{"id":49378,"date":"2015-05-14T14:56:13","date_gmt":"2015-05-14T06:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=49378"},"modified":"2015-05-14T14:57:33","modified_gmt":"2015-05-14T06:57:33","slug":"music-icon-mike-hanopol-to-be-ordained-as-first-filipino-rabbi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/05\/14\/music-icon-mike-hanopol-to-be-ordained-as-first-filipino-rabbi\/","title":{"rendered":"Music icon Mike Hanopol to be ordained as first Filipino rabbi"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_49393\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-49393\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Mike-Hanopol.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-49393\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Mike-Hanopol-300x157.jpg\" alt=\"Facebook Photo\" width=\"300\" height=\"157\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Mike-Hanopol-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Mike-Hanopol.jpg 470w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-49393\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Facebook Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; Music icon, Mike Hanopol will be ordained as the first Filipino rabbi next year.<\/p>\n<p>According to a report for the ABS-CBN News, Hanopol discovered that he has a Jewish blood when his father introduced him to their relatives in New York during the &#8217;70s.<\/p>\n<p>He later on developed his curiosity about the Torah, the Jews&#8217; bible and started studying in 1995.<\/p>\n<p>Rabbi is a Jewish word which means religious teacher and is authorized to implement decisions\u00a0under the Jewish law.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been teaching about ten years pero unofficial pa rin. I still need\u00a0 to go through one year for the ordination para maging official.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>(I&#8217;ve been teaching about ten years but it&#8217;s still unofficial. I still need to go through one year for the ordination to make it official.)<\/p>\n<p>If the ordination pushes through, Hanopol will be the first Filipino rabbi in the Philippines.<\/p>\n<p>He also shared that from the 60 listeners he had when he started Judaism in Antipolo, only 10 remained.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNobody has attempted it,&#8221; he jokingly said adding that the role is very challenging.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; Music icon, Mike Hanopol will be ordained as the first Filipino rabbi next year. According to a report &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":49393,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment-ph","category-uncategorized","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}