{"id":28035,"date":"2011-01-02T15:30:58","date_gmt":"2011-01-02T23:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=28035"},"modified":"2011-01-02T23:07:43","modified_gmt":"2011-01-03T07:07:43","slug":"videos-featuring-lewd-jokes-and-anti-gay-slurs-were-produced-on-torah-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=28035","title":{"rendered":"Videos featuring lewd jokes and anti-gay slurs were produced on Torah Talk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Luke Ford, the self-proclaimed &#8220;Moral Leader&#8221; since 1997, apparently created, produced and starred in the short movies, which were broadcast to entertain the world&#8217;s starving for Torah.<\/p>\n<p>In one scene, two female rabbis stand in a shower stall aboard an aircraft carrier, pretending to wash each other. They joke about how they should get six minutes under the water instead of the mandated three.<\/p>\n<p>In other skits, rabbis parade in drag, use anti-gay slurs and simulate masturbation and a rectal exam. Another scene implies that a rabbi is having sex in his shul with a donkey.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re all part of a series of short movies produced in the hovel and broadcast to <A HREF=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/lukeisback\">hundreds of people on YouTube<\/a>. The man who masterminded and starred in them is Luke Ford \u2014 now the co-commander of Torah talk and a self-proclaimed Moral Leader.<\/p>\n<p>The videos, obtained by the Jewish Journal of Los Angeles this week, were shot and edited by Orthodox Jews deployed supporting yeshiva study in the Holy Land.<\/p>\n<p>In the videos, Ford indicates that he&#8217;s trying to entertain his fans. The clips were shown roughly once a week on YouTube, according to a few rabbis who were assigned to the internet at the time. The rabbis requested anonymity for fear of retribution.<\/p>\n<p>The rabbis who spoke to the Jewish Journal estimated that <A HREF=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/lukeisback\">Ford made a few dozen videos<\/a> and said not all of them contained sexual jokes and anti-gay remarks.<\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/nation\/la-na-navy-videos-20110102,0,5783376.story\">Read On.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luke Ford, the self-proclaimed &#8220;Moral Leader&#8221; since 1997, apparently created, produced and starred in the short movies, which were broadcast to entertain the world&#8217;s starving for Torah. In one scene, two female rabbis stand in a shower stall aboard an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=28035\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[24890,29787,24889,822,668,1085],"class_list":["post-28035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-satire","tag-co-commander","tag-jewish-journal","tag-lewd-jokes","tag-luke-ford","tag-moral-leader","tag-orthodox-jews"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28035"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28067,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28035\/revisions\/28067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}