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		<title>How to Swear</title>
		<link>http://jewneric.com/2008/10/how-to-swear/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 11:17:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ezra Butler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is an old adage that goes &#8220;Don&#8217;t judge someone until you have walked a mile in his shoes.&#8221; I have a simpler litmus test that does not require finding an individual who does not wear high heels or have extremely small feet. You can learn a lot about people by being different. In a ]]></description>
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		<title>Dessert at the Beginning of the Meal</title>
		<link>http://jewneric.com/2008/09/stanleyklein/</link>
		<comments>http://jewneric.com/2008/09/stanleyklein/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 18:26:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ezra Butler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While usually quite verbose, I find myself at a loss for words. How can one describe immensely personal feelings in an extremely public setting? For every word below, there are thousands more that I am choosing not to write. Ten years ago, there was a plane crash on Sept. 7, 1998. The 10th Jewish Yahrtzeit ]]></description>
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		<title>Perfection, Eugenics, Israel, and America</title>
		<link>http://jewneric.com/2008/08/cheerleading/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Aug 2008 21:44:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ezra Butler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I will always remember Friday night. I came to a realization, an understanding, the veil of darkness was lifted from my eyes. I recall the mad dash before leaving for my brother&#8217;s house, seeing online that McCain had chosen Sarah Palin for the job of VP, in the likely case that he won. Immediately, I ]]></description>
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		<title>Young Geeks gather in Israel</title>
		<link>http://jewneric.com/2008/08/young-geeks-gather-in-israel/</link>
		<comments>http://jewneric.com/2008/08/young-geeks-gather-in-israel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 08:23:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ezra Butler</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tech]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Israelis are full of ideas. The Silicon Wadi is only behind the Silicon Valley in terms of sheer numbers startups. One guy, Shai Agassi, is working on a viable electric car, hoping to make Israel (and the rest of the world) no longer dependent on oil. But this summer, this same guy was the Chief ]]></description>
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		<title>The Importance of Being Personal</title>
		<link>http://jewneric.com/2008/07/the-importance-of-being-personal/</link>
		<comments>http://jewneric.com/2008/07/the-importance-of-being-personal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 23:40:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ezra Butler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the past few months, I have been consolidating my life into my new home. I combined my office and my home into a new apartment. First, I moved the critical items &#8211; the clothing that I love, the computers I need, the books that I must have around (although I lack the time to ]]></description>
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		<title>Waltz with Bashir: A non-review</title>
		<link>http://jewneric.com/2008/07/waltz-with-bashir-a-non-review/</link>
		<comments>http://jewneric.com/2008/07/waltz-with-bashir-a-non-review/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2008 19:46:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ezra Butler</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[israeli cinema]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A challenge is to talk about a movie without divulging any information about said movie. That is the problem with &#8220;Waltz with Bashir&#8221;, an animated movie I saw last night about the first Lebanon War. I cannot morally speak about the movie. Any words I would say would ruin it for you. I just can ]]></description>
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		<title>Drink Wine. Israeli Wine.</title>
		<link>http://jewneric.com/2008/06/drink-wine-israeli-wine/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2008 11:09:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ezra Butler</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[gary vaynerchuk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kadesh Barnea]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Maybe it&#8217;s just me, but everywhere I turn in Jerusalem, I am sucked into a conversation about wine. People who know me professionally lament to me, asking &#8220;Why doesn&#8217;t Israel market itself through its wines?&#8221; My friends will either tell me about their favorite wine store (and physically take me there), or have a nice ]]></description>
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		<title>MashBash Tel Aviv &#8211; The Official Jewneric.com Report</title>
		<link>http://jewneric.com/2008/06/mashbash-tel-aviv-the-official-jewnericcom-report/</link>
		<comments>http://jewneric.com/2008/06/mashbash-tel-aviv-the-official-jewnericcom-report/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 09:38:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ezra Butler</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[That's So Cool]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[MashBash TLV the Official Jewneric.com Media Partner Report Last night, as previously reported, I had the pleasure of being a sponsored guest to MashBash TLV. For those who still don&#8217;t know what Mashable is, go to their website (Mashable.com). (Hint: it&#8217;s the Social Networking news source.) 800 people mingled for many hours, including a 3 ]]></description>
