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		<title>&#8220;Getting Back in Touch&#8221; via Facebook &#8211; Digital Natives vs. Digital Immigrants</title>
		<link>http://jewneric.com/2009/02/getting-back-in-touch-via-facebook-digital-natives-vs-digital-immigrants/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 16:46:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brianblum</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://jewneric.com/?p=1030</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Pin It Lately, my wife Jody and I have spent a lot of time getting in touch with old friends via Facebook. It started when I received a friend request from Larry. Larry and I were best buddies growing up. But after I moved away, we fell out of touch. Iâ€™ve looked for him from ]]></description>
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		<title>The Case of the Purloined Ice Cream</title>
		<link>http://jewneric.com/2009/02/the-case-of-the-purloined-ice-cream/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2009 15:40:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brianblum</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://jewneric.com/?p=1024</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Pin It My wife Jody has been in the States for the last two weeks to celebrate her fatherâ€™s 70th birthday, leaving me a â€œsingle parentâ€ back in Israel. Iâ€™m pretty good at handling the day-to-day activities at home, taking care of the kids, keeping the house running. Except in one area. The kitchen. Frankly, ]]></description>
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		<title>Why Iâ€™m Voting Green This Year</title>
		<link>http://jewneric.com/2009/02/why-i%e2%80%99m-voting-green-this-year/</link>
		<comments>http://jewneric.com/2009/02/why-i%e2%80%99m-voting-green-this-year/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2009 09:53:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brianblum</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://jewneric.com/?p=1020</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Pin It You would think that after voting for a Barkat and a Barack respectively in the local Jerusalem and U.S. elections, the logical next choice would be to support a Barak (Ehud that is) in the upcoming Israeli national elections. Would that it were that easy. The major parties fielded for the 2009 elections ]]></description>
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		<title>War in Gaza: Which Way Will the Dreidel Fall?</title>
		<link>http://jewneric.com/2009/01/war-in-gaza-which-way-will-the-dreidel-fall/</link>
		<comments>http://jewneric.com/2009/01/war-in-gaza-which-way-will-the-dreidel-fall/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jan 2009 15:32:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brianblum</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://jewneric.com/?p=986</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Pin It Our friend Joan called last night just as the news broke that the IDF had begun its ground operation in Gaza. Joan was panicked. She knew a number of families in our neighborhood who had boys in combat units. â€œWhy are we doing this?â€ she said. â€œCanâ€™t we pull them all out now?â€ ]]></description>
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		<title>A Sneak Peek at the Future of Jerusalem Mass Transit</title>
		<link>http://jewneric.com/2008/11/a-sneak-peek-at-the-future-of-jerusalem-mass-transit/</link>
		<comments>http://jewneric.com/2008/11/a-sneak-peek-at-the-future-of-jerusalem-mass-transit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2008 10:17:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brianblum</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://jewneric.com/?p=944</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Pin It Stepping into one of the sleek and shiny new light rail vehicles set to zip through Jerusalem in the next year and a half, itâ€™s hard to imagine the controversy the systemâ€™s roll out has engendered. CityPass, the international corporation that is building and operating the Jerusalem light rail system, recently opened the ]]></description>
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		<title>From Barack to Barkat: A Look Back at the November Elections</title>
		<link>http://jewneric.com/2008/11/from-barack-to-barkat-a-look-back-at-the-november-elections/</link>
		<comments>http://jewneric.com/2008/11/from-barack-to-barkat-a-look-back-at-the-november-elections/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 11:05:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brianblum</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://jewneric.com/?p=916</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Pin It The just concluded Jerusalem election, while certainly not as important on a world stage as last weekâ€™s U.S. presidential contest, was in many ways spookily similar to its overseas counterpart. For those who supported Nir Barkat, who beat his main competitor Meir Porush by a commanding 9 points (52 to 43 percent), the ]]></description>
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		<title>Jerusalem Election Diary: Haaretz gets it so wrong</title>
		<link>http://jewneric.com/2008/11/jerusalem-election-diary-haaretz-gets-it-so-wrong/</link>
		<comments>http://jewneric.com/2008/11/jerusalem-election-diary-haaretz-gets-it-so-wrong/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 11:33:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brianblum</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://jewneric.com/?p=905</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Pin It I donâ€™t usually write about the same topic two weeks in a row, but, with less than a week to go, the upcoming Jerusalem mayoral elections is so important that I feel compelled to post again. Last Friday, Haaretz published an editorial slamming mayoral candidate Nir Barkat and endorsing â€œa responsible harediâ€ (a ]]></description>
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		<title>Jerusalem Elections 2008: The Most Crucial in Years</title>
		<link>http://jewneric.com/2008/10/jerusalem-elections-2008-the-most-crucial-in-years/</link>
