{"id":12901,"date":"2009-05-20T09:02:09","date_gmt":"2009-05-20T09:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/baltimore_area_rally_rally_promotes_the_idea_of_the_sabbath\/"},"modified":"2009-05-20T09:02:09","modified_gmt":"2009-05-20T09:02:09","slug":"baltimore_area_rally_rally_promotes_the_idea_of_the_sabbath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=12901","title":{"rendered":"Baltimore Area Rally Rally promotes the idea of the Sabbath"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For Yoel Benyowitz, setting aside work at sundown on Friday, lighting the shabbos candles and spending the next 24 hours in prayer and fellowship with family and friends &#8220;recharges our batteries, both physically and spiritually.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s an experience that he wishes more Jews enjoyed. The 47-year-old father of four, a computer information specialist with the state Department of Transportation, joined thousands of fellow Orthodox Jews in Park Heights on Sunday for a rally to promote observance of the Jewish Sabbath.<\/p>\n<p>The event, the first of its kind in a dozen years, came as local Jewish leaders consider a plan to open a community center in Owings Mills on Saturdays.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/news\/local\/baltimore_city\/bal-md.sabbath18may18,0,7128825.story\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Yoel Benyowitz, setting aside work at sundown on Friday, lighting the shabbos candles and spending the next 24 hours in prayer and fellowship with family and friends &#8220;recharges our batteries, both physically and spiritually.&#8221; It&#8217;s an experience that he<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=12901\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,42,429,155,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-judaism","category-other-faiths","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12901\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}