Jordan B. Gorfinkel, aka "Gorf," is a comic book creator, popular newspaper cartoonist, as well as a musician and CD producer.

Comics

Gorfinkel is the creator/writer/artist of Everything's Relative, a newspaper comic-strip published weekly since 1996 in many major markets including New York, Minneapolis, Atlanta, Detroit and Baltimore. For most of the 1990s Gorfinkel guided the Batman comics franchise at DC Comics, coordinating publications, licensing and movie & TV productions with the 60 year history of the DC Universe. In 1999 Gorfinkel conceived and directed the critically and commercially acclaimed series No Man’s Land, serialized in several weekly chapters across most of the Batman line for the entire calendar year. He also conceived Birds Of Prey, the most successful comic book series starring women since "Wonder Woman."

Music

Gorfinkel has been a member of two Jewish musical groups, Beat'achon and Kol Zimra. He also organized the collection of American and Israeli musical talent featured in the 'Voices for Israel' project in 2004.
In June, 2011 Gorf released the song "MOT: Members of The Tribe" with Sean Altman. The song highlights the contrasts in different observance levels within Judaism. It promotes tolerance

Toleration

Toleration is "the practice of deliberately allowing or permitting a thing of which one disapproves. One can meaningfully speak of tolerating, ie of allowing or permitting, only if one is in a position to disallow”. It has also been defined as "to bear or endure" or "to nourish, sustain or preserve"...

 and respect

Respect

Respect denotes both a positive feeling of esteem for a person or other entity , and also specific actions and conduct representative of that esteem. Respect can be a specific feeling of regard for the actual qualities of the one respected...

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