{"id":58143,"date":"2014-09-23T07:53:24","date_gmt":"2014-09-23T15:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=58143"},"modified":"2014-09-23T07:53:24","modified_gmt":"2014-09-23T15:53:24","slug":"outside-of-orthodoxy-men-are-dropping-out-from-participating-in-formal-jewish-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=58143","title":{"rendered":"Outside Of Orthodoxy, Men Are Dropping Out From Participating In Formal Jewish Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/ejewishphilanthropy.com\/no-cause-for-celebration\/#sthash.tmQnpD5U.dpuf\">David Kelsey writes<\/a>: Affirmative action for the sake of appearances will help nothing.<\/p>\n<p>But Lepson\u2019s spin that this situation is \u201crefreshing\u201d and a \u201cpleasant surprise\u201d should be emphatically rejected. For no amount of innovative projects are going to make a significant difference to the future of American Liberal Jewry if this paucity of male participation continues. We can debate what could or should be done, but apparently, we can\u2019t even agree that the lack of male representation is a problem, never mind a dire one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Kelsey writes: Affirmative action for the sake of appearances will help nothing. But Lepson\u2019s spin that this situation is \u201crefreshing\u201d and a \u201cpleasant surprise\u201d should be emphatically rejected. For no amount of innovative projects are going to make a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=58143\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15343,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-david-kelsey","category-jews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58143","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=58143"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58144,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58143\/revisions\/58144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}