{"id":63178,"date":"2015-02-12T12:09:33","date_gmt":"2015-02-12T20:09:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=63178"},"modified":"2015-02-12T14:40:12","modified_gmt":"2015-02-12T22:40:12","slug":"you-can-call-me-levi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=63178","title":{"rendered":"You Can Call Me Levi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Orthodox life, I prefer to use my Hebrew name of &#8220;Levi Ben Avraham&#8221; (because when I use &#8220;Luke Ford&#8221; I then immediately have to explain I&#8217;m a convert to Judaism as &#8220;Luke Ford&#8221; is a particularly goyish name, and while I am fine with talking about my conversion, it gets tiresome to do it every time I&#8217;m introduced as &#8220;Luke Ford&#8221;) but it is not a big deal and I don&#8217;t correct or have a problem with Yidden calling me &#8220;Luke&#8221; or &#8220;Lord&#8221; or &#8220;Savior&#8221; or &#8220;My White Overlord.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>My face and mannerisms are goyish, so who am I fooling with &#8220;Levi?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I had a rabbi who would always call me &#8220;Levi&#8221; unless he was mad at me and then he called &#8220;Luke.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I am the white man of tomorrow &#8212; poor, womanless, childless. I am an embarrassment to the white race and to the Jewish race. <\/p>\n<p>D. posts: &#8220;Tomorrow? That&#8217;s me today. There is NO Jewish woman that wants anything to do with me, once the discovery I&#8217;m a Children&#8217;s Social Worker. Even devoting my life to protecting women and children means nothing. I was a sucker to listening to my inner Chasid and trying to do good, which I am, but it means nothing.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Orthodox life, I prefer to use my Hebrew name of &#8220;Levi Ben Avraham&#8221; (because when I use &#8220;Luke Ford&#8221; I then immediately have to explain I&#8217;m a convert to Judaism as &#8220;Luke Ford&#8221; is a particularly goyish name, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=63178\">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":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63178","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=63178"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63201,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63178\/revisions\/63201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}