{"id":112726,"date":"2017-02-12T18:13:36","date_gmt":"2017-02-13T02:13:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=112726"},"modified":"2017-02-12T18:14:11","modified_gmt":"2017-02-13T02:14:11","slug":"leannes-story-a-black-girls-journey-to-judaism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=112726","title":{"rendered":"Leanne&#8217;s Story &#8211; A Black Girl&#8217;s Journey To Judaism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I chatted with Leanne via a Youtube hangout this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zm7EO2BZ0P0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>WARNING: The sound quality is poor.<\/p>\n<p>Leanne grew up in the Church of England in north-west London near Gulders Green. Around age 13, she became fascinated by Jews and started talking to a Jewish neighbor about tzitzit and Jewish rituals and beliefs and then she would research things further online.<\/p>\n<p>At age 16, she emailed the Beit Din in charge of Orthodox conversions. They told her to contact them when she was 18.<\/p>\n<p>At age 18, studying Hebrew at university, she contacted them again and they told her they don&#8217;t accept university students into the conversion program.<\/p>\n<p>The London Beit Din is known as about the toughest in the world to get through.<\/p>\n<p>So Leanne has gone the <A HREF=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Conservative_Judaism\">Masorti route<\/a> and so far has had a great experience. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I chatted with Leanne via a Youtube hangout this afternoon. WARNING: The sound quality is poor. Leanne grew up in the Church of England in north-west London near Gulders Green. Around age 13, she became fascinated by Jews and started &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=112726\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,228],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blacks","category-conversion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=112726"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112728,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112726\/revisions\/112728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=112726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=112726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=112726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}