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"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 Fair Witness: Evan Osnos and the Hero System of the Even Voice
- The Hero System of UC Berkeley School of Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky
- The Hero System of WSJ Editor Emma Tucker
- Report: Rabbi Eliyahu Haimof, Accused in Lawsuit of Sexually and Physically Abusing Child, Threatens ZA’AKAH with Lawsuit, Then with Din Torah
- Report: Oberlin Chabad Rabbi, Shlomo Elkan, Removed Banned from Campus for Allegedly Engaging in Online Conversation Describing the Sexual Abuse of Children
- Substack Article: ‘Poking a Hornet’s Nest: Breaking the Silence on Akiva Roth, EBJC, Camp Ramah and Cover-Up Culture in Conservative Judaism’
- Manny Waks Abuser Sentenced
- Report: Lakewood Resident, Shemuel Shalomchaim, Charged with Rape
- Report: Saul Len Changes His Story Again, Claims He Unwittingly Uploaded All That CSAM to Google Drive, Claims to Start Organization to Help People with Porn Addictions
- Report: North Miami Beach Resident, Yona (Shaya) Lunger, Arrested Twice, Charged with Multiple Sex Crimes Against Children
- Report: Lakewood Resident, Rabbi Yechiel Farkash, Facing Extradition to Israel for Alleged Sexual Abuse of Students at Bnei Brak Yeshiva Where He Taught, Denied Bond Ahead of Extradition Hearing
- Report: YULA Sued for Sexual Abuse of Student by Former Director of Academic Support, Julie Tichon, Who Pleaded No Contest to Sexual Abuse of Two Students in Criminal Case
- Orthodox Day School Fires Teacher For Alleged Misconduct With Student Outside of School
- Report: Additional Charges Filed against Jacob Walden Alleging Two Additional CSAM Victims
- Report: Lawsuit Alleges Yeshiva Shaarei Torah of Rockland Enabled Sexual Abuse of Student by Fellow Students After It Was Reported to Them
- Baltimore Lawyer, Isaac M Neuberger, Brother of Ner Israel Neubergers, Arrested Again For Sexually Harassing Amtrak Employee
- Lakewood’s Kollel Cheshek Shlomo is at the center of the litigation between Miryam Malachi and Rabbi Avraham Appel
- Yehonatan “Yoni” Richenberg is the Husband of Plaintiff Miryam Malachi who Features in the New York Post Story on Lakewood
- Rabbi Avraham Appel’s Defense Attorney is Ian Goldman, Esq.
- What Role Will Robert Moshe Kelety Play in the Rabbi Avraham Appel Case?
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Category Archives: Personal
Spirituality Vs Religion
Greg Leake emails: Hi Luke, I haven’t completely gotten through your synopsis for your one act play. I looked at part of your story-telling revelation youtube, and of course many of these issues are subjects you have addressed often over … Continue reading
Notes For My One-Man Play
WHAT IS THE FIRST IMAGE PEOPLE SEE IN A POSTER OF MY STORY? Headline: “Eroticized Rage: One Man’s Struggle With Sex Addiction” And pair that provocative headline with the most happy tranquil innocent photo of my present self. WHAT DO … Continue reading
Dennis Prager: ‘What painful criticism did you hear early in life that changed you for the good?’
I remember after I twice told my seventh-grade teacher to shut up, she suggested I might be happier getting home-schooled. I then shaped up and stayed in school and was never in danger of getting booted from school, though I … Continue reading
Eroticized Rage, Sex Addiction, Love Addiction & The 12 Steps To Recovery
I did 40 minutes of spontaneous reflection and story telling in my class last night. I hope to have a solid one-man play by April. Related links: Here and Here.
And I Got The Blame!
A few years ago, I borrowed a FB mate’s phone to set up dinner with this very polite and proper woman. My mate was doing a lot of blow at the time and by mistake, he started texting my friend … Continue reading
Stepping Into My First 12-Step Meeting
I went to my first 12 Step meeting in April of 2011 because I realized through psycho-therapy that eroticized rage was a poison in my life, even though I only expressed it through socially acceptable means (such as jokes and … Continue reading
My Obsessive Compulsive Neediness
In seventh grade, I got together with Seventh-Day Adventist friends one Sabbath at Pacific Union College. They called the girl I liked, Denise, and asked her who she liked. She mentioned three different guys. One of them was me. I … Continue reading
Will They Put Us In Camps?
An Orthodox Jewish friend says: “If Obama is re-elected, we’ll be put in concentration camps.” Ridiculous, but typically bitter Jewish overstatement. You’ll see the same thing in the Torah. “At least in Egypt we had meat. You take us out … Continue reading
The First Time I Met A Jewish Woman
In May of 1993, I went to my first conversion class at Sacramento’s Orthodox shul Knesset Israel. Because I hadn’t called ahead and interviewed with the rabbi, he promptly asked me to leave. My friend Michael then took me to … Continue reading
You Don’t Have To Take This Too Seriously
When I take on worthy endeavors, such as religion or work or self-improvement, I often get this voice in my head that says, “You don’t have to take this too seriously.” I think I first developed this as a kid. … Continue reading