- 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) LATEST POSTS:
- Tournier on Desmond Ford
- The Borrowed Robe: How Antisemitism Dresses in Each Age’s Virtue
- The Fence and the Blessing: How Jews Have Thought About Gentiles
- A Place For You
- Tournier on Luke Ford
- Tournier on The Nostradamus Kid
- An Alliance Theory of Antisemitism
- Tournier on Cinema Paradiso and Desmond Ford
- The Self-Hating Jew
- The Alliance Theory in the Academy
- Dennis Prager v Cedars-Sinai Lawsuit
- Dennis Prager Through Randall Collins: Interaction Ritual Chains
- What is a ‘Received Idea’?
- Jordan Bardella: The Manufacture of Normality
- Everyone Became Television: Bourdieu’s Warning and the 2026 Iran War
- Marine Le Pen
- The Coalition-Proximity Rule
- Nigel Farage
- Bernard Haykel: A Life Between the Text and the Gun
- Walker Connor (1926-2017)
BEST POSTS:
- * The Enlightenment Wasn’t Enlightened (6-23-26)
* Mr. Burge Draws The Line (6-23-26)
* 'Improving on Democracy' (6-17-26)
* People Leak To People Who Are Fun (6-11-26)
* Why Does Australia Produce So Many Great Journalists? (6-11-26)
* Steve Wynn and the Press: Power, Litigation, and the Contest Over Las Vegas (6-3-26)
* Sheldon Adelson and the Journalists (6-3-26)
* The Vigilant Animal: Thinkers Who Reject the Myth of Human Gullibility (6-2-26)
* The Cost of Refusing the Misunderstanding Myth (6-2-26)
* Show Me How It Travels (6-2-26)
* The Norm Explainers (6-2-26)
* Centering Marginalized Voices (6-1-26)
* What would it look like if the Washington Post put its reader first? (6-1-26)
* What would it look like if the Financial Times put its reader first? (6-1-26)
* What It Would Mean for the Los Angeles Times to Put the Reader First? (6-1-26)
* What It Would Mean for The New York Times to Put the Reader First? (6-1-26)
* Why Wembanyama Lives on the Perimeter (5-31-26)
* The Emotional Palettes Of San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco & Sacramento (5-27-26)
* The Administrative Capital: Sacramento Legal Culture (5-27-26)
* San Diego - The Quiet Republic (5-27-26)
* The Quiet Bar: San Diego Legal Culture (5-27-26)
* SF v LA Legal Culture (5-27-26)
* Why Talent Travels Poorly Between San Francisco and Los Angeles (5-27-26)
* San Francisco and Los Angeles as Rival Models of Urban Access (5-27-26)
* Social Cliques in New York, 2026 (5-25-26)
* Social Cliques in San Francisco, 2026 (5-25-26)
* The Rival Courts of Washington (5-25-26)
* The City of Private Rooms (5-25-26)
Tag Archives: rabbi shmuley boteach
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach’s Issue With American Jewish University
Rabbi Boteach writes: I thought of this story recently in an incident with the American Jewish University (formerly, the University of Judaism) in Los Angeles after my organization, This World: The Values Network, approached the AJU to ask if they … Continue reading
Posted in Shmuley Boteach
Tagged Christopher Hitchens, rabbi boteach, rabbi david wolpe, rabbi shmuley boteach, robert wexler, university of judaism
Comments Off on Rabbi Shmuley Boteach’s Issue With American Jewish University
Shmuley’s Boteach’s Arms-Dealing Father
The LA Weekly reports: The connections could be seen last year, when Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and City Council President Eric Garcetti attended the Beverly Hills launch of the star-studded charity Turn Friday Night Into Family Night, founded by Rabbi Shmuley … Continue reading
Posted in Shmuley Boteach, Yoav Botach
Tagged Antonio Villaraigosa, city council president, eric garcetti, israeli prime minister ariel sharon, mayor antonio villaraigosa, prime minister ariel sharon, rabbi shmuley boteach
Comments Off on Shmuley’s Boteach’s Arms-Dealing Father
All The Great Moral Minds Were Wrong
Dennis Prager H1: Moses, Jesus, Jefferson, Gandhi and anyone else you can name – they were wrong. But a judge in California is right. What California voters have repeatedly endorsed – a traditional definition of marriage – is overturned by … Continue reading
