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	<title>   Shir Chadash : : Conservative Congregation : : Metairie, LA</title>
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		<title>Does The Wall Street Journal Read An Alternate Universe Version of My Blog?</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/does-the-wall-street-journal-read-an-alternate-universe-version-of-my-blog/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/does-the-wall-street-journal-read-an-alternate-universe-version-of-my-blog/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2013 01:04:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I would never be so bold as to suggest than anyone actually reads the things I write, but I have to say, last week’s front page story in The Wall Street Journal felt like, as one of my friends put &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/does-the-wall-street-journal-read-an-alternate-universe-version-of-my-blog/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Women of the Wall, Civil Rights and Making Change</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/women-of-the-wall-civil-rights-and-making-change/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/women-of-the-wall-civil-rights-and-making-change/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2013 18:49:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A while back, I wrote a post about how women wishing to ride anywhere they liked on Israeli buses was not, in fact, analogous to the situation faced by Civil Rights pioneers like Rosa Parks, despite the superficial similarities.  My &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/women-of-the-wall-civil-rights-and-making-change/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Dying Elephants</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/dying-elephants/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2013 17:42:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conservative Judaism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jewish world]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If there is one thing that drives me crazy in the American Jewish press, and to some extent about the non-Jewish press when it writes about Jews, it is the veneration of all things new and edgy, and the denigration &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/dying-elephants/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Ira Glass Explains How to Get Good at Sermonizing</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/ira-glass-explains-how-to-get-good-at-sermonizing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/ira-glass-explains-how-to-get-good-at-sermonizing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2013 21:05:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not really, but I think this video does speak to something I have been thinking about regarding the practice of speaking in front of group regularly on the topic of Torah. I often get asked about giving divrei Torah (sermons), &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/ira-glass-explains-how-to-get-good-at-sermonizing/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Django Unchained, The Untouchables, Zero Dark Thirty and Some Thoughts about Violence</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/django-unchained-the-untouchables-zero-dark-thirty-and-some-thoughts-about-violence/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/django-unchained-the-untouchables-zero-dark-thirty-and-some-thoughts-about-violence/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2013 20:29:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Current Events]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Movie Reviews]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.shirchadash.org/?p=3525</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I know I haven’t blogged in a (long) while, but I figured instead of coming up with a whole bunch of totally false excuses, I would just jump back in with a post so long that people will forget I &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/django-unchained-the-untouchables-zero-dark-thirty-and-some-thoughts-about-violence/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>5 Election Watching Rules I Live By</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/5-election-watching-rules-i-live-by/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/5-election-watching-rules-i-live-by/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jun 2012 16:29:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Current Events]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[election 2012]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[president]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 2012 Presidential Election is upon us (and in some ways has been since November of 2010 or even since November of 2008).  I am a rather voracious news consumer, but I am—when it comes to politics—decidedly an amateur.  That &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/5-election-watching-rules-i-live-by/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Virtual Book Club: Crisis of Zionism Chapter 7</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/virtual-book-club-crisis-of-zionism-chapter-7/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/virtual-book-club-crisis-of-zionism-chapter-7/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jun 2012 19:11:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Peter Beinart]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.shirchadash.org/?p=3372</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes, reading The Crisis of Zionism, it hard to tell with whom Peter Beinart is more disappointed: Israel, American Jewish institutions, or Barak Obama.  This chapter begins and ends with Barak Obama backing down in the face of determined Israeli &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/virtual-book-club-crisis-of-zionism-chapter-7/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Totally Unsurpising News of the Day&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/totally-unsurpising-news-of-the-day/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/totally-unsurpising-news-of-the-day/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jun 2012 13:31:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conservative Judaism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[israel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[israel pluralism]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.shirchadash.org/?p=3368</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It seems Haredi Knesset members aren&#8217;t that thrilled about the State&#8217;s decision (as ordered by the Supreme Court) to begin funding non-Orthodox rabbis, just as the State as been funding Orthodox rabbis and institutions for over sixty years. The head &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/totally-unsurpising-news-of-the-day/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>I Was Right About Koach Threat</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/i-was-right-about-koach-threat/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/i-was-right-about-koach-threat/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jun 2012 19:55:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conservative Judaism]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.shirchadash.org/?p=3365</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A few days ago, responding to a &#8220;leaked&#8221; report that Koach was going to be zeroed out in the USCJ budget, I wrote the following: One more observation:  it’s possible that this whole “leak” is a way to raise some &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/i-was-right-about-koach-threat/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Virtual Book Club Crisis of Zionism Chapter Six</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/virtual-book-club-crisis-of-zionism-chapter-six/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/virtual-book-club-crisis-of-zionism-chapter-six/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jun 2012 20:21:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.shirchadash.org/?p=3358</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I’m starting to suspect that Peter Beinart doesn’t really feel that fondly about Prime Minister Benjamin Neanyahu.  Maybe that feeling has something to do with the fairly provocative first sentences of this chapter: Benjamin Netanyahu doesn’t trust Barak Obama, and &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/virtual-book-club-crisis-of-zionism-chapter-six/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>This is Me, Not Getting Excited About the Pirates</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/this-is-me-not-getting-excited-about-the-pirates/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/this-is-me-not-getting-excited-about-the-pirates/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jun 2012 13:28:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Humor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[baseball]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.shirchadash.org/?p=3353</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[At the beginning of the last baseball season, I wrote a little primer on what it means to be a Pirates fan.  Briefly, the process looks like this: hope in the preseason, excitement at the early going, joy as the &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/this-is-me-not-getting-excited-about-the-pirates/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Koach on the Chopping Block</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/koach-on-the-chopping-block/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jun 2012 15:14:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.shirchadash.org/?p=3349</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[More than a year ago, the United Synagogue’s draft strategic plan became public.  As I noted at the time, the document was admirable in its honest assessment of the challenges facing the institution.  One of the programs which came in &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/koach-on-the-chopping-block/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Virtual Book Club: Crisis of Zionism Chapter Five</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/virtual-book-club-crisis-of-zionism-chapter-five/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/virtual-book-club-crisis-of-zionism-chapter-five/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2012 21:35:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.shirchadash.org/?p=3344</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I am not sure why this chapter is in the book.  Actually, I am starting to have a sense that I do not actually know what this book is about.  Which is not to say that I didn’t find this &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/virtual-book-club-crisis-of-zionism-chapter-five/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Let The Door Hit You on the Way Out</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/dont-the-door-hit-you-on-the-way-out/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/dont-the-door-hit-you-on-the-way-out/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2012 17:07:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not everyone in Israel was thrilled about the great news yesterday. Minister of Religious Services Ya’akov Margi (Shas) blamed Reform Judaism for “centuries of assimilation,” in an Army Radio interview on Wednesday morning. He added that the Reform movement “thinks it is &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/dont-the-door-hit-you-on-the-way-out/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Madness</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/madness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2012 17:02:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[New Orleans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[guns]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I opened my Times-Picayune today to two stories, both of them tragic and tragically common.  But appearing in the very same newspaper brought the point home: A 5-year-old girl and a 33-year-old woman died from gunshot wounds Tuesday afternoon in &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/madness/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>I Might Have Spoken Too Soon in My Last Post (Updated)</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/i-might-have-spoken-too-soon-in-my-last-post/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/i-might-have-spoken-too-soon-in-my-last-post/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2012 20:25:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conservative Judaism]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.shirchadash.org/?p=3332</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Okay, maybe it&#8217;s half a good day for religious pluralism in Israel: Fears of a historic rift between the Chief Rabbinate and Orthodox rabbis overseas have been sparked by the Chief Rabbinate&#8217;s recent decision not to recognize conversions and divorce &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/i-might-have-spoken-too-soon-in-my-last-post/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A Major Breaktrhough in Israel on Pluralism</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/a-major-breaktrhough-in-israel-on-pluralism/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/a-major-breaktrhough-in-israel-on-pluralism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2012 20:20:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[More of this please: In an unprecedented move, Israel has announced that it is prepared to recognize Reform and Conservative community leaders as rabbis and fund their salaries. Rabbis belonging to either stream will be classified as &#8220;rabbis of non-Orthodox &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/a-major-breaktrhough-in-israel-on-pluralism/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>In Which I Agree With The Co-Chair of Mitt Romney’s Miami-Dade Campaign</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/in-which-i-agree-with-the-co-chair-of-mitt-romney%e2%80%99s-miami-dade-campaign/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/in-which-i-agree-with-the-co-chair-of-mitt-romney%e2%80%99s-miami-dade-campaign/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2012 16:51:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religion in America]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Debbie Wasserman Schultz is a fairly middle-of-the-road Democrat.  She is a congresswoman from Florida, and she is Jewish, and holds mainstream views on Israel.  As such, you would not think her appearance at a synagogue just outside her home district &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/in-which-i-agree-with-the-co-chair-of-mitt-romney%e2%80%99s-miami-dade-campaign/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Virtual Book Club: Crisis of Zionism Chapter 4</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/virtual-book-club-crisis-of-zionism-chapter-4/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/virtual-book-club-crisis-of-zionism-chapter-4/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 17:55:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Peter Beinart]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Viritual Book Club]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This chapter represents the core of much of criticism of Beinart’s book: that he understates, dramatically, Palestinian complicity in creating the current situation.  In this chapter, Beinart argues, essentially, that the narrative American Jews tell ourselves about the various failures &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/virtual-book-club-crisis-of-zionism-chapter-4/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;This Wall is Mine, Too&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/this-wall-is-mine-too/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/this-wall-is-mine-too/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 14:57:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[kotel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Western Wall]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Just this past week, Israelis and Jews around the world marked the day that has come to known as Yom Yerushalayim, a semi-holiday celebrating the reuniting of East and West Jerusalem during the 6 day war in 1967.  Though Yom &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/this-wall-is-mine-too/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Comment of the Day</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/comment-of-the-day/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/comment-of-the-day/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 20:46:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Humor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rabbi Thoughts]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From my Dad, in response to the previous post: Don&#8217;t blame us. I distinctly remember pointing out that the Pirates were leading vov to daled. Of course, this cannot be true, since the Pirates were NEVER leading, not in Hebrew &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/comment-of-the-day/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Five Years On</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/five-years-on/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 16:36:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conservative Judaism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rabbi Thoughts]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This middle of May I marked five years since being ordained as a Conservative rabbi at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York.  