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		<title>Union Square Chess</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2013 11:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Black</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[dialogue with God]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Mel Glenn (Brooklyn, NY) &#8220;Sit down, son, and play a game of chess.&#8221; &#8220;I&#8217;m not very good at it.&#8221; &#8220;This is not a tournament, just a game.&#8221; &#8220;Of chess?&#8221; &#8220;No, of life.&#8221; &#8220;I seemed to have forgotten basic strategy.&#8221; &#8230; <a href="http://jewishwritingproject.wordpress.com/2013/04/08/union-square-chess/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jewishwritingproject.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5051302&#038;post=1478&#038;subd=jewishwritingproject&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Teenagers and Interfaith Dating</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2013 13:38:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Black</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[American Jewry]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Amy Krakovitz (Charlotte, NC) Here’s my guilt and my joy: my husband isn’t Jewish. And yet we’ve made a wonderful life together for 35 years. We have two grown sons, and I love him more today than I did &#8230; <a href="http://jewishwritingproject.wordpress.com/2013/04/01/teenagers-and-interfaith-dating/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jewishwritingproject.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5051302&#038;post=1468&#038;subd=jewishwritingproject&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Passover Reminiscence</title>
		<link>http://jewishwritingproject.wordpress.com/2013/03/25/passover-reminiscence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2013 11:11:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Black</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Family history]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Janice L. Booker (Malibu, CA) We bought spring clothes for Passover and fall clothes for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, the high holidays.  The weather seemed always too cold for the new Passover clothes and too hot for the &#8230; <a href="http://jewishwritingproject.wordpress.com/2013/03/25/passover-reminiscence/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jewishwritingproject.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5051302&#038;post=1464&#038;subd=jewishwritingproject&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Questions &amp; Answers: An Interview with Bruce Black</title>
		<link>http://jewishwritingproject.wordpress.com/2013/03/18/questions-answers-an-interview-with-bruce-black/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2013 12:55:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Black</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[American Jewry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jewish writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[writing practice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[being Jewish]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Karen Blum, editor of The Tulsa Jewish Review Bruce Black created the Jewish Writing Project, a repository of stories and poems submitted by a variety of writers as an expression of their Jewishness, and as it turns out, ours. What &#8230; <a href="http://jewishwritingproject.wordpress.com/2013/03/18/questions-answers-an-interview-with-bruce-black/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jewishwritingproject.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5051302&#038;post=1399&#038;subd=jewishwritingproject&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Crash Victim&#8217;s Father</title>
		<link>http://jewishwritingproject.wordpress.com/2013/03/11/crash-victims-father/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Mar 2013 13:03:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Black</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[poetry]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Mel Glenn (Brooklyn, NY) &#8220;God is punishing me for my sins.&#8221; Oh, father, are you sure? Or is this your valiant attempt to understand what cannot be understood? A daughter is dead, so is a son, as is, tragically, &#8230; <a href="http://jewishwritingproject.wordpress.com/2013/03/11/crash-victims-father/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jewishwritingproject.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5051302&#038;post=1451&#038;subd=jewishwritingproject&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Jewish Identity: A Round-Trip Journey</title>
		<link>http://jewishwritingproject.wordpress.com/2013/03/04/jewish-identity-a-round-trip-journey/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Mar 2013 14:17:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Black</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[American Jewry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[German Jewry]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[assimilation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bat mitzvah]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[institutionalized Judaism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[synagogue life]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[by Donna Swarthout (Bozeman, MT) A life-long discomfort with institutionalized Judaism is hard to shed once you reach the mid-life years. Sure, it’s great to keep an open mind, but there’s also the sense of not wanting to waste time &#8230; <a href="http://jewishwritingproject.wordpress.com/2013/03/04/jewish-identity-a-round-trip-journey/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jewishwritingproject.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5051302&#038;post=1428&#038;subd=jewishwritingproject&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Passing Along a New Tradition</title>
		<link>http://jewishwritingproject.wordpress.com/2013/02/25/passing-along-a-new-tradition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2013 14:19:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Black</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[American Jewry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[daughters and fathers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mourning rituals]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Ferida Wolff (Cherry Hill, NJ) I have paid many shiva calls, the Jewish visit of condolence, over the years so I’m aware of the general customs that prevail: enter the house without knocking, let the mourner initiate conversation, bring &#8230; <a href="http://jewishwritingproject.wordpress.com/2013/02/25/passing-along-a-new-tradition/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jewishwritingproject.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5051302&#038;post=1442&#038;subd=jewishwritingproject&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Crosses on the Wall</title>
		<link>http://jewishwritingproject.wordpress.com/2013/02/18/crosses-on-the-wall/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2013 12:35:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Black</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Mel Glenn (Brooklyn, NY) My father sent me to Hebrew school, where mournful prayers kept me a prisoner, preventing me from playing first base for my beloved Little League team. On the High Holidays, I dreaded wearing my wool &#8230; <a href="http://jewishwritingproject.wordpress.com/2013/02/18/crosses-on-the-wall/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jewishwritingproject.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5051302&#038;post=1234&#038;subd=jewishwritingproject&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Shabbat in the House on Saturn Street</title>
		<link>http://jewishwritingproject.wordpress.com/2013/02/11/shabbat-in-the-house-on-saturn-street/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2013 14:03:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Black</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by  Bonnie Widerman (Irvine, CA) When I was very young, my parents would drop me off on a Friday night at my Auntie Ann’s house in the heart of the very Jewish Pico-Robertson area of Los Angeles and go off &#8230; <a href="http://jewishwritingproject.wordpress.com/2013/02/11/shabbat-in-the-house-on-saturn-street/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jewishwritingproject.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5051302&#038;post=1434&#038;subd=jewishwritingproject&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Going Through the Motions</title>
		<link>http://jewishwritingproject.wordpress.com/2013/02/04/going-through-the-motions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2013 11:58:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Black</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Janet Ruth Falon (Elkins Park, PA) When you stand, I stand When you sit, I sit When you bow, I bend a tiny little bit When you lift yourselves up to kadosh, kadosh, kadosh I watch and when you &#8230; <a href="http://jewishwritingproject.wordpress.com/2013/02/04/going-through-the-motions/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jewishwritingproject.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5051302&#038;post=1025&#038;subd=jewishwritingproject&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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