Davening With The Stars

Posted on April 5, 2008 by Luke Ford

I’m live on my cam:

MrGorsky:  You look different
guest4:  shavua tov
MrGorsky:  Like a Russian peasant circa 1914
guest4:  how was your kiddush?
YourMoralLeader:  thank you
YourMoralLeader:  hi gina
YourMoralLeader:  it was pretty bad
guest4:  mine was s**tty too
MrGorsky:  How can a kiddush go bad?
YourMoralLeader:  pronounciation nerves
MrGorsky:  ahhhh
MrGorsky:  You need a kiddush card, with all the words transliterated out
guest4:  b"h you don’t stutter
YourMoralLeader:  doesnt help much
guest4:  told you its that NCSY bencher….
MrGorsky:  My kiddush card has blackjack tips on one side, pronunciation on the other
MrGorsky:  You can’t lose
MrGorsky:  G-d wants you to win in the game of life
MrGorsky:  You should attend my seminar
guest4:  Luke 1st has to play with a full deck
MrGorsky:  I am sure you don’t know who this really is, but I am pitching a new religious themed TV show – "Davening with the Stars"
MrGorsky:  We will pair off a yeshiva bachur with a machur, or a Bais Yakov Girls with a virtuous starlet, and watch as they struggle with the prayers and rituals of Jewish life
MrGorsky:  Imagine the episode on laying teffilin
guest4:  or mitzvah night
MrGorsky:  You should get sponsorship for this. I’m thinking Indian generic drug makers
MrGorsky:  Also, Tata Motors
MrGorsky:  I’ll bet you could convince the Indians and the Japanese to advertise on your site.
YourMoralLeader:  I love it
YourMoralLeader:  mitzva night!
YourMoralLeader:  kiddush hashem!
MrGorsky:  Yes, and even your friends from your prior life could get involved as they do some shabbos mitzvahs
guest4:  no shabbos shluff today?
YourMoralLeader:  nope
MrGorsky:  I read an article in the Sunday NY Times reporting that blogging can kill
YourMoralLeader:  up till late, then chatting all afternoon
MrGorsky:  Some big bloggers have keeled over from heart attacks in recent months
guest4:  bryan adams
MrGorsky:  All that pressure of writing all the time at minimal pay
MrGorsky:  Hey, since you are into Jewish themes, why haven’t you interviewed that nice Jewish lady, Ellen Steinberg?
YourMoralLeader:  who’s that?
MrGorsky:  Annie Sprinkles
guest4:  but does she spray?
User guest8 changed their name to BuddyHolly.
MrGorsky:  I saw her once here in NY. She’s now all Goddessy and matronly
MrGorsky:  She might be a davenning diva these days
guest4:  no singing along t’night?
User Annie changed their name to HaGoanChaimAmalek.
guest4:  you’re not feeling it yet?
HaGoanChaimAmalek:  This song is depressing
guest4:  where were you the summer of ’69?
guest4:  69 is not depressing
HaGoanChaimAmalek:  I was marching with Jessie Jackson in Selma
YourMoralLeader:  i was 3 and in aussie
YourMoralLeader:  4, why do women stay in love for years with men who treat them like crap?
guest4:  taunting the kids in school
HaGoanChaimAmalek:  Music is overrated
YourMoralLeader:  yep
HaGoanChaimAmalek:  It distracts people from more fruitful ventures
guest4:  smart women leave
HaGoanChaimAmalek:  It is a form of entertainment, and we are too entertained a people.
YourMoralLeader:  but what’s the emotional payoff in staying with non-physical abuse?
HaGoanChaimAmalek:  Personal inertia is a very, very, very powerful force.
HaGoanChaimAmalek:  ANd it covers many situations
guest4:  where’s the jug?
guest4:  too civilized from a mug
guest4:  I want to take a bite out off your shirt
guest4:  I’d probably find the worm
YourMoralLeader:  Is this Heaven?
guest4:  don’t look down
User HaGoanChaimAmalek changed their name to SolomonShekter.
guest4:  I’m always in heaven w/ you…
guest4:  and emma
guest4:  3’s company
User guest11 left the room.
SolomonShekter:  I think Luke would do better with a confident, accomplished, take-no-guff woman in the prime of life, her forties
YourMoralLeader:  lol
SolomonShekter:  A woman who knows the many weaknesses of man
SolomonShekter:  And who will not accept any crap from any man
guest4:  Luke doesn’t have much crap left in him
SolomonShekter:  A robusto woman, Rubensesque
guest13:  AWWW the Rabi is awake.
YourMoralLeader:  greetings
guest13:  He got fleas in his beard
guest13:  He eat a sandwish

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Amalek Asks: Will Luke’s Blogging Kill Him?

Posted on April 5, 2008 by Luke Ford

Chaim says about Sunday’s NYT article: "Makes perfect sense to me.  Long hours, low pay, socially isolating.  The perfect setup for a massive coronary."

In shul, a friend said to me, "If you keep knocking the rabbis down like ten pins, maybe you will end up as the Moral Leader."

Here’s the report from Matt Richtel:

SAN FRANCISCO — They work long hours, often to exhaustion. Many are paid by the piece — not garments, but blog posts. This is the digital-era sweatshop. You may know it by a different name: home.

A growing work force of home-office laborers and entrepreneurs, armed with computers and smartphones and wired to the hilt, are toiling under great physical and emotional stress created by the around-the-clock Internet economy that demands a constant stream of news and comment.

Of course, the bloggers can work elsewhere, and they profess a love of the nonstop action and perhaps the chance to create a global media outlet without a major up-front investment. At the same time, some are starting to wonder if something has gone very wrong. In the last few months, two among their ranks have died suddenly.

Two weeks ago in North Lauderdale, Fla., funeral services were held for Russell Shaw, a prolific blogger on technology subjects who died at 60 of a heart attack. In December, another tech blogger, Marc Orchant, died at 50 of a massive coronary. A third, Om Malik, 41, survived a heart attack in December.

Other bloggers complain of weight loss or gain, sleep disorders, exhaustion and other maladies born of the nonstop strain of producing for a news and information cycle that is as always-on as the Internet.

To be sure, there is no official diagnosis of death by blogging, and the premature demise of two people obviously does not qualify as an epidemic. There is also no certainty that the stress of the work contributed to their deaths. But friends and family of the deceased, and fellow information workers, say those deaths have them thinking about the dangers of their work style.

The pressure even gets to those who work for themselves — and are being well-compensated for it.

“I haven’t died yet,” said Michael Arrington, the founder and co-editor of TechCrunch, a popular technology blog. The site has brought in millions in advertising revenue, but there has been a hefty cost. Mr. Arrington says he has gained 30 pounds in the last three years, developed a severe sleeping disorder and turned his home into an office for him and four employees. “At some point, I’ll have a nervous breakdown and be admitted to the hospital, or something else will happen.”

“This is not sustainable,” he said.

It is unclear how many people blog for pay, but there are surely several thousand and maybe even tens of thousands.

The emergence of this class of information worker has paralleled the development of the online economy. Publishing has expanded to the Internet, and advertising has followed.

Even at established companies, the Internet has changed the nature of work, allowing people to set up virtual offices and work from anywhere at any time. That flexibility has a downside, in that workers are always a click away from the burdens of the office. For obsessive information workers, that can mean never leaving the house.

Blogging has been lucrative for some, but those on the lower rungs of the business can earn as little as $10 a post, and in some cases are paid on a sliding bonus scale that rewards success with a demand for even more work.

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Contamination From The Goyim

Posted on April 4, 2008 by Luke Ford

Joe emails: "KBY had to fire a number of their teachers after the Rabin assasination, but still seems to have an unfortunate racist bent. I was stunned to see this up, and on Hirhurim as well."

