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		<title>The Small Voice Of Moderation in Bet Shemesh</title>
		<link>http://jewneric.com/2012/01/the-small-voice-of-moderation-in-bet-shemesh/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 17:45:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jon Burg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aliyah]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Community]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In The Year Of The Protester, we used the hashtag and we mimed the slogan to great effect.  But real change takes more than a slogan.  It takes dialog.  It takes understanding.  It demands maturity.  It requires that we put down our posters, calm our vitriol and approach one another as humans. Unfortunately, my new community in ]]></description>
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		<title>An Obituary for Zionism</title>
		<link>http://jewneric.com/2011/11/an-obituary-for-zionism/</link>
		<comments>http://jewneric.com/2011/11/an-obituary-for-zionism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 16:40:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua Einstein</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jewish History]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[anti-Semitism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[enlightenment]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jewish nationalism]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://jewneric.com/?p=2215</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Zionism, born in the 1890&#8242;s, died today of natural causes. Zionism, which in its early years began a life long career championing self-determination and civil rights ended life a mostly sidelined and marginalized movement. Simultaneously a universal and particular movement, it attracted supporters from Jewish and non-Jewish circles, eventually building the liberal democratic Jewish state ]]></description>
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		<title>Non-Orthodox Rabbis and Israel</title>
		<link>http://jewneric.com/2011/11/non-orthodox-rabbis-and-israel/</link>
		<comments>http://jewneric.com/2011/11/non-orthodox-rabbis-and-israel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 12:30:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hadassah Levy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[american judaism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[conservative movement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jewish Education]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://jewneric.com/?p=2298</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I just read an absolutely shocking statistic: 12 percent of the Jewish Theological Seminary rabbinical students are &#8220;uncomfortable&#8221; with Israel&#8217;s being a &#8220;Jewish state&#8221;! One would have thought that Conservative rabbis would be strong supporters of Israel, but according to the study conducted by the Seminary and quoted by Elliot Jager in Jewish Ideas Daily, ]]></description>
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		<title>A Kardashian Peace in Israel</title>
		<link>http://jewneric.com/2011/11/a-kardashian-peace-in-israel/</link>
		<comments>http://jewneric.com/2011/11/a-kardashian-peace-in-israel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 18:50:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Weinberg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Humor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News & Current Events]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[kardashian]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[kim]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://jewneric.com/?p=2380</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[At Jewneric we can all enjoy and respect a good joke. In that light, I present Israel&#8217;s Peace Partners as measured in Kardashians. Bryan Forbes posted this neat little unit of measure calculator based on the length of Kim Kardashian&#8217;s recently ended marriage &#8211; 72 days. A “Kardashian” is a unit of measure representing 72 ]]></description>
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		<title>Playing to the Home Crowd: Netanyahu, Abbas, and Obama at the UN</title>
		<link>http://jewneric.com/2011/10/playing-to-the-home-crowd-netanyahu-abbas-and-obama-at-the-un/</link>
		<comments>http://jewneric.com/2011/10/playing-to-the-home-crowd-netanyahu-abbas-and-obama-at-the-un/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 15:59:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shawnruby</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News & Current Events]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[abbas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[middle east peace]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://jewneric.com/?p=2332</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I am not much of a sports fan, but I do know that a team that can only win at home will never be a champion. Unfortunately, it seems that the three leaders most important to achieving peace between Israelis and Palestinians &#8211; Netanyahu, Abbas and Obama, have all taken on a strategy of playing ]]></description>
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		<title>Video Travel Diary: A Road Trip Across Israel</title>
		<link>http://jewneric.com/2011/10/video-travel-diary-a-road-trip-across-israel/</link>
		<comments>http://jewneric.com/2011/10/video-travel-diary-a-road-trip-across-israel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 18:03:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Weinberg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Movies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[atlantic]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kasia Cieplak-Mayr von Baldegg of The Atlantic captures the essence of this fast-paced emotional travel diary of Israel, &#8220;This IsReal&#8221;.  In her subsequent interview of the director, Filmmaker Matthew Brown brings us into his world exposing us to his dichotomy of art vs reality. In one specific case, Brown filmed the Yom Hashoah siren in one of Israel&#8217;s busiest intersections, ]]></description>
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		<title>Free Gilad, Finally</title>
		<link>http://jewneric.com/2011/10/free-gilad-finally/</link>
		<comments>http://jewneric.com/2011/10/free-gilad-finally/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 16:14:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Samantha Vinokor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jewish Perspective]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Gilad Shalit]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[israeli soldier]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[kidnapped soldier]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[noam and aviva shalit]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[prisoner swap]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://jewneric.com/?p=2186</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For 1935 days, Noam and Aviva Shalit have lived in a state of uncertainty, fighting for their son who languished in Hamas captivity. For 1935 days, the government of the State of Israel worked to negotiate for the release of Gilad Shalit, who was captured by Hamas in a cross-border raid and held hostage in ]]></description>
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		<title>Taking Back Zionism</title>
		<link>http://jewneric.com/2011/10/taking-back-zionism/</link>