In those five years I have held approximately 2.86 jobs: I was the full time Assistant Director &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/five-years-on/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Virtual Book Club: Crisis of Zionism Chapter 3</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/virtual-book-club-crisis-of-zionism-chapter-3/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/virtual-book-club-crisis-of-zionism-chapter-3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 18:33:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Crisis of Zionism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peter Beinart]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This is a short chapter, and it sets up what, it seems to me, should be a straw man, but actually isn’t: the argument that American Jews should never criticize Israel.  For Beinart the notion that American Jews should never &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/virtual-book-club-crisis-of-zionism-chapter-3/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Virtual Book Club: Crisis of Zionism Chapter Two</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/virtual-book-club-crisis-of-zionism-chapter-two/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/virtual-book-club-crisis-of-zionism-chapter-two/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 17:42:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Crisis of Zionism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Explanation of Virtual Book Club here. Discussion of Introduction and Chapter One here. This was a confounding chapter for me.  On the one hand, Peter Beinart wants to argue that the situation we are in right now is—as the title &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/virtual-book-club-crisis-of-zionism-chapter-two/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Debate Reaction: Beinart versus Gordis</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/debate-reaction-beinart-versus-gordis/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/debate-reaction-beinart-versus-gordis/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 19:18:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Crisis of Zionism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peter Beinart]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Last night in New York, Peter Beinart, author of Crisis of Zionism (the subject of our Virtual Book Club!) and Dr. Daniel Gordis (author of many, many, things, including this brutal review of said book) squared off in a debate &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/debate-reaction-beinart-versus-gordis/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A Response from Bend the Arc</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/a-response-from-bend-the-arc/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/a-response-from-bend-the-arc/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 21:13:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Jewish world]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religion in America]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In response to my recent post about the name of Bend the Arc, and the shuttering of the service learning division, I received an e-mail from Avi Smolen, the Communications Manager for Bend the Arc.  With his permission, I am &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/a-response-from-bend-the-arc/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Virtual Book Club: &#8220;Crisis of Zionism&#8221; Intro and Chapter One</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/virtual-book-club-crisis-of-zionism-intro-and-chapter-one/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/virtual-book-club-crisis-of-zionism-intro-and-chapter-one/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 20:31:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have to admit that the Introduction to “Crisis of Zionism” made me nervous.  And maybe not in the way you might think.  Beinart opens the book with two formative experiences, one Jewish, the other—broadly speaking—liberal.  (Throughout the book Beinart &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/virtual-book-club-crisis-of-zionism-intro-and-chapter-one/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Virtual Book Club: The Crisis of Zionism</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/virtual-book-club-the-crisis-of-zionism/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/virtual-book-club-the-crisis-of-zionism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 16:02:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Over the last month or so, Peter Beinart’s book The Crisis of Zionism, has inspired a tremendous amount of conversation, denunciation, and prognostication.  (I love that last word.)  I have read a lot about the book, and I have read &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/virtual-book-club-the-crisis-of-zionism/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>UnBending the Arc</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/unbending-the-arc/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/unbending-the-arc/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 20:08:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Jewish world]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religion in America]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I’m not sure how many people noticed, but two interesting and vibrant Jewish organizations, Jewish Funds For Justice (which went by the spectacularly misleading acronym JFSJ) and the Progressive Jewish Alliance (which went by the somewhat more helpful PJA) recently &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/unbending-the-arc/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Reflections from the Lower Ninth</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/reflections-from-the-lower-ninth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 16:13:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[New Orleans]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A little over a month ago, the New York Times Magazine published a long piece about the Lower Ninth Ward.  I asked our resident expert, David Eber a former AVODAH Corps member who has worked in the Lower Ninth for &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/reflections-from-the-lower-ninth/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Great Jewish Movie Ideas</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/great-jewish-movie-ideas/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/great-jewish-movie-ideas/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 16:38:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Popular Culture]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I really feel like Alyssa Rosenberg, the Culture Blogger for the Center for American Progress, is sort of trespassing on my territory with this post listing five great Jewish stories that should be made into movies.  It’s not that I &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/great-jewish-movie-ideas/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A Modest Proposal About &#8220;The List&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/a-modest-proposal-about-the-list/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/a-modest-proposal-about-the-list/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 16:26:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Current Events]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jewish world]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I have blogged before about the annual list of America’s Fifty Top Rabbis.  I have joked in the past that this is the list that is stupid and pointless until you are on it (or your rabbi/institutional leader is on &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/a-modest-proposal-about-the-list/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Passover, Freedom, and Two Movies</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/passover-freedom-and-two-movies/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/passover-freedom-and-two-movies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2012 20:18:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Holidays]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Popular Culture]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Just in time for Passover, I watched two movies that were about freedom.  Actually, they’re not really about freedom at all, but because Passover is neigh, I could not help reacting to the subtle threads that connected these two disparate &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/passover-freedom-and-two-movies/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>On Bounties and the Saints</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/on-bounties-and-the-saints/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/on-bounties-and-the-saints/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2012 20:02:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Current Events]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Popular Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[football]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As regular readers of this blog (thanks, Michael!) know, I swore off football for last year.  On the heels of my hiatus came the news that the New Orleans Saints had been very bad boys and girls (okay, mostly boys) &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/on-bounties-and-the-saints/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Reviewing The Hunger Games</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/reviewing-the-hunger-games/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/reviewing-the-hunger-games/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2012 14:27:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Movie Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Popular Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[movies]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As is customary, I will say that this post contains spoilers to the movie and the book of The Hunger Games.   I knew The Hunger Games movie was going to be big when it seemed like everywhere I went &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/reviewing-the-hunger-games/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Hoping For a Ben Wade Noah</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/hoping-for-a-ben-wade-noah/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/hoping-for-a-ben-wade-noah/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2012 14:59:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Movie Reviews]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As regular readers (all 3 of you, thanks Mom!) of this blog are no doubt aware, I like movies a lot.  I also am a fan of the Bible, so Bible movies are pretty much in my wheelhouse. (If only &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/hoping-for-a-ben-wade-noah/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Tikkun Olam = What I am Against</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/tikkun-olam-what-i-am-against/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/tikkun-olam-what-i-am-against/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2012 20:04:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Jewish Thought]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jewish world]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is the thing about tikkun olam: if you are going to write an entire article blasting people for using the term incorrectly, you really ought to get your facts straight, or at the very least do a tiny bit &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/tikkun-olam-what-i-am-against/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Thinking About &#8220;The Hunger Games&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/thinking-about-the-hunger-games/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2012 19:09:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Movie Reviews]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This Friday, the much-anticipated movie, The Hunger Games, arrives in theaters.  It will no doubt be a big hit.  (Some are even predicting a huge 100 million dollar opening weekend.)  Having read the book (by Suzan Collins) upon which the &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/thinking-about-the-hunger-games/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Facebook Swarming is Great, But We Have To Do better on Agunah</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/facebook-swarming-is-great-but-we-have-to-do-better-on-agunah/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/facebook-swarming-is-great-but-we-have-to-do-better-on-agunah/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Feb 2012 21:05:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Of all the ethically problematic issues raised by tradition Jewish practice, none is so vexing as that of the aguna, or chained wife.  Briefly, the traditional Jewish marriage can only be disovled with a document of divorce, called a get, &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/facebook-swarming-is-great-but-we-have-to-do-better-on-agunah/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Hearing All Sides</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/hearing-all-sides/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2012 15:28:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few months ago, the subject of the AVODAH/AJWS trip to Israel (through a join alumni program between the two organizations called Pursue) burned fast and hot.  People resigned, petitions were written, tempers flared.  Even I got into the act, &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/hearing-all-sides/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Israel on the TV</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/israel-on-the-tv/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/israel-on-the-tv/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:04:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alyssa Rosenberg, a culture blogger at Think Progress, notes that Israeli television is becoming quite a source for American popular culture: The Hollywood Reporter notes that New Regency’s just signed a deal that lets it have first crack at content &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/israel-on-the-tv/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A Year Without Football</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/a-year-without-football/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/a-year-without-football/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:23:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the start of this year’s professional football season, I decided that, given the information of the serious nature of head injuries caused by the normal play of the game, I would do without football for the year.  My thinking &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/a-year-without-football/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Year of Living Dangerously (And the Bible)</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/year-of-living-dangerously-and-the-bible/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/year-of-living-dangerously-and-the-bible/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 18:07:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Religion in America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bible]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[craziness]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This story was sent to me by an alert reader (thanks, Dad!) about my home state of Pennsylvania.  The Pennsylvania House of Representatives, apparently with nothing much else to do, passed the following resolution (unanimously!) last week: RESOLVED, That the &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/year-of-living-dangerously-and-the-bible/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Yes, But Is It Kosher?</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/yes-but-is-it-kosher/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/yes-but-is-it-kosher/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:06:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jewish Thought]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[kashrut]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Forward has a disturbing article about the way some kosher certifying agencies are using the proceeds of their supervision: Badatz Yerushalayim is one of the most respected kosher supervisions in the world. Unlike other hekhshers, the presence of its &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/yes-but-is-it-kosher/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Israel Good News</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/israel-good-news/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/israel-good-news/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:32:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conservative Judaism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[religious pluralism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I think that sometimes on this blog I tend towards the difficult Israel news, and I am trying to correct that.  