{"id":71905,"date":"2015-07-31T06:33:28","date_gmt":"2015-07-31T14:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=71905"},"modified":"2015-07-31T07:28:30","modified_gmt":"2015-07-31T15:28:30","slug":"goyim-wearing-yarmulkes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=71905","title":{"rendered":"Goyim Wearing Yarmulkes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A lot of mentally ill goyim walk around 90035 wearing yarmulkes to get some of that tasty Jewish privilege. Hey, this is not about me! Anyway, I saw two shaygetzes walking down Pico this morning wearing kipot. One was a big tall muscular guy who I saw walk into a 7\/11 on a recent Shabbos. We have to keep our conversion standards stringent so we don&#8217;t let in white nationalist infiltrators, riffraff, etc. About 100 people are year are converted to Orthodox Judaism in the USA and in Los Angeles anyway, there&#8217;s a 95% plus success rate (though others say 85% at most) after five years when measured by the standard of public Sabbath observance.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking seriously, before I finished my Orthodox conversion, I thought the process was too harsh. The day I finished that conversion, I stopped thinking that and started thinking that complaining converts were whiners. My empathy, never huge to begin with, just vanished as I started seeing things from the Jewish point of view. Why make it easy for people to become Jewish? It&#8217;s a long proud complicated history. Jews are America&#8217;s elite, the world&#8217;s elite, why let just anyone join? Why smooth their journey? Why not keep it challenging so only the most committed join the team? As soon as I finished my conversion, I had a whole new respect for and peace with the rabbis who oversee conversion.<\/p>\n<p>Chaim Amalek: &#8220;Most mentally healthy goyim will simply not convert to orthodox Judaism ever. It must be a rare event for a successful, happy goy to truly bond as an orthodox Jew.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lot of mentally ill goyim walk around 90035 wearing yarmulkes to get some of that tasty Jewish privilege. Hey, this is not about me! Anyway, I saw two shaygetzes walking down Pico this morning wearing kipot. One was a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=71905\">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":[228],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conversion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71905","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=71905"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71931,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71905\/revisions\/71931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}