{"id":28742,"date":"2011-01-17T17:35:49","date_gmt":"2011-01-18T01:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=28742"},"modified":"2011-01-17T17:35:49","modified_gmt":"2011-01-18T01:35:49","slug":"is-gabby-giffords-jewish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=28742","title":{"rendered":"Is Gabby Giffords Jewish?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.jta.org\/news\/article\/2011\/01\/17\/2742590\/op-ed-is-gabby-giffords-jewish-enough\">Conservative rabbi Jason Miller writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>The debate over &#8220;Who is a Jew&#8221; is back in the headlines following the shooting in Tucson, Ariz., that critically injured Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. For Giffords, the daughter of a Christian Scientist mother and a Jewish father who is the grandson of a rabbi, there is no question of her Jewishness. She is a proud Jew who is an active member of her Reform congregation. She was married under a chuppah (wedding canopy) by a rabbi, albeit to a non-Jewish man.<\/p>\n<p>As Giffords lay in a hospital recovering from being shot in an assassination attempt by a domestic terrorist, her Hebrew name has circulated the world to be used in the traditional Mi Shebeirach prayer for healing. Some rabbis have even questioned whether her non-Jewish mother&#8217;s name should be part of her Hebrew nomenclature for the prayer, while others have referred to her as Jewish but added the caveat &#8220;not halachically speaking.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conservative rabbi Jason Miller writes: The debate over &#8220;Who is a Jew&#8221; is back in the headlines following the shooting in Tucson, Ariz., that critically injured Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. For Giffords, the daughter of a Christian Scientist mother and a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=28742\">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":[29],"tags":[25016,2471,38356,10034,25161,13917],"class_list":["post-28742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jews","tag-christian-scientist","tag-conservative-rabbi","tag-gabrielle-giffords","tag-some-rabbis","tag-wedding-canopy","tag-who-is-a-jew"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28742","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=28742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}