From Rosh Hayeshiva Harav Mordechai Greenberg, shlita, at Kerem B’Yavneh website:

The more something has the value of life, the greater its absence is. Hence, its expression of this absence – the impurity – is greater. Therefore, the death of a Jew causes greater contamination than the death of a gentile, and the death of a gentile is greater than the impurity of an animal’s carcass, and a carcass is more than a dead insect. "Because of the minimal nature of this loss, it and those similar to it are only felt to those who possess a pure soul, and the elevated souls that hope to cling to Heaven."

For this reason, the removal of spirituality and vitality from something leave a mark of impurity. The seed that was worthy of being the source of life, when it is lost leaves an impression of impurity. This is also the case with a mother who gives birth, when the infant leaves her body, and of tzara’at of houses, when the Divine Presence leaves them. Bodily refuse, on the other hand, which has no potential for holiness, leaves no marks of impurity. Similarly, a gentile, who does not possess holiness, also does not possess any impurity.

Rav Natan Ra’anan zt"l, the son-in-law of Rav Kook zt"l, adds to this based on the Gemara in Sanhedrin (91b), which asks: It says, "[Hashem] will eliminate death forever" (Yeshaya 25:8), yet it says, "for the youth of one hundred years will die." (65:20) The Gemara answers: The first pasuk is talking about Jews, whereas the second about non-Jews.

The perfection of Israel is the elimination of death entirely; the perfection of non-Jews is only length of days.

This is because death is a defect and imperfection [only] in Israel, while it is not a defect and imperfection in non-Jews. The pasuk (25:8) says, "He will remove the shame of His nation" – His nation, specifically. Death is a shame for Israel, while death is not a shame for non-Jews.

The secret of the red heifer – the purification of death – is the nullification of the expression of imperfection. The meaning of this secret is reserved only for those who are wholesome, as it says in Chukat: To you [Moshe] I reveal this reason of the heifer, but for others it remains a decree. "You have made him [Moshe] but slightly less than the angels."

Whereas regarding Shlomo, even though, "He was wiser that any person" – even from Heiman – this is Moshe, even so [Shlomo writes in Kohelet], "I thought I could become wise, but it is beyond me" – this is the heifer. It is because this is not dependent on wisdom, but on wholesomeness.

The reason of the heifer was revealed only to Moshe, but to all of Israel, I decreed a statute, and you have no right to be skeptical about it.

Luke: "What’s so racist? This is Torah." Joe replies: "Not in any Torah I know. The sole source of that whole way of thinking is the Kuzari, who, paradoxically, writing in Spain, was very influenced by the Spanish concept of "limpieza" or "pure blood". So while there are medieval texts of that sort, it is a way of thinking that has been way superceded, or ought to be. Look at the "Aleinu" sequence. The first part is very much about uniqueness, but the second part, "V’al ken" expresses a universalist approach. I think that after WWII we ought to have learned to move past "blood" and racist thinking. I’ve no problem with religious teachings advocating the supremacy of an idea, practice, or belief, but when they state that the death of a gentile is of no significance, that’s off. Interestingly, they quote the son-in-law of R. Kook, but R. Kook himself was quite the universalist."

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Los Angeles Yeshiva Bochur Booted This Week For Exposing His Cock To Female Teacher

Posted on April 4, 2008 by Luke Ford

The guy’s name started with E. (not sure if that’s the first or last name).

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Shira Lazar Hosts Two New Shows On KNBC TV Saturday Night

Posted on April 4, 2008 by Luke Ford

I interviewed her this afternoon at the Sunset-Gower studios. Video

Here’s the press release.

Shira was very excited to be interviewed by me. Somehow, she held her emotions in check, though sometimes they shone through.

After she walked me down to the reception desk, she turned to hug me.

I froze.

Then we did this awkward dance. I gave her hand the briefest of shakes and then pantomined a hug.

"You’re Orthodox?" she said.

"No, just awkward," I thought.

Max emails: "Luke, did you make the move on that chic? She looked sexy in your photos, so I invested time in watching the videos. Kind of disapointing. What kind of rude —- takes phone calls and checks her cell phone during an interview? especially one that’s on camera?"

I met Shira Oct. 25 at the book release party for Michael Grecco’s Naked Ambition:

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Entertainment personality Shira Lazar is the brightest light at the party.

Shira blogs:

Last night, things got frisky at the launch party for Michael Grecco’s NAKED AMBITION. The art photography book is an "R-rated look" at the adult entertainment industry. My Hollywood Life editor, Rob Hill, wrote the book. I got to meet some interesting folks like Diablo and Kitty, creators and stars of GIMPSGONEWILD.COM

No joke – this husband and wife team make $50,000 a month with their hot disabled site. Hmmm… maybe I’m in the wrong industry? Haha.

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I’m Live On My Cam

Posted on April 4, 2008 by Luke Ford

Join the conversation and prepare for Passover right. I’ll kasher your dishes live on my cam (I’m doing a virtual seder for shut-ins on April 17):

