{"id":239,"date":"2007-04-24T19:40:02","date_gmt":"2007-04-25T03:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=239"},"modified":"2007-12-09T09:22:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-09T16:10:00","slug":"feeding-the-homeless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=239","title":{"rendered":"Feeding The Homeless"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seraphicpress.com\/archives\/2007\/04\/bedlam_revisite.php\">Robert J. Avrech blogs<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jewishjournal.com\/home\/searchview.php?id=17549\">Orthodox shul in my neighborhood<\/a> hands out food to homeless people once a week.<\/p>\n<p>These unfortunate people are, for the most part, mentally ill. I see them wandering the streets of Pico-Robertson with their shopping carts, chattering away to invisible companions. They are desperately ill and should be given hospital care.<\/p>\n<p>One day, and I can pretty much guarantee this, someone is going to get knifed at this shul.<\/p>\n<p>The Rabbi and the members of this shul may get all warm and fuzzy about their lunch program, but in the end, their actions only add to the problem.<\/p>\n<p>This is not a problem of the homeless, but of mental illness and caretaker irresponsibility.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;Karen and I are outraged by the naivete and the outright irresponsibility of the Rabbi and the board of directors of B&#8217;nei David. Like children, they are playing with fire to get some kicks.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what our shul does: We deliver our surplus food to a homeless shelter after every Shabbos.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s how adults act.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert J. Avrech blogs: &#8230;Orthodox shul in my neighborhood hands out food to homeless people once a week. These unfortunate people are, for the most part, mentally ill. I see them wandering the streets of Pico-Robertson with their shopping carts, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=239\">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":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homeless"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239","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=239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}