- https://PayPal.Me/lukeisback
"Luke Ford reports all of the 'juicy' quotes, and has been doing it for years." (Marc B. Shapiro)
"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 Career of Media Strategist David G. Hall
- Alice Lassman: ‘A.I. Will Affect Your Social Life. Yes, Yours.’
- Questions for Simon Baron-Cohen, for Cambridge, and for the People Who Were Right
- Questions for Amy Wax, and for Penn
- “Here’s how I exposed Jason Arday and Cambridge” | David Starkey Talks to Nathan Cofnas
- The Jason Arday Story (8-9-26)
- FT: ‘The US bares its financial weak spot’
- Gain of Function Research
- When Was the Talmud Finished?
- Barry Scott Wimpfheimer
- The Uncarried Sufferer
- The Two Gates: Palestinian Memoir and the Apparatus That Cannot Use It
- The Arena in Real Time: Gaza and the Limits of Cultural Trauma Theory
- Bret Stephens: I’m Begging You: Never Write With A.I.
- America’s Most Powerful Victimhood Groups
- The Syllabus
- The Work of That Day
- JD Vance Often Sounds Like A Podcast Bro
- The Cost of the Claim
- Who owns the residual?
BEST POSTS:
- * The Enlightenment Wasn’t Enlightened (6-23-26)
* Mr. Burge Draws The Line (6-23-26)
* 'Improving on Democracy' (6-17-26)
* People Leak To People Who Are Fun (6-11-26)
* Why Does Australia Produce So Many Great Journalists? (6-11-26)
* Steve Wynn and the Press: Power, Litigation, and the Contest Over Las Vegas (6-3-26)
* Sheldon Adelson and the Journalists (6-3-26)
* The Vigilant Animal: Thinkers Who Reject the Myth of Human Gullibility (6-2-26)
* The Cost of Refusing the Misunderstanding Myth (6-2-26)
* Show Me How It Travels (6-2-26)
* The Norm Explainers (6-2-26)
* Centering Marginalized Voices (6-1-26)
* What would it look like if the Washington Post put its reader first? (6-1-26)
* What would it look like if the Financial Times put its reader first? (6-1-26)
* What It Would Mean for the Los Angeles Times to Put the Reader First? (6-1-26)
* What It Would Mean for The New York Times to Put the Reader First? (6-1-26)
* Why Wembanyama Lives on the Perimeter (5-31-26)
* The Emotional Palettes Of San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco & Sacramento (5-27-26)
* The Administrative Capital: Sacramento Legal Culture (5-27-26)
* San Diego - The Quiet Republic (5-27-26)
* The Quiet Bar: San Diego Legal Culture (5-27-26)
* SF v LA Legal Culture (5-27-26)
* Why Talent Travels Poorly Between San Francisco and Los Angeles (5-27-26)
* San Francisco and Los Angeles as Rival Models of Urban Access (5-27-26)
* Social Cliques in New York, 2026 (5-25-26)
* Social Cliques in San Francisco, 2026 (5-25-26)
* The Rival Courts of Washington (5-25-26)
* The City of Private Rooms (5-25-26)
Category Archives: Aish HaTorah
Aish Ha Torah Los Angeles – So Successful No One Goes There Anymore
I was chatting with a friend and asking him about Aish. "I don’t know," he said. "I don’t know anyone who goes there. Nobody does. They shut themselves off from the rest of the community. It’s a weird culty place." … Continue reading
Posted in Aish HaTorah, Anshe Emes
Tagged aish, emes, friday nights, Jews, Love, Modern Orthodox, money, passion, quot, rasha, righteous man, shul, Torah
Comments Off on Aish Ha Torah Los Angeles – So Successful No One Goes There Anymore
Date From Hell
Vicki Polin writes: A few weeks ago a rabbi sent the following link out to his mailing list promoting an online video, "Date From Hell", which is produced by Aish HaTorah. I have to admit that I was appalled at … Continue reading
Posted in Aish HaTorah, Dating
Comments Off on Date From Hell
Luke Ford – Torah Weirdo
Chaim Amalek writes: I love this piece! And I especially love that Greenberg got this quote out of someone at one of Luke’s old temples: "He was one of the Torah weirdos….you get all sorts of people showing up in … Continue reading
Posted in Aish HaTorah, Chaim Amalek, Personal
Comments Off on Luke Ford – Torah Weirdo
Intermarriage and the New York Times
Rabbi Benjamin Blech writes: Readers of the New York Times must have been surprised to learn this past week that modern Orthodox Jews are some of the most extreme religious fanatics. That at least is the impression left by Harvard … Continue reading
Posted in Aish HaTorah, Intermarriage, New York Times, Noah Feldman
Comments Off on Intermarriage and the New York Times