guest112: You may all sit down. Today’s question, as presented on another board is this: do you expect the women you are intimate with to shave themselves about the birth canal?
guest112:  Apparently, among women under 35, this is now a given.
guest9:  i never heard of this…why…???
guest112:  I argue on Rabbinical grounds that this is a correct practice for women to follow around Pesach, as luxuriant hair there might otherwise be a hiding place for bread crumbs.
guest9:  i thought it was buried treasure not chometz
guest112:  So, better to shave it all off, as part of making a home kosher for passover
ToTheSea:  They do (literally) what they need to do to secure a husband and then once that’s done…
GUAPO:  what it do luke
GUAPO:  what it do emma
Emma:  Hey Guapo
GUAPO:  you in love with luke emma
Emma:  No
GUAPO:  you just like to conversate
Emma:  Yeah..
Emma:  How are you?
GUAPO:  im real good emma
GUAPO:  thank you for askin
Emma:  Good
GUAPO:  how you?
Emma:  Fine thanks
User ragheadali left the room.
GUAPO:  you and luke gonna go on a date?
Emma:  Are you and Luke gonna go on a date?
GUAPO:  no
GUAPO:  me and courtney cumz is though
Emma:  lol
GUAPO:  once look hook it up
Emma:  Good luck with that
GUAPO:  what kinda computer you got em
Emma:  I’m using a laptop
GUAPO:  hold on yall can we have a momnet of silence for frosty freeze
Emma:  Frosty Freeze?
GUAPO:  ok resume
GUAPO:  yeah frosty freeze dead today
Emma:  Who was he then?
Emma:  or she?
GUAPO:  he gonna break dance in heaven from now on
Emma:  Breakdancer
Emma:  I see
GUAPO:  http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080404/ap_en_mu/obit_frost
GUAPO:  emma how about me you and courtney cumz? you in?
Emma:  lol No thanks
GUAPO:  no hurt in asking
Emma:  Nope
Emma:  🙂
GUAPO:  i winder why luke pretend to talk on the phone but make no noise
Emma:  lol he has no sound
GUAPO:  luke playing mind tricks
GUAPO:  howdy luke
GUAPO:  what it do son
GUAPO:  luke stomach appear to hurt
YourMoralLeader:  hi
YourMoralLeader:  hi emma
Emma:  Hey..you ok?
YourMoralLeader:  yes, doing difficult work for mossad
YourMoralLeader:  dangerous and top secret
YourMoralLeader:  we may never see each other again
GUAPO:  bin laden gonna come after you
Emma:  lol
Emma:  Hope not
GUAPO:  what you cant tell your boy hello?
Emma:  ?
YourMoralLeader:  Emma, this may be our last time together. Let’s make it meaningful. Please take off your top.
Emma:  lol!
YourMoralLeader:  thank you, looking good, honey.
Emma:  No problem Luke
Emma:  Your turn
GUAPO:  976 aint top secret work
catherine:  helleo
Emma:  Hey Catherine
GUAPO:  hi cat
cavaliera:  hello catherine
YourMoralLeader:  Emma’s keeping my baby. Papa don’t preach.
catherine:  hi
GUAPO:  wanna go on a date?
catherine:  guapo where are you from
GUAPO:  mile high city
catherine:  wheres that
GUAPO:  ask luke
catherine:  guapo whats your real name
GUAPO:  latroy
catherine:  i come from the scottish borders
GUAPO:  mm i like scottish borders
catherine:  is time you had a shave
YourMoralLeader:  nah
YourMoralLeader:  don’t preach
guest28:  G’day, son. It’s your dear old dad popping in. I see you’re still playing dress-up Jew  and listening to fair-dinkum homosexual music.
YourMoralLeader:  Yes dad
guest28:  I should have throttled you with your own umbilical cord, mate.
YourMoralLeader:  that hurts, dad
guest28:  when you dropped out of the womb mewling and puking, it was a sign of worse things to come.
YourMoralLeader:  I’m sorry I let you down, dad.
guest28:  look at your self-satisfied, schizophrenic smirk. you make me sick.
YourMoralLeader:  What should I do?
guest28:  Kill yourself.
YourMoralLeader:  Would that make you happy?
User guest30 left the room.
guest28:  Yes.
cavaliera:  go away 28!
YourMoralLeader:  I thought that was against the Bible, Rev. Des?
Emma:  lol
GUAPO:  some real eveil people in this world
guest28:  There’s exceptions to every rule, sonny Jim.
GUAPO:  why hate?
YourMoralLeader:  Dad, I want you to meet my future bride and the mother of my eight kids — Emma.
YourMoralLeader:  Emma, this is my father Rev. Des.
guest28:  steal any more Cocoa Krispies from the homeless this week, ya miserable layabout?
Emma:  Hey dad
Emma:  lmao
YourMoralLeader:  Not this week, dad.
GUAPO:  ba burg in rare form today
catherine:  what are you doing to your music
guest28:  If I had been there, I would have marched you starightaway to the corner store and made you buy DOUBLE of what you stole…and then I would have force-fed you a fair-dikum cane toad.
guest28:  And then I would have smashed your gob with aa cricket bat, you ponce.
YourMoralLeader:  Don’t you think I am your fault, dad?
guest28:  look at my pansy son c**king his head like a kookaburra. he’s so well-pleased with his own misbehavior.
guest28:  there you again, refusing to take responsibility for your sorry self.
YourMoralLeader:  Emma, dad’s got a soft underneath his hard exterior.
YourMoralLeader:  Dad, Emma and I want your blessing on our marriage. We’d like you to officiate with a rabbi. Is that cool?
GUAPO:  im gonna bounce tall just too hateful
cavaliera:  congratulations…luke and emma!
guest28:  You listen to me, sunny Jim, you wouldn’t be laughing if I were there. You’d cower and quail like you’ve always done…and the I’d find Holly Randall, load her bum and vaginaa with fresh, Vitamin-D enricched milk, grab some ANZAC biscuits and have a go.
guest28:  She’s know it too, by cracky.
guest28:  You’re a ponce.
cavaliera:  WOW!!!!!!!!!
guest28:  And your fake Jewry fools no one.
cavaliera:  you are really full of crazy words!
guest28:  Poor Avraham Union. He haad the good sense to throw you out of the RCC conversion program, but you try to cast an ill-light on him. Shame on you.
guest28:  The shame i feel every day when I think I spawned a worthless drone like you.
Emma:  It’s getting boring now 28
guest28:  Let’s get down to brass tacks, you whingeing little creep.
guest28:  You were thrown out of the RCC conversion program because you are a fake and an anti-Semite.
YourMoralLeader:  yeah, but aside from that?
guest28:  and Holly Randall’s bum is as big as all outdoors!
guest28:  It’s a sad day when a father can’t bear to look at his own son. That day is today. i’ve got to bugger off before I lose my Vegemite and cheese. Piss off, you pansy!
Emma:  Some people know too much about you

  Luke must be out celebrating MLK Day
KhunDiddy:  helping elderly Afro American ladies to cross the street
guest112:  This is what happens when Emma leaves
guest112:  You need to go over there and knock her up ASAP
YourMoralLeader:  ok
guest112:  Also, forbid her to go to school or read papers and books.
guest112:  Knowledge is power, and power is the last thing you want her to have
YourMoralLeader:  ok
guest112:  Pregnant, that is your goal
guest112:  yikes
guest112:  Send me a pic of her
guest112:  I am curous.
guest112:  Not sexual, as I have no such urges any more
guest112:  I am like the Holy Father in Rome
guest112:  This Madonna music is disgusting
guest112:  Among males, love of her music is a marker for homosexuality
guest112:  Have you gotten your truck back?
guest57:  Hey Luke, how is it going?
guest112:  WHERE ARE THE WHITE WOMEN?
RussianDragon:  he hides them under his desk
guest112:  Did you get a paint job to go with the new engine?
guest112:  I say you hire a bunch of latino taggers to give your van an authe
RussianDragon:  where is emma
guest112:  I was just about to ask that.
guest112:  Perhaps her father caught wind of what she was doing online
RussianDragon:  maybe she is delivering the first of their 8 babies
RussianDragon:  push push emma
YourMoralLeader:  she’s coming
RussianDragon:  oh look the baby looks like russiandragon
RussianDragon:  I BET SHE IS
guest112:  Luke, she might be underage
guest112:  4real
RussianDragon:  she is older then 12
Emma:  How was the interview?
YourMoralLeader:  good
Emma:  Alrighty
YourMoralLeader:  encoding and uploading it now
YourMoralLeader:  how was your day, emma?
Emma:  Was good. I had half day in college, and went horse riding after
guest57:  what college do you go to emma?
Emma:  Not far from where I live…
guest57:  whats the name of the school?
Emma:  Lol don’t worrie, you don’t know me
guest57:  what are you munching on, luke?
guest57:  you just eat and dont offer
guest57:  how come you dont offer us some of that?
Emma:  Lol because it’s a chat room?
guest57:  so
YourMoralLeader:  peanut butter on raisin bread
guest57:  that sounds good
Emma:  What music is that Luke?
guest57:  hey luke, do you have to pay to have your camera broadcasted on this website?
Emma:  It’s free
guest57:  is that true luke?
YourMoralLeader:  free
YourMoralLeader:  alize

