{"id":991,"date":"2007-10-24T12:53:17","date_gmt":"2007-10-24T19:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=991"},"modified":"2007-12-05T18:12:27","modified_gmt":"2007-12-06T01:00:27","slug":"the-noah-feldman-debate-just-won%e2%80%99t-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=991","title":{"rendered":"The Noah Feldman Debate Just Won&#8217;t Die"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jewcy.com\/daily_shvitz\/traitor_his_people_noah_feldman_debate_just_won_t_die\">Izzy Grinspan writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Last Thursday night, NYU hosted a debate between Birthright Israel founder Michael Steinhardt, rabbi and TV personality Shmuley Boteach, and law professor Noah Feldman on the question &ldquo;Are Jews different?&rdquo; But as commenter <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jewcy.com\/daily_shvitz\/questions_for_the_author_of_orthodox_paradox?page=2#comment-14005\">agenius<\/a> put it over in the Noah Feldman thread, what took place wasn&rsquo;t really a debate. (I suspect agenius and I don&rsquo;t agree on much, but we&rsquo;re together on that.) It was more like a chance for three very different Jews to air their beliefs about Judaism, followed by a mini-drubbing of Noah Feldman by the NYU audience.<\/p>\n<p>Rabbi Shmuley, who spoke first, testified to the virtues of Torah-based Jewish values. I can&#8217;t top Jewlicious&#8217;s hilarious <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jewlicious.com\/?p=3854\">description<\/a>, so I&#8217;m just going to quote it: &quot;Shmuley Boteach is, and I do not exaggerate, an evangelical Protestant minister with a beard and hand gestures.&quot; The girl sitting next to me, wearing a sensible skirt and loafers that I can only describe as tsnuit, leaned over and whispered &ldquo;Isn&rsquo;t he great? I was at his house for dinner last Shabbat.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Izzy Grinspan writes: Last Thursday night, NYU hosted a debate between Birthright Israel founder Michael Steinhardt, rabbi and TV personality Shmuley Boteach, and law professor Noah Feldman on the question &ldquo;Are Jews different?&rdquo; But as commenter agenius put it over &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=991\">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":[152],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-noah-feldman"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991","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=991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}