		<comments>http://jewneric.com/2011/10/taking-back-zionism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 17:05:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Samantha Vinokor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News & Current Events]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[anti israel]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://jewneric.com/?p=1585</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the last few weeks, various members of the global community have renewed their efforts to delegitimize Israel and call into question the legitimacy of Zionism as a movement. There has been an ongoing effort to take Zionism, which at its core is Jewish nationalism, and twist its meaning and intentions, distorting the term. Lack ]]></description>
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		<title>Rabbi and Former MK Chanan Porat Passes Away at 67</title>
		<link>http://jewneric.com/2011/10/rabbi-and-former-mk-chanan-porat-passes-away-at-67/</link>
		<comments>http://jewneric.com/2011/10/rabbi-and-former-mk-chanan-porat-passes-away-at-67/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2011 17:12:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hadassah Levy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Yeshiva]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[6 day war]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chanan porat channan porat]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://jewneric.com/?p=2089</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Rabbi Porat was born in 1943, in Kfar Pines, before the establishment of the state. In his youth, he studied at the Kerem B&#8217;Yavne and Merkaz Harav yeshivas. He served in the IDF as a paratrooper in the Six Day War. His brigade liberated the Temple Mount and its surroundings from the Jordanians. After the ]]></description>
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		<title>What’s Wrong with the Middle East?</title>
		<link>http://jewneric.com/2011/10/what%e2%80%99s-wrong-with-the-middle-east/</link>
		<comments>http://jewneric.com/2011/10/what%e2%80%99s-wrong-with-the-middle-east/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 17:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hadassah Levy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[jihad]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[kurds]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://jewneric.com/?p=1845</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We are constantly being told that the major problem of the Middle East is the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians. For those of us who follow this conflict closely, whether from Israel or abroad, this seems to be true. However, if you look at current events all over the Middle East (not just in ]]></description>
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		<title>The Rise and Fall of Israel on American College Campuses</title>
		<link>http://jewneric.com/2011/10/the-rise-and-fall-of-israel-on-american-campuses/</link>
		<comments>http://jewneric.com/2011/10/the-rise-and-fall-of-israel-on-american-campuses/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 12:05:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua Einstein</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Community]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jewish Community]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[liberal]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://jewneric.com/?p=1487</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The rise and fall of Israel on campus and the battle for Israel’s good in the media are a symptom of a disease, not the disease itself. The disease is what I like to call maintain-ism, that the community must maintain the perceived status quo at all costs. It is an attempt at the appeasement ]]></description>
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		<title>Feeling Safe, Surrounded by Hate</title>
		<link>http://jewneric.com/2011/09/feeling-safe-surrounded-by-hate/</link>
		<comments>http://jewneric.com/2011/09/feeling-safe-surrounded-by-hate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 12:40:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Gottlieb Shuter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aliyah]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Parenting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aliyah]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gush etzion]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://jewneric.com/?p=1595</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Let us be honest with ourselves: Israel is surrounded by neighbors that have waged repeated wars against it. Israel’s citizens have been killed by rockets fired at their houses and suicide bombs on their buses. Israel’s children come of age knowing that throughout the region, other children are taught to hate them. Israel, a small ]]></description>
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		<title>Palestinian Refugees Not Palestinian Enough?</title>
		<link>http://jewneric.com/2011/09/palestinian-refugees-not-palestinian-enough/</link>
		<comments>http://jewneric.com/2011/09/palestinian-refugees-not-palestinian-enough/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 21:53:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shoshana Kessock</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News & Current Events]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Abdullah Abdullah]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gaza]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[palestinian citizenship]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[palestinian refugees]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Palestinian Statehood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Palestinian terrorism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PLO]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://jewneric.com/?p=1803</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In a shocking move, PLO Ambassador to Lebanon Abdullah Abdullah announced in the Lebanese Daily Star last week that Palestinian refugees shall not be offered citizenship in the newly proposed Palestinian state. Stated Abdullah: &#8220;They are Palestinians, that&#8217;s their identity. But… they are not automatically citizens.&#8221; The fate of these Palestinians would remain the purview ]]></description>
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		<title>Thriving on Turmoil, a TEDxTelAviv production</title>
		<link>http://jewneric.com/2010/04/thriving-on-turmoil-a-tedxtelaviv-production/</link>
		<comments>http://jewneric.com/2010/04/thriving-on-turmoil-a-tedxtelaviv-production/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2010 13:13:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Natan Edelsburg</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.jewneric.com/?p=1410</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Israel is now officially 62 years old. While the Israeli banks were extremely prepared for the economic turmoil America caused and while Israeli start-ups continue to become major players in video innovation, mobile innovation and more the worldwide headlines Israel receives in the media are still depressingly dreary. Iran and their nuclear arsenal, Bibi ]]></description>
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		<title>AIPAC 2010: Early Reflections</title>
		<link>http://jewneric.com/2010/03/aipac-2010-early-reflections/</link>
		<comments>http://jewneric.com/2010/03/aipac-2010-early-reflections/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 01:16:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Weinberg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conferences]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This morning I had the annual pleasure of attending the American Israel Public Affairs Committee's (AIPAC) Policy Conference held in the Washington, DC convention center]]></description>
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