{"id":1895,"date":"2008-01-06T22:53:41","date_gmt":"2008-01-07T05:41:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=1895"},"modified":"2008-01-06T22:54:42","modified_gmt":"2008-01-07T05:42:42","slug":"its-about-standards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=1895","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s About Standards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cross-currents.com\/archives\/2008\/01\/05\/its-about-standards\/\">Rabbi Yaakov Menken writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I was as surprised as anyone to see &ldquo;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpost.com\/servlet\/Satellite?cid=1198517278608&amp;pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull\">Gentile Lubavitcher refused conversion<\/a>&rdquo; in the Jerusalem Post. While it may be true that the belief that a deceased individual is the Messiah is foreign to normative Judaism, it is quite a step further to say that this belief alone disqualifies a potential convert.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;the Lubavitcher movement aligns itself with Orthodox Judaism, and supports the growth of Orthodoxy in the Holy Land. If the Court was interested in pandering to its chosen clientele, this is the last thing they would have done.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rabbi Yaakov Menken writes: I was as surprised as anyone to see &ldquo;Gentile Lubavitcher refused conversion&rdquo; in the Jerusalem Post. 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