{"id":76784,"date":"2015-10-12T12:52:09","date_gmt":"2015-10-12T20:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=76784"},"modified":"2015-10-12T12:57:14","modified_gmt":"2015-10-12T20:57:14","slug":"adventures-in-orthodox-judaism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=76784","title":{"rendered":"Adventures In Orthodox Judaism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I brought a secular Jewish friend to an Orthodox shul years ago. The rabbi asked my friend why he came. My friend said my name. The rabbi couldn&#8217;t hide his dismay.<\/p>\n<p>Mike Wallin: &#8220;I brought a friend from work to a shabbos dinner and he had a very Jewish name and enjoyed himself and started attending shuirim and every event and a few weeks go by and we go grab lunch and talk so I ask him how he&#8217;s enjoying the orthodox lifestyle and he answers me that he&#8217;s having a great time and he never was exposed to it before because his mother&#8217;s not Jewish.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have a friend who is a doctor in L.A. and in the 30 years I have known him I never bothered remembering his wives names because I know she&#8217;s not going to be married to him by my next visit&#8230;this guy&#8217;s a Cohen.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I brought a secular Jewish friend to an Orthodox shul years ago. The rabbi asked my friend why he came. My friend said my name. The rabbi couldn&#8217;t hide his dismay. Mike Wallin: &#8220;I brought a friend from work to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=76784\">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-76784","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\/76784","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=76784"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76786,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76784\/revisions\/76786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}