{"id":77098,"date":"2015-10-16T14:47:46","date_gmt":"2015-10-16T22:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=77098"},"modified":"2015-10-16T14:50:59","modified_gmt":"2015-10-16T22:50:59","slug":"the-right-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=77098","title":{"rendered":"The Right People"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Luke: &#8220;I converted to Judaism 22 years ago. Where&#8217;s my seat on the board of a bank or a movie studio?&#8221;<br \/>\nFriend: &#8220;You have to pay me, and Chaim and Shlomo $10,000 a month for three years, and then we&#8217;ll introduce you to the right people so you can get on that bank board.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>* <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/10\/17\/us\/egg-donors-challenge-pay-rates-saying-they-shortchange-women.html?hp&#038;action=click&#038;pgtype=Homepage&#038;module=second-column-region&#038;region=top-news&#038;WT.nav=top-news&#038;_r=1\">Pure racism<\/a>. I&#8217;d like to see quotas imposed and equal opportunity for every egg. Some high-end fertility clinics and egg-donor agencies ignore the guidelines and pay more for eggs from particularly attractive donors: actresses, models, Asians, Jewish women and Ivy League students with high SAT scores.<\/p>\n<p>* What&#8217;s more awkward? Running into your rabbi at the Christmas tree lot or your cantor at the hardware store?<\/p>\n<p>* Friend: &#8220;You don&#8217;t speak Hebrew.&#8221;<br \/>\nLuke: &#8220;My tzitzit are longer than yours.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>* Tubby white guy gets divorced in his 40s, dates hot young black chicks for a year, reports, &#8220;It was like shooting fish in a barrel. They were just so grateful for attention from a professional white guy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>* A fellow convert to Orthodox Judaism says to me: &#8220;Becoming a Jew can make you the worst anti-Semite and you realize all those WN whackos were right about some things. Jews and gentiles are natural enemies. It&#8217;s how God made the world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s too ironic. I mean converting to Judaism awakening their white national identity. That is ****ed up.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>* Unlike with Christian clergy, rabbis don&#8217;t usually consider what you divulge to them in private with the expectation of privacy to be confidential. They often want you to open up, and then they spread it around. I guess they find it a useful tactic to weed out the bad ones or to just govern the community.<\/p>\n<p>* Growing up a Seventh-Day Adventist, it was basically forbidden to sue anyone. Jewish life is a tad different.<\/p>\n<p>* I just realized that most (it not all) of my GFs had fathers who were sex addicts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luke: &#8220;I converted to Judaism 22 years ago. Where&#8217;s my seat on the board of a bank or a movie studio?&#8221; Friend: &#8220;You have to pay me, and Chaim and Shlomo $10,000 a month for three years, and then we&#8217;ll &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=77098\">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-77098","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\/77098","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=77098"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77106,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77098\/revisions\/77106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}