{"id":17733,"date":"2010-03-16T08:44:34","date_gmt":"2010-03-16T16:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=17733"},"modified":"2010-03-16T08:44:34","modified_gmt":"2010-03-16T16:44:34","slug":"why-america-has-no-chief-rabbi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=17733","title":{"rendered":"Why America Has No Chief Rabbi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.jewishjournal.com\/rabbi_shmuley\/item\/why_american_has_no_chief_rabbi_20100315\/\">Rabbi Shmuley Boteach writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>In my eleven years living in England I often observed, as did many others, that Anglo-Jewry lacked the vibrancy and innovation characteristic of American Judaism. The absence of an electrifying sense of Jewishness and communal dynamism was a subject much discussed among the Anglo-Jewish leadership. In areas like per capita philanthropy and social services, Anglo-Jewry led the world. But in communal programming and affiliation it was hemorrhaging numbers at an alarming rate.<\/p>\n<p>Some said that Anglo-Jewry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rabbi Shmuley Boteach writes: In my eleven years living in England I often observed, as did many others, that Anglo-Jewry lacked the vibrancy and innovation characteristic of American Judaism. The absence of an electrifying sense of Jewishness and communal dynamism &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=17733\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[111],"tags":[21685,10894,5481,21684,6381,1183],"class_list":["post-17733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shmuley-boteach","tag-american-counterpart","tag-american-jewry","tag-american-judaism","tag-anglo-jewry","tag-chief-rabbi","tag-rabbi-shmuley-boteach"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17733","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=17733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}