{"id":2447,"date":"2008-11-12T12:20:02","date_gmt":"2008-11-12T20:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=2447"},"modified":"2008-11-12T12:21:42","modified_gmt":"2008-11-12T20:21:42","slug":"whistlers-snowboarding-rabbi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=2447","title":{"rendered":"Whistler&#8217;s Snowboarding Rabbi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/snowboarding-rabbi.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/snowboarding-rabbi.jpg','popup','width=235,height=200,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/snowboarding-rabbi-tm.jpg\" height=\"170\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Snowboarding-Rabbi\" \/><\/a>There are <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=2040\" target=\"_blank\">priests who surf<\/a><\/strong> so why not a snowboarding Rabbi. <strong>Chaim Shapiro<\/strong> is right for the job. The Rabbi moved to Vancouver from New York after marrying <strong>Leah Feigelstock<\/strong>, now the two are set on creating &#8220;Jewish programming in the alpine resort town of Whistler, B.C.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Rabbi Shapiro has organized apr\u00e8s-ski prayers when a minyan was needed for someone to recite Kaddish, as well as Shabbatons, a mobile sukkah on the back of a truck, Chanukah parties and Rosh Hashanah services.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What? All we we can say is: L&#8217;Chaim, shredders.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cjnews.com\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=15681&amp;Itemid=86\" target=\"_blank\">CJ News<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are priests who surf so why not a snowboarding Rabbi. Chaim Shapiro is right for the job. The Rabbi moved to Vancouver from New York after marrying Leah Feigelstock, now the two are set on creating &#8220;Jewish programming in the alpine resort town of Whistler, B.C.&#8221; Rabbi Shapiro has organized apr\u00e8s-ski prayers when a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}