Mastodawn

This kind of shit is so out of hand at this point I think we're past the point of ever returning to normalcy. The post-war Jewish golden age is fucking over, kids.

"#Professor #AbigailBornstein is a #Jewish #faculty member at #CCSF who became the target of repeated, public, and highly personalized attacks rooted in #antiSemitic tropes and threats. The most serious incident occurred during a public CCSF Board of Trustees meeting on May 29, 2025, when she became the victim of a prolonged, profanity-laced tirade.

At this meeting, #MariaSalazarColon, a CCSF staff member and Management Assistant in the Office of Student Conduct and Discipline, who is also the president of the campus chapter of #SEIU #Local1021, referred to Professor #Bornstein as a “colonizer,” mocked her Jewish surname (“Dumb-stine”), and told her to “shut the f*** up” multiple times."

https://www.sdjewishworld.com/2026/03/31/s-f-city-college-backs-jewish-professors-claim-of-antisemitic-harassment/

S.F. City College backs Jewish professor’s claim of antisemitic harassment – San Diego Jewish World

Proto Himbo European 13h ago

Looking through paper exams. Doing my basic grading thing, which includes marking in a way that is tamper-resistant in case of after-the-fact grade modifications. Then I realized I have not seen any evidence of this for a few years. I used to reliably get maybe one student a year who would bring back a marked paper and try to claim I had counted points wrong when they had actually changed marks. Nobody does that anymore. The children have forgotten the lore of the previous generations.

#professor #grading #KidsTheseDays

דער קערפער פֿון השם 1d ago

"#JennaWeissmanJoselit was looking for a project that wasn’t so “heavily freighted” after her #book on the #American “embrace” of the #TenCommandments came out in 2017. “Out of the blue,” an editor at the #Jewish Lives #biography series, a #Yale #University Press and #LeonDBlack Foundation project, asked her to #write a book about #Rabbi #MordecaiKaplan, founder of #Reconstructionist #Judaism.

“Without missing a beat and without thinking what this entailed, I said, ‘Yes, yes. Of course, of course,’” the Charles E. Smith #professor of #Judaicstudies and of #history at #GeorgeWashingtonUniversity told JNS.

She didn’t question why she was chosen. “I’m not the obvious person. I’m not an intellectual #historian,” #WeissmanJoselit said. “I don’t swim in those high-minded #philosophical, #theological waters.”

The historian had known of #Kaplan and had explored a “smidgen” of his diaries, but not all 70 years of them..."

https://www.jns.org/feature/reconstructionist-judaism-founder-mordecai-kaplan-a-restless-soul-who-speaks-to-the-moment-per-new-book

Reconstructionist Judaism founder Mordecai Kaplan a ‘restless soul’ who speaks to the moment, per new book

“He was experimenting with notions of identity well before ‘ethnicity’ came into play,” Jenna Weissman Joselit told JNS. “He was very ahead of his time.”

JNS.org - Jewish News Syndicate

Proto Himbo European 2d ago

A friend of mine just said she was curious about her university's new CIO, so she searched for his CV, resume, etc., work history, or whatever. Then she kept searching Then she searched more. Then she used AI. After a few hours she came to the conclusion that he has no meaningful digital footprint, she can't find any CV or resume, can't find employment dates even for the couple of jobs where some evidence exists for his employment, can't find any reference to his dissertation (reportedly from Texas A&M in computer science), no reference to his dates of attendance at that university or his date of graduation... basically nothing.

Working at a university, making six figure, and no CV? That's just weird. Universities often make their admin candidates' CVs available to the faculty for review, but apparently his doesn't exist. Okay.

#mystery #academia #professor #highered #wtf