guest68:  wanna razor?
guest68:  lol
guest68:  anyone got  a sense of humour here>?
Emma:  Whos telling the jokes?
guest68:  aaawww thats better. cute smile
guest69:  I like this number and I’m sticking to it!!!!!!!
guest68:  where you leading us YML?
guest68:  to hell?
guest68:  up a gum tree?
guest68:  you got fingers YML? theres a keyboard you know!!!
guest68:  clickerty click
YourMoralLeader:  good
guest68:  yeah good
RussianDragon:  idle fingers doing the devils bidding
guest68:  i was right about hell then!!
RussianDragon:  yup
guest68:  woahhhhhhhhhhhh
RussianDragon:  can you smell the sulfur
guest68:  mmmmmmm growing horns as we speak
guest68:  I am satans bride
RussianDragon:  you mean horny
guest68:  lol RD
RussianDragon:  he is a cult leader
guest68:  I am waiting to be lead.
User Cheeselikesubstance changed their name to FistofMikeAlbo.
guest68:  up the garden path?
Emma:  What you up too this weekend Russian?
User guest71 changed their name to noname.
RussianDragon:  inticing young beautiful girls in his wed of deceit
noname:  hi all
RussianDragon:  hi noname
Emma:  hey noname
FistofMikeAlbo:  wed of deceit huh?
FistofMikeAlbo:  thats rich
RussianDragon:  typo
RussianDragon:  web
guest68:  how nice. im a young beautiful girl. awaiting my fate
User RussianDragon changed their name to Lolita.
Lolita:  you’d better change your name 68
YourMoralLeader:  Emma, you’re pushing me over the borderline
Lolita:  he prefers nice names
Lolita:  like emma
User FistofMikeAlbo changed their name to ElazarMushkin.
Lolita:  and genice
Emma:  I’m trying to make conversation
Lolita:  and sarah
Emma:  It’s not working
Lolita:  etc
ElazarMushkin:  Luke, do you have a minute? I need a word with you.
Lolita:  to whome emma
Emma:  whomever
User G69 left the room.
Lolita:  oh well i’ll talk to you
Emma:  But if I said, Im gonna go on cam and strip
noname:  lol
Emma:  Hmmm id make conversation then
noname:  they all love that emma
Lolita:  i bet you would
guest68:  cool website YML. just had a look
ElazarMushkin:  You should go on cam and strip emma. I’d expect no less
Emma:  lol
noname:  lol
Lolita:  mm better not
User guest68 left the room.
Lolita:  we could get distracted
YourMoralLeader:  Rabbi Muskin, yes?
Lolita:  and i don’t write well with one hand
Lolita:  joke!
User Lolita changed their name to RussianDragon.
Emma:  Teardrop on the fire
ElazarMushkin:  I am greatly disappointed in you Luke.
RussianDragon:  you singing emma
ElazarMushkin:  Not only did you deceive me before. I invited you into my own home.
ElazarMushkin:  For Passover no less. You shared it with my own family.
RussianDragon:  hi elazar
ElazarMushkin:  And now this. This this "existence" you are leading
YourMoralLeader:  I’m sorry
ElazarMushkin:  using the interweb to ensnare mentally deficient yet nubile females
RussianDragon:  so what r u up to in the weekend emma
YourMoralLeader:  I’m giving all I can. You got the best of me!
YourMoralLeader:  you keep on pushing my love over the borderline
ElazarMushkin:  You’ve gone from writing about the porn to appearing in your own sick version of pornography
guest73:  he shames us all
YourMoralLeader:  Sorry rabbi, will you let me back in your shul?
Emma:  We cant hear the song Luke
ElazarMushkin:  Not the shul Luke, I  can never allow that. But someday, maybe, I’ll let you back into my heart
YourMoralLeader:  rabbi, help me
YourMoralLeader:  be the Torah Jew I know I can be
ElazarMushkin:  Don’t you see His works in the world around you?
ElazarMushkin:  God is love
RussianDragon:  it’s too late luke
coronzon:  beras**t bera elohim hathar shamane va atar aretz
ElazarMushkin:  I will Luke, but first you need to get a job, even if it’s in a kosher deli, and show me four consecutive paystubs
YourMoralLeader:  Emma, you must be my lucky star
RussianDragon:  yeah i said that yesterday to my jewish barber
Emma:  Your mine
YourMoralLeader:  how’s your shul rabbi?
YourMoralLeader:  you got any scoop for me?
ElazarMushkin:  I fear for the shul
ElazarMushkin:  Its fabric is rent
YourMoralLeader:  how so?
catherine:  what are you eating
ElazarMushkin:  the chasm caused by your expulsion festers like a boil on a gentiles ass
RussianDragon:  was that his tongue
RussianDragon:  where has that organ been
catherine:  emma are you going out with luke
Emma:  Not yet
YourMoralLeader:  soon!
RussianDragon:  is he comming to irelang
catherine:  emma why arent you there with him
Emma:  I don’t have wings
YourMoralLeader:  Emma makes me feel like a virgin
YourMoralLeader:  Yes, you do, honey. You’re an angel.
catherine:  well you can stay with him
Emma:  That was a good one
YourMoralLeader:  Her — is out of this world.
Emma:  He hasn’t seen my —–
RussianDragon:  hair?
RussianDragon:  face?
catherine:  what is the missing word for
RussianDragon:  you make me feel shiny and new
catherine:  is that what you are luke a virgin
ElazarMushkin:  Luke if we consider allowing you a place in the shul can you even afford it?
YourMoralLeader:  Yes rabbi, mind lending me the money?
YourMoralLeader:  I’m good for it
catherine:  i bet you are
RussianDragon:  sniff
ElazarMushkin:  We still are willing to set up a payment schedule
RussianDragon:  unloved
RussianDragon:  i’m going to my bed
Emma:  awww
Emma:  -hugs-
catherine:  i am looking for a boyfriend any out there
RussianDragon:  bye
YourMoralLeader:  guapo
YourMoralLeader:  OK, rabbi, can I go to daf yomi tomorrow morning?
YourMoralLeader:  I’ll show them this chat transcript to Rabbi Etshalom
ElazarMushkin:  In chesed, yes
YourMoralLeader:  Baruch HaShem, rabbi, I owe you one. I’m sorry for all the tsuris I’ve caused you and the shul. I’ll be a good boy now.
YourMoralLeader:  You’ll never have to spank me again.
ElazarMushkin:  I’ll come by and pick you up
YourMoralLeader:  Thank you
YourMoralLeader:  8 am
alexanderthegreat:  wierd
ElazarMushkin:  7:45. traffic is terrible
Emma:  lol
ElazarMushkin:  don’t let me check the cam at 7:30 and find you staring apishly into the screen and still not dressed
YourMoralLeader:  I promise.
catherine:  where are yous going at 8 olclock
YourMoralLeader:  YICC
catherine:  whats that mean
alexanderthegreat:  yorkshire infants cricket club
ElazarMushkin:  It’s Young Israel of Century City
alexanderthegreat:  of course it is
ElazarMushkin:  its the shul in which I am "TheMoralLeader". as opposed to this chatroom, where Luke is YourMoralLeader
YourMoralLeader:  Yes
alexanderthegreat:  there are 2 leaders ???
YourMoralLeader:  Thank you rabbi, I feel like there’s been a great healing today.
YourMoralLeader:  Let’s all hug
alexanderthegreat:  get this bloody song off
ElazarMushkin:  There there my son. Let’s not move in haste. The wounds are deep
Emma:  o.0
ElazarMushkin:  Now I must go.
alexanderthegreat:  ah phew thats better
YourMoralLeader:  Bye
ElazarMushkin:  Back to your regularly scheduled programming- I am sure you are busily educating these young minds.
cavaliera:  you are looking tired luke
Emma:  I’m going away for the weekend
guest78:  take your laptop
YourMoralLeader:  where?
YourMoralLeader:  good
Emma:  Dublin
YourMoralLeader:  Normally I make you excited Emma, what happened?
Emma:  I need to see something different than whats outside my window
YourMoralLeader:  girls just wanna have fun
guest112:  Emma….EmmaEmmaline, prettiest girl I ever seen
cavaliera:  yes emma…then you can choose…yourself
cavaliera:  112….seems to like you emma
Emma:  I dunno who he is
guest112:  I’m full of WOWW.  The extra "W" is for extra "WOWW"
guest112:  The impact of that beard would be greater if you gave yourself a buzzcut
Emma:  Someone is making him smile lol
YourMoralLeader:  only you
guest112:  Emma, what naughty things are you pming to Luke
YourMoralLeader:  You also make me sneeze
cavaliera:  thats a good thing emma 🙂
mrx:  nice music man
Emma:  That I make him sneeze?
guest112:  Luke, at this rate, in another five years you will be dating fetuses.
guest112:  I love the bubblegum pop muic
Emma:  Luke why do I make you sneeze?
mrx:  bravoooooooooooooooooo
guest112:  Get a room you two!
cavaliera:  hope he isn`t allergic to you lol
Emma:  lol
Emma:  He must be
YourMoralLeader:  I don’t know Emma, I wish I did. My body has reactions to you that I can’t control.
YourMoralLeader:  I told my rabbi that.
Emma:  And what did he say?
YourMoralLeader:  He said to make some money so I could fly you over.
YourMoralLeader:  and he could inspect you.
Emma:  lol Inspect me
YourMoralLeader:  I meant convert you.
Emma:  Oh dear
cavaliera:  incredible
guest112:  I’m Luke’s official virtue inspector
cavaliera:  hahahaha
guest112:  Call me Inspector V
Emma:  Convert me
YourMoralLeader:  We need to make sure you’re a virgin.
Emma:  aha
YourMoralLeader:  Like Princess Di
Emma:  Why ?
cavaliera:  wow
Emma:  lmao
guest112:  I will use a special probe to test for this
guest112:  Luke trusts me
Emma:  Leave princess diana out of this
YourMoralLeader:  That way I won’t have performance anxiety.