Here is some great news: A group of leaders from North America&#8217;s Conservative (Masorti) Movement held a joint prayer &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/israel-good-news/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A Movie Moses We Can Believe In</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/movie-moses/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/movie-moses/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:54:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Popular Culture]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ethan's great ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[moses]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[movies]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I guess if you have to make a movie about Moses, it makes some sense to have Steven Spielberg direct it. But I have to say, this description of the Moses movie is not at all heartening: Steven Spielberg is &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/movie-moses/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>So You Say You Want a Revolution</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/so-you-say-you-want-a-revolution/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/so-you-say-you-want-a-revolution/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 12:56:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Jewish Thought]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jewish world]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[community]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let me begin by saying that I love Limmud.  I support Limmud here in New Orleans, and I think it’s a great thing. It is not, however, the salvation of the Jewish people.  David Hazony seems to disagree however: What if &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/so-you-say-you-want-a-revolution/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Heroes and Antiheroes</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/heroes-and-antiheroes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/heroes-and-antiheroes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 20:46:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Regular readers of this blog (all six of you!) know that I am a big fan of Friday Night Lights, the television show and the book, not the movie.  In fact, I am such a big fan, that I have &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/heroes-and-antiheroes/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Pro-Israel in a Moment</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/pro-israel-in-a-moment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:51:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been very impressed with Moment magazine of late.  I lost touch with Moment some time about a decade ago, thinking of it as a not particularly interesting Jewish monthly.  But recently I started reading it again, and, as &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/pro-israel-in-a-moment/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Recommended Reading</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/recommended-reading/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 15:47:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rabbi Thoughts]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I just completed a terrific and somewhat unsettling book on the history of cancer called The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee.  There is a lot to say about this book, and I certainly recommend it to pulpit clergy, &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/recommended-reading/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Things I&#8217;ll Never Have, but Would be Cool</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/things-ill-never-have-but-would-be-cool/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/things-ill-never-have-but-would-be-cool/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 20:01:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Humor]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Behold, the greatest pulpit ever: My question is: which is the more important item on the pulpit: iPad or Bible? Thanks to Will for sending this bit of genius along.  Indeed, this is so cool I may have to reconsider &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/things-ill-never-have-but-would-be-cool/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Heschel, King and Moral Grandeur</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/heschel-king-and-moral-grandeur/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/heschel-king-and-moral-grandeur/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 17:22:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Normally, I don&#8217;t post my weekly e-mail messages on the blog, but I figured, this week, given the occasion, I would do so.  If you want to receive our weekly e-mail, by the way, just send the office an e-mail &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/heschel-king-and-moral-grandeur/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Problem of Prisoner Swaps</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/the-problem-of-prisoner-swaps/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 20:30:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Despite the near-euphoria in Israel and the wider Jewish world when Gilad Shalit returned to his family, there was, alongside the joy, a clear sense that the price for his safe return had been quite high.  The danger, of course, &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/the-problem-of-prisoner-swaps/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Marriage Equity</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/marriage-equity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 14:26:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[No, not in the United States.  In Israel.  It seems the Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi of Israel, Yona Metzger, is not a fan of a bill making itself way through the Knesset. Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger on Thursday contacted all &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/marriage-equity/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Core Value</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/the-core-value/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 19:42:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I appreciate Rabbi Shmuley Boteach&#8217;s broadside against recent Ultra-Orthodox misbehavior in Israel.  He is certainly right about this: Religious extremism festers when decent lay people are cowed into submission by fanatics whom they falsely believe to be more religious than them. &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/the-core-value/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Israeli Bus Situation is Not Like Rosa Parks</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/the-israeli-bus-situation-is-not-like-rosa-parks/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/the-israeli-bus-situation-is-not-like-rosa-parks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 14:10:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago, a woman names Tayna Rosenblit did something quite brave, even though it really should not have been: she sat wherever she wanted on a public bus in Israel.  Of course, that is her right, but for &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/the-israeli-bus-situation-is-not-like-rosa-parks/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Stuff You Probably Wish You Could Say Differently</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/stuff-you-probably-wish-you-could-say-differently/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/stuff-you-probably-wish-you-could-say-differently/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 20:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t have a tremendous amount to say about this exchange bewteen Congressman Eric Cantor and Lesley Stahl of 60 Minutes, other than that I think Representative Cantor would probably like a do-over on the &#8220;bane of my existence&#8221; comment at &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/stuff-you-probably-wish-you-could-say-differently/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Tim Tebow and the Cult of Individual Performance</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/two-posts-about-tim-tebow-on-football-reporting/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/two-posts-about-tim-tebow-on-football-reporting/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 21:05:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One must be careful when talking about Tim Tebow.  Just recently, a rabbi got in trouble for his column in The Jewish Week blasting Tebow’s overt religiosity.  (The column has since been removed from the web, but an article about &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/two-posts-about-tim-tebow-on-football-reporting/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Women Dancing</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/women-dancing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/women-dancing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 16:43:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After all our talk about the gender issues in the Maccabeats video, I would like to offer this Fountainheads video as a sort of path-not-taken-often-enough.  In this video, sun by men and women, some people are wearing kippot, others not, some &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/women-dancing/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Re-Reading High School</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/re-reading-high-school/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/re-reading-high-school/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 14:52:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I was in high school (a time which&#8211;amazingly&#8211;began twenty years ago this fall) my English classes read a lot of great books.  Of course, I did not think so at the time.  Great Expectations was &#8220;long&#8221;, Romeo and Juliet &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/re-reading-high-school/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Yentl Problem&#8211;Updated</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/the-yentl-problem/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/the-yentl-problem/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 17:12:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last year at Hanukah (you may see several other spellings for this word over the next few weeks on this blog) the Maccabeats, an a cappela group from Yeshiva University had a huge YouTube hit with their cover/parody Candlelight.  Now, &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/the-yentl-problem/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Great Muppet Conspiracy</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/the-great-muppet-conspiracy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/the-great-muppet-conspiracy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 21:44:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I really like the Muppets, and I really enjoyed the recent movie.  I thought the music was good, the movie was funny, and the script had exactly the right Muppet mix of zaniness/sweetness that I have come to expect from &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/the-great-muppet-conspiracy/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Enforce the Law</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/enforce-the-law/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/enforce-the-law/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 18:35:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s really that simple.  Women (no one, actually) should not be beaten for sitting on a bus wherever they want.  This would seem to me to be fundemantal, but apparently, on some buses in Jerusalem, it is not: Miriam Shear &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/enforce-the-law/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Ludus</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/the-ludus/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/the-ludus/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 16:31:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you have not yet read the three part New York Times series on the life and death of hockey enforcer Derek Boogaard, you really should. (Part I, II, III)  At times, the story is almost unreadable, especially in the descriptions of the &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/the-ludus/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Real Problem</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/the-real-problem/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/the-real-problem/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 20:12:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Those Israeli ads, which have since been pulled by the Netanyahu government, are a serious problem, and here&#8217;s why, as explained so well by an article in Tablet by an American Jew and her Israeli husband: Often, we feel real remorse &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/the-real-problem/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Oy</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/oy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/oy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 23:33:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are so many things wrong with this new propaganda ad campaign coming out of the Ministry of Immigrant Absorbtion in Israel that it&#8217;s hard to know where to start. Watch this video on YouTube For those who can&#8217;t understand the &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/oy/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>AVODAH and Israel: Letter 2.0</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/avodah-and-israel-letter-2-0/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/avodah-and-israel-letter-2-0/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 14:49:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This for sure goes in the “nobody asked me but” category, but I think writing and speaking about things that fall into that category is a bit of an occupational hazard.  (It sometimes feels like most divrei Torah I give &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/avodah-and-israel-letter-2-0/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Show Me the Money</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/dont-show-me-the-money/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/dont-show-me-the-money/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 21:31:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This past high holidays, one of my sermons dealt with the issue of humanness, and the ways in which we divide between ourselves as humans and &#8220;animals.&#8221;  I talked about a fantastic book by Elizabeth Hess called Nim Chimpsky: The &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/dont-show-me-the-money/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Israel and Jewish Social Justice</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/israel-and-jewish-social-justice/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/israel-and-jewish-social-justice/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 21:13:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The headline doesn&#8217;t do the thing justice.  Israel Trip Divides Jewish Service Group But the story is anything but.  The first paragraph lays out the problem: A social service trip to Israel may seem like an innocuous program for a &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/israel-and-jewish-social-justice/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Anti-Semitism and Occupy Wall Street</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/anti-semitism-and-occupy-wall-street/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/anti-semitism-and-occupy-wall-street/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 17:11:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whatever we may think of the Occupy Wall Street Movement, surely the entire conversation deserves better than than ham-handed attempt by an outfit called the Emergency Committee For Israel to insinuate that the OWS movement is just rife with kooky &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/anti-semitism-and-occupy-wall-street/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Thinking About Zombies</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/thinking-about-zombies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 16:54:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It seems zombies are the new vampires. Zombies, I am told, have replaced vampires as the new undead threat of choice in the world of popular culture. Ever attuned to such cultural shifts, I started watching The Walking Dead on &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/thinking-about-zombies/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Spirit of the Holiday: Redemption</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/spirit-of-the-holiday-redemption/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/spirit-of-the-holiday-redemption/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 05:57:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the next few weeks, I hope to be running a series of articles and reflections that I think highlight the various themes and ideas of the High Holiday season (which is, alarmingly, upon us).  Any suggestions for this series &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/spirit-of-the-holiday-redemption/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Spirit of the Holiday: Perspective</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/spirit-of-the-holiday-perspective/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 20:37:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the next few weeks, I hope to be running a series of articles and reflections that I think highlight the various themes and ideas of the High Holiday season (which is, alarmingly, upon us).  