{"id":8651,"date":"2009-04-03T08:08:45","date_gmt":"2009-04-03T16:08:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=8651"},"modified":"2009-04-03T08:08:45","modified_gmt":"2009-04-03T16:08:45","slug":"looking-for-an-orthodox-shul-friendly-to-converts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=8651","title":{"rendered":"Looking For An Orthodox Shul Friendly To Converts?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I get this email: &#8220;I was looking at your site and saw that you are a convert to Judaism.  I am looking to convert to Judaism.  Can you recommend a friendly Orthodox Shul for me to try and get into contact with the Rabbi?  I live in Downey, CA, about 20 minutes from downtown; only have reformed synagogue in my neighberhood, but want to have a Halacha conversion.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/essays\/contents\/lashuls.htm\">You&#8217;ll have to move next to an Orthodox shul<\/a>&#8230;such as one in Pico-robertson, a place like <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.bnaidavid.com\">Bnai David-Judea<\/a> is friendly to converts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I get this email: &#8220;I was looking at your site and saw that you are a convert to Judaism. I am looking to convert to Judaism. Can you recommend a friendly Orthodox Shul for me to try and get into &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=8651\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[228,209],"tags":[6547,17035,29773,1878,2618],"class_list":["post-8651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conversion","category-synagogue","tag-converts","tag-downey-ca","tag-judaism","tag-judea","tag-orthodox-shul"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8651","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=8651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}