Dr. Spielvogel, you ask if I want to connect with you. Yesterday, all the interns talked about my desire to connect and how I kept analyzing it instead of just doing it. They noted I’m desperate to connect yet keep throwing up road blocks to connection. What does it mean to connect? I’ve...

Part One SATURDAY 3 pm. I walk up and down the corridors looking through peepholes at the various classes. It’s not Torah I seek, it’s visceral human contact. I want to make friends. I want a wife. Most of all, I need a new employer for my writing skills. God and prayer is all well and g...

Click here to join the fun! My LimmudLA 2009 report. WELSHDRAGON:  luke was a great looking guy, with a little bit of just 4 men he could get back to his prime palestine4ever:  I’ve been saying almost exactly the same thing, Welsh YourMoralLeader:  what’s just 4 men? WELSH...

So I’m sitting in class and I’m thinking, why am I here? I already know all this. I attained enlightenment years ago. I’m way ahead of these people. I could teach this class. I sit there in mounting frustration for 90 minutes and then I realize I don’t know this stuff and the...

David Deutsch emails: Luke, I’m flattered by what you said about preferring to be abused by me than praised by a milquetoast, but really, I love you as much as ever. The only truly objectionable passage was your reference to how his mistresses must have accepted his abuse because he was a grea...

Joe emails: Is it just me, or did we elect some kind of social science professor? The economy is tanking ridiculously, the world is swirling the bowl, and the body politic of the US looks like Luke Ford’s midsection. And we have a president giving a speech on arab tv that will do about as much...

Click here to sing along. More on "Mama Mia." ChaimAmalek:  Luke, I have yet to see any personal growth in the Luke Ford story line ChaimAmalek:  Only beard growth ChaimAmalek:  You need to retool yourself for the Obama years. ChaimAmalek:  Make yourself into a lefty li...

Lilit Marcus writes on Jewcy.com: A few weeks ago, I wrote a post on Jewcy about my Jewish identity - more specifically, about not knowing Hebrew and wondering if that made me less of a Jew. I also referenced the fact that my mother is not Jewish, which isn’t some big secret or anything, but w...

Dec. 4. Watch here. Temple Israel (My previous interviews with Laurie.) Laurie: "I was talking to Luke Ford. He has a great blog. He was interviewing me for Good Frog. We were talking about stereotypes… You can identify. So much of what I write has to do with New York. That’s why I ...

I walk in filled with shame and despair. I see my life squeezed of hope. There are so few options. I’m doomed to repeat my sins. Then I speak and stammer and close my eyes and shift in my seat and regain my posture and stare out the window and confess. "I’ve never told anyone that,&...