{"id":182,"date":"2009-01-16T14:08:56","date_gmt":"2009-01-16T14:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/windowsanddoors\/2009\/01\/rabbis-to-pray-at-inauguration.html"},"modified":"2009-01-16T14:08:56","modified_gmt":"2009-01-16T14:08:56","slug":"rabbis-to-pray-at-inauguration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/windowsanddoors\/2009\/01\/rabbis-to-pray-at-inauguration.html","title":{"rendered":"Rabbis To Pray at Inauguration: A Good Idea?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Three rabbis are slated to offer prayers <\/a>at a January 21st National Cathedral service to be held as part of Barack Obama’s inauguration. Is this a good thing, or not? Is it more complicated for the Reform participant, Rabbi David Saperstein, whose movement has consistently argued for a solid wall of separation between church and state?
\nWhat prayer, if any at all, would you offer upon the inauguration of our next President? Should there be any difference between the prayers offered by Jews and those offered by others?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Three rabbis are slated to offer prayers at a January 21st National Cathedral service to be held as part of Barack Obama’s inauguration. Is this a good thing, or not? 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