RevDesmondFord:  your limp, weak little retorts mean NOTHING, boy!
YourMoralLeader:  Dad, what did you expect from me?
YourMoralLeader:  You seem disappointed and a tad angry and violent. This is not the Christian way.
RevDesmondFord:  I sure didn’t expect you to grow up to drink from a jug of urine, mate!
RevDesmondFord:  Just look at your pathetic little CHAT ROOM! Rife with retards and anti-Semites! Oh, you must be fair-dinkum proud of yourself, ya snot!
RevDesmondFord:  your grotesque appearance puts me off my breakfast, it does.
RevDesmondFord:  No more Vegemite and cheese for me, today.
RevDesmondFord:  I just heard from your brother Paul.
RevDesmondFord:  He considers you a ponce, as well.
Tammy:  What is a ponce?
RevDesmondFord:  as does his Oriental wife.
Tammy:  This music is gay
RevDesmondFord:  and their half-breed children.
Tammy:  This is gay dance music
KhunDiddy:  See ya’ later gang..the misus wants to walk down to the local "Half Price Books"
RevDesmondFord:  It’s a good thing the Jewish people are not fooled by your smirking, prancing little charade.
guest99:   lets get everyone Rev……….. you go Ford!
RevDesmondFord:  only a handful of disenfranchised, moronic Internet dweebs buy into your act. You are going straight down the tubes, boy!
RevDesmondFord:  How does it taste?
Tammy:  It’s my mom’s music
guest99:   he professes to be orthodox in his latest venture
RevDesmondFord:  Well chuffed, are you?
guest99:   howerve he grew up in Desmonds house
YourMoralLeader:  http://www.youtube.com/user/ADigitalCultHeroine
RevDesmondFord:  I’ll straighten that out with one crack to the jaw, mate.
YourMoralLeader:  My mental health diary
guest99:   in Austrailia
RevDesmondFord:  been attacked by any porn stars lately, mate?
YourMoralLeader:  no
guest99:   where  the good rev was an evangelic hell and  brim preacher man!
RevDesmondFord:  SPEAK UP, BOY!
Tammy:  Your dad is mean to you
RevDesmondFord:  straighten out that posture!
Tammy:  You should defend yourself
RevDesmondFord:  there is NO defense for my sorry son.
RevDesmondFord:  that’s right, tap at your ergonomic keyboard. still pretending to be a writer, I see.
RevDesmondFord:  how are your SELF-PUBLISHED books doing, pansy?
Tammy:  My Mom would totally go for you
Tammy:  Would you date my aunt?
Tammy:  She’s around your age, and she rocks.
Tammy:  Never married, no kids
Tammy:  You two would look cute together.
RevDesmondFord:  Sickening. Just absolutely sickening. Next time try throwing in some Yiddish words to make yourself seem Jewish – though you are NOT and NEVER WILL BE.
RevDesmondFord:  Sammy Davis, Jr. was more of a Jew than you’ll ever be.
YourMoralLeader:  That schvartze?
RevDesmondFord:  you’re useless, boy.
YourMoralLeader:  What line of work should I go into, dad?
RevDesmondFord:  incapable of formulating any defense.
RevDesmondFord:  KILL YOURSELF.
YourMoralLeader:  I have none. You read me too clearly.
RevDesmondFord:  miserable little faggot.
YourMoralLeader:  Thank you for the gift of your feedback.
YourMoralLeader:  I know it comes from love, you homo.
RevDesmondFord:  DIE.
Tammy:  RevDesmondFord, you are not Luke’s dad. So who are you, a fake?
Tammy:  I hate fakes
cavaliera:  why don`t you ban him luke?
YourMoralLeader:  Mike comes from a good place.
cavaliera:  listen to crap like this
RevDesmondFord:  You whingeing little sodomite.
YourMoralLeader:  Ooh, gay bashing!
YourMoralLeader:  How did you feel when I came out of the closet, dad?
RevDesmondFord:  You are a closet anti-Semite.
RevDesmondFord:  and a blatant homosexual.
YourMoralLeader:  You’re more subtle about yours, dad.
RevDesmondFord:  attention-craving, amoral and utterly unredeemable.
Tammy:  Why save up all that mucus on that rag?
YourMoralLeader:  I learned it all from you dad.
Tammy:  That’s an old guy move.
RevDesmondFord:  that’s right: don’t take responsibility for yourself, boy. That’s always been your way.
Tammy:  Younger guys never have hankies.  They use tissue paper
RevDesmondFord:  preening and grinning like a psychopath.
RevDesmondFord:  UNION WAS RIGHT.
Tammy:  Luke, defend yourself!
User guest104 left the room.
User RevDesmondFord left the room.
cavaliera:  finally!
cavaliera:  puuuhhh

RavAronTendler:  I saw your Abner story
RavAronTendler:  interesting
RavAronTendler:  I wonder who got more woman, him or me
YourMoralLeader:  Aron, you did all right
fukelord:  good deal
YourMoralLeader:  The Talmud says: Who is the rich man?
fukelord:  Warren Buffet
YourMoralLeader:  He who is content with the # of ladies he boffed.
RavAronTendler:  Luke you are welcome to come to Sharey Tzedek
YourMoralLeader:  Thank you Rav
GUAPO:  i boffed 32 b**ches
YourMoralLeader:  Could you get your friend Avrohom Union and Rabbi Moshe Cohen from Aish in here?
RavAronTendler:  I spoke ot Rav Rosenberg about you and he’s ok with you coming there
fukelord:  but all those XPT are still jealous that you dated Holly Randall
GUAPO:  im not jealous cause for real holly racist
RavAronTendler:  Luke, according to your sources, who got laid more, me or Abner
YourMoralLeader:  You, Rav Aron.
YourMoralLeader:  got the younger stuff too
fukelord:  Holly’s cute, but those guys get worked up like a bunch of fanboys
RavAronTendler:  how do I compare to how often you got it on
fukelord:  I’m in love with her mom anyway
YourMoralLeader:  You got more and younger
GUAPO:  luke say i go away for like 18- 24 months… will you still  be on chat when i return?
YourMoralLeader:  rabbi
fukelord:  luke, what is the age of the oldest women with whom you’ve had sex?
TheAdmiral:  Luke how long do you plan on growing your beard?
YourMoralLeader:  Kitten Natividad, she was 52, I was 28
fukelord:  are you serious?
YourMoralLeader:  but she was famous!
fukelord:  I loved her in that Russ Myers film

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Massive Asset Recovery Action Against Numerous Synagogues & Yeshivas

Posted on April 4, 2008 by Luke Ford

Before Steven Oschweritz filed for bankruptcy, he apparently transferred a ton of money to various Orthodox institutions.

Does anyone know anything about bankruptcy law and lawsuits for the recovery of preferential transfers and fraudulent conveyences?

A bankruptcy judge has the right to order that all transfers out of the estate on the eve of bankruptcy are to be brought back into the estate for distribution.

