The Day President Reagan Was Shot

Luke Ford writes:

On the day Reagan was shot, I was walking home from the bus stop in Auburn to my home more than a mile away.

I was just off Interstate 80. The day was hot. I passed by a car parked beside the road. Inside, I saw a man flogging himself.

I’d never seen this before. I’d never done this myself. I was shocked and appalled.

I walked on. A minute later, the guy drives up beside me and asks me if I want a ride.

“No, thanks,” I said and walked on, scared to death.

I had never encountered anything like this. This was not the way Seventh-Day Adventists behaved.

Should We Celebrate The Death Of Evil People?

Luke Ford writes:

Dennis Prager writes a magnificent column for the Jewish Journal of Los Angeles:

We live in a time very different from any in the past.

As a rule, little changes in basic human responses. For example, it is probably fair to say that throughout human history, just about all decent people have celebrated the death of those human beings understood to be truly evil.

The Danger Of Tasting Sexual Variety

Luke Ford writes: A 28 yo man calls Dennis Prager’s show today. “I noticed with my first girlfriend I didn’t have an interest in being with many women. It wasn’t until I had my second that I was interested in being with my third and fourth. I’ve noticed the same thing with some of my friends. It seems that the more experience you get, the more interest you are in being with many women.

“Places with arranged marriages. It’s claimed they are unlikely to end in divorce. I always thought that was because they were in places where the male and female were likely to be virgins when married and that’s a powerful thing to keep a couple together.”

Dennis: “I would be curious to know if men who’ve married the only woman they’ve been with are less likely to be unfaithful.”

I Like People With Strong Identities

Luke Ford writes:

I love people who know who they are and what their place is in life. I love strong identities. It makes relating to someone much easier. Generally, I prefer to deal with a committed Muslim than a wishy-washy Jew. With a devout Muslim, I know who I’m dealing with. I know most of their boundaries. I know what they stand for.

A Jew not rooted in Judaism, by contrast, can be all over the map. It takes a lot of effort to extract their values.

A Jew in a black suit and white shirt and a long beard, I know what to expect from such a creature. They’re going to be observant of Jewish law.

My Anxiety About My Voice - Alexander Technique Helps

Luke Ford writes:

 

I quickly fell in love with the TV. I had decided in eighth grade that profession would be journalism, so I watched the news and imagined myself delivering it.

I transferred to public school for the first time in tenth grade (the fall of 1981). I took a journalism class and a media class, where I began a weekly news report on the school broadcast on the local radio station in Auburn, KAHI 95 AM.

I wasn’t very good. After a couple of years, the station dropped me.

Take Responsibility For Your Health

Luke Ford writes:

I have a friend with a bad back. He had surgery on it a year or two ago. And by the way he uses himself, I can tell he’s going to have nothing but trouble with his back in the future.

Despite this, he has zero interest at looking at his habits that are causing his problems.

This man — in his twenties — walks around with a chronically compressed neck and spine and hunched shoulders. There’s nothing he can do to overcome this. He can only learn to undo his habits that are causing his back problems.

This guy is big into exercise but every time he exercises, he only ingrains his bad habits deeper and deeper. 

The First Hot Female Rabbi?

Luke Ford writes:

And as Heshy Fried points out below, she plays for the other team!

From FrumSatire:

“I wanted to lead a halachically observant community so decided it was best to transfer to JTS where it would be far more likely I’d be working at a congregation that kept kosher, was more Shabbat observant and had more davenning with traditional nusach — things I grew up with that were part of my personal practice,” said Rachel Isaacs who on May 19th became the first openly gay frum female rabbi to be ordained by the JTS.