Posted in Dennis Prager
Tagged black man, california judge, california voters, Dennis Prager, man and woman, rabbi shmuley boteach
Comments Off on All The Great Moral Minds Were Wrong
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach Debates Dennis Prager
This was done March 24, 2008 at Nessah synagogue in Beverly Hillls, a nominally Orthodox Persian shul. Dennis Prager: “I grew up in an East European Hasidic shtibble in New York. The rabbi was from Romania. Ultra-Orthodox. In order to … Continue reading
Posted in Dennis Prager, Shmuley Boteach
Tagged 17th street, Dennis Prager, honor god, rabbi shmuley boteach, shul, yom kippur
Comments Off on Rabbi Shmuley Boteach Debates Dennis Prager
Why America Has No Chief Rabbi
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach writes: In my eleven years living in England I often observed, as did many others, that Anglo-Jewry lacked the vibrancy and innovation characteristic of American Judaism. The absence of an electrifying sense of Jewishness and communal dynamism … Continue reading
Posted in Shmuley Boteach
Tagged american counterpart, american jewry, american judaism, anglo jewry, chief rabbi, rabbi shmuley boteach
Comments Off on Why America Has No Chief Rabbi
I Just Want To Be Close To You!
I have a hard time sleeping with someone. I feel like it is against the Torah. I feel like I am not living up to my highest ideals. I feel like my dad might walk in any minute and say, … Continue reading
Posted in Personal
Tagged best dandruff shampoo, comforter, cuddle, Dennis Prager, drug induced sleep, Jewish Journalism, little feet, lots of girls, rabbi shmuley boteach, sex lives, snuggly
Comments Off on I Just Want To Be Close To You!
Why Men Cheat – A Debate Between Dennis Prager And Rabbi Shmuley Boteach
Are men naturally polygamous? Find out on January 13th when besteselling author Rabbi Shmuley Boteach and radio talk show host Dennis Prager debate the topic live at Temple Beth Am. WHEN: January 13 @ 8pm WHERE: Temple Beth Am
Posted in Dennis Prager, Shmuley Boteach
Tagged Dennis Prager, elliott spitzer, la cienega blvd, rabbi shmuley boteach, radio talk show, radio talk show host
Comments Off on Why Men Cheat – A Debate Between Dennis Prager And Rabbi Shmuley Boteach
Secular British Court Decides Who Is A Jew
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach writes: Every once in a while, a story comes along so jolting that it is scarcely believable. One such story appeared in The New York Times, of all places, this past Sunday, about how the Jews’ Free … Continue reading
Posted in Shmuley Boteach
Tagged jewish unity, orthodox conversion, orthodox jew, progressive jews, rabbi shmuley boteach, who is a jew
Comments Off on Secular British Court Decides Who Is A Jew
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach Back In The News
There’s no rabbi like Shmuley. He got close with Michael Jackson. Now he’s close with Jon Gosselin. That takes balls. Most rabbis have no interest in reaching out to celebrities to help them. US Magazine says: While reports emerged Friday … Continue reading
Posted in Shmuley Boteach
Tagged glassman, jon gosselin, new york post, paper states, rabbi shmuley boteach, spiritual advisor
Comments Off on Rabbi Shmuley Boteach Back In The News
The Toxic Price Of Fame
On Oct. 22, 2009, Dennis Prager had Rabbi Shmuley Boteach on his radio to talk about his new book "The Michael Jackson Tapes." Shmuley: "You and I have had endless conversations about fame. You are very open about how you … Continue reading
Posted in Dennis Prager, Personal
Tagged attention seeker, carnegie hall, charity events, Dennis Prager, hebrew bible, price of fame, rabbi shmuley boteach, third world debt, third world debt relief
Comments Off on The Toxic Price Of Fame