{"id":58187,"date":"2014-09-24T11:21:58","date_gmt":"2014-09-24T19:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=58187"},"modified":"2014-09-24T11:21:58","modified_gmt":"2014-09-24T19:21:58","slug":"kosher-meets-hipster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=58187","title":{"rendered":"Kosher Meets Hipster?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anna Goren writes a <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/national\/archive\/2014\/09\/the-new-kosher\/380707\/\">stupid article for The Atlantic<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>American Millennials follow Jewish dietary laws at nearly twice the rate of Baby Boomers, perhaps finding the ancient laws fit well with contemporary concerns about sustainability&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Younger Jews keep kosher at almost double the rate of baby boomers\u201428 percent for 18- to 49-year-olds to 16 percent for people 50 and up.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Orthodox Jews only account for about 12% of all American Jews but they account for nearly 40% of Jews under 18. Orthodox Judaism has nothing to do with goyisha notions of sustainability. It&#8217;s about following God&#8217;s will (and\/or the folkways of your people).<\/p>\n<p>Demographic changes in American Jewry (with younger Jews more likely to be Orthodox as non-Orthodox Jews don&#8217;t reproduce as much) account for the number of Jews keeping kosher. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anna Goren writes a stupid article for The Atlantic: American Millennials follow Jewish dietary laws at nearly twice the rate of Baby Boomers, perhaps finding the ancient laws fit well with contemporary concerns about sustainability&#8230; Younger Jews keep kosher at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=58187\">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":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orthodoxy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 4.9.10 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Anna Goren writes a stupid article for The Atlantic: American Millennials follow Jewish dietary laws at nearly twice the rate of Baby Boomers, perhaps finding the ancient laws fit well with contemporary concerns about sustainability... 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