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		<title>A Woman of Valor, Who Can Find?</title>
		<link>http://jewishwritingproject.wordpress.com/2012/01/23/a-woman-of-valor-who-can-find/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:11:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Black</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Rachel Roberts (San Jose, CA) She is old and young all at once. She carries centuries and a language no longer spoken in a stewpot fastened to her back, with a ladle to draw deep, as she smiles, only &#8230; <a href="http://jewishwritingproject.wordpress.com/2012/01/23/a-woman-of-valor-who-can-find/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jewishwritingproject.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5051302&amp;post=1089&amp;subd=jewishwritingproject&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In Search of a Baal Shem</title>
		<link>http://jewishwritingproject.wordpress.com/2012/01/16/in-search-of-a-baal-shem/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 14:43:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Black</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Ellen Norman Stern (Willow Grove,PA) I never heard her call him the “Baal Shem of Michelstadt.” Instead my grandmother spoke of “Rebbe Seckel Loeb Wormser” as a “Wundermann,” a miracle-worker. My first real memory of him is connected to &#8230; <a href="http://jewishwritingproject.wordpress.com/2012/01/16/in-search-of-a-baal-shem/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jewishwritingproject.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5051302&amp;post=1076&amp;subd=jewishwritingproject&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>You Can’t Have Enough Good Luck</title>
		<link>http://jewishwritingproject.wordpress.com/2012/01/09/you-cant-have-enough-good-luck/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 13:41:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Black</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Harriet Kessler (Woodbury Heights, NJ) I’m fond of hamsas. I have a ceramic hamsa on both my office and kitchen walls, and I have several silver hamsa pendants on chains that I wear around my neck. Most were bought &#8230; <a href="http://jewishwritingproject.wordpress.com/2012/01/09/you-cant-have-enough-good-luck/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jewishwritingproject.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5051302&amp;post=1079&amp;subd=jewishwritingproject&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My New Year</title>
		<link>http://jewishwritingproject.wordpress.com/2012/01/02/my-new-year/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 14:44:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Black</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Janet Ruth Falon (Elkins Park, PA) January first doesn&#8217;t feel like my new year even though it&#8217;s time for fresh calendars, and melancholy after-Christmas sales, and bracing for icy winter, and wishing beyond, and starting from zero in Blue Cross &#8230; <a href="http://jewishwritingproject.wordpress.com/2012/01/02/my-new-year/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jewishwritingproject.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5051302&amp;post=1022&amp;subd=jewishwritingproject&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bubby&#8217;s Menorah</title>
		<link>http://jewishwritingproject.wordpress.com/2011/12/26/bubbys-menorah/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2011 14:48:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Black</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Janet Ruth Falon (Elkins Park, PA) I never scrape off the melted wax on my mother&#8217;s mother&#8217;s menorah. I like the layers of color and the textures of time and underneath, the tarnish of greying age. My mother, when &#8230; <a href="http://jewishwritingproject.wordpress.com/2011/12/26/bubbys-menorah/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jewishwritingproject.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5051302&amp;post=1084&amp;subd=jewishwritingproject&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Irene</title>
		<link>http://jewishwritingproject.wordpress.com/2011/12/19/irene/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 13:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Black</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[God's power]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nature]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[by Mel Glenn (Brooklyn, NY) I obsess about my daily concerns, as if they were matters of great importance, debating if this or that choice makes much of a difference in the overall scheme of things. I wonder if people &#8230; <a href="http://jewishwritingproject.wordpress.com/2011/12/19/irene/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jewishwritingproject.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5051302&amp;post=1009&amp;subd=jewishwritingproject&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The First REAL Connection!</title>
		<link>http://jewishwritingproject.wordpress.com/2011/12/12/the-first-real-connection/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 13:35:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Black</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Cheri Scheff Levitan (Atlanta, GA) Filling in bits and pieces of the Sheff Family Tree has become a daily activity. I easily spend an average of 2 hours each weeknight — and goodness knows how much time on the &#8230; <a href="http://jewishwritingproject.wordpress.com/2011/12/12/the-first-real-connection/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jewishwritingproject.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5051302&amp;post=1067&amp;subd=jewishwritingproject&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In the Beginning</title>
		<link>http://jewishwritingproject.wordpress.com/2011/12/05/in-the-beginning/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 14:21:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Black</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Arlyn Miller (Glencoe, IL) Don’t Call it Night The Hill of Evil Council Falls the Shadow The Unloved Heir to the Glimmering World. Inside, Outside - The Winds of War Everyman The Human Stain, A God In Ruins. Exit &#8230; <a href="http://jewishwritingproject.wordpress.com/2011/12/05/in-the-beginning/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jewishwritingproject.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5051302&amp;post=1054&amp;subd=jewishwritingproject&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>View  from a (non-) Jew</title>
		<link>http://jewishwritingproject.wordpress.com/2011/11/28/view-from-a-non-jew/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 14:32:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Black</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Tammy Bleck (Oak Park, CA) During the twenty-five years that I was married to a Jewish man, I was often called an honorary Jew. I&#8217;m not exactly sure why. In all those years my husband never attended Temple or &#8230; <a href="http://jewishwritingproject.wordpress.com/2011/11/28/view-from-a-non-jew/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jewishwritingproject.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5051302&amp;post=1050&amp;subd=jewishwritingproject&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Creativity</title>
		<link>http://jewishwritingproject.wordpress.com/2011/11/21/on-creativity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 13:29:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Black</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Mel Glenn (Brooklyn, NY) Dribbling my pen in the poetic backcourt, I am urged by my Cosmic Coach &#8220;to let the game come to you. Creativity is such a fickle bounce of the ball; you can&#8217;t force your shots. &#8230; <a href="http://jewishwritingproject.wordpress.com/2011/11/21/on-creativity/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jewishwritingproject.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5051302&amp;post=908&amp;subd=jewishwritingproject&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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