{"id":19943,"date":"2014-11-20T20:31:31","date_gmt":"2014-11-21T02:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=19943"},"modified":"2014-11-20T20:31:31","modified_gmt":"2014-11-21T02:31:31","slug":"justin-bieber-spends-three-hours-with-l-a-rabbi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/justin-bieber-spends-three-hours-with-l-a-rabbi\/","title":{"rendered":"Justin Bieber spends three hours with L.A. rabbi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(JTA) &#8212; Pop star Justin Bieber spent three hours meeting with a rabbi in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>Bieber on Wednesday visited the Westside Jewish Community Center, the celebrity news website X17.com reported.<\/p>\n<p>The singer &#8220;is on a spiritual journey,&#8221; according to X17, and reportedly has stopped using drugs and gotten rid of his entourage.<\/p>\n<p>The Westside JCC&#8217;s executive director did not return a call from JTA seeking confirmation of Bieber&#8217;s visit. However, an employee at IKAR &#8212; a congregation that is housed in the JCC building &#8212; said no IKAR rabbi met with Bieber. The employee added that Bieber sometimes visits the JCC to play table tennis.<\/p>\n<p>Bieber reportedly was scheduled to spend two weeks with a Christian pastor but apparently cut short his visit. The Christian Post reported that he was &#8220;learning how to spread the Word of God.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In April 2013, Bieber was criticized for writing in the guestbook at the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam that he hoped she &#8220;would have been a Belieber.&#8221; He visited the museum before playing a concert in nearby Arnhem.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Justin%20Bieber%20spends%20three%20hours%20with%20L.A.%20rabbi\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[8790,8795,2497,1550,8788,2476],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19943"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19943"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19944,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19943\/revisions\/19944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}