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- The Witness Who Lived – Rachel Scott, Cassie Bernall, Valeen Schnurr, and the Hero Systems Built on a Single Yes
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- An Agent of the United States
- Prove Me Wrong: The Hero System of Charlie Kirk
- Captain Comeback and the Denial of Death
- The Flex
- 316: A Hero System Reading of Tim Tebow
- The Audience of One
- The Hero System of Rabbi Mendel Kalmenson
- The Hero System of Rabbi Baruch Shlomo Eliyahu Cunin
- Yet to Come: The Hero System of Rabbi Yisroel Ciner
- The Gallery and the Wing: Rabbi Berish Goldenberg and the Hero System of the Beit Din
- The Hero System of Rabbi Samuel Ohana
- The Judge Who Vanishes
- The Hero System of Rabbi Gershon Bess
- Out of Town That Day: Yonah Bookstein, Welcome, and the Dead
- The Hero System of Rabbi Chaim Mentz
- Counting in Ones
- Martha Nussbaum
- Stein Ringen and the Question of Good Government
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* ‘I’m So Trained’: How The Credential Society Burned Down the Palisades (12-28-25)
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Category Archives: Personal
My Writing Group Performs 1pm Sunday At Beyond Baroque
For the past few weeks, I’ve been in a weekly writing group. We’ll each be reading one of our stories on Sunday at 1pm at Beyond Baroque in Venice. Admission is $8.
Banned From The Jewish Business Network!
I wonder if I made a rude noise at my last meeting (Dec. 21) at Morey’s Fireplace in December? Logging into JBN this morning, I received this message: “Sorry, Luke Ford, you can not access JBN | Jewish Business Network … Continue reading
Who Moved My Meds?
He is the greatest writer of his generation and he works as a secretary. He is the suffering servant of Israel, an atonement for humanity’s sins. He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, and familiar with … Continue reading
I Don’t Want To Live In Fear
Most people won’t say things publicly for fear of ruffling feathers. They don’t want to lose relationships, social status, and income. I frequently get counseled to severely edit or remove blog posts because they might offend powerful people. Most of … Continue reading
Should I Leave My Tefillin Bag At Shul?
On Monday morning, I followed the custom of my friends and left my tefillin bag at shul in the aron hakodesh (holy ark). I walked home feeling anxious. What if I got up in the morning and did not want … Continue reading
Some Game?
He sat at his desk in the law office Wednesday afternoon grinding out the work when suddenly an attractive young brunette appeared before him. “Hi!” she said. “I’m Devi*.” He was taken aback and only stuttered out a “hi” after … Continue reading
I’m Putting You On Notice!
Whenever the boss yells at me not to use the Ladies room, I tell him I know better. I was a seminal blogger. I was named ***hole of the month by a very distinguished publication. Chaver says: “Why don’t you … Continue reading
Wikipedia Nation
“Your father’s dead,” he said. “It’s on Wikipedia. Look it up. Your family didn’t even tell you. You’re dead to them.” “That doesn’t sound right,” I said and immediately hit Google. “That’s not right. Not right at all. You’re a … Continue reading
I’m looking for my brothers. Can you tell me where they are grazing their flocks?
I grew up a Seventh-Day Adventist. My father was employed by the church as a preacher and as a theologian until I was 14. At age 18, I left Christianity. I wandered for a few years until embracing Judaism at … Continue reading
The Road To Auschwitz
I grew up a Seventh-Day Adventist and many of the things I was taught from the pulpit lead directly to Auschwitz. Christians did not create Auschwitz (Nazism was profoundly anti-Christian) but without 1900 years of Christian hatred of Jews and … Continue reading