Any suggestions for this series &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/spirit-of-the-holiday-perspective/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Prior Predictions</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 06:15:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Die hard readers of this blog may remember a rather long piece I wrote several months ago about how rooting for the Pittsburgh Pirates is rather akin to the myth of Sisyphus, except instead of the fabled rock rolling back &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/prior-predictions/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Spirit of the Holidays: Judgment</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/the-spirit-of-the-holidays-judgment/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/the-spirit-of-the-holidays-judgment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Sep 2011 20:34:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the next few weeks, I hope to be running a series of articles and reflections that I think highlight the various themes and ideas of the High Holiday season (which is, alarmingly, upon us).  Any suggestions for this series &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/the-spirit-of-the-holidays-judgment/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A Portion of the Portion Ki Tavo</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/a-portion-of-the-portion-ki-tavo/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/a-portion-of-the-portion-ki-tavo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Sep 2011 17:20:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Deuteronomy 26:13-14 I have cleared out the consecrated portion from the house; and I have given it to the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, just as You commanded me; I have neither transgressed nor neglected any of &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/a-portion-of-the-portion-ki-tavo/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Death Watch</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/death-watch/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Sep 2011 15:58:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In, Guests of the Ayatollah, Mark Bowden&#8217;s excellent book about the American hostages taken in Iran during the revolution in 1979, one of the most haunting memories of some of the hostages is the psychological torture to which they were &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/death-watch/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Macabee Movie</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/macabee-movie/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/macabee-movie/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2011 19:54:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you were going to make a movie about the Maccabees and the revolt against Hellenizing Jews and then against the Syrian Greeks, wouldn&#8217;t you want it to be written by the guy who wrote Basic Instinct and be produced &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/macabee-movie/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Spirit of the Holidays: Teshuva</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/the-spirit-of-the-holidays-teshuva/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/the-spirit-of-the-holidays-teshuva/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2011 22:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the next few weeks, I hope to be running a series of articles and reflections that I think highlight the various themes and ideas of the High Holiday season (which is, alarmingly, upon us).  Any suggestions for this series &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/the-spirit-of-the-holidays-teshuva/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>God and Tragedy</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/god-and-tragedy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2011 20:32:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Jewish Thought]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rabbi Thoughts]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Last night on Fresh Air Terry Gross did a great interview with two New York City Firemen who responded to the attacks on the Trade Center. One of the Firemen, Jay Jonas, was trapped on the fourth floor of the &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/god-and-tragedy/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Uh Oh</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/uh-oh-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2011 20:13:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Humor]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Let me just put it this way.  If this ESPN expert is right about how this year&#8217;s NFL season turns out, I will be heading into the FBI witness protection program come late January: 44. AFC championship Pittsburgh vs. New &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/uh-oh-3/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>If You Read Only One Article About Israel Today&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/if-you-read-only-one-article-about-israel-today/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/if-you-read-only-one-article-about-israel-today/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2011 22:11:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Drop Everything And...]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;read this excellent article about The Green Line from today&#8217;s New York Times.  The article does an excellent job of explaining what exactly is mean by the term The Green Line, and beyond that, the difficulties inherent in the military &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/if-you-read-only-one-article-about-israel-today/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Elephant and The Jewish Problem*</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/the-elephant-and-the-jewish-problem/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/the-elephant-and-the-jewish-problem/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2011 20:28:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conservative Judaism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I love the fact that Jews obsess over how to relate to &#8220;others&#8221; considering the fact that the VAST majority of the world is not us.  We are the other.  Only in the happy, healthy, wealthy American Judaism of the &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/the-elephant-and-the-jewish-problem/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>What He Said</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/what-he-said/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2011 22:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t had as much opportunity lately to give David Brooks the sort of love he is used to receiving from this blog, but today&#8217;s column gives me the chance.  Here he is, demonstrating why I love the guy: This &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/what-he-said/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Six Years Since Katrina</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/six-years-since-katrina-6/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/six-years-since-katrina-6/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2011 18:37:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[New Orleans]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[6 years today. Thanks to Nola for being the best adopted home a girl could ask for.]]></description>
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		<title>Six Years Since Katrina</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/six-years-since-katrina-5/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/six-years-since-katrina-5/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2011 23:29:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[New Orleans]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[6 years. My heart will always be in Lakeview. NOLA Forever. ♥]]></description>
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		<title>Six Years Since Katrina</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/six-years-since-katrina-4/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/six-years-since-katrina-4/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2011 22:57:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[New Orleans]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[NOLA LOVE]]></description>
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		<title>Six Years Since Katrina</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/six-years-since-katrina-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2011 21:54:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[New Orleans]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Can you believe it has been 6 years? Where has the time gone. I continue to thank and appreciate everyone that has contributed to the rebuilding of New Orleans and the successes the city has had. Thank you to everyone &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/six-years-since-katrina-3/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Helping on Race, Ctd</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/helping-on-race-ctd/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/helping-on-race-ctd/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2011 21:40:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Rabbi Thoughts]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Following up on an earlier post about the book and movie The Help, here&#8217;s is an interesting critique of the book from Patricia A. Turner, writing in The New York Times: This movie deploys the standard formula. With one possible &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/helping-on-race-ctd/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Six Years After Katrina</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/six-years-after-katrina/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/six-years-after-katrina/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2011 21:18:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[New Orleans]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Bill Quigley, a law professor at Loyola, reminds us that, six years later, the numbers still matter: Six years ago, Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf coast. The impact of Katrina and government bungling continue to inflict major pain on the &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/six-years-after-katrina/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Six Years Since Katrina</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/six-years-since-katrina-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/six-years-since-katrina-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2011 20:54:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[New Orleans]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Today is the 6th Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, and the 6th year of people still struggling to return to their homes. My thoughts go out to all those still displaced wanting to return to their homes.]]></description>
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		<title>The Conservative Movement, Imagined Communities and Prophetic Visions</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/the-conservative-movement-imagined-communities-and-prophetic-visions/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/the-conservative-movement-imagined-communities-and-prophetic-visions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2011 20:09:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conservative Judaism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As I perused several of my prior posts on the Conservative Movement, it struck me that I what I am consistently describing (and to a certain extent what Arnie Eisen is describing as well) is a community that is entirely &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/the-conservative-movement-imagined-communities-and-prophetic-visions/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Six Years Since Katrina</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/six-years-since-katrina/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/six-years-since-katrina/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2011 19:53:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[New Orleans]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ll be posting today some Facebook statuses of folks who were here in NOLA during Katrina.  If you&#8217;d like me to post yours, just let me know by e-mail. I never quite know what to say on Katrina anniversaries, but &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/six-years-since-katrina/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A Portion of the Portion Re&#8217;eh</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/a-portion-of-the-portion-reeh/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/a-portion-of-the-portion-reeh/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Aug 2011 16:48:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Dvar Torah]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Deuteronomy 14:23 You shall consume the tithes of your new grain and wine and oil, and the firstlings of your herds and flocks, in the presence of the Lord your God, in the place where He will choose to establish &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/a-portion-of-the-portion-reeh/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Bad News for Rabbis</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/bad-news-for-rabbis/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/bad-news-for-rabbis/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2011 16:44:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Humor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rabbi Thoughts]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Via The Daily Dish, this academic study, as least as reported by the Boston Globe seems to make life harder for clergy: Moral leadership is challenging for an obvious reason &#8212; you have to know what&#8217;s right and wrong. But &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/bad-news-for-rabbis/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Emerging Notions of Pain and Loss</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/emerging-notions-of-pain-and-loss/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/emerging-notions-of-pain-and-loss/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2011 15:34:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conservative Judaism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s New York Times has a fascinating article about a change in the law in New York state about the compensation due to mothers who have a stillbirth as a result of malpractice or negligence. Eight months pregnant, suffering from &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/emerging-notions-of-pain-and-loss/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Godless Prayer</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/godless-prayer/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/godless-prayer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2011 14:38:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conservative Judaism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you take time to pray, God will make time to listen. -Sign at a church near my house I can certainly see how engaging in prayer would be much easier, and could be done with much more fullness of &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/godless-prayer/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Conservative Bloggery</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/conservative-bloggery/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/conservative-bloggery/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Aug 2011 20:12:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conservative Judaism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sigh.  They have still not renamed the boring Conservative Judaism Blog.  How sad.  I am really getting the sense that the folks at JTS aren&#8217;t reading this blog, with all my great suggestions about new names.  Today&#8217;s suggestion: Arnie&#8217;s in &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/conservative-bloggery/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Helping On Race</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/helping-on-race/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/helping-on-race/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Aug 2011 19:28:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Current Events]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New Orleans]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The release of The Help, a movie based on Kathryn Stockett&#8217;s novel of the same name, has led to an interesting discussion about race in fiction and in fact.  (Here, for example, are two interesting and negative takes on the &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/helping-on-race/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Back with Beck</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/back-with-beck/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Aug 2011 23:42:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As my return post, I pass along without comment this report from the first of three rallies Glenn Beck is holing in Israel: The most electric moment of the night came shortly after keynote speaker Pastor John Hagee, the founder &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/back-with-beck/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A Portion of the Portion Va-Etchanan</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/a-portion-of-the-portion-va-etchanan/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/a-portion-of-the-portion-va-etchanan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Aug 2011 17:47:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Deuteronomy 3:23-27 23I pleaded with the Lord at that time, saying, 24“O Lord God, You who let Your servant see the first works of Your greatness and Your mighty hand, You whose powerful deeds no god in heaven or on &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/a-portion-of-the-portion-va-etchanan/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Pirates&#8217; Freefall caused by One Bad Call</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/pirates-freefall-caused-by-one-bad-call/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/pirates-freefall-caused-by-one-bad-call/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Aug 2011 19:28:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Humor]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[That&#8217;s my story. A while back, I wrote about the inner-life of the Pirates&#8217; fan.  I wrote about how we always have our spirits lifted just a little bit, only to have them dashed on the rocks of reality at &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/pirates-freefall-caused-by-one-bad-call/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A Portion of the Portion Devarim</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/a-portion-of-the-portion-devarim/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/a-portion-of-the-portion-devarim/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2011 14:43:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Dvar Torah]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Deuteronomy 1:22-26 22Then all of you came to me and said, “Let us send men ahead to reconnoiter the land for us and bring back word on the route we shall follow and the cities we shall come to.”  23I &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/a-portion-of-the-portion-devarim/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A Portion of the Portion Masei</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/a-portion-of-the-portion-masei/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/a-portion-of-the-portion-masei/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jul 2011 00:11:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Dvar Torah]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Numbers 35:16-18 16Anyone, however, who strikes another with an iron object so that death results is a murderer; the murderer must be put to death. 17If he struck him with a stone tool that could cause death, and death resulted, &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/a-portion-of-the-portion-masei/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>NEWSFLASH: PORK NOW KOSHER</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/newsflash-pork-now-kosher/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/newsflash-pork-now-kosher/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2011 22:10:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Humor]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[At least in Queens.  Via Jeffrey Goldberg, this great story from New Yorker writer Philip Gourevitch about a (I think) mislabeled slice of meat in a supermarket: But if you want actual Kosher pork—pork spare ribs, pork cutlets, center-cut pork &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/newsflash-pork-now-kosher/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>More on Mitzvah</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/more-on-mitzvah/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/more-on-mitzvah/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2011 00:10:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conservative Judaism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I want to highlight two comments to my post on mitzvah. I wrote: I think the Movement has no future if we cannot move towards a community wherein more people are observing more mitzvot.  I think he [Rabbi Roth] is &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/more-on-mitzvah/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Like From a Movie</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/like-from-a-movie/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/like-from-a-movie/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2011 22:59:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Drop Everything And...]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This story from the The New York Time is so unbelievable that you will&#8230;not believe it.  Here&#8217;s a teaser. About a year after he moved into her house in Queens, their relationship soured. One day, he cornered her, taped her &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/like-from-a-movie/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Conservative Blogs With Better Names</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/conservative-blogs-with-better-names/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/conservative-blogs-with-better-names/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2011 22:54:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conservative Judaism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As my regular readers know, I have been lobbying for JTS to change the name of it&#8217;s flagship blog, called Blah Blah Blah Conservative Judaism Blah Blah, or something like that.  Honestly, I am starting to suspect the folks over &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/conservative-blogs-with-better-names/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Death of JDub</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/the-death-of-jdub/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/the-death-of-jdub/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 2011 19:21:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Jewish world]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s possible you&#8217;ve never heard of JDub Records.  It probably (somewhat) depends on your age.  (No offense meant there, it&#8217;s just probably true.)  But the basic story is that JDub records was among the first of a bumper crop of &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/the-death-of-jdub/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Ideological Splits, Practical Results</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/ideological-splits-practical-results/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/ideological-splits-practical-results/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2011 21:44:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Religion in America]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[More than a year ago, The New Yorker published a great article about the struggle over female bishops in the Anglican Church.  A few years before that, there was another terrific article about The Episcopal Church here in the U.S. &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/ideological-splits-practical-results/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Sanity Restored in the Knesset?</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/sanity-restored-in-the-knesset/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/sanity-restored-in-the-knesset/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2011 21:15:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[After the rather dispiriting passage in the Knesset of the odious boycott bill, today&#8217;s result, on the equally odious NGO bill, was much more heartening: Following a stormy debate, the Knesset voted against a contentious bill on Wednesday which called &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/sanity-restored-in-the-knesset/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Renaming The Conservative Blog</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/renaming-the-conservative-blog/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/renaming-the-conservative-blog/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2011 18:59:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conservative Judaism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As my regular readers know, I have been agitating for a new name for the boringly named blog Conservative Judaism: A Community Conversation. I have made many suggestions, none of which has been accepted.  Well, now my readers are getting &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/renaming-the-conservative-blog/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Conservative Judaism and the Telos of Mitzvah</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/conservative-judaism-and-the-telos-of-mitzvah/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/conservative-judaism-and-the-telos-of-mitzvah/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2011 18:54:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conservative Judaism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One of my regular (and favorite) interlocutors, has this to say on the subject of my recent post about miztvah, in which I pivoted off three different posts by Chancellor Arnie Eisen:  The conclusion you reach at the end of &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/conservative-judaism-and-the-telos-of-mitzvah/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Harry Potter and The Taylors: Ending Well</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/harry-potter-and-the-taylors-ending-well/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/harry-potter-and-the-taylors-ending-well/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2011 17:12:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Movie Reviews]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A colleague and friend of mine, used to quote a Rosh Edah of her&#8217;s at Camp Ramah in New England as saying that it&#8217;s important to begin well, but it&#8217;s more important to end well.  She was talking about havdalah, &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/harry-potter-and-the-taylors-ending-well/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Conservative Bloggery VI: Mitzvah</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/conservative-bloggery-vi-mitzvah/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/conservative-bloggery-vi-mitzvah/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2011 21:34:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conservative Judaism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[More than twenty years ago Rabbi Eliot Dorff, who is now teaches at Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies, published a called Mitzvah Means Commandment.  The title of the book gives a pretty good indication of what Rabbi Dorff was trying &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/conservative-bloggery-vi-mitzvah/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A Portion of the Portion Pinchas</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/a-portion-of-the-portion-pinchas/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/a-portion-of-the-portion-pinchas/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2011 20:49:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Dvar Torah]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Numbers 26:44-46 Descendents of Asher by their clans: Of Imnah, the clan of the Imnites, of Ishvi, the clan of Ishvites, of Beriah, the clan of the Beriites.  Of the descendents of Beriah: Of Heber, the clan of the Heberites, &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/a-portion-of-the-portion-pinchas/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Meanwhile, In Syria</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/meanwhile-in-syria/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/meanwhile-in-syria/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2011 17:03:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Current Events]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There are times when the rhetoric around Israel gets very heated, and people start claiming it&#8217;s the most dangerous country in the region, and the government is filled with bloodthirsty murderers.  That is false.  And while it&#8217;s true I don&#8217;t &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/meanwhile-in-syria/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Friday Night Lights: My Point Proven</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/friday-night-lights-my-point-proven/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/friday-night-lights-my-point-proven/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2011 16:56:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Movie Reviews]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[And by the creator of the show no less.  Here&#8217;s Peter Berg (who also directed the movie) talking about the Friday Night Lights: People weren&#8217;t reacting to the football. It was expensive, but people weren&#8217;t reacting to it. How many &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/friday-night-lights-my-point-proven/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Things You Can&#8217;t Say</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/things-you-cant-say/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/things-you-cant-say/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2011 15:55:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Drop Everything And...]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Forward writes a terrific op-ed about the incredibly self-defeating and dangerous boycott bill that just passed the Knesset: We could get in trouble for this. Not in New York City, where this editorial is being written, because legitimate comment &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/things-you-cant-say/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>You Must Choose&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/you-must-choose/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/you-must-choose/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jul 2011 18:27:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conservative Judaism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jewish world]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[But choose wisely.  According to Benjamin Resnik, a rabbinical student at JTS, there may in fact be an irreconcilable tension between being a liberal American Jews and a Zionist.  In fact, it may be that there is a irreconcilable tension &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/you-must-choose/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Jewish and American and Liberal and Zionist and&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/jewish-and-american-and-liberal-and-zionist-and/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/jewish-and-american-and-liberal-and-zionist-and/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jul 2011 18:12:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jewish world]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For over a month, I have been actively avoiding posting anything about the issue of Israel and American Jews.  Well, not avoiding exactly.  I think the better term would be agonizing.  The issue burst forth in a long article by &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/jewish-and-american-and-liberal-and-zionist-and/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A Clash of Lights</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/a-clash-of-lights/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/a-clash-of-lights/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jul 2011 15:44:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Humor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Movie Reviews]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This blog is officially in trouble.  As you may know, in my capacity as Chief Conservative Rabbi of the State of Louisiana, I have made known my deep love and affection for Game of Thrones and Friday Night Lights.  I &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/a-clash-of-lights/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Family Matters</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/family-matters/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2011 18:30:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Any chance to reference that classic sit-com is worth it.  But the issue is a serious one.  Here is Rabbi Jill Levy, writing on The Sisterhood blog at The Forward: During rabbinical school at the Jewish Theological Seminary, I served &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/family-matters/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Mad As Hell&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/mad-as-hell/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/mad-as-hell/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jul 2011 21:40:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[And Bradley Burston is not going to take it any more.  