{"id":40464,"date":"2015-03-16T01:53:18","date_gmt":"2015-03-16T01:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=40464"},"modified":"2015-04-16T14:04:09","modified_gmt":"2015-04-16T14:04:09","slug":"this-passover-choose-judaism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=40464","title":{"rendered":"This Passover Choose Judaism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.myjewishlearning.com\/blog\/jewish-and\/2015\/03\/10\/at-passover-choosing-Judaism\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>This Passover Choose Judaism<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.myjewishlearning.com\" target=\"_blank\">My Jewish Learning<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/bechollashon.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Be\u2019chol Lashon<\/a><br \/>\n2015-03-10<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alexbarnettcomic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Alex Barnett<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My wife and I are an interracial couple. I am a White, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ashkenazi_Jews\" target=\"_blank\">Ashkenazi Jewish<\/a> man from New York. She is a Black woman from Detroit, raised in the Lutheran faith, who converted (to Jewish, not to White. She\u2019s still Black). Our 3 year old Biracial son is Jewish.<\/p>\n<p>When I talk about my wife\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myjewishlearning.com\/life\/Life_Events\/Conversion.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">conversion<\/a>, rather than saying she converted I like to say that she\u2019s Jewish by choice. I do this because conversion sounds like the process by which a sofa becomes an uncomfortable bed. Or it sounds like something that happens by magic. I wave my magic wand and \u201cpoof\u201d you\u2019re Jewish. Whereas being a Jewish person by choice requires a conscious affirmative decision.<\/p>\n<p>And make no mistake, being Jewish is a choice, whether you were born into our Tribe or whether you joined us midway through the show&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myjewishlearning.com\/blog\/jewish-and\/2015\/03\/10\/at-passover-choosing-Judaism\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Passover Choose Judaism My Jewish Learning Be\u2019chol Lashon 2015-03-10 Alex Barnett My wife and I are an interracial couple. I am a White, Ashkenazi Jewish man from New York. She is a Black woman from Detroit, raised in the Lutheran faith, who converted (to Jewish, not to White. She\u2019s still Black). Our 3 year [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,414,3601,8,820,20],"tags":[19623,19624,13223],"class_list":["post-40464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-family","category-judaism","category-media-archive","category-religion","category-usa","tag-alex-barnett","tag-bechol-lashon","tag-my-jewish-learning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}