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		<title>The Pale God: An Inadequate Idea For Liberal Democracy</title>
		<link>http://jewneric.com/2012/03/the-pale-god-an-inadequate-idea-for-liberal-democracy/</link>
		<comments>http://jewneric.com/2012/03/the-pale-god-an-inadequate-idea-for-liberal-democracy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2012 13:03:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David J. Fryman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Aryeh Tepper]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pin It Aryeh Tepper reviews The Pale God: Israeli Secularism and Spinoza&#8217;s Philosophy of Culture for Jewish Ideas Daily. Katz argues (as Tepper paraphrases) that secular Israeli Jewry has come to embrace a notion of God &#8220;not as a stern judge smiting sinners from on high with his cosmic zap-gun, but as a grandfatherly figure ]]></description>
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		<title>Questions for the Jewish Future</title>
		<link>http://jewneric.com/2012/03/questions-for-the-jewish-future/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Mar 2012 15:42:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua Einstein</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://jewneric.com/?p=2992</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Pin It Though reports of the demise of America are greatly exaggerated the world is still at a crossroads. We are living in the age of democratization of the nuclear bomb, the rise of autocratic China, and the retreat of the West. At home, we have gone through 4 years of a Democratic President focused ]]></description>
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		<title>A Republican Jew on Progressive Jews, Israel, and the American Jewish Community</title>
		<link>http://jewneric.com/2012/03/a-republican-jew-on-progressive-jews-israel-and-the-american-jewish-community/</link>
		<comments>http://jewneric.com/2012/03/a-republican-jew-on-progressive-jews-israel-and-the-american-jewish-community/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Mar 2012 21:59:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua Einstein</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aliyah]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://jewneric.com/?p=2962</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Pin It As a Republican Jew I often find myself in the minority. As someone who is deeply involved in Jewish life this happens quite often. Yet when it comes to Israel, I find affiliated Jewry, especially those identified as liberal, becomes lackluster in their commitment to classical liberal values. This is not a clarion ]]></description>
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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>
		<comments>http://jewneric.com/2012/01/the-small-voice-of-moderation-in-bet-shemesh/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 17:45:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jon Burg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aliyah]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://jewneric.com/?p=2831</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Pin It In The Year Of The Protester, we used theÂ hashtagÂ and we mimed the slogan to great effect. Â But real change takes more than a slogan. Â It takes dialog. Â It takes understanding. Â It demands maturity. Â It requires that we put down our posters, calm our vitriol and approach one another as humans. Unfortunately, my new ]]></description>
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		<title>Tebowing as Political Metaphor</title>
		<link>http://jewneric.com/2011/12/tebowing-as-political-metaphor/</link>
		<comments>http://jewneric.com/2011/12/tebowing-as-political-metaphor/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Dec 2011 15:15:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David J. Fryman</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://jewneric.com/?p=2565</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Pin It In an otherwise unremarkable article about the controversy over Denver Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow&#8217;s public displays of religiosity, a quote from Gary Ebersole, a University of Missouri-Kansas City professor, struck me as particularly relevant to a broader issue. &#8220;[Tebow's] detractors suggested that he keep his beliefs to himself, or at least away from ]]></description>
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		<title>Judaism, Democracy, and Public Reason</title>
		<link>http://jewneric.com/2011/11/judaism-democracy-and-public-reason/</link>
		<comments>http://jewneric.com/2011/11/judaism-democracy-and-public-reason/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 13:30:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David J. Fryman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Judaism]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://jewneric.com/?p=1954</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Pin It The appropriate role of religion in American political discourse is a debate older than the Constitution itself. It predictably recurs whenever a politician or celebrity invokes or insults religion (or doesn&#8217;t invoke or insult religion). Not surprisingly, it&#8217;s already come up several times in this election season. Two months ago, David Weprin&#8217;s vote ]]></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>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://jewneric.com/?p=2215</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Pin It 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 ]]></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>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://jewneric.com/?p=2298</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Pin It 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 ]]></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>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://jewneric.com/?p=2332</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Pin It 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 ]]></description>
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		<title>Occupy Wall Street and Anti-Semetism &#8211; A Forum For All Comers</title>
		<link>http://jewneric.com/2011/10/occupy-wall-street-and-anti-semetism-a-forum-for-all-comers/</link>
		<comments>http://jewneric.com/2011/10/occupy-wall-street-and-anti-semetism-a-forum-for-all-comers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 13:17:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shoshana Kessock</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://jewneric.com/?p=2206</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Pin It With the dawning notion reaching the media that a giant protest sitting right in the middle of the Wall Street Financial District is something they ought to pay attention to, people are starting to wake up and realize that Occupy Wall Street is not going anywhere. The movement is beginning to get a ]]></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>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://jewneric.com/?p=1585</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Pin It 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 ]]></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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://jewneric.com/?p=2089</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Pin It 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. ]]></description>
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		<title>Whatâ€™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>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://jewneric.com/?p=1845</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Pin It 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 ]]></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>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.jewneric.com/?p=1375</guid>
		<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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		<title>After 20 years, AIPAC is still behind the curve on how to use the Internet</title>
		<link>http://jewneric.com/2010/01/after-20-years-aipac-is-still-behind-the-curve-on-how-to-use-the-internet/</link>
		<comments>http://jewneric.com/2010/01/after-20-years-aipac-is-still-behind-the-curve-on-how-to-use-the-internet/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 16:10:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Kamens</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.jewneric.com/?p=1257</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Pin It Around twenty years ago when I was at MIT, I spent far more hours than I care to contemplate combating anti-Semitic, anti-Zionist and anti-Israel propaganda on Usenet. This was back before the Web took off, and Usenet was the happening place for bigots, racists and nutjobs of all sort to spread their filth ]]></description>
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