{"id":22542,"date":"2010-08-19T11:34:33","date_gmt":"2010-08-19T19:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=22542"},"modified":"2010-08-19T11:58:02","modified_gmt":"2010-08-19T19:58:02","slug":"have-you-ever-met-a-jewish-waiter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=22542","title":{"rendered":"Have You Ever Met A Jewish Waiter?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a 1995 lecture on Exodus 5, Dennis Prager says: The word for servant and the word for slave is the same, which is probably why to this day that Jews don&#8217;t like to be servants because they think it is slavery. Did you ever meet a Jewish waiter? Jews don&#8217;t wait. <\/p>\n<p>That and the Chosen People notion are the reasons why Jews don&#8217;t want to serve anybody.<\/p>\n<p>John emails: That has to be the most retarded thing I\u2019ve ever heard second hand from Dennis Prager. I know dozens of Jews who worked as waiters while doing other things (acting, music, college). Including very traditional Jews.      <\/p>\n<p>Also, the only people who believe that Jews walk around thinking about being the Chosen People are apparently non-Jews, and apparently, former Adventist converts.     <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a 1995 lecture on Exodus 5, Dennis Prager says: The word for servant and the word for slave is the same, which is probably why to this day that Jews don&#8217;t like to be servants because they think it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=22542\">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":[4,590],"tags":[29761,23327,21511,23329,23328],"class_list":["post-22542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dennis-prager","category-torah","tag-dennis-prager","tag-music-college","tag-traditional-jews","tag-waiter","tag-waiters"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 4.9.8 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In a 1995 lecture on Exodus 5, Dennis Prager says: The word for servant and the word for slave is the same, which is probably why to this day that Jews don&#039;t like to be servants because they think it is slavery. 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