Just before declaring bankruptcy, this Steven Oscherwitz bloke apparently transferred a ton of assets to yeshivas and other Jewish institutions and individual Jews.

Chapter Seven trustee for Universal Merchants Inc, David L. Ray, has now initiated over 100 lawsuits to recover assets.

Here’s the recovery action against the Spinka Hasidim.

Here’s a note from point 12 of this lawsuit: "The Trustee’s investigation reveals that, for many years pre-petition, Mr. Oscherowitz commingled his personal and business finances, including those of UMI. Mr. Oscherowitz transferred substantial amounts of funds both to and from these entities and, in many instances, credited and charged personal expenses to advance accounts."

From point 14: Pllaintiff believes…the Debtors transferred…no less than $15,000 to the defendant.

Here’s the recovery against Yeshiva Gedola of Los Angeles. The plaintiff alleges the defendant transferred no less than $32,000 to the yeshiva.

Here are some of the other parties getting sued: YESHIVA RAV ISACSOHN ACADEMY, BAIS YAAKOV SCHOOL FOR GIRLS (Los Angeles), KEHILAS YAAKOV, EZER YELADIM, LA BREA KOSHER MARKET, CONGREGATION CHAKAL YITZCHOK, JERUSALEM TOURS, SHOCKWAVE MARKETING, CONGREGATION NOTZER CHESED, BNOS CHAYIL, BAIS YAAKOV OF ADAS YEREIM, ASHER AROM, CAMP RAV TOV, MIFAL CHESED, INC., A NEW YORK NOT-FOR-P, CENTRAL RABBINICAL SEMINARY, SHALOM TORAH CENTERS, CHEDER OF LOS ANGELES, CBP MOSAD, GEMACH ZICHRON SHMIEL ZANVEL, CONGREGATION ADAS YEREIM, KOLLEL TIFERES YAAKOV YOSEF, GEMACH TZEDAKA VECHESED, KOLLEL NER AVROHOM, BNOS MENACHEM, YESHIVA IMREI JOSEPH OF SPINKA, OHR YAAKOV YOSEF, CHEDER MENACHEM, BETH HAMEDRESH RACMAY HAUB, BNEI SHIMON YISROEL D’SHORAN, CONGREGATION BETH CHAIM, CONGREGATION BNOS MOSHE, CAMP MACHNE DIVRIE YOEL CORP., OHR YAACOV,KEREN CHASANIM D’SATMAR, INC., COL HITZTACHAS, RABBI SHLOMO ALGAZ, MOSDOS SPINKA, YESHIVAS YOSEF D’KROLA, CITY GLATT, INC., A CALIFORNIA CORPORATION, YESHIVAS OHR YAAKOV, CONGREGATION BAIS MOSHE OF KORUV, YESHIVA BNEI SHIMON D’SHOPRON, MOSDOS HACHESED, AGUDATH CHASIDEI SPINKA, CONGREGATION CHEVRA KADISHA, MID-CITY CHABAD, INC…

I shelled out the big bucks and got this comprehensive information from web pacer.

Oscheritz was busted by the FTC in 1996 and enjoined from making more false claims about his product Chroma-Trim:

IT IS ORDERED that respondents, directly or through any corporation, subsidiary, division, or other device, in connection with the manufacturing, labeling, advertising, promotion, offering for sale, sale, or distribution of ChromaTrim or ChromaTrim-100 ("ChromaTrim") or any food, dietary supplement, or drug, as "food" and "drug" are defined in Section 15 of the Federal Trade Commission Act, in or affecting commerce, shall not represent, in any manner, expressly or by implication, that:

A. ChromaTrim significantly reduces body fat;
 
B. ChromaTrim causes significant weight loss;
 
C. ChromaTrim significantly reduces body fat or causes weight loss without dieting or exercise;
 
D. ChromaTrim increases lean body mass or builds muscle;
 
E. ChromaTrim controls appetite or craving for sugar; or
 
F. Nine out of ten people do not consume enough chromium to support normal insulin function, resulting in decreased ability to burn fat, preserve muscle, and control hunger and cravings,

unless, at the time the representation is made, respondents possess and rely upon competent and reliable scientific evidence that substantiates the representation.

Here’s the November 7, 1996 press release:

The Federal Trade Commission today announced settlements with three California companies charged with making unsupported claims about weight loss and health benefits for chromium picolinate, one of the hottest dietary supplements on the market. The FTC said that these claims must be backed with solid scientific evidence, but these were not.

Some have called chromium picolinate the "medical miracle of the 1990s." At issue are claims that most American diets lack adequate chromium and risk potentially serious health problems, and claims that chromium picolinate supplements burn fat, cause weight loss, increase muscle mass, reduce serum cholesterol, regulate blood sugar levels, and treat or prevent diabetes. Chromium is a trace mineral that appears to play a role in insulin function. Chromium picolinate has found its way into many products, including chewing gum; total retail sales for chromium-based supplements are estimated to be $100 million a year.

"Consumers have a right to expect that claims that products will speed weight loss and improve health are based on solid scientific evidence, not preliminary or inconsistent findings," said Jodie Bernstein, director of the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection.

Today’s cases are against:

  • Nutrition 21, the sole supplier of chromium picolinate in the US, Selene Systems, Inc., a general partner of Nutrition 21, and Herbert H. Boynton. The San Diego-based company holds the exclusive US license on the patent rights to chromium picolinate, and sells it to the public through distributors;
  • Victoria Bie, doing business as Body Gold, a La Jolla-based company that sold its dietary supplements directly to the public through ads in national magazines. The main ingredients of the products — sold under the names Chromium Picolinate, 24K with Chromium Picolinate, Super Fat Burner Formula, L-Carnitine, Daily Energy Formula, and Citrigold — are chromium picolinate, L-carnitine, and/or (-)hydroxycitric acid (HCA); and
  • Universal Merchants, Inc., a Los Angeles-based company and Steven Oscherowitz, its president. The company advertises and distributes its chromium picolinate chewing gum products — Chromatrim and Chromatrim 100 — through an infomercial starring Susan Ruttan, an actress who appeared in the long-running series, LA Law, and in print ads in national magazines.

Today’s complaints cite various advertising statements and testimonials from consumers claiming weight loss and health benefits that allegedly can be achieved by using chromium picolinate. According to the complaints, the companies failed to provide adequate substantiation for their claims that the supplement would, among other things, cause significant and long-term weight loss; improve body composition by reducing body fat and building muscle; increase metabolic rate; control appetite; reduce serum cholesterol; regulate blood sugar levels; increase energy and/or stamina; and treat and prevent diabetes.

The FTC also maintains that:

  • the companies failed to substantiate their claim that 90 percent of American adults do not consume enough chromium in their diets to support normal insulin function and therefore are at risk for obesity, heart disease and diabetes;
  • the companies falsely claimed that chromium picolinate’s benefits are proven by scientific studies; and
  • some of the companies made unsubstantiated claims that the testimonials used in their ads reflect the typical experiences of consumers who use chromium picolinate products.

According to the FTC’s Bernstein, Americans spend about $33 billion a year on weight loss products, programs and services. "There’s only one way people can tell the sizzle from the substance when it comes to these kinds of claims," she said. "Subject them to a healthy dose of skepticism." Over the years, the FTC has brought more than 140 cases against companies making deceptive weight loss and health benefits claims.

Under the proposed consent agreements to settle these allegations, announced today for public comment, the respondents would be prohibited from making any of the challenged claims for chromium picolinate in the future, unless they have competent and reliable scientific evidence to support them. The settlements also would require them to have competent and reliable scientific evidence to support any representation they make about the benefits, performance, efficacy, or safety of any food, dietary supplement, or drug they advertise or sell.

