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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:
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- Two Carrier Groups and a Market in Testimony: Cultural Trauma Theory and the Arday Affair
- What the Institutions Were Buying: A Demand-Side Account of the Jason Arday Appointments
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- The Vanishing Author: First-Person Density in Luke Ford’s Archive, 2007 to 2026
- Four Dates and No Cause: What Changed Luke Ford’s Blogging Between Late 2023 and Late 2025
- Two Defensible Denominators: What a Standard Accusation Dictionary Says About Luke Ford’s Archive, and Why It Says the Opposite Thing Twice
- The Second Collapse: Twenty Years of Luke Ford’s Publication Threshold, Measured
- Luke Ford and the E-Personality: Twenty-Nine Years of Disinhibition, Self-Regulation, and the Price of Friction
- The Room Around the Argument: Audience Sorting at Outside the Beltway, 2003-2026
- Steven Taylor, James Joyner and the E-Personality: Aboujaoude’s Virtually You Tested on Twenty Years of Outside the Beltway
- Amy Wax and the E-Personality: A Claim-Level Analysis, 1996-2026
- After Cathy’s Table: How Digital Platforms Reshaped a Generation of Professional Writers
- Nathan Cofnas and the E-Personality: The Auditor, the Performer, and the Cambridge Investigation
- The E-Personality of the Public Intellectual
- NYT: ‘What Do Students Lose When They Stop Writing?’
- Another National Treasure is Falling to AI (Fiction)
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Category Archives: Marc Gafni
‘The Dark Knight’
Marc Gafni writes: The Joker. I told Luke that there was a part of him that reminded me of the joker. Or at least the Joker archetype. Some of these ideas were expressed by Luke in the first half of … Continue reading
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Tagged aids virus, false piety, king lear, marc gafni, pornography industry, religious establishments
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Luke Ford/Marc Gafni Discuss ‘The Dark Knight’
Click here to listen. I’m not into comic books, even when they’re called "graphic novels." I’m not into super-heroes and movies based on them. I went to see "The Dark Knight" last week because Marc Gafni wanted to do a … Continue reading
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Tagged dark knight, ford, luke ford
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Marc Gafni – Source of Love
He sent out this mass email that concluded: I just got off the phone with my son Yair who was standing at bus stop in Be’er Sheva and he said to me what my son Eytan said to me only … Continue reading
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Tagged future of the world, kabbalists, marc gafni, mass email, pain and suffering, yair
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Marc Gafni Vs. The Demons
Marc blogs: Hi friends, Good Morning here in Salt Lake City. On my way to Ca. this morning to spend a week with a group of friends, spiritual teacher types, some great rabbis, and other folks to vision together what … Continue reading
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Tagged hi friends, jewish leaders, marc gafni, public statements, salt lake city, spiritual teacher
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A Transcript Of My July 3, 2008 Meeting With Marc Gafni
Marc Gafni writes the following introduction to my transcript (listen to the whole thing here): What happens when two mortal enemies meet? For several years Luke Ford, known to Gafni from the Internet as a former gossip columnist for the … Continue reading
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Tagged gossip columnist, lake city ford, luke ford, marc gafni, mortal enemies, pornography industry
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Luke Ford Is A Shark – Photographic Proof
Here are some never before seen photos from my July 3, 2008 meeting with Marc Gafni at the Salt Lake in Utah. The music is "Ode to the Moral Leader" by a European classical music composer friend of mine.
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Tagged classical music composer, luke ford, marc gafni, moral leader, photographic proof
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Marc Gafni Writes About His Third Marriage
He blogs: I will never forget one of my early dates with Cary. We were walking Jerusalem’s streets. It was late, the silence was luminous. It was one of those moments when intimacy lets you enter for a moment. I … Continue reading
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Tagged heart of hearts, marc gafni, poetess, rsquo, sweetness and light, walking jerusalem
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The Straight Line From Hate Blogs To Auschwitz
Marc Gafni writes: Eros heals the disassociation and fragmentation which characterizes the thinking that gives birth to hatred, hate blogs, hate camps of death which gas children, all the while with the social and physical murders assured that they are … Continue reading
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Tagged dis ease, marc gafni, neo nazi sites, power manifests, sexual predators, women of the third reich
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