{"id":8979,"date":"2016-04-18T14:00:29","date_gmt":"2016-04-18T18:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/?p=8979"},"modified":"2016-04-15T10:46:10","modified_gmt":"2016-04-15T14:46:10","slug":"jewish-conservative-movement-overturns-800-year-old-passover-ban-on-rice-and-legumes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/2016\/04\/18\/jewish-conservative-movement-overturns-800-year-old-passover-ban-on-rice-and-legumes\/","title":{"rendered":"JEWISH CONSERVATIVE MOVEMENT OVERTURNS 800 YEAR OLD PASSOVER BAN ON RICE AND LEGUMES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/beans.jpg\" alt=\"beans\" width=\"400\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8981\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/beans.jpg 4522w, https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/beans-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/beans-1024x716.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 4522px) 100vw, 4522px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Rabbi Elliot Dorff, who is chair of the movement\u2019s law and standards committee and also a professor of theology at American Jewish University, agrees that shifting demography necessitated the change. And he said there\u2019s another reason behind the decision: the rise of vegans and gluten allergies. \u201cI think that\u2019s why it came up now as opposed to a generation ago,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Read more:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/forward.com\/culture\/food\/338525\/conservative-movement-overturns-800-year-old-passover-ban-on-rice-and-legum\/\">http:\/\/forward.com\/culture\/food\/338525\/conservative-movement-overturns-800-year-old-passover-ban-on-rice-and-legum\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rabbi Elliot Dorff, who is chair of the movement\u2019s law and standards committee and also a professor of theology at American Jewish University, agrees that shifting demography necessitated the change. And he said there\u2019s another reason behind the decision: the rise of vegans and gluten allergies. \u201cI think that\u2019s why it came up now as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8979"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8982,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8979\/revisions\/8982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}