The settlements would further prohibit the respondents from misrepresenting the results of any test, study, or research. Respondents Bie and Universal Merchants would be prohibited from representing that any testimonial or endorsement is the typical or ordinary experience of users of the advertised products, unless the claim is substantiated or the respondents disclose the generally expected results clearly and prominently.

In addition, the settlement with Nutrition 21 would require the company to send its customers (who resell chromium picolinate to the public) a notice of the Commission’s allegations and a request to stop using sales materials making the challenged claims. This notice must be sent to anyone with whom Nutrition 21 has done business since 1993 and everyone with whom they do business for the next three years.

Finally, the settlements include various reporting requirements to help the FTC monitor the respondents’ compliance with their provisions.

The Commission votes to accept the three consent agreements for public comment were 5-0.

Related Documents

In 2003, Oschweritz reached an agreement with the L.A. City Ethics Commission regarding his giving an amount of money to former mayor James Hahn that violated the law.

 

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Girl

Posted on April 3, 2008 by Luke Ford

I met Molly Dodge about five years ago through this website. We used to chat on the phone.

Here’s an article about her and her daughter:

Abbie and Molly Dodge

Abbie and Molly Dodge

One look at Abbie Dodge’s smiling face, framed with ringlets of wavy brown hair, and one would never guess the North Naples youngster has struggled with a little known childhood illness.

The first symptom began in 2006, when Abbie would awaken in the middle of the night with terrible leg pains. Her mother, Molly Dodge, thought Abbie might be having growing pains, but when the girl’s face grew pale and her movements stiff, she became alarmed. By the time Abbie was rushed to an emergency clinic, Mollie says her daughter’s eyes had turned bright red.

Doctors could not agree on the problem, citing everything from allergies and stress to Kowasaki’s disease. Dodge’s head spun with frightening possibilities as her daughter’s condition worsened.

Abbie was rushed to Rochester’s Mayo Clinic. Within three days, doctors narrowed the diagnosis, but more tests were needed to confirm the problem. After two trips to Mayo’s St. Mary’s Hospital and countless tests, Abbie was finally diagnosed with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, a disease that affects 300,000 children nationwide.

According to Barbara Carley, volunteer program director for The Florida Chapter of The Arthritis Foundation, JRA can start at birth; but after age 18, the condition is designated as adult rheumatoid arthritis.

“Many people are unaware that arthritis affects children,” she says. “They think of arthritis as an older person’s disease.”

In Florida alone, an estimated 10,000 children are affected by the condition, and the pain is intense.

“If you’ve ever broken an arm or sprained an ankle, that’s what JRA feels like all the time,” Carley says. “I’ve seen children in so much pain that nurses couldn’t touch them.”

After Abbie was released from St. Mary’s Hospital, she began treatments with a specialist at the Miami Children’s Hospital. Every two months, the family returns to the hospital for blood work and a check-up. Abbie has responded so well to the medication, that the doctor has been slowly cutting back on the dosage.

“Seventy-five percent of kids grow out of it,” Molly says. “We are praying that Abbie will be in that percentage.”

Molly says Abbie’s lack of ability to take part in physical activities affected the girl’s self-esteem, but she found encouraging therapy through her art.

“Abbie had boxes of drawings, and made up a couple of characters, so the idea kept nudging me,” she says of the concept of writing a book.

When Molly suggested the idea, Abbie quickly agreed, and they got to work.

“Abbie drew the illustrations; together, we decided what would be written on the pages,” Molly says.

The young artist threw herself, heart and soul, into the project.

“Drawing is Abbie’s passion, but it intensified as she became sicker,” Molly says. “The characters in her book became more active as Abbie became more physically inactive.”

Once completed, the images were scanned and sent to a publishing company. A year later, “Vally the Villo’s First Day Away” by Abigail Mary (a pen name) was ready to hit the shelves. The story outlines the life of Vally, a strange creature called a villo, and the young critter’s first venture into the outside world.

This year, Abbie began kindergarten at Veteran’s Memorial in North Naples, where her teachers, Lisa Heben and Kathy Morrow, immediately recognized her artistic skills.

As a newly published author, Abbie was invited to discuss her book on the school’s daily televised announcements.

In early March, she participated with several adult authors in a booksigning at Barnes & Noble in Naples. Several of her classmates showed up to support her efforts.

“We purchased copies to put in our classroom and in the school library,” said Morrow. “She autographed each one.”

Today, Abbie takes ballet lessons and swims, activities that are recommended for arthritis patients. She doesn’t participate in contact sports, since injuries can make arthritis worsen, but she enjoys school and continues with her artwork daily.

The combination of medical care and the sense of accomplishment from publishing a book have strengthened Abbie’s self-esteem, and, so far, her book has been a big hit. She’s sold 80 copies and carefully autographs each one. Molly says a portion of the proceeds will be donated to the Arthritis Foundation to help raise awareness of juvenile rheumatoid arthritis.

When asked how it felt to hold her book in her hands, Abbie responded with the same enthusiasm as any author — child or adult. With a huge smile, she summed it up in one word. “Good!”

And for Abbie Dodge, feeling good is what it’s all about.

For more information on the book, go online to http://vallythevillo.com.

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They’re Building An Eruv In The Hamptons

Posted on April 3, 2008 by Luke Ford

Newsday reports:

In a first for the East End, creation of an eruv, a symbolic fence used in Orthodox Jewish observance, is being sought by a synagogue in Westhampton Beach.

The resolution sought by The Hampton Synagogue is expected to come up for discussion at tonight’s village board meeting. Rabbi Marc Schneier and Morris Tuchman, the synagogue’s president, formally requested permission from the village last month to erect the eruv, which creates an area within which Orthodox Jews can push or carry things without breaking religious law that bans work on the Sabbath outside of one’s home.

"We have more and more traditional families that have moved to Westhampton Beach," Schneier said. "According to Jewish law, one can carry items outdoors on the Sabbath only when the act occurs within a proper enclosure. We have a number of younger traditional families who are not able to wheel their babies to services on Saturday morning."

Mayor Conrad Teller said he expects the village board to discuss the matter further at its April 16 work session.

An eruv usually is made by putting wooden or plastic sticks on utility poles, sometimes with string or cord connecting the poles. In Westhampton Beach, however, thin plastic poles would be placed just beneath the lowest wire on existing utility poles at the boundaries of the eruv. The utility wires would constitute the symbolic fence.

Richard Haefeli, the Hampton Synagogue’s attorney, is in separate negotiations with the Long Island Power Authority for permission to use the utility poles.

Sometimes controversial, eruvim have been constructed in communities across the country. Courts in general have ruled that a municipality must show a compelling interest before creation of an eruv can be denied.

All of Brooklyn Heights in Brooklyn, for example, is enclosed in an eruv. The eruv covering parts of Far Rockaway and Lawrence shares a common border with another eruv covering parts of Cedarhurst and Woodmere.

Teller, who said he has researched eruvim on the Internet and checked with the village attorney, said the board probably has no legal basis to deny the synagogue’s request.

The synagogue is seeking a resolution that gives it permission to construct and maintain the eruv for 18 years.

Schneier said the synagogue has about 500 members and draws about 1,000 people for Saturday services in the summer.

"Like everything else out here, we’re summer-oriented," he said. If the village board waits until May to act on the resolution, that would be acceptable, he said, but "If we can [start] in April, it will be pretty well completed by Memorial Day."

About 20 plastic markers will be needed to define the eruv, and Schneier has to approve the initial placement of each marker. Afterward, the markers must be checked each week to make sure none are damaged or missing.

