{"id":42626,"date":"2014-02-17T03:14:26","date_gmt":"2014-02-17T03:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/charleston_s-c-_area_orthodox_synagogue_dor_tikvah_installs_its_first_rabbi\/"},"modified":"2014-02-17T03:14:26","modified_gmt":"2014-02-17T03:14:26","slug":"charleston_s-c-_area_orthodox_synagogue_dor_tikvah_installs_its_first_rabbi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=42626","title":{"rendered":"Charleston S.C. Area Orthodox synagogue Dor Tikvah installs its first rabbi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not many Orthodox rabbis, especially not ones immersed in Jewish hubs of the Northeast, raise their hands to serve small communities such as the Lowcountry, where a kosher deli is harder to find than a snowball or skyscraper.<\/p>\n<p>But Rabbi Michael Davies did.<\/p>\n<p>At 31, he was installed last week as the first rabbi of Dor Tikvah, a new modern Orthodox synagogue in West Ashley.<\/p>\n<p>His installation brings to five the number of rabbis in town leading Jewish entities, remarkable given the area&#8217;s Jewish population barely numbers 7,000, most of whom aren&#8217;t even affiliated with a synagogue.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/article\/20140215\/PC1204\/140219614\/1015\/dor-tikvah-gets-1st-rabbi\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not many Orthodox rabbis, especially not ones immersed in Jewish hubs of the Northeast, raise their hands to serve small communities such as the Lowcountry, where a kosher deli is harder to find than a snowball or skyscraper. But Rabbi<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=42626\">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-42626","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\/42626","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=42626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}