{"id":40759,"date":"2013-10-27T21:30:23","date_gmt":"2013-10-27T21:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/lowcountry_south_carolina_rabbis_respond_to_big_changes_in_american_jewish_\/"},"modified":"2013-10-27T21:30:23","modified_gmt":"2013-10-27T21:30:23","slug":"lowcountry_south_carolina_rabbis_respond_to_big_changes_in_american_jewish_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=40759","title":{"rendered":"Lowcountry South Carolina rabbis respond to big changes in American Jewish identity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rabbi Stephanie Alexander of Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim, a Reform congregation downtown, said that unlike in a church or mosque, belief in God is not the singular underpinning of Judaism.<\/p>\n<p>At her synagogue, involvement is as much about worship as assembling in a community and studying Judaism.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is an openness to God that is essential,\u201d\u009d Alexander said. \u201cIt\u2019s a willingness to wrestle with whether or not you believe in God.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/article\/20131027\/PC1204\/131029542\/1015\/local-rabbis-respond-to-big-changes-in-american-jewish-identity\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rabbi Stephanie Alexander of Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim, a Reform congregation downtown, said that unlike in a church or mosque, belief in God is not the singular underpinning of Judaism. At her synagogue, involvement is as much about worship as<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=40759\">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":[39,42,54,429,155,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-south-carolina","category-judaism","category-other-faiths","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40759","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=40759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}