		<comments>http://jewneric.com/2008/10/jerusalem-elections-2008-the-most-crucial-in-years/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 10:14:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brianblum</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://jewneric.com/?p=889</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Pin It Several weeks ago I gave an Israeli take on the upcoming U.S. elections. But thereâ€™s another vote in November that may prove to be just as momentous for this country. Iâ€™m talking about the Jerusalem mayoral elections. Five years ago, the status quo was broken when the ultra-Orthodox (haredi) community fielded a candidate ]]></description>
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		<title>Art Show at the Museum of the Underground Prisoners</title>
		<link>http://jewneric.com/2008/10/art-show-at-the-museum-of-the-underground-prisoners/</link>
		<comments>http://jewneric.com/2008/10/art-show-at-the-museum-of-the-underground-prisoners/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 15:43:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brianblum</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://jewneric.com/?p=885</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Pin It Just when you think youâ€™ve seen all that Jerusalem has to offer, along comes a surprise in the most unusual of spaces. For weeks, the Jerusalem municipality has been running full-page ads promoting Art Jerusalem 08, an exhibition with hundreds of mostly new and unknown artists. The setting was the Underground Prisoner&#8217;s Museum, ]]></description>
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		<title>Another Israeli Take on the Upcoming U.S. Elections</title>
		<link>http://jewneric.com/2008/10/another-israeli-take-on-the-upcoming-us-elections/</link>
		<comments>http://jewneric.com/2008/10/another-israeli-take-on-the-upcoming-us-elections/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2008 10:08:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brianblum</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://jewneric.com/?p=833</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Pin It I just received my absentee ballot for the upcoming U.S. elections in the mail and Iâ€™m psyched. Yes, I know that some critics will question whether an American living outside the country has the moral right to vote for a president of a country in which he is no longer living. But I ]]></description>
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		<title>Alone Again (Not) Naturally</title>
		<link>http://jewneric.com/2008/08/alone-again-not-naturally/</link>
		<comments>http://jewneric.com/2008/08/alone-again-not-naturally/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 13:12:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brianblum</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://jewneric.com/?p=679</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Pin It The week didnâ€™t go at all as I expected. When Jody made plans for her and Amir to go to Cleveland for Jodyâ€™s grandmotherâ€™s 90th birthday at the same time as Merav and Aviv were to be in sleep away camp, I thought: this is great. I get the house all to myself. ]]></description>
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		<title>New TV Show Attempts to Bridge the Religious Secular Divide</title>
		<link>http://jewneric.com/2008/07/new-tv-show-attempts-to-bridge-the-religious-secular-divide/</link>
		<comments>http://jewneric.com/2008/07/new-tv-show-attempts-to-bridge-the-religious-secular-divide/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:41:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brianblum</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://jewneric.com/?p=661</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Pin It A new TV show that debuted earlier this month on the Israeli satellite company YES is the talk of the town across certain sectors of southern Jerusalem. â€œSrugimâ€ (in English: â€œknitted kippasâ€) is an extraordinarily accurate depiction of the religious singles scene in Jerusalem. Set in our own neighborhood (Katamon and the German ]]></description>
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		<title>Bulldozer Copycat Attack: On the Scene</title>
		<link>http://jewneric.com/2008/07/bulldozer-copycat-attack-on-the-scene/</link>
		<comments>http://jewneric.com/2008/07/bulldozer-copycat-attack-on-the-scene/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:02:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brianblum</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://jewneric.com/?p=637</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Pin It My son Amir and I were downtown when the police cars and ambulances started zooming past us, their sirens blaring. We had just finished an ice coffee at The Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf and were waiting at a bus stop to go home. One after another, the police sped down Jaffa Road. ]]></description>
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		<title>Bridge of Strings: Monstrosity or Beauty?</title>
		<link>http://jewneric.com/2008/07/bridge-of-strings-monstrosity-or-beauty/</link>
		<comments>http://jewneric.com/2008/07/bridge-of-strings-monstrosity-or-beauty/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 19:35:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brianblum</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pin It Some have called it a monstrosity. To others itâ€™s a thing of beauty. One thingâ€™s for sure: the new Bridge of Strings at the entrance to Jerusalem, which was formally dedicated two weeks ago in a multi-million dollar ceremony, has generated a huge amount of controversy both online and with the general public ]]></description>
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		<title>What a Dump!</title>
		<link>http://jewneric.com/2008/06/what-a-dump/</link>
		<comments>http://jewneric.com/2008/06/what-a-dump/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 09:19:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brianblum</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://jewneric.com/what-a-dump/2008/06/27/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Pin It Hereâ€™s a Friday morning outing youâ€™ve probably never considered: A trip to the dump. But not just any dump. The Hiria dump â€“ an 80-meter high blight on the landscape that no commuter traveling on the Jerusalem-Tel Aviv highway could miss. Now Hiria is being transformed from its formerly stinky state into the ]]></description>
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