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http://www.marcgafni.com A trail of information fragments about us is forever preserved on the Internet, instantly available in a Google search. A permanent chronicle of our private lives—often of dubious reliability and sometimes totally false—will follow us wherever we go, accessible to friends, strangers, dates, employers, neighbors, relatives, and anyone else who cares to look.

http://www.marcgafni.com How do you respond to hate? How do public figures deal with viciously untrue allegations? How do we respond to the tabloids? It's most dangerous when you combine tabloid-style writing with evil ideology. That's McCarthyism.

http://lukeford.net/blog/?p=3393 It's my first time in Utah. July 3, 2008, I fly to Salt Lake City to interview the controversial author and spiritual teacher. Gafni started out as an Orthodox rabbi.

http://www.marcgafni.com Marc Gafni was at an evening dinner in the home of some prominent Israeli leaders. They asked him a strange question. “How can we ethically remain in this country? Even if we are willing to endanger our own lives, how can we risk the lives of our children?” To which Marc Gafni responded without a moment’s hesitation, “For the sake of your grandchildren.”

http://www.marcgafni.com These four videos (in Hebrew with English subtitles) are part of a series of seven spots made for Israel’s leading television station in the middle of a wave of terrorist bombings. The Rabbinical establishment in Israel offered no substantive response to the bombings.

http://www.marcgafni.com Marc has inspired many, comforted the afflicted, and afflicted the comfortable. He reflects back to people their most gorgeous selves, shares teachings of love, pricks egos, and calls others, by his very being, to truth and integrity.

http://www.marcgafni.com How do you respond to hate? How do public figures deal with viciously untrue allegations? How do we respond to the tabloids? It's most dangerous when you combine tabloid-style writing with evil ideology. That's McCarthyism.

http://lukeford.net/blog/?p=3393 It's my first time in Utah. July 3, 2008, I fly to Salt Lake City to interview the controversial author and spiritual teacher. Gafni started out as an Orthodox rabbi.

http://lukeford.net/blog/?p=3393 It's my first time in Utah. July 3, 2008, I fly to Salt Lake City to interview the controversial author and spiritual teacher. Gafni started out as an Orthodox rabbi.

http://www.marcgafni.com Teeming with chatrooms, online discussion groups, and blogs, the Internet offers previously unimagined opportunities for personal expression and communication. But there’s a dark side to the story.

http://lukeford.net/blog/?p=3393 It's my first time in Utah. July 3, 2008, I fly to Salt Lake City to interview the controversial author and spiritual teacher. Gafni started out as an Orthodox rabbi.

http://lukeford.net/blog/?p=3393 It's my first time in Utah. July 3, 2008, I fly to Salt Lake City to interview the controversial author and spiritual teacher. Gafni started out as an Orthodox rabbi.

http://www.marcgafni.com These websites have also suggested that Marc has changed his name to Marc Israel, that he jointed the sadomasochistic bondage world of Salt Lake City, that he has remarried under the name Marc Israel, that he is attracted to pre-pubescent boys, that he is a danger to “women and young children” etc.

http://www.marcgafni.com It was Marc Gafni’s passionate belief that as important as issues of ritual purity may be, there was an overriding ethical imperative to respond to the pain and tragedy that the people of Israel were experiencing both as individuals and as a collective.

http://lukeford.net/blog/?p=3393 It's my first time in Utah. July 3, 2008, I fly to Salt Lake City to interview the controversial author and spiritual teacher. Gafni started out as an Orthodox rabbi.

http://www.marcgafni.com In the mid-nineties, Gil filmed a series of similar style spots on the weekly Torah portion, which were aired weekly on the popular television show of Yair Lapid. The ultra-Orthodox Shas Party in Israel threatened to leave the coalition and topple the government if Gil’s television spots were not cancelled. Shas argued that they did not give appropriate respect to the biblical figures.

http://www.marcgafni.com Marc Gafni took issue with this position at the time and publicly defended Gil. Marc Gafni suggested that the very fact that an Israeli comedian was engaging the text, even if serious engagement was mixed with satire, was in itself an expression of spirit. “And since when,” asked Marc Gafni in a public talk at the time, “…since when is laughter only funny and not serious?”

http://www.marcgafni.com Sites filled with hate are linked by anti-Semitic websites. How do we respond to hate speech? We can laugh. We can ignore. We can engage. We can fight.

http://lukeford.net/blog/?p=3393 It's my first time in Utah. July 3, 2008, I fly to Salt Lake City to interview the controversial author and spiritual teacher. Gafni started out as an Orthodox rabbi.