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		<title>Ethnocentricity &#8220;and the Jews&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://jewneric.com/2008/05/ethnocentricity-and-the-jews/</link>
		<comments>http://jewneric.com/2008/05/ethnocentricity-and-the-jews/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 12:41:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ezra Butler</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thomas L. Friedman wrote an inciteful (or insightful &#8211; I&#8217;m still trying to decide) article in the NYTImes on May 18th. In fact, over a day after being published it is still the most popular article emailed (but not blogged, go figure). The title: Obama and the Jews. In my estimation, he could have left ]]></description>
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		<title>Perks of Blogging for Jewneric</title>
		<link>http://jewneric.com/2008/05/perks-of-blogging-for-jewneric/</link>
		<comments>http://jewneric.com/2008/05/perks-of-blogging-for-jewneric/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 11:45:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ezra Butler</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News & Current Events]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jewneric treats its bloggers really really well. You should blog for them. For instance, I received a beautiful trip to MashBash TLV (the first international MashMeet!). It is going to be full with all the movers and shakers of the Israeli tech scene, and Jewneric just happens to be a media partner! So I get ]]></description>
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		<title>The White Elephant in My Room: My Stutter</title>
		<link>http://jewneric.com/2008/03/the-white-elephant-in-my-room-my-stutter/</link>
		<comments>http://jewneric.com/2008/03/the-white-elephant-in-my-room-my-stutter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Mar 2008 13:07:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ezra Butler</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I stutter. But I am not a stutterer. It does not define me; rather it complements me. Through the course of history, individuals who stutter have entered into all realms of life. In a religious sense, Moses stuttered. Yet so did Marilyn Monroe. As did James Earl Jones (“This is AT&#038;T”), Isaac Newton, Winston Churchill, ]]></description>
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		<title>The Age of Apathy.</title>
		<link>http://jewneric.com/2008/03/the-age-of-apathy/</link>
		<comments>http://jewneric.com/2008/03/the-age-of-apathy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 17:32:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ezra Butler</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Tuesday, the German Chancellor Angela Merkel spoke in front of the Knesset (the Israeli Parliament). In the LA Times, the visit is described as “[stirring] traumatic memories. Six million Jews were slaughtered by the Nazis during World War II, and about 250,000 elderly survivors live in Israel.” After beginning her speech in Hebrew (albeit ]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Purgamentum Init, Exit Pecuniam,&#8221; or &#8220;Wow, Staten Island Can Now Rival an Oil-Rich Arab Country!&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://jewneric.com/2008/03/purgamentum-init-exit-pecuniam-or-wow-staten-island-can-now-rival-an-oil-rich-arab-country/</link>
		<comments>http://jewneric.com/2008/03/purgamentum-init-exit-pecuniam-or-wow-staten-island-can-now-rival-an-oil-rich-arab-country/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Mar 2008 15:34:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ezra Butler</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reading one of my new favorite blogs (greenprophet.com) has caused me to ponder: Can the country that created a veritable oasis out of a desert simultaneously solve waste issues, lower reliance on foreign fuel, and help finance an exclusive country club in Staten Island? Apparently, some Israeli company (REN Waste) has devised a way to ]]></description>
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		<title>Terrorist Attack in Jerusalem</title>
		<link>http://jewneric.com/2008/03/terrorist-attack-in-jerusalem/</link>
		<comments>http://jewneric.com/2008/03/terrorist-attack-in-jerusalem/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2008 20:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ezra Butler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[About an hour and a half ago, at 8:30 PM (Israel time), at least 2 terrorists entered Yeshivat Merkaz haRav and shot tens of students. News reports are reporting between 6 and 8 dead, (plus the terrorists), as well as 6 evacuated, and another 20 35+ injured. Merkaz haRav, located in Jerusalem, is the flagship ]]></description>
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		<title>The Israeli &#8220;Limpieza de Sangre,&#8221; or, Are You Jewish Enough to Read This?</title>
		<link>http://jewneric.com/2008/03/the-israeli-limpieza-de-sangre-alternatively-are-you-jewish-enough-to-read-this/</link>
		<comments>http://jewneric.com/2008/03/the-israeli-limpieza-de-sangre-alternatively-are-you-jewish-enough-to-read-this/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2008 11:23:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ezra Butler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is a Jew? And why does it matter? The number one article emailed over the last day from the NY Times is a piece from the magazine entitled “How Do You Prove You’re a Jew?” written by Gershom Gorenberg. Intrigued by the title, I read on. If you have not yet read this article, ]]></description>
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