{"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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58187","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=58187"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58188,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58187\/revisions\/58188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}