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Protocols

It's been a while since Protocols has been the collaborative site of five young observant Jews that was formed in December 2002 and quickly became the leading Orthodox blog. Things obviously changed after Steven Weiss left for the Forward; Luke Ford's post announcing its impending official end isn't really that surprising.

Of course, Luke and Steven will likely remain on the blogosphere, as will several other ex-Protocols elders.

It is no secret that the old Protocols used to bash the Jewish Press; a weekly feature was the Jewish Press Stupid Letter of the Week. When I briefly commenced a Jewish Press Stupid Column of the Week (it was almost immediately expanded to cover the Forward and the Jewish Week too), Protocols was kind enough to link to it. One of my favorite Protocols comments was a response by Don Miller, who wrote on November 13, 2003:

"Joe Schick is as blissfuly ignorant a chucklehead as are the elders, and equally arrogant to boot... [he is an] obviously unlettered twerp."

Shortly thereafter, Jason Maoz contacted me and I began writing in the Jewish Press. My fourth column, criticizing a prior column in the JP by Steven Plaut, was adapted from a Stupid Column of the Week post.
posted on 11/19/2004