Here&#8217;s the Haaretz columnist on the new law just passed in Israel allowing for targets on boycotts to sue the parties involved in the boycotts without the need to &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/mad-as-hell/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Reader Reponse: I say Tomato, You Say Slavery</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/reader-reponse-i-say-tomato-you-say-slavery/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/reader-reponse-i-say-tomato-you-say-slavery/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jul 2011 19:35:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I got a couple of nice responses to this post about the failure of Magen Tzedek to really delineate what it is the group is trying to do.  (One reader even commented, on the blog, that I should teach a &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/reader-reponse-i-say-tomato-you-say-slavery/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Vanderbilt and the Changin&#8217; Times</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/vanderbilt-and-the-changin-times/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/vanderbilt-and-the-changin-times/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jul 2011 18:04:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Drop Everything And...]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have mentioned before that I am reading T.J. Stiles excellent and exhaustive (and sometimes exhausting) biography of Cornelius Vanderbilt.  The man (Vanderbilt, not Stiles) is amazing, I have to say, and he certainly deserves a biography of epic length, &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/vanderbilt-and-the-changin-times/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Hugh Grant is Not a Legitimate Target for Media Spying</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/hugh-grant-is-not-a-legitimate-target-for-media-spying/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/hugh-grant-is-not-a-legitimate-target-for-media-spying/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jul 2011 15:31:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Current Events]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Watch this video on YouTube This video, from the BBC reminds me that while I know very little about what is happening in England with the now-defunct News of the World and the other British tabloids, one aspect of this &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/hugh-grant-is-not-a-legitimate-target-for-media-spying/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Friday Night Lights is Not About Football</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/friday-night-lights-is-not-about-football/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/friday-night-lights-is-not-about-football/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jul 2011 04:25:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Movie Reviews]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the conversations I seem to be having a lot recently involves me trying to convince people to watch Friday Night Lights, the excellent NBC television show that is based (at this point fairly loosely) on the nonfiction book &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/friday-night-lights-is-not-about-football/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>You Say Tomato, I say Slavery</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/you-say-tomato-i-say-slavery/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/you-say-tomato-i-say-slavery/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jun 2011 20:48:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jewish world]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By sheer coincidence, I read this press release from Magen Tzedek on the same day that Barry Estabrook, the author of a book called Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit was on Fresh Air on NPR. &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/you-say-tomato-i-say-slavery/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Game of Thrones and Cornelius Vanderbilt</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/game-of-thrones-and-cornelius-vanderbilt/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/game-of-thrones-and-cornelius-vanderbilt/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jun 2011 18:29:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Okay, okay, so I admit to going for the shock value in the title of this post.  I mean, if a title that links a novel by George R. R. Martin with one of the greatest American tycoons of the &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/game-of-thrones-and-cornelius-vanderbilt/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Peer Reinforcement, Strictness and Conformity</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/peer-reinforcement-strictness-and-conformity/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/peer-reinforcement-strictness-and-conformity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jun 2011 23:08:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I highly recommend checking out Rabbi Ethan Tucker&#8217;s talk at the opening of Yeshivat Hadar&#8217;s summer learning session. You can find the video here. The talk is very interestingly, though the production values on the video leave something to be &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/peer-reinforcement-strictness-and-conformity/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Game of Thrones, The Bible and &#8216;Nerd&#8217; Genres</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/game-of-thrones-the-bible-and-nerd-genres/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/game-of-thrones-the-bible-and-nerd-genres/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jun 2011 22:11:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Jewish Thought]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a bit of a departure from my usual fare, but I feel the need to applaud HBO for its terrific adaption of Game of Thrones, the first book in George R. R. Martin&#8217;s series A Song of Fire &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/game-of-thrones-the-bible-and-nerd-genres/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Home News</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/home-news-6/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/home-news-6/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jun 2011 20:12:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Liba Kornfeld, who is related by marriage to the author of this blog, has a tremendously lovely guest post up at the official blog of Mayyim Chayyim, the community mikvah in Boston. Somewhat ironically, the post is entitled &#8220;Niddah Anonymous: &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/home-news-6/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Conservative Bloggery V: Learning</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/conservative-bloggery-v-learning/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/conservative-bloggery-v-learning/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jun 2011 20:04:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chancellor Arnie Eisen is back at the as-yet-still-not-renamed JTS Blog with a new post about the power of Jewish learning.  (As is my wont, I will again offer a cool new name for consideration of the folks at JTS: The &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/conservative-bloggery-v-learning/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Amazing Shoah Story</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/amazing-shoah-story/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/amazing-shoah-story/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jun 2011 19:27:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Shoah is an amazing historical event in that its ripples continue into our present day on a rather constant basis.  Just this week, The New York Times had a terrific story about a recently discovered photo album of pictures &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/amazing-shoah-story/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A Portion of the Portion Shelach Lecha</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/a-portion-of-the-portion-shelach-lecha/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/a-portion-of-the-portion-shelach-lecha/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2011 21:06:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Numbers 14:13-18 13But Moses said to the Lord, “When the Egyptians, from whose midst You brought up this people in Your might, hear the news [that you have killed the people] 14they will tell it to the inhabitants of that &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/a-portion-of-the-portion-shelach-lecha/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Did You Put on Tefillin Today?</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/did-you-put-on-tefillin-today/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/did-you-put-on-tefillin-today/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2011 21:59:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Humor]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anybody who has ever been in Israel for any length of time has encountered the CHABAD guys who wander around asking men if they&#8217;ve put on tefillin yet that day.  We&#8217;ll apparently those folks have gone high tech: For the &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/did-you-put-on-tefillin-today/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Israeli Diplomacy and Jewish History</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/israeli-diplomacy-and-jewish-history/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/israeli-diplomacy-and-jewish-history/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2011 21:06:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Leon Wieseltier says they are inexorably linked: The only democracy in the Middle East looks as if it wishes to remain the only democracy in the Middle East. This is not altogether attractive. But recently it occurred to me that &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/israeli-diplomacy-and-jewish-history/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A Portion of the Portion BeHa&#8217;alotecha</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/a-portion-of-the-portion-behaalotecha/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/a-portion-of-the-portion-behaalotecha/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jun 2011 18:57:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Numbers 10:29-32 29Moses said to Hobab son of Reuel the Midianite, Moses’ father-in-law, “We are setting out for the place of which the Lord has said, ‘I will give it to you.’ Come with us and we will be generous &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/a-portion-of-the-portion-behaalotecha/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Alternative Israel Voices</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/alternative-israel-voices/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jun 2011 14:32:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the course of the debate following President Obama&#8217;s speech on Israel and the Middle East, it sometimes felts as though the &#8220;official&#8221; American Jewish response was represented by the Big Players: AIPAC, ADL and so forth.  The timing of &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/alternative-israel-voices/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Conservative Bloggery IV: Religious Zionism</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/conservative-bloggery-iv-religious-zionism/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/conservative-bloggery-iv-religious-zionism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jun 2011 14:04:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am not sure Chancellor Eisen knows that I am in conversation with him and his continuing series of essays posted over at JTS.  (Yet another plea: come up with a catchy name!  My suggestion this time: Sir Chancell-A-Lot.)  Even &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/conservative-bloggery-iv-religious-zionism/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A Portion of the Portion Naso</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/a-portion-of-the-portion-naso/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jun 2011 10:19:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Numbers 6:22-26 22The Lord spoke to Moses: 23Speak to Aaron and his sons: Thus you shall bless the people of Israel.  Say to them: 24The Lord bless you and protect you!  25The Lord deal kindly and graciously with you! 26The &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/a-portion-of-the-portion-naso/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Conservative Bloggery III, Ctd</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/conservative-bloggery-iii-ctd/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jun 2011 11:06:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the official commentators on the Jewish Peoplehood and Israel essay by Chancellor Arnie Eisen is Steve Cohen, who collaborated with Chancellor Eisen on the now-classic The Jew Within.  Cohen seems to think he and Eisen are playing out &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/conservative-bloggery-iii-ctd/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Conservative Movement Bloggery III</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/conservative-movement-bloggery-iii/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/conservative-movement-bloggery-iii/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jun 2011 10:50:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conservative Judaism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The folks at JTS did not take up my suggestion to rename the boringly named Conservative Judaism: A Community Conversation blog (new suggestion: The EisenHour) but they do keep posting interesting essays by Chancellor Arnie Eisen.  The latest one is &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/conservative-movement-bloggery-iii/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Women in the Pulpit</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/women-in-the-pulpit/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/women-in-the-pulpit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jun 2011 09:16:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conservative Judaism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jewish world]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The first female Conservative rabbi, Rabbi Amy Eilberg, was ordained by the Jewish Theological Seminary in May of 1985.  According to The Jewish Week, we haven&#8217;t quite figured out what to do with female rabbis twenty-five years later: When she &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/women-in-the-pulpit/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Burying the Lead</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/burying-the-lead/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/burying-the-lead/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jun 2011 08:44:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Jewish world]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I will have more to say on this Jewish Week article about women having trouble finding jobs in pulpits in Conservative synagogues, but I do want to note that this little tidbit, which comes at the very end of the &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/burying-the-lead/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Dissolving the Self</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/dissolving-the-self/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/dissolving-the-self/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2011 12:59:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Drop Everything And...]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rabbi Thoughts]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t agree with the deficit alarmism at the outset of this column but I think David Brooks&#8217; central concern is an important one: f you sample some of the commencement addresses being broadcast on C-Span these days, you see &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/dissolving-the-self/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Conservative Movement Bloggery II</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/conservative-movement-bloggery-ii/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/conservative-movement-bloggery-ii/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2011 08:56:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conservative Judaism]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.shirchadashnola.org/?p=2587</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Arnie Eisen Blog at JTSA.edu has a new post. (Note to the folks at JTS: please come up with a cool name for this blog.  My suggestion: The Chancellery.  Or perhaps: Take a Chancellor on Me. But anything is &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/conservative-movement-bloggery-ii/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Too Much History?