Congratulations, Luke Ford. You’ve matriculated from the cover of The Jewish Journal to the Style pages of The New York Times. Luke appears there tomorrow courtesy of my former colleague Amy Klein, who spent several years as the object of his affection.
Amy’s column is called “My Very Own Cyberstalker,” and it’s really, really good. Luke definitely knows how to create interesting copy. A healthy portion, including Luke’s disappointment at being interviewed by me and not Amy, after the jump:
How Meir Fenigstein Brings Israeli Stories to the American Screen
Jason Zengerle, a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine, and staff writer at the New Yorker wrote a new book about Carlson, “Hated By All The Right People: Tucker Carlson and The Unraveling of The Conservative Mind.”
Taste Buds with Deb – Episode 142
Love is precious and this Persian Love Cake is the perfect way to show a little love to your friends and family.
How Meir Fenigstein Brings Israeli Stories to the American Screen
The elections of 2026 will not be “right vs. center-left.” They will be “right vs. right.”
Why is it that despite the enormous resources and money we spend fighting antisemitism, it just keeps getting worse?
If we want a different future, we must be willing to examine what already exists, what has failed, and what is quietly working.
The story of Cain and Abel constitutes a critical and fundamental lesson – we are all children of the covenant with the opportunity to serve each other and to serve God. We are, indeed, each other’s keeper.
A society that maximizes belonging while severing it from standards produces conformity, not freedom. A society that encourages mattering divorced from truth produces fanaticism, not dignity. Life and liberty depend on holding the two together.
Both the Chief Rabbi and America’s Commander in Chief understood that America and Israel were bonded by the Bible, allies in a faith guided by God’s ancient promise of freedom centuries ago.
The Israeli public may look at Jerusalem with nostalgic longing, but it misses the glaring warning sign the city is raising. The current Jerusalem model is not sustainable at the national level.
Fear alone cannot explain Gaza’s moral void after Oct. 7.
The hostility we’re seeing today in K–12 schools has very little to do with education and everything to do with power.
It was a masterclass in moral confidence. He met a moment of anger with dignity, and a moment of division with cultural self-assurance. He reminded America who Latinos are, without begging for permission or absolution.
We are in command of our own destiny—and it’s not wrong to defend our sovereignty.
Envy is a completely unproductive, and even self-destructive, emotion.
