Running as a Democrat, Porter described himself as a "radical-libertarian-progressive" and aligned his views with those of Representative Ron Paul and Senator Bernie Sanders.
2000, non-denominational congregation Singer: Influenced by Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach; Reb Michel Twerski; brother Reb Shlomo Porter; father Irving Porter; nephew Rabbi Aryeh Smith; The Feenjon Group; 1950s Israeli singers Ron and Nama, The Dudaim and Hillel and Aviva; plus Mizrachi singer Eyal Golan.
Other influences: Rockabilly (Johnny Burnette, Johnny Rivers, Conway Twitty, Everly Brothers, Elvis, and Terry Lee and the Rockaboogie Band) Styles of Singing: Hasidic, Israeli, Mizrachi, Sephardic, Yiddish and Rockabilly
Popular Culture: Update on Research: Sociology and National Socialism: the lives of Edward Yarnall Hartshorne and Talcott Parsons of Harvard University in the 1940s; the history of Holocaust studies at Harvard University since the 1930s to the present.
Porter's books include: New publications: * Humor, Hollywood and Food: New Books: Ukrainian--Jewish Cooking (with Raya Porter) The Sexual Adventures of a Jewish Sociologist (under the pseudonym--Marc Wennerstrom)