{"id":9586,"date":"2009-08-03T15:56:45","date_gmt":"2009-08-03T23:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=9586"},"modified":"2009-08-03T15:56:45","modified_gmt":"2009-08-03T23:56:45","slug":"young-israel-has-to-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=9586","title":{"rendered":"Young Israel Has To Go?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.newvoices.org\/?p=915\">A college student, Rebecca Blady, blogs<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I&rsquo;ve been thinking a lot about the impending schism in Orthodox Judaism in America. I&rsquo;ll be perfectly honest and tell you flat out I&rsquo;m pro-schism: Whether the moguls of the Orthodox world like it or not, it&rsquo;s coming, and personally, I&rsquo;d like to help bring it on. Where to start? Easy: the National Council of Young Israel.<\/p>\n<p>I remember how outraged I was back when the NCYI banned women and converts from holding the presidency in its member synagogues (among other things). In retrospect, I&rsquo;m disappointed at the lack of action taken in response. I definitely was not alone in my resentment toward the NCYI; this <a href=\"http:\/\/media.www.yucommentator.com\/media\/storage\/paper652\/news\/2007\/12\/03\/Features\/Leaking.Ship.Young.Israel.On.The.Rocks-3127077.shtml?reffeature=htmlemailedition\">feature article<\/a> from The Commentator, YU&rsquo;s student newspaper, exposes a great deal of the hostility felt back in 2007 soon after Young Israel made its notorious decision (as does this interesting&mdash;and somewhat comical&mdash;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jewcy.com\/faithhacker\/young_israel_so_passe\">blog post<\/a> on Jewcy from January 2008).<\/p>\n<p>Individuals and communities alike were ready to act; people were ready to rebel against the institution that could once define itself as modern Orthodoxy&rsquo;s future but now threatened to monopolize all streams of Orthodox Jewish thought around the country.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The stuff she is protesting is basic Jewish law. If she&#8217;s against it, she&#8217;s against halacah (the Jewish system of law) and normative Judaism. So why not just say Judaism has to go? Judaism with a human face isn&#8217;t Judaism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A college student, Rebecca Blady, blogs: I&rsquo;ve been thinking a lot about the impending schism in Orthodox Judaism in America. I&rsquo;ll be perfectly honest and tell you flat out I&rsquo;m pro-schism: Whether the moguls of the Orthodox world like it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=9586\">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":[661],"tags":[18369,17520,13554,1889,18368,1132],"class_list":["post-9586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-young-israel","tag-feature-article-from","tag-judaism-in-america","tag-member-synagogues","tag-national-council-of-young-israel","tag-normative-judaism","tag-orthodox-judaism"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9586","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=9586"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9588,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9586\/revisions\/9588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}