{"id":4582,"date":"2008-09-05T11:23:10","date_gmt":"2008-09-05T19:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=4582"},"modified":"2008-09-07T13:06:48","modified_gmt":"2008-09-07T21:06:48","slug":"i-didnt-convert-to-judaism-to-be-comforted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=4582","title":{"rendered":"I Didn&#8217;t Convert To Judaism To Be Comforted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I spoke the other day to a reporter about the conversion crisis in Israel.<\/p>\n<p>I said that the religion I joined was exclusivist and elitist and that I expected it to challenge me. Judaism and Jewish community can be as annoying as hell. It&#8217;s not easy. Even if the new conversion standards affect me adversely, I&#8217;m not going to condemn them for that (I don&#8217;t support them either). The more religious you get in Judaism, the more exclusivist and elitist you get. That&#8217;s the nature of the beast. That&#8217;s the challenge I signed on for.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/archives\/updates\/080904.htm\">Complete video of my discussion with Joey Kurtzman on this week&#8217;s Torah portion Shoftim<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spoke the other day to a reporter about the conversion crisis in Israel. I said that the religion I joined was exclusivist and elitist and that I expected it to challenge me. Judaism and Jewish community can be as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=4582\">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":[228,21],"tags":[8891,12165,2061,29773,12166],"class_list":["post-4582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conversion","category-personal","tag-conversion-crisis","tag-crisis-in-israel","tag-jewish-community","tag-judaism","tag-nature-of-the-beast"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4582","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=4582"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4616,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4582\/revisions\/4616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}