{"id":9233,"date":"2009-06-30T21:06:56","date_gmt":"2009-07-01T05:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=9233"},"modified":"2009-07-01T08:27:02","modified_gmt":"2009-07-01T16:27:02","slug":"shining-a-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=9233","title":{"rendered":"Shining A Light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shira emails: Dear Luke,  I am thinking of you, while working. What comes to mind is that things are coming  together. Your important work and service to the community is bearing fruits. In the  past, I have stated that it&#8217;s time to clean up the community from the self appointed  leadership and corruptions. To my disappointment, it was not done. You give me a  ray of hope: perhaps things are moving&#8230; Cases in point:   The issue with the Ger Tzedek. He is getting &#8216;a new ear&#8217; in civil court. The fact that  the story was published here, is NO coincidence!!!<\/p>\n<p>The other story that is gaining momentum, in my opinion is the Meir Kin divorce and &#8216;The pretending Agunah&#8217;. No one else had the right &#8216;equipment&#8217; tell the story baldly,  only you!!! Y&#8217;shar Koach.<\/p>\n<p>Chaim Amalek emails: There was a time five years ago when I would check Luke&#8217;s website five or six times a day, just to see what he was posting (which often was what I was writing).  Not so these days.  To begin (and end) with, the substitution of news about LA&#8217;s rabbis for the chance to interact with fertile young white women (even if it was at a great remove) just does not inspire one to read it or contribute much to the effort of writing it.  (Also, the &quot;Failed Messiah&quot; website does a better job of Jewish muckraking, possibly because it is the work of someone who was born into the orthodox world and thus has an edge that Luke as the never-quite-accepted &quot;convert&quot; cannot match.)   This is sad, because we can all see the trajectory being followed here and where it leads.  But I don&#8217;t see any good options left for Luke.  He had his moment in the sun but simply failed to seize and build upon it.<\/p>\n<p>Khunrum emails: &#8220;His latest &#8220;column&#8221; lost it&#8217;s Sunday errrr! excuse me, Saturday Punch. The news is turgid, depressing and lost the one plus that made old Luke such a joy to be involved with, Humor!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shira emails: Dear Luke, I am thinking of you, while working. What comes to mind is that things are coming together. Your important work and service to the community is bearing fruits. In the past, I have stated that it&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=9233\">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":[50],"tags":[8988,1320,8986,18150,18148,18149,18155,7423],"class_list":["post-9233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-los-angeles","tag-agunah","tag-amalek","tag-civil-court","tag-corruptions","tag-gaining-momentum","tag-koach","tag-moment-in-the-sun","tag-orthodox-world"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9233","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=9233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}