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		<title>Jerusalem: December 24</title>
		<link>http://jewishwritingproject.wordpress.com/2009/12/21/jerusalem-december-24/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 14:35:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Black</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Being Jewish at Christmas]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Cherryl Smith (El Cerrito, CA)
I’m wheeling my new rolling cart out of the supermarket on HaPalmach on Christmas Eve, strolling past Bank Hapoalim, which looks pretty crowded, and congratulating myself on the purchase of the brown and white checkered shopping cart that makes the seven block trek back to our apartment on Rechov Alkalai [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jewishwritingproject.wordpress.com&blog=5051302&post=500&subd=jewishwritingproject&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Two year anniversary since my father died….</title>
		<link>http://jewishwritingproject.wordpress.com/2009/12/14/two-year-anniversary-since-my-father-died%e2%80%a6/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 14:13:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Black</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[l'dor v'dor]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Linda Cohen (Portland, OR)
After Linda&#8217;s father died in December 2006, she began her blog, 1000 mitzvahs, as a way to move through the grief that she was feeling at that time. “It has proved to be a transforming experience both for myself and my family,” she writes. “This mitzvah project has allowed us opportunities [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jewishwritingproject.wordpress.com&blog=5051302&post=496&subd=jewishwritingproject&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Following the Lead of My Radical Foremothers</title>
		<link>http://jewishwritingproject.wordpress.com/2009/12/07/following-the-lead-of-my-radical-foremothers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 12:51:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Black</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Jewish writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Judaism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[feminism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jewish identity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[women's history]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[by Dina Ripsman Eylon (Thornhill, Ontario, Canada)
The idea to start an academic journal on Jewish women came to me while researching the lives of Rachel Yanait Ben Zvi, Mania Shochat and Netiva Ben Yehuda for an article on women in the military in pre-state Israel. I realized that despite the fact that these women were [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jewishwritingproject.wordpress.com&blog=5051302&post=484&subd=jewishwritingproject&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The World&#8217;s Oldest&#8230;Question</title>
		<link>http://jewishwritingproject.wordpress.com/2009/11/30/the-worlds-oldest-question/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 13:14:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Black</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[American Jewry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jewish identity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ukrainian Jewry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[agnostic]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[by Irina Tsukerman (Brooklyn, NY)
&#8230;is &#8220;Who am I?&#8221; In my case, it means who am I as a Jew. Am I even a Jew? My ethnic identity and my religious identity should be one and the same, because all Jews, as a people, are supposed to follow certain religious prescriptions (many of which indeed sound [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jewishwritingproject.wordpress.com&blog=5051302&post=442&subd=jewishwritingproject&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Our Hairy Jewish Bodies, Ourselves</title>
		<link>http://jewishwritingproject.wordpress.com/2009/11/23/our-hairy-jewish-bodies-ourselves/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:13:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Black</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[American Jewry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jewish identity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jewish hair]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jewish men]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Van “Zev” Wallach (Stamford, CT)
Let’s not beat around the bush. I’m that hairy Jewish guy, built more like Esau than Jacob, who comics and cartoonists love to lampoon. While I’m bald on top, genetics compensated me with swirls of fur everywhere else: arms, legs, shoulders and back. I’d be a terrible criminal because I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jewishwritingproject.wordpress.com&blog=5051302&post=426&subd=jewishwritingproject&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Pui Factor</title>
		<link>http://jewishwritingproject.wordpress.com/2009/11/16/the-pui-factor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:07:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Black</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[American Jewry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Family history]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jewish humor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[superstition]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[by Ferida Wolff (Cherry Hill, NJ)
Half my family rails against superstition; the other half spits. Pui, pui, pui.
Mention that you are feeling well, thank you, and the spitting starts.
Just say that you had a good day on the stock market and you are bound to get pui, pui, pui.
Announce that your career is on the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jewishwritingproject.wordpress.com&blog=5051302&post=414&subd=jewishwritingproject&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Small Rescue</title>
		<link>http://jewishwritingproject.wordpress.com/2009/11/09/a-small-rescue/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Black</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[American Jewry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[European Jewry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[anti-Semitism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Holocaust]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kristallnacht]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rescued Torah]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Mimi Schwartz (Princeton, NJ)
November, 8, 1938 :  Some villagers smelled smoke wafting through the windows. Someone heard Mrs. Lowenstein shouting, “Our synagogue is burning. Please, help!” But the street in this little Black Forest village remained silent. Only one voice was heard, a man man shouting: Stay inside and shut the curtains! And people [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jewishwritingproject.wordpress.com&blog=5051302&post=468&subd=jewishwritingproject&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Remembrance of a Shabbos Past</title>
		<link>http://jewishwritingproject.wordpress.com/2009/11/02/remembrance-of-a-shabbos-past/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:53:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Black</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[davening]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[grief]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Robert J. Avrech (Los Angeles, CA)
The arrival of Shabbos is a time of awe and delight for observant Jews.
The Kabbalists in Safed used to dress in white and singing with joy they would greet the Sabbath Bride in the mountains.
Here in Pico Robertson, Los Angeles, we too greet the Sabbath albeit with a less [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jewishwritingproject.wordpress.com&blog=5051302&post=444&subd=jewishwritingproject&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Stepping Stones</title>
		<link>http://jewishwritingproject.wordpress.com/2009/10/26/stepping-stones/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 10:39:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Black</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jewish identity]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[by David Bogner (Efrat, Israel)
While we were in the U.S. this past August, I spent quite a bit of time browsing bookshops. The English language book selection isn’t terrible in big Israeli cities like Tel Aviv or Jerusalem… but there is something about wandering into a really well stocked bookstore with no plan other than [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jewishwritingproject.wordpress.com&blog=5051302&post=431&subd=jewishwritingproject&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Deep and Complicated Love for Israel</title>
		<link>http://jewishwritingproject.wordpress.com/2009/10/19/a-deep-and-complicated-love-for-israel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 12:59:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Black</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Julie Roth (Princeton, NJ)
First Day of Rosh Hashanah, 5770/2009
I speak this morning out of a deep and complicated love for the State of Israel.
I first fell in love with Israel when I was 16 years old, traveling on an arts program for seven weeks.  I remember the tangible feeling of ancient history coming alive [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jewishwritingproject.wordpress.com&blog=5051302&post=454&subd=jewishwritingproject&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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