MSNBC columnist. secularismfreespeechcomedyliteraturehighered. And some other stuff Personal website: jberlinerblau.com Substack: https://jberlinerblau.substack.com/

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The 'Hymietown' affair degraded Black-Jewish relations. Jesse Jackson wasn't the real culprit Louis Farrakhan's entry into the fray marked the real point of deterioration

forward.com/opinion/8069...

21.02.2026 14:43 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This is a super article if you have access to the Chronicle through your library. Thanks to @jberlinerblau.bsky.social & Jessica Roda for this thoughtful analysis of identity & scholarship, particularly in the Association for Jewish Studies.

10.01.2026 19:48 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Scholarly Associations Are Becoming Identity Battlegrounds Beware the benighted lure of tribalism.

www.chronicle.com/article/scho...

06.01.2026 23:33 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Season 1 of "I Love LA" Wraps Up Beware the Girlboss, beware your iPhone

I like "I Love LA," I like it a lot! The final NY episode was, tonally speaking, different. My latest on substack #ILoveLA

22.12.2025 15:30 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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How Do You Solve a Problem Like Columbia University? The Columbia Task Force on Anti-Semitism's Recent Report

Some thoughts on The Columbia University Task Force on Antisemitism's recent report, Michel Foucault, and everything that ails us as scholars

15.12.2025 21:04 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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University actions in Indiana and Texas should worry speech advocates everywhere Statehouses are replacing faculty senates as the body that crafts policies about strictly academic concerns.

Conservatives are attacking public universities across the US. But their bombardment of higher education spreads well beyond the Deep South.

18.11.2025 15:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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What did Pope Leo mean by β€˜healthy secularism’? Catholics, Leo suggests, should neither attempt to dominate the political sphere nor separate themselves from it.

www.americamagazine.org/short-take/2...

15.10.2025 11:56 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Opinion | The lingering concern after Jimmy Kimmel's return Perhaps that’s because this entire situation is fundamentally unfunny.

www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

28.09.2025 18:43 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0