- 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:
- 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)
- Benedict Anderson and the Nation as Imagination
- Anthony D. Smith: The Student Who Kept the Question and Rejected the Answer
- Ernest Gellner
- Eric Kaufmann: The Man Who Made the Majority Visible
- Dominic Cummings: A Biography
- Steve Lopez: The Last City Columnist
- California Historian Kevin Starr
- Stephen Kotkin: A Life in Power
- William T. Vollmann: An American Life in Excess
- Rod Dreher: A Life in Exile
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: David Klinghoffer
Why Aren’t Jews Debating Believers In Jesus?
Eric Zorn blogs: The obituary — Moishe Rosen dies at 78; founder of Jews for Jesus prompts me to ask readers about something that’s long mystified and impressed me: “Given that the divinity of Jesus is the core belief of … Continue reading
Posted in Christianity, Jews, Judaism
Tagged aryeh kaplan, counterpoint books, David Klinghoffer, gil student, jews for jesus, moishe rosen
Comments Off on Why Aren’t Jews Debating Believers In Jesus?
Bombing At Shul
Growing up a Seventh-Day Adventist Christian, I got used to speakers being introduced with a little prayer. You can see some of that action here at Loma Linda last Sabbath. Christians will often say a word of prayer along the … Continue reading
Posted in Personal
Tagged Beth Jacob, conversion to judaism, David Klinghoffer, Dennis Prager, distinctive personality, pre marital sex, sephardic educational center, YICC, Young Israel
Comments Off on Bombing At Shul
Jewish News
From Hirhurim: SALT today: link Matzav.com strongly considering removing comments feature: link Jewish Ideas Daily on women rabbis: link WSJ: A Synagogue’s Unorthodox Revival: link NYT: A Jewish Prayer: link Chief Rabbi Sacks wins Lamm Prize: link R. Yitzchok Adlerstein … Continue reading
Posted in Jews
Tagged David Klinghoffer, jack wertheimer, louis ginsberg, martin grossman, talmud yerushalmi, woman rabbi
Comments Off on Jewish News
‘Levi, Have You Seen My Lapdancers?’
I often get off the 10 Freeway at Robertson Blvd and have to pass by this den of iniquity — Skin, a strip club at 3388 Robertson. Here’s a strip club right next door to the burning heart of Modern … Continue reading
Posted in Personal
Tagged Aish HaTorah, Beth Jacob, David Klinghoffer, orthodox conversion, samson raphael hirsch, YICC
Comments Off on ‘Levi, Have You Seen My Lapdancers?’
David Klinghoffer Blogs For Beliefnet
Here is his new blog and here is an excerpt of a recent posting: Notice that the content of Jewish teaching is supposed to be ethical (God’s "demands") but also broadly philosophical ("the relationship of Man to God"). The latter … Continue reading
Posted in David Klinghoffer
Tagged beer sheba, belief today, David Klinghoffer, jewish leadership, jewish priesthood, mishneh torah, providential care
Comments Off on David Klinghoffer Blogs For Beliefnet
David Klinghoffer Vs. Little Green Footballs
David blogs: The popular conservative blogger Little Green Footballs has it in for Darwin doubters and recently called me a near-liar merely for alluding in an article to the well-known Darwin-Hitler connection. He regards the very idea of such a … Continue reading
Posted in David Klinghoffer
Tagged bicycle enthusiast, David Klinghoffer, defensive posture, islamic fascism, little green footballs, muslim fundamentalism
Comments Off on David Klinghoffer Vs. Little Green Footballs
Seeking Jewish Intellectual Leadership
David Klinghoffer writes on HirHurim: Yes, R. Sacks comes closest to the sort of outlook and impact I had in mind. There’s no one quite like him in the Jewish world–not in Israel or America. But he’s singular in another … Continue reading
Posted in David Klinghoffer
Tagged David Klinghoffer, intellectual leadership, jewish context, laymen, neuhaus, orthodox community
Comments Off on Seeking Jewish Intellectual Leadership
Why Is There No Rabbi Who’s A Prominent Intellectual?
Chaim Amalek emails: "Why are there no prominent, widely accepted rabbis in America who can speak truth to torah and torah to truth? Because Judaism has been centrifuged into two components, the first a fossil faith incapable of change in … Continue reading
Posted in David Klinghoffer
Tagged David Klinghoffer, forefather abraham, intellectual trend, jerusalem post, rabbi samson raphael hirsch, samson raphael hirsch
Comments Off on Why Is There No Rabbi Who’s A Prominent Intellectual?
How Would God Vote?
Yori Yanover writes: In the past three months I’ve begun to listen to right-wing radio, especially to Rush Limbaugh, mostly for the pain. Few things in our political culture are more rewarding nowadays than hearing Rush’s scrambling to build up … Continue reading
Posted in David Klinghoffer, Yori Yanover
Tagged David Klinghoffer, death row inmates, democratic opponent, innocence project, orthodox jew, wrongful executions
Comments Off on How Would God Vote?
Larry Yudelson, Yori Yanover Elevate The Conversation
Here’s the press release (at the end of this post, I argue to Larry that he misrepresents Klinghoffer’s positions): We are delighted to invite you, your family and any friends you wish to bring to the 4th annual Ben Yehuda … Continue reading
Posted in David Klinghoffer, Larry Yudelson, Yori Yanover
Tagged ancient rabbi, David Klinghoffer, jewish theology, kensington road, messianic redemption, teaneck nj
Comments Off on Larry Yudelson, Yori Yanover Elevate The Conversation