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"This guy knows all the gossip, the ins and outs, the lashon hara of the Orthodox world. He’s an [expert] in... all the inner workings of the Orthodox world." (Rabbi Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff) LATEST POSTS:
- The Cover Story: Joseph Kahn and Independence as Sacred Value
- The Man Without Appetite: Joseph Kahn Through Anti-Status
- Seeing Like the Times: Joseph Kahn’s Newsroom Through James C. Scott
- The Editor’s Two Bodies: Joseph Kahn Through Ernst Kantorowicz
- The Fifth Generation: The Sulzbergers and Joseph Kahn Through Ibn Khaldun
- The Cathedral and the Gift Shop: Joseph Kahn’s Times Through Jane Jacobs’s Systems of Survival
- The Steward: Joseph Kahn Through Philip Selznick’s Leadership in Administration
- Blocked Exits: Joseph Kahn’s Times Through Albert Hirschman’s Exit, Voice, and Loyalty
- The Crown and the Premier: Joseph Kahn’s Times Through Walter Bagehot’s English Constitution
- Unspotted: Joseph Kahn’s Times Through Mary Douglas’s Purity and Danger
- The Columbia Journalism Review Anthropology
- The Dean Baquet Anthropology
- The Anthropology of New York Times Editor Joseph Kahn
- Heading a Soccer Ball Hurts
- What Would Make for Credible Evidence of Voter Fraud?
- What Sickness Tells Me
- The Empty Inventory: Elon Musk Through Stephen P. Turner on Tacit Knowledge
- The Anthropology of Sean Hannity
- The Anthropology of Fox News
- The Anthropology of Talk Radio
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* American Epistemics (1-19-26)
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* Decoding The Trump Doctrine (1-4-26)
* If Tatiana Schlossberg were “Tatiana Smith” (12-30-25)
* ‘I’m So Trained’: How The Credential Society Burned Down the Palisades (12-28-25)
* Status Closure and The Lost Generation (12-25-25)
* The Bondi Massacre (12-15-25)
* Sydney Jews Learn That Their Aussie Social Contract Has Become A Suicide Pact (12-15-25)
* Terror in Sydney: Analyzing the “Chanukah by the Sea” Massacre (12-14-25)
* Decoding Nick Fuentes (11-2-25)
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* The Rise & Fall Of Air Supply (10-19-25)
* No Kings, No Results: How Elite Pride Replaced Real Progress (10-19-25)
* You Are An Important Soldier In A Great War (9-7-25)
* The Revolt Of The Masses (8-31-25)
* The Covenant of Ashwood (8-24-25)
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* Why Is The Elite Media Singing From The Same Hymnal About The Trump-Putin Summit? (8-17-25)
* Why Do Smart News Operations Sound So Uniformly Dumb So Often? (8-16-25)
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* When Elites Restrict Our Speech, It’s Because They Love Truth, Freedom & Democracy (8-3-25)
Category Archives: Joey Kurtzman
Suicidal Gay Teens
Joey Kurtzman and I talk on my live cam to the thousands of suicidal gay teens who tune in to my Torah Talks each week to find out if life is worth living. When he was just a little tyke … Continue reading
The White Obama Joey Kurtzman Testifies To What God Has Done In His Life
Today Joey will share with us the seven spiritual laws for lasting marriage and his five year plan for our economy. This year’s Torah portion is Va’etchanan.
Torah Talk With Joey Kurtzman
This week’s Torah portion is Deuteronomy. Joey and I started Torah talk in August of 2008, the same month I took my first Alexander Technique lesson. Luke: “You were recently on a spiritual journey to India?” Joey: “My wife and … Continue reading
When Bad Implants Happen To Good People
What is a man of faith to do when he is repeatedly confronted by bad implants happening to good people? Does he deny the existence of all an powerful, all beneficent deity? Does he wail and gnash his teeth and … Continue reading
On The Way To Limmud
Luke Ford, Joey Kurtzman drive to "A Taste of Limmud" in Valley Village. We talk Torah and kundilini yoga and hybrid cars and girls and sex and spirituality. Complete video.
Joey Kurtzman Out As President Of Jewcy Media
Jewcy.com has been the brightest addition to the Jewish media in the past two years. Until this week, Joey Kurtzman was the president. Now he’s out. I’m not sure where he’s going and why he’s gone from presiding over Jewcy … Continue reading
What Can An Orthodox Jew Get Away With?
Luke Ford, Joey Kurtzman discuss this week’s Torah portion "Shoftim." What can you get away with as an Orthodox Jew? How much freedom do you have? Can you eat at McDonalds? No way. Complete video of my discussion with Joey … Continue reading
Judaism Is An Unromantic Religion VII
Complete video of my discussion with Joey Kurtzman on this week’s Torah portion Shoftim. Luke Ford, Joey Kurtzman discuss this week’s Torah portion "Shoftim." Deuteronomy 16:18–21:9. Joey does not find the Torah spiritual. Funding Levites and rabbis. Married to Jesus?
Living In Fear Of God
Luke Ford, Joey Kurtzman discuss this week’s Torah portion “Shoftim.” Torah is not afraid to command fear. It says fear God. Not awe, but fear. You’re going to fear something, says Dennis Prager, you might as well fear God.
Judaism As Unromantic Religion IV
Joey Kurtzman and I discuss: