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Tag Archives: marc gafni
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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I Despise ‘The Dark Knight’
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 dialogue with me on … Continue reading
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Tagged graphic novels, leadership role, marc gafni, martin luther king, phd thesis, philosophical points
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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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Marc Gafni Vs. The Dark Side Of The Internet
This is a must-read blog post. He writes: The national enquirer which regularly engages in character assassination of the most vile kind, which deals out deathly doses of unlove, is read by millions of good Americans, standing at the counter … Continue reading
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Tagged american apple pie, angelina jolie, la weekly, marc gafni, national enquirer, tabloid reporter
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Is Marc Gafni A Rabbi?
His favorite self-description these days is "spiritual artist." He writes on MarcGafni.com: I received Ordination many years ago from a well-regarded Orthodox institution in New York. Contrary to some rumors, that Ordination was never revoked. I retain a letter on … Continue reading
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Tagged chief rabbinate, marc gafni, orthodox institution, private exchange, rabbinic ordination, spiritual artist
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My Dialogue With Marc Gafni About Reputation Online
The videos of our dialogue are here and here and here and here and here. The book (The Future of Reputation: Gossip, Rumor, and Privacy on the Internet) underlying our discussion is here. Here’s a selective transcript of what I … Continue reading
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Tagged internet vigilantes, marc gafni, roman coliseum, satire 3, subway rider, vigilante group
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