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Posted on April 3, 2008 by Luke Ford

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guest112:  All of these old stereotypes are increasingly meaningless in an Islamic Europe
guest112:  France, Londonistan…..a total disaster for our side of things
Emma:  Luke play some Libera
guest112:  And the House of Saud is set to build the world’s largest mosgue in London
Emma:  And then I’m off
RamBam:  The muslims are everything Europeans feared Jews would be
guest112:  Sleep tight, and don’t let the muslims bite

YourMoralLeader:  your wish
YourMoralLeader:  is my command
guest116:  where’s the rabbit?
Emma:  Im not going untill he plays my song
RamBam:  How can you stop them from biting?
guest112:  Deportation
guest112:  To their own homelands, of which they have many
guest112:  Even Ireland is being colonized by them
guest112:  Luke is a modern orthodox Jew
RamBam:  Ireland is pretty
Emma:  Yeah it is
guest112:  the keep the females separate and dont let them prey out loud with the men
Emma:  Nice and green
RamBam:  Muslims aren’t very pretty
guest112:  What’s with these Jewish women in Israel wearing Burkas and Chadors?
nathan:  yeh
guest112:  And having very peculiar forms of sex?
guest112:  Luke has written about this
Welshdragon:  it was more fun when we wound the boss up
RamBam:  Luke used to date an African-American
guest112:  Who?
RamBam:  Holly Randall
guest112:  ha ha ha
YourMoralLeader:  her dad is south african
guest112:  But that of course is true. Holly IS African American
Emma:  Alrighty im off
Emma:  bye de bye
nathan:  bye
RamBam:  Bye again Emma!
Emma:  Take care guys
Welshdragon:  c ya ginger
Emma:  Behave
guest112:  farewell
Emma:  lol
guest112:  Remember to pray to God
Emma:  lol
guest112:  Remember what the nuns taught you
Welshdragon:  emmas a borrower
Emma:  shut up lol
RamBam:  I wonder if they spanked her?
Emma:  gnight
Welshdragon:  ginger borrower?
GUAPO:  what it do son
RamBam:  A fake jew and a wigger enter a bar …
guest112:  Britain began its downfall in the summer of 1914.
User guest116 left the room.
guest112:  What was once the world’s greatest empire is now increasingly a colony of those it once ruled.
GUAPO:  chillen luke
RamBam:  English spoken here.
Welshdragon:  112 where u from?
guest112:  The United States
guest112:  Andwhere are you from, Welshdragon?
RamBam:  Oh beautiful for spacious skies ..
GUAPO:  you spend that g already luke
Welshdragon:  take a guess
guest112:  Not Pakistan
guest112:  Not Algeria
Welshdragon:  there a clue in the name 112
GUAPO:  dag nigga you real frugal
Welshdragon:  guapo what you talking about?
RamBam:  He just babbles
GUAPO:  someone give me a g and it gone that same nite
Welshdragon:  i might eat guapo??
guest112:  The Welsh need to get rid of their useless king and have a glorious revolution
Welshdragon:  is that right 112
guest112:  Queen
Welshdragon:  got there in the end
RamBam:  May Someone give Guapo a spell checker
Welshdragon:  lmao
GUAPO:  im such a hated man around these parts and xpt..
guest112:  Yes.  Thesepeople did nothing to prevent/end WW1 or halt the invasion of their home island, so what use are they?
GUAPO:  what you think about me being hated on luke?
YourMoralLeader:  I don’t agree
YourMoralLeader:  I hate hate
GUAPO:  everybody else do luke
RamBam:  I hate heat
YourMoralLeader:  its’ wrong
YourMoralLeader:  Guapo, you’re my nigga
GUAPO:  muf**kers act like your boy aint got feelings
guest112:  So this Obama donated less than onepercent of his income to charity
YourMoralLeader:  when they p**ck you, do you not bleed?
guest112:  he and his wife are misers
RamBam:  Guapo has no feelings and a poor vocabulary
Welshdragon:  112 and guapo u have serious anger issues?
guest345:  you think Hilary donated more?
GUAPO:  ban rambam luke.. ban they ass
guest112:  in fact she did donate more, around a tenth
Welshdragon:  rambam’s great
GUAPO:  luke you feel i got anger issues?
GUAPO:  man i got much love
GUAPO:  for all yall
Welshdragon:  guapo i’m goping to eat u
RamBam:  Guapo loves for pay
guest345:  well she did "donate" to her own campaign
guest112:  true that
guest112:  but the clintons have been giving to charity, it seems, all their lives.
RamBam:  He’ll go gay for less than a "g"
guest112:  Not so this obama
Welshdragon:  politics always ends in tears#
RamBam:  Luke.  Did you engineer anything today?
guest112:  This fellow Ford could be writing books that people would buy
guest112:  But he chooses not to
guest112:  Nearer my God to thee, please
nathan:  yeh ill catch ya again mate
guest112:  I have not eaten any red meat in three months, luke
GUAPO:  luke can you get your boy a date with courtney cumz?
Welshdragon:  cheersi’m off see u all again
RamBam:  Just give some cash to Monstar, Guapo.
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guest112:  Luke, are these porny people?
GUAPO:  monsta stole my cash and purchased lip liners and hairspray to drink
RamBam:  hahahaha
guest112:  If you wanted to, you could start your own temple to cater to them
guest112:  Bnai Onan
YourMoralLeader:  Rambam, you know the xxx world
GUAPO:  you a millionaire luke?
guest112:  So the old Soviet Union was good for the Jews, in that they built lots of eruvs
RamBam:  Some things
guest112:  e.g around Belin
guest112:  Berlin
RamBam:  I like porn & Torah
GUAPO:  luke do you still talk to old porno friends or they out now that you porno free
YourMoralLeader:  no
GUAPO:  dag why im here chatting then
GUAPO:  i thought you was my ticket to bone b**ches on film
GUAPO:  now i find out you aint even porno no more
guest127:  gay
RamBam:  Just buy your own ticket, Guapo
RamBam:  These girls are for sale
guest127:  go back to porn luke
RamBam:  On on CraigsList and buy some "roses"
GUAPO:  can you unretire for like 2 week luke?
Jimmy:  Luke what is yr bedtime and wakeup time usually?
YourMoralLeader:  hi 130
YourMoralLeader:  jimmy, so many can’t think which one
YourMoralLeader:  11pm bedtime, up around 7am
Jimmy:  what exercise did you get today?
YourMoralLeader:  walked a mile or so, did my weights/grape juice routine
Jimmy:  how heavy are the grape juices you think?
YourMoralLeader:  2 quarts/liters
Jimmy:  thats not too heavy Luke.  I use 15 pound dumbbells myself same way
Jimmy:  Look like a airline pilot – I like it
guest130:  Ok, Luke! It’s been fun watching you…seriously, you have guts to do what are doing!!!
Jimmy:  yes he does Looks like he’s giving a serious lecture now
guest130:  why does he do this??
Jimmy:  adores attn I suppose.  He is a fascinating cat
guest130:  luke, you should have a radio show
guest130:  or internet webcam works just as well maybe…
Jimmy:  I guess thats true but only 2 of us happen to be watching for time being
guest130:  we have him excited I believe
Jimmy:  yes very animated right now but I lost audio
guest133:  luke, do you prepare material for this, or do you just come on and hope you have something to say?
guest130:  good thing he is cute
YourMoralLeader:  spontaneous mate
Jimmy:  are you female 130?  He likes females show up
guest130:  when did you grow you beard?
guest133:  you don’t even wash your hair for them do you?
guest130:  yes, I met luke a few years ago, online of course
YourMoralLeader:  cool
YourMoralLeader:  what did we talk about?
guest130:  I have to go to bed, nice watching u!! Molly
YourMoralLeader:  hey
YourMoralLeader:  molly
YourMoralLeader:  i had no idea
guest130:  Hi
YourMoralLeader:  Molly, that book is awesome
guest130:  you should order 1
guest130:  yes, it still is an ordeal but my faith in God gets us 

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