- 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)
Monthly Archives: July 2020
Islam and Religious Studies Post-9/11
Aaron W. Hughes writes in his book Theorizing Islam: “When one permits those whom one studies to define the terms in which they will be understood, suspends one’s interest in the temporal and the contingent, or fails to distinguish between … Continue reading
Posted in Aaron W. Hughes, Islam
Comments Off on Islam and Religious Studies Post-9/11
When Bad Scholarship Is Just Bad Scholarship: A Response to Omid Safi
Aaron W. Hughes writes: I’ve never been called a racist before. Yet, if Omid Safi’s undocumented musings about the current state of Islamic Studies is to be believed, I am one of several non-Muslims who have the nerve to attack … Continue reading
Posted in Aaron W. Hughes, Islam
Comments Off on When Bad Scholarship Is Just Bad Scholarship: A Response to Omid Safi
Channeling Jewish History Interview with Dr. Marc Shapiro
Posted in Marc B. Shapiro
Comments Off on Channeling Jewish History Interview with Dr. Marc Shapiro
NYT: ‘tempers are rankled by sweltering temperatures’
Comment: “This is the Spike Lee theory of criminality, I believe. First mentioned in “Do the Right Thing,” then “Summer of Sam.” The heat made me do it, yes sah. I’m surprised the Times hasn’t gone full-bore with this and … Continue reading
Posted in Crime
Comments Off on NYT: ‘tempers are rankled by sweltering temperatures’
JP: Brooklyn’s Anti-Gentrication Groups are Pushing Antisemitic Narratives and Activism
From the Jewish Press: Today’s situation of riots, anarchy, and anti-Jewish violence, has a lot of parallels to the Crown Heights riots of ‘91, and one of them is this: Jews in middle and southern Brooklyn are under siege again. … Continue reading
Posted in Brooklyn
Comments Off on JP: Brooklyn’s Anti-Gentrication Groups are Pushing Antisemitic Narratives and Activism