{"id":22267,"date":"2010-08-08T17:17:39","date_gmt":"2010-08-09T01:17:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=22267"},"modified":"2010-08-12T12:20:48","modified_gmt":"2010-08-12T20:20:48","slug":"shmuleys-boteachs-arms-dealing-father","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=22267","title":{"rendered":"Shmuley&#8217;s Boteach&#8217;s Arms-Dealing Father"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.laweekly.com\/2010-08-05\/news\/arms-merchants-of-south-central\/\">The LA Weekly reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>The connections could be seen last year, when Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and City Council President Eric Garcetti attended the Beverly Hills launch of the star-studded charity Turn Friday Night Into Family Night, founded by Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, the former spiritual adviser to Michael Jackson.<\/p>\n<p>Shmuley is Botach&#8217;s son, Judith Boteach&#8217;s stepson, and Diveroli&#8217;s uncle. A video of Villaraigosa touting Turn Friday Night Into Family Night is featured on its Web site.<\/p>\n<p>Judith Boteach tells the Weekly that life with Botach was a &#8220;total nightmare,&#8221; even as he hosted world leaders, including former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.<\/p>\n<p>After Botach&#8217;s 2002 split from Boteach, a former Hollywood makeup artist, she claimed she was unaware they had never been legally married. Botach&#8217;s lawyers insisted Boteach knew they were not married.<\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.jewishjournal.com\/rabbi_shmuley\/item\/irans_descent_into_barbarity_20100810\/\">RABBI SHMULEY BOTEACH WRITES<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>My father was born in Iran and remains firmly attached to his Iranian heritage. He loves the food, the music, the language and the culture. It is something that I have witnessed with most Iranian exiles. They have internalized their country so much that it travels with them wherever they go.<\/p>\n<p>And why not? Iran was once one of the world\u2019s greatest civilizations and the Middle East\u2019s most highly educated nation.<\/p>\n<p>Then came Khomeini, and the slow descent into barbarity began.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The LA Weekly reports: The connections could be seen last year, when Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and City Council President Eric Garcetti attended the Beverly Hills launch of the star-studded charity Turn Friday Night Into Family Night, founded by Rabbi Shmuley &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=22267\">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":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[111,17325],"tags":[29844,23183,23181,23182,10521,9049,1183],"class_list":["post-22267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shmuley-boteach","category-yoav-botach","tag-antonio-villaraigosa","tag-city-council-president","tag-eric-garcetti","tag-israeli-prime-minister-ariel-sharon","tag-mayor-antonio-villaraigosa","tag-prime-minister-ariel-sharon","tag-rabbi-shmuley-boteach"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22267","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=22267"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22376,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22267\/revisions\/22376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}