{"id":76835,"date":"2015-10-13T16:43:27","date_gmt":"2015-10-14T00:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=76835"},"modified":"2015-10-13T17:13:24","modified_gmt":"2015-10-14T01:13:24","slug":"rabbi-steve-gutow-4-things-the-jewish-community-needs-to-be-called-out-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=76835","title":{"rendered":"Rabbi Steve Gutow: 4 Things the Jewish Community Needs To Be Called Out On"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/forward.com\/opinion\/322480\/3-things-american-jews-need-to-be-called-out-on\/#ixzz3oUQWy12g\">Forward.com<\/a>: &#8220;Rabbi Steve Gutow is outgoing president of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs. This op-ed is excerpted from his keynote address October 11 to the JCPA Jewish Community Town Hall.&#8221; <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Our ethics and our texts and our experiences require us to worry about the poor; to demand that Darfuris, Yazidis and Royhingas not be killed and raped and moved from their homes; to insist that immigrants coming to this country as \u201cthe other\u201d not be left to die in their oppressive homelands but have a chance here; and to ensure that the environment God gave us not be destroyed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What about the rights of Europeans to maintain their own cultures? What about gentile rights? Don&#8217;t they have a right to determine their own destiny free of interference by outsiders? Don&#8217;t they deserve the same ethno-state as Israel? Why should the English and the French and the Australians and the Americans absorb African and Muslim refugees? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forward.com: &#8220;Rabbi Steve Gutow is outgoing president of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs. This op-ed is excerpted from his keynote address October 11 to the JCPA Jewish Community Town Hall.&#8221; Our ethics and our texts and our experiences require &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=76835\">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":[161],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-immigration"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76835","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=76835"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76847,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76835\/revisions\/76847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}