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http://www.marcgafni.com Rabbi Mordecai Gafni discusses websites that are devoted to hate. How should we respond? With laughter? By ignoring them? How do Jews respond to hatred? What do you do when somebody slanders you?

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 Here are nineteen out of some thirty television spots filmed by Marc Gafni together with Gil Kopatch, one of Israel’s leading comedians and young thinkers. The spots are a conversation between Gil and Marc Gafni, filmed during the week, and aired every Shabbot on the Weekly Torah Portion.

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://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://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://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 One woman called Marc Gafni with the following question. “My daughter’s birthday party is at five o’clock this afternoon. A bus just blew up near my house. Two friends of my daughter were killed. Should I have the birthday party?” This was a compelling Jewish question that needed addressing, and the Rabbis were lost, obsessing as to how kosher the tuna fish might be…

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://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 The following is an artistic representation of the dance of the masculine and feminine prepared by artist and choreographer, Claudia Kleefeld.

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 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://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://www.marcgafni.com Here are nineteen out of some thirty television spots filmed by Marc Gafni together with Gil Kopatch, one of Israel’s leading comedians and young thinkers. The spots are a conversation between Gil and Marc Gafni, filmed during the week, and aired every Shabbot on the Weekly Torah Portion.