</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/too-much-history/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/too-much-history/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 May 2011 08:16:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.shirchadashnola.org/?p=2583</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Anschel Pfeffer, writing in Haaretz, has an interesting take and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu&#8217;s recent swing through Washington, D.C., a swing which included a meeting with President Obama, a speech to AIPAC and a speech before a joint session of &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/too-much-history/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Define &#8220;Synagogue&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/define-synagogue/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/define-synagogue/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 May 2011 08:02:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conservative Judaism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jewish world]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In the midst of a fairly fawning article about independent minyanim Elicia Brown makes the following point: These are the joyful Jews of Kehilat Hadar, founded in 2001 after three friends met at a local bar and crafted plans to &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/define-synagogue/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A Portion of the Portion Bamidbar</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/a-portion-of-the-portion-bamidbar/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/a-portion-of-the-portion-bamidbar/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 May 2011 02:23:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Dvar Torah]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Numbers 4: 15 When Aaron and his sons have finished covering the sacred objects and all the furnishings of the sacred objects and the breaking of the camp, only then shall the Kohathites come and lift them, so that they &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/a-portion-of-the-portion-bamidbar/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>This Should Prove It&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/this-should-prove-it/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/this-should-prove-it/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 May 2011 02:10:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.shirchadashnola.org/?p=2571</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;But it probably won&#8217;t.  As Jeffrey Goldberg notes, this statement by the Israeli Foreign Minister from November of 2010 should prove definitively that what President Obama said about the 1967 borders as the basis for negotiations between Israel and the &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/this-should-prove-it/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Feel Good Story of the Week</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/feel-good-story-of-the-week/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/feel-good-story-of-the-week/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 May 2011 01:45:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Current Events]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rabbi Thoughts]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re feeling down about the world&#8211;which, let&#8217;s face it, you should be&#8211;do yourself a favor and read this amazing story out of Utah. It&#8217;s about a man who moved into a new house, and then promptly found over $40,000 &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/feel-good-story-of-the-week/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Annals of Journalism</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/annals-of-journalism/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/annals-of-journalism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 May 2011 01:41:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Current Events]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Humor]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Great line from a post-false-apocalypse article in The New York Times: A California religious radio impresario who predicted — wrongly — that the end of the world would begin on May 21 revised his prophesy on Monday, saying now that &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/annals-of-journalism/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>More Benefits to the End of the World</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/more-benefits-to-the-end-of-the-world/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/more-benefits-to-the-end-of-the-world/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 May 2011 00:10:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Current Events]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Humor]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Okay, so I am not entirely done having fun with the world ending on Saturday. (Boy, will my face be red on Saturday if I am wrong!)  Here&#8217;s some good news for New Yorkers, if the world ends, there will &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/more-benefits-to-the-end-of-the-world/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>On the Other Hand</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/on-the-other-hand-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/on-the-other-hand-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 May 2011 22:27:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In the interest of being a fair blog, here is a careful and thoughtful analysis by Glenn Kessler at The Washington Post, explaining that I, Jeffrey Goldberg and others are wrong for claiming that President Obama&#8217;s speech from yesterday did &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/on-the-other-hand-2/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A Portion of the Portion: Bechukotai</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/a-portion-of-the-portion-bechukotai/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/a-portion-of-the-portion-bechukotai/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 May 2011 21:44:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Dvar Torah]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Leviticus 26:36-38 36As for those remaining (after the destruction of the land) I will bring weakness into their hearts in the land of their enemies.  The sound of a driven leaf will pursue them, and they will flee as before &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/a-portion-of-the-portion-bechukotai/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Conservative Movement Bloggery</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/conservative-movement-bloggery/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/conservative-movement-bloggery/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 May 2011 21:26:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conservative Judaism]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.shirchadashnola.org/?p=2541</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Enough with all this depressing stuff about Israel and the coming apocalypse, let&#8217;s talk about something exciting: the Conservative Movement.  We have a new blog (motto: Not that kind of Conservative) with an opening post from Chancellor Arnie Eisen.  It&#8217;s &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/conservative-movement-bloggery/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Downside of the End of the World</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/the-downside-of-the-end-of-the-world/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/the-downside-of-the-end-of-the-world/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 May 2011 20:36:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Current Events]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I know I have been having some fun with the world ending tomorrow, but it&#8217;s easy to forget that this sort of thing has serious consequences: The Haddad children of Middletown, Md., have a lot on their minds: school projects, &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/the-downside-of-the-end-of-the-world/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Israel News Freak Out UPDATED</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/israel-news-freak-out/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/israel-news-freak-out/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 May 2011 02:33:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.shirchadashnola.org/?p=2532</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I am confused, along with Jeffrey Goldberg, as to why anyone would be shocked that President Obama, in his speech today, endorsed a two state solution based on the 1967 borders.  This has basically been U.S. policy since the Clinton &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/israel-news-freak-out/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Maimonides/Tim LaHaye Convergence</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/the-maimonidestim-lahaye-convergence/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/the-maimonidestim-lahaye-convergence/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 May 2011 22:19:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Current Events]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Humor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jewish Thought]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[What do Moses Maimonides, the great medieval Jewish scholar and Tim LaHaye authors of the wildly successful novelization of the Book of Revelations in a series called Left Behind agree on?  It&#8217;s not a good a idea to predict the &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/the-maimonidestim-lahaye-convergence/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>E-Mail Comment of the Day</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/e-mail-comment-of-the-day/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/e-mail-comment-of-the-day/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 May 2011 22:27:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Humor]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A concerned reader writes: I assume that if this whole Rapture/apocalypse-thingy happens Saturday, services will still go on as scheduled? Just trying to plan my day&#8230; Services will continue as scheduled, but I might not hold my class after lunch.  &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/e-mail-comment-of-the-day/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Bother Reading This Post&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/dont-bother-reading-this-post/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/dont-bother-reading-this-post/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 May 2011 21:14:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;Because the end of the world is neigh.  And when I say neigh, I mean seriously neigh. Margaret Pease stands on a corner in downtown Pittsburgh, handing out doomsday pamphlets. &#8220;JUDGMENT DAY FOLKS!&#8221; she yells with a volume that would &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/dont-bother-reading-this-post/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Pro-Choice</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/pro-choice/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/pro-choice/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 May 2011 21:01:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conservative Judaism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jewish Thought]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.shirchadashnola.org/?p=2517</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A teacher of mine at the Seminary once said that Conservative Jews have an odd idea of pluralism: the Orthodox can take things down a notch, the Reform can take things up a notch, and we can all agree to &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/pro-choice/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Just Tell the Truth</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/just-tell-the-truth/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/just-tell-the-truth/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2011 21:51:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Rabbi Thoughts]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Facebook hired a bunch of folks to push negative stories about Google.  When this came out, Facebook claimed that the effort was not part of a smear campaign against Google.  Of course it was! Why don&#8217;t we live in a &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/just-tell-the-truth/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Awesome</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/awesome/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/awesome/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2011 20:10:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Rabbi Thoughts]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I love this ad, and heartily endorse its message. Watch this video on YouTube]]></description>
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		<title>Sanity?</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/sanity/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/sanity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2011 18:16:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Jewish Thought]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jewish world]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Fascinating write-up of an interview with Rabbi Chaim Amsalem, a fairly prominent Sefardi rabbi in Israel who was a member of the Shas party.  Rabbi Amsalem has come a long way from his Shas party days: R’ Amsalem expressed his &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/sanity/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>More Pictures from Di Tzeitung</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/more-pictures-from-di-tzeitung/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/more-pictures-from-di-tzeitung/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2011 01:55:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Humor]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As you may have heard, the ultra-Orthodox paper Di Tzeitung recently published a picture of members of the White House national security team watching the rain on Bin Laden, except they airbrushed Hilary Clinton  out of the picture.  There&#8217;s a &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/more-pictures-from-di-tzeitung/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Quiet Patriotism</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/quiet-patriotism/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/quiet-patriotism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2011 01:22:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rabbi Thoughts]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Today is Yom Ha-Atzmaut, Israel&#8217;s 63rd independence day.  Last night, at a community event marking the celebration, one of the quotes we read stuck out.  It&#8217;s from David Ben-Gurion, in a speech he gave to the nation marking the declaration &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/quiet-patriotism/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Home News</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/home-news-5/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/home-news-5/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2011 00:40:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Shir Chadash]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Great article in The Forward about the post-Katrina influx of young Jews to New Orleans.  And I&#8217;m not just saying it&#8217;s great because of stuff like this: Laura Taishoff never intended to stay in New Orleans beyond her year with &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/home-news-5/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A Portion of the Portion Emor</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/a-portion-of-the-portion-emor/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/a-portion-of-the-portion-emor/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 May 2011 20:27:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Dvar Torah]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Leviticus 22:32 You shall not profane My holy name, that I may be sanctified in the midst of the Israelite people—I the Lord who sanctify you. Jewish exegesis holds that the verses above contain two distinct commandments, one positive and &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/a-portion-of-the-portion-emor/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>On Bin Laden</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/on-bin-laden/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/on-bin-laden/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 May 2011 20:24:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Current Events]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I usually do not reprint, here in the blog, my newsletter articles each week.  (If you want to get out newsletter, please send me an e-mail and let me know.) But I finally had some time to think about a &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/on-bin-laden/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>V-GWOT Day?</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/v-gwot-day/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/v-gwot-day/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2011 17:33:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Current Events]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I have nothing that original to say about the news that Osama bin Laden is dead.  I have to think through a Jewish response to the death of an enemy. As an example, here is one response from Rabbi Menachem &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/v-gwot-day/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Making the List</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/making-the-list/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/making-the-list/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Apr 2011 21:19:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conservative Judaism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I blogged earlier about the dumb-until-I-am-on-it Newsweek list of the 50 Most Influential Rabbis in America.  