{"id":4422,"date":"2003-09-05T11:11:42","date_gmt":"2003-09-05T18:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=4422"},"modified":"2003-09-05T11:11:42","modified_gmt":"2003-09-05T18:11:42","slug":"dr_laura_bails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/09\/05\/dr_laura_bails.html","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Laura bails out"},"content":{"rendered":"

Laura Schlessinger has ceased to be an observant Orthodox Jew<\/a>, according to an announcement she made on her show last month.<\/p>\n

In a shocking if little-noticed revelation, Schlessinger \u2014 who very publicly converted to Judaism five years ago \u2014 opened “The Dr. Laura Schlessinger Program” on August 5 with the confession that she will no longer practice Judaism. Although Schlessinger said she still “considers” herself Jewish, “My identifying with this entity and my fulfilling the rituals, etc., of the entity \u2014 that has ended.”<\/p>\n

What’s particularly … disturbing? irritating? … about the announcement is the basis for it. <\/p>\n

Schlessinger began her August 5 program by noting that, prior to each broadcast, she spends an hour reading faxes from fans and listeners. “By and large the faxes from Christians have been very loving, very supportive,” she said. “From my own religion, I have either gotten nothing, which is 99% of it, or two of the nastiest letters I have gotten in a long time. I guess that’s my point \u2014 I don’t get much back. Not much warmth coming back.”
\nSchlessinger even hinted at a possible turn to Christianity \u2014 a move that, radio insiders say, would elevate her career far beyond the 300 stations that currently syndicate her show. “I have envied all my Christian friends who really, universally, deeply feel loved by God,” she said. “They use the name Jesus when they refer to God… that was a mystery, being connected to God.”
\nIn her 25 years on radio, Schlessinger said she was moved “time and time again” by listeners who wrote and described that they had “joined a church, felt loved by God and that was my anchor.”
\n[…] Of her conversion to Judaism, Schlessinger said, “I felt that I was putting out a tremendous amount toward that mission, that end, and not feeling return, not feeling connected, not feeling that inspired. Trust me, I’ve talked to rabbis, I’ve read, I’ve prayed, I’ve agonized and I came to this place anyway \u2014 which is not exactly back to the beginning, but more in that direction than not.”<\/p>\n

In other words, she’s decided to back away from a holy commitment she made because she feels unfulfilled, because she’s not getting back the love she expected, from God or her co-religionists.<\/p>\n

I wonder what Dr. Laura would say about that if a caller contacted her with that tale of woe?<\/p>\n

Yeah … “disappointing” and “irritating” just about sum it up.<\/p>\n

I listen to Dr. L. sometimes on the drive home on Fridays. While she’s sometimes blindingly black-and-white in her thinking, I’ve tended to find her no-nonsense insistence on keep your commitments <\/i>and don’t use your feelings as an all-trumping excuse<\/i> to be refreshing. To basically have her be unable to live up to that in her own life (and, evidently, not see that herself) is pretty sad.<\/p>\n

(via Volokh\/Bernstein<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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