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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>
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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>Jewish Relativity, Revisited</title>
		<link>http://jewneric.com/2012/01/jewish-relativity-revisited/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 09:26:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Fryman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fellow Jewneric blogger, Joshua Einstein, writes about a common argument made by Jewish outreach organizations: “the secular world is morally relative and adrift” and only religion provides &#8220;moral constancy&#8221;. Josh argues that “the claim of moral constancy” is false. “Morality in Judaism has been an ever evolving notion, something relative to the times.” Moreover, Judaism’s ]]></description>
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		<title>Jewish Relativity</title>
		<link>http://jewneric.com/2012/01/jewish-relativity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 14:55:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua Einstein</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Religious leaders often posit that the secular world is morally relative and adrift. The changing and metastasizing values of the larger world are no doubt foreboding and challenging but it begs the question: Is Judaism really morally constant? Specifically if we are to look at the Tanach, not as one would logically do so – ]]></description>
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		<title>Jew in the City wonders…do God and science have chemistry?</title>
		<link>http://jewneric.com/2011/11/jew-in-the-city-wonders-do-god-and-science-have-chemistry/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 14:52:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jessica Hoffman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“I couldn’t help but wonder…” Sound familiar? It may be Carrie’s popular phrase of wonderment on Sex and the City, but way before the popular series hit HBO, Allison Josephs was a child who couldn’t help but wonder herself. About spirituality and Judaism, that is. Now her popular website www.JewintheCity.com answers questions that may as ]]></description>
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		<title>Free Gilad, Finally</title>
		<link>http://jewneric.com/2011/10/free-gilad-finally/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 16:14:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Samantha Vinokor</dc:creator>
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		<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>Is Blogging Good for the Jews?</title>
		<link>http://jewneric.com/2011/10/is-blogging-good-for-the-jews/</link>
		<comments>http://jewneric.com/2011/10/is-blogging-good-for-the-jews/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jon Burg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two weeks ago I received a number of frantic phone calls and messages.  A well-trafficked Jewish blog published a story that was factually untrue.  The ignorance and hatred in the comments were highly offensive to those engaged in this episode.  As one of the resident &#8220;social media&#8221; guys in the neighborhood I was called upon ]]></description>
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		<title>Reading, ‘Riting, and ‘Rithmetic in Retrospect, Part III: Bad Timing</title>
		<link>http://jewneric.com/2010/02/reading-%e2%80%98riting-and-%e2%80%98rithmetic-in-retrospect-part-iii-bad-timing/</link>
		<comments>http://jewneric.com/2010/02/reading-%e2%80%98riting-and-%e2%80%98rithmetic-in-retrospect-part-iii-bad-timing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 19:58:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Moshe Glasser</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week, let’s attack something a little more mundane: scheduling of the school day]]></description>
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		<title>Reading, ‘Riting, and ‘Rithmetic in Retrospect, Part II: No Literature Created Equal</title>
		<link>http://jewneric.com/2010/02/reading-%e2%80%98riting-and-%e2%80%98rithmetic-in-retrospect-part-ii-no-literature-created-equal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:17:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Moshe Glasser</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An Analysis of the Clashes Between Judaic and Secular Studies in the Jewish Day School In the time since Part I of this series appeared, I have been through yet another round of finals, proctoring, lesson planning, and report cards. Enduring the struggle to construct meaningful and relevant lessons for the coming semester while teaching ]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Acts&#8221; of Charity</title>
		<link>http://jewneric.com/2010/01/acts-of-charity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 23:15:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zechariah Mehler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At a small shul in an affluent neighborhood in Chicago there is a battered silver tzidakah box that sits in the main sanctuary. Every week the tzidakah box is brought into the Rabbis&#8217; office and the contents are counted and transferred into a letter sized envelope that is yellowing with age. Because the shul is ]]></description>
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		<title>Reading, ‘Riting, and ‘Rithmetic in Retrospect, Part I: Introduction</title>
		<link>http://jewneric.com/2009/12/reading-%e2%80%98riting-and-%e2%80%98rithmetic-in-retrospect-part-i-introduction/</link>
		<comments>http://jewneric.com/2009/12/reading-%e2%80%98riting-and-%e2%80%98rithmetic-in-retrospect-part-i-introduction/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 07:05:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Moshe Glasser</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An Analysis of the Clashes Between Judaic and Secular Studies in the Jewish Day School I am not unique. But I am in a very select club, one that has been an endangered species for many years. Specifically, I am an American Orthodox Jewish Male Secular Studies Teacher, recognizable by my prominent yarmulke, BA in ]]></description>
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		<title>The Symbolism of a Diamond Dreidel</title>
		<link>http://jewneric.com/2009/12/the-symbolism-of-a-diamond-dreidel/</link>
		<comments>http://jewneric.com/2009/12/the-symbolism-of-a-diamond-dreidel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 01:48:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Weinberg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Monday, Mervis Diamond Importers unveiled the world first ever Diamond Dreidel. When I saw this piece of Judaica, I first thought about what a Dreidel meant to me, followed by the thought of how much more meaningful a Diamond Dreidel could be. The Hebrew letters on the Dreidel represent the different parts of life ]]></description>
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		<title>Washington Jewish Federation Closes Its Doors on Fridays</title>
		<link>http://jewneric.com/2009/08/washington-jewish-federation-closes-its-doors-on-fridays/</link>
		<comments>http://jewneric.com/2009/08/washington-jewish-federation-closes-its-doors-on-fridays/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 20:10:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Weinberg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In what must have been a very difficult yet ultimately responsible decision, the Greater Washington Jewish Federation has announced that it will be officially closing its offices each Friday starting October 1st. I say Bravo. If the Federation can cut its costs for now in this way, then it can keep the many people doing ]]></description>
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		<title>Who Hates Who?</title>
		<link>http://jewneric.com/2009/01/995/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2009 00:01:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Yehoshua Karsh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following is a letter to the editor of an imaginary paper that would only be read by people who understand that I mean well, and who know that I write this as a humble teacher moved to teach: Dear Editor: If a friend of yours confided that she had several relationships with men all ]]></description>
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		<title>An Olah Without a Parachute XII</title>
		<link>http://jewneric.com/2009/01/an-olah-without-a-parachute-xii/</link>
		<comments>http://jewneric.com/2009/01/an-olah-without-a-parachute-xii/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2009 13:19:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eliana Rudolph</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a war going on in our country. Fathers, brothers, sons, cousins and friends are leaving their families to go fight this war.  The people left behind remain worried, nervous and on edge.  They brace for the worst and pray for the best. Wars are different when your life is touched by it &#8211; ]]></description>
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		<title>Bad Karma?</title>
		<link>http://jewneric.com/2009/01/bad-karma/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 05:18:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Yehoshua Karsh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is it possible that even when you do the right thing it will bring you negative consequences? Imagine that your Aunt walks into the room, this is the first time you have seen her since she became ill. She looks gaunt and pail, but you want to cheer her up so you tell her that ]]></description>
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