{"id":9599,"date":"2009-08-05T17:43:20","date_gmt":"2009-08-06T01:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=9599"},"modified":"2009-08-05T17:44:32","modified_gmt":"2009-08-06T01:44:32","slug":"remembering-slain-israeli-gays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=9599","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Slain Israeli Gays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?cat=11245\">Is there any hip ethical movement in Modern Orthdooxy that Rabbi Shmuel Herzfeld is not a leader of<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jta.org\/news\/article\/2009\/08\/04\/1007018\/dc-san-francisco-hold-vigils-to-mourn-israelis-lgbt-kilings\">JTA reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON (JTA) &#8212; An Orthodox rabbi spoke out against anti-gay rhetoric in the Orthodox community at a Washington vigil mourning two Jews slain at a gay center in Tel Aviv.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;It&#8217;s time to do some internal accounting&quot; as to whether such &quot;rhetoric has created this climate&quot; that allows for violence and &quot;vilification&quot; of gays and lesbians, Rabbi Shmuel Herzfeld of Ohev Sholom &#8212; The National Synagogue said Monday night at the candlelight vigil.<\/p>\n<p>Herzfeld called for the Orthodox community to create a &quot;communal pledge&quot; that &quot;we will not create a climate of gay bashing&quot; and &quot;enforce it.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>In an interview after his speech, Herzfeld did note that homosexuality was &quot;prohibited by the Torah,&quot; but said at the same time that crimes like the murders Saturday evening in Israel were &quot;a desecration of God&#8217;s name.&quot;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is there any hip ethical movement in Modern Orthdooxy that Rabbi Shmuel Herzfeld is not a leader of? JTA reports: WASHINGTON (JTA) &#8212; An Orthodox rabbi spoke out against anti-gay rhetoric in the Orthodox community at a Washington vigil mourning &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=9599\">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":[26,37,18,11245,110],"tags":[18376,18377,18379,1949,4557,18378],"class_list":["post-9599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homophobia","category-israel","category-orthodoxy","category-r-shmuel-herzfeld","category-rabbis","tag-candlelight-vigil","tag-gays-and-lesbians","tag-internal-accounting","tag-orthodox-rabbi","tag-rabbi-shmuel","tag-two-jews"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9599","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=9599"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9601,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9599\/revisions\/9601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}