- 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)"This generation's Hillel." (Nathan Cofnas)
Category Archives: Judaism
Salon: ‘Faced with Donald Trump and David Friedman, Jews must resist the toxic allure of tribalism’
The essence of Judaism and of Jewish identity is tribalism. Jews are a tribe. They are an extended family partly in-bed (to use Steve Sailer’s definition of a race). As a convert to Orthodox Judaism, let me tell you that … Continue reading
Posted in Judaism
Comments Off on Salon: ‘Faced with Donald Trump and David Friedman, Jews must resist the toxic allure of tribalism’
Jews & Racism
An Orthodox Jewish friend says to me: “We’re not racists. We’re bigots. We prefer people who are part of Judaism to those outside of it.” Luke: “But if Jews are a race, which was how Jews were referred to a … Continue reading
Posted in Blacks, Conversion, Judaism, Race
Comments Off on Jews & Racism
The State Of Exception
In Judaism, life is almost always the highest value, just as self-preservation is usually the highest value of any nation state. No legal system, no constitution, is able to maintain itself in all contingencies. Sometimes a nation to survive must … Continue reading
Posted in Carl Schmitt, Judaism
Comments Off on The State Of Exception
The Trump Tallis and Outsider Journalism
Rabbi Yitzhok Adlerstein writes: When a black pastor in Detroit draped a tallis around the shoulders of The Donald, Jewish tongues started clucking with disapproval. “Cultural appropriation!” “He’s an anti-Semite!” Notably, the vehemence, as best as I could tell, all … Continue reading
Posted in Journalism, Judaism
Comments Off on The Trump Tallis and Outsider Journalism
Jews, Judaism & Polygamy
Comment: Polygamy was tolerated, but in general the Old Testament appears to show it in a negative light. I can’t think offhand of any examples where polygamy did not result in major dysfunction. (1) The first mention of polygamy is … Continue reading
Posted in Judaism
Comments Off on Jews, Judaism & Polygamy