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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>
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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>Tebowing as Political Metaphor</title>
		<link>http://jewneric.com/2011/12/tebowing-as-political-metaphor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Dec 2011 15:15:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Fryman</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://jewneric.com/?p=2565</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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 sports. &#8220;In ]]></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 Fryman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Judaism]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://jewneric.com/?p=1954</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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 for same-sex ]]></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>
		<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>
		<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>
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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>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[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>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[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 forum for ]]></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>
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		<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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		<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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		<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>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[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 and lies. ]]></description>
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		<title>Why I’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[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 have got ]]></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>
				<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://jewneric.com/?p=986</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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. “Why are we doing this?” she said. “Can’t we pull them all out now?” My first ]]></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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		<description><![CDATA[Stepping into one of the sleek and shiny new light rail vehicles set to zip through Jerusalem in the next year and a half, it’s hard to imagine the controversy the system’s roll out has engendered. CityPass, the international corporation that is building and operating the Jerusalem light rail system, recently opened the doors to ]]></description>
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