{"id":1871,"date":"2019-08-21T17:35:57","date_gmt":"2019-08-21T21:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrenalinedrash.com\/?p=1871"},"modified":"2019-08-21T17:36:09","modified_gmt":"2019-08-21T21:36:09","slug":"oath-of-disloyalty-by-irwin-keller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrenalinedrash.com\/?p=1871","title":{"rendered":"Oath of Disloyalty &#8211; by Irwin Keller"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The poem below was written by Irwin Keller: rabbinic student at ALEPH Ordination Programs, friend and colleague:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am a disloyal Jew. <br>I am not loyal to a political party. <br>Nor will I be loyal to dictators and mad kings. <br>I am not loyal to walls or cages. <br>I am not loyal to taunts or tweets. <br>I am not loyal to hatred, to Jew-baiting, to the gloating connivings of white supremacy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am a disloyal Jew. <br>I am not loyal to any foreign power.<br>Nor to abuse of power at home.<br>I am not loyal to a legacy of conquest, erasure and exploitation.<br>I am not loyal to stories that tell me who I should hate.&nbsp;<br> <br>I am a loyal Jew. <br>I am loyal to the inconveniences of kindness. <br>I am loyal to the dream of justice.<br>I am loyal to this suffering Earth <br>And to all life.<br>I am not loyal to any founding fathers. <br>But I am loyal to the children who will come <br>And to the quality of world we leave them. <br>I am not loyal to what America has become. <br>But I am loyal to what America could be. <br>I am loyal to Emma Lazarus. To huddled masses.<br>To freedom and welcome, <br>Holiness, hope and love.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Irwin Keller<br>August 21, 2019<br> #loyaljew #disloyaljew<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The poem below was written by Irwin Keller: rabbinic student at ALEPH Ordination Programs, friend and colleague: I am a disloyal Jew. I am not loyal to a political party. Nor will I be loyal to dictators and mad kings. I am not loyal to walls or cages. I am not loyal to taunts or &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/adrenalinedrash.com\/?p=1871\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Oath of Disloyalty &#8211; by Irwin Keller&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[432,514,515,447],"class_list":["post-1871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-donald-trump","tag-irwin-keller","tag-oath-of-disloyalty","tag-white-supremacy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrenalinedrash.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrenalinedrash.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrenalinedrash.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrenalinedrash.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrenalinedrash.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1871"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/adrenalinedrash.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1872,"href":"https:\/\/adrenalinedrash.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1871\/revisions\/1872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrenalinedrash.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrenalinedrash.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrenalinedrash.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}