When I came to Los Angeles in 1994, I was hosted several times for Shabbat and holiday meals by a nice Orthodox family in Pico-Robertson.
Then, due to the raunchy nature of my blogging, the invites ceased.
In the summer of 2001, the Jewish Journal had Sheldon Teitelbaum write a cover story on me. He read it to this woman who freaked out and called me and asked, "Do you want to commit suicide?"
She suggested that I offer the Journal $10,000 not to publish the piece.
Well, I did not try to stop the piece (it was never published, in 2007, Brad Greenberg wrote this profile of me for the Jewish Journal), but I was shaken up by her call, and two days later I decided to sell my website lukeford.com and resolved to lead an honorable life.
A couple of months later, the family had me over for Succoth (and this woman set me up for another holiday meal with another family).
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