Not to quote myself but in that first post I wrote: These lists are sort of funny, because of course they make no sense &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/making-the-list/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Thinking About the Middle East III</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/thinking-about-the-middle-east-iii/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/thinking-about-the-middle-east-iii/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Apr 2011 15:38:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;And after your done with the article by Michael Oren, you should out the various responses published by Foreign Policy. I particularly recommend, as I almost always do, the article of Jeffrey Goldberg.  Goldberg, while agreeing with much of Ambassador &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/thinking-about-the-middle-east-iii/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Thinking About the Middle East II</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/thinking-about-the-middle-east-ii/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/thinking-about-the-middle-east-ii/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Apr 2011 15:33:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The most recent issue of Foreign Policy includes a long essay by Israel&#8217;s Ambassador the United States, Michael Oren, arguing that Israel is an essential ally of the U.S., and a vital part of American interests.  He constructs his argument &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/thinking-about-the-middle-east-ii/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Thinking about the Middle East</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/thinking-about-the-middle-east/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/thinking-about-the-middle-east/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Apr 2011 15:02:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The most recent issue of the Jewish Review of Books had several nice article about the transitions taking place in the Middle East.  I highly recommend this symposium of different observers.  It&#8217;s all worth a read.  Here&#8217;s a teaser from &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/thinking-about-the-middle-east/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Uh-Oh</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/uh-oh-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/uh-oh-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Apr 2011 14:55:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I know it&#8217;s been a few days since I&#8217;ve blogged, and I really wanted to come back to it with some happy things, but&#8230;what can I say, we live in hard times.  This is not good: Egypt is charting a &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/uh-oh-2/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Lovely and Sad</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/lovely/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/lovely/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2011 01:56:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Rabbi Thoughts]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.shirchadashnola.org/?p=2442</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this week, Tim Heatherington, who, along with Sebastian Junger, made the amazing, harrowing documentary film Restrepo, was killed covering the civil war in Libya.  Junger wrote a terrific piece in Vanity Fair about his friend.  Here&#8217;s a taste: After &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/lovely/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Head Covering</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/head-covering/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/head-covering/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2011 00:44:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conservative Judaism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religion in America]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There was a really interesting story this morning on NPR about Muslim women and the decision to cover their with a hijab. The story notes that many of the women who choose to remove the hijab do so partly because &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/head-covering/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Not Making the List</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/not-making-the-list/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/not-making-the-list/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2011 00:31:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Humor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jewish world]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For the past few years, Newsweek has put out a list of the Top 50 Rabbis.  The name has changed, now it&#8217;s called The 50 Most Influential Rabbis (which I guess is more objective than &#8220;best&#8221;) and they even started &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/not-making-the-list/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Drop Everything And&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/drop-everything-and-18/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/drop-everything-and-18/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2011 00:14:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Drop Everything And...]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I know it&#8217;s been awhile since I posted under this heading, and I know I am a bit late in coming to this piece from The New Yorker of April 4th.  But David Grann&#8217;s article about Guatemala is amazing, disturbing &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/drop-everything-and-18/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Great Story</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/great-story/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/great-story/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2011 00:10:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Jewish world]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[While I was is in Israel a couple of weeks ago, our group made a visit to Yad Vashem, the national Holocaust memorial museum that was extensively redone about five years ago.  Aside from the museum exhibit, Yad Vashem is &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/great-story/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A Portion of the Portion Acharei Mot</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/a-portion-of-the-portion-acharei-mot/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/a-portion-of-the-portion-acharei-mot/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2011 16:43:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Dvar Torah]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Leviticus 16:7-10 Aaron shall take the two he-goats and let them stand before the Lord at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting, and he shall place lots upon the two goats, one marked for the Lord and the other &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/a-portion-of-the-portion-acharei-mot/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Gleeking</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/gleeking/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/gleeking/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2011 16:09:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Jewish world]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rabbi Thoughts]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Despite several attempts and many exhortations from family and friends, I have never really been able to get into Glee.  (I can&#8217;t say the same about Friday Night Lights, which is finally back on NBC and thus on Hulu!)  As &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/gleeking/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Tupac and the JDL</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/tupac-and-the-jdl/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/tupac-and-the-jdl/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2011 15:31:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Humor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jewish world]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Seriously.  I don&#8217;t even know what to make of this: Files released Thursday by the Federal Bureau of Investigation on the 1996 murder of rapper Tupac Shakur state that the star had received death threats from the Jewish Defense League, &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/tupac-and-the-jdl/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>All&#8217;s Well That Ends Well</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/alls-well-that-ends-well/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/alls-well-that-ends-well/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2011 20:09:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Rabbi Thoughts]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I think it would be hard to overstate the difference between Ghanaian funerals, at least as described in this New York Times article, and traditional Jewish ones: Generally come-one-come-all, the memorials have become larger and more frequent in recent years &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/alls-well-that-ends-well/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>On Liturgy</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/on-liturgy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2011 20:01:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Rabbi Thoughts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religion in America]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It seems the Catholic Church is altering the mass.  That is, they are issuing a new translation of the mass, and it&#8217;s got some folks pretty riled up: But after getting a glimpse of the texts in recent months, thousands &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/on-liturgy/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>There is No Joy Except With Drink and Food</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/there-is-no-joy-except-with-drink-and-food/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/there-is-no-joy-except-with-drink-and-food/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2011 18:43:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Jewish world]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Great article in The New York Times about eating disorders in the Orthodox world.  This is a serious problem that&#8211;like domestic abuse&#8211;is often kept under wraps as the families try to handle the issue &#8220;inside the community.&#8221;  One fascinating aspect &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/there-is-no-joy-except-with-drink-and-food/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Out of Bounds</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/out-of-bounds/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/out-of-bounds/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2011 18:34:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just as I arrived back in the United States from my trip to Israel a friend of mine, now living in Israel, sent me this fascinating and somewhat troubling article from the JTA. The speaker invited then uninvited. The signature &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/out-of-bounds/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Home News</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/home-news-4/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/home-news-4/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2011 15:05:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Sorry about the slow posting over the past few days: I was traveling in Israel, and had little time to think, let alone blog.  But I am back now, and I hope to be back to full blogging strength soon.]]></description>
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		<title>Relevant History</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/relevant-history/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/relevant-history/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Apr 2011 01:39:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[New Orleans]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a great article from AP&#8217;s Christopher Sullivan about the commemoration of the Civil War.  An excerpt: A hush fell over the crowd filling the elegant hall in downtown Richmond, Va. The vote was about to be announced, and a &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/relevant-history/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Voting With Our Heads</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/voting-with-our-heads/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/voting-with-our-heads/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Apr 2011 20:20:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Current Events]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New Orleans]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Following up a thread about voting in local elections I started below, I note this interesting post (via Andrew Sullivan) about voting in America: Unfortunately, extensive evidence shows that most voters both know very little about public policy and do &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/voting-with-our-heads/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>More on War on Taxes</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/more-on-war-on-taxes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/more-on-war-on-taxes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Apr 2011 02:28:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Current Events]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New Orleans]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Apropos my final comments from the last post, I should also note that voters in Kenner, LA (next to my own home of Metairie) soundly rejected a proposed menu of tax increases to fund sewage, police and fire: Kenner Mayor &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/more-on-war-on-taxes/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Diminished Detroit</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/diminished-detroit/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/diminished-detroit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Apr 2011 02:28:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Current Events]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New Orleans]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Since I am delayed in the airport in New Orleans, and since Armstrong airport has (hooray!) free wi-fi, I thought I should highlight this great article from The New York Times  about planning for the shrinking of Detroit. Here&#8217;s the &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/diminished-detroit/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A Family Affair</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/a-family-affair/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/a-family-affair/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Apr 2011 01:15:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Current Events]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New Orleans]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t follow local politics as closely as I should, partly because I find it hard to get really worked up about say, the race for Jefferson Parish Assessor.  It&#8217;s not the job isn&#8217;t important&#8211;figuring out how much to charge &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/a-family-affair/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>How We Fail</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/how-we-fail/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/how-we-fail/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Apr 2011 21:53:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Current Events]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Today is the one year anniversary of the Upper Big Branch Mine disaster, which killed 29 men.  Most people have already forgotten about the tragedy, but my home town newspaper the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette has an excellent story about the legislative &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/how-we-fail/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Distressing</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/distressing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2011 22:17:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This analysis from Ethan Bronner in The New York Times, about the coming diplomatic crisis for Israel, seems correct to me. Bronner notes that in September, the Palestinian Authority will probably press for a vote of recognition from the General &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/distressing/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>This is a Big Deal</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/this-is-a-big-deal/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/this-is-a-big-deal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Apr 2011 19:48:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Richard Goldstone, author of the eponymous report on Gaza war of 2008-09, is..well, taking it back. We know a lot more today about what happened in the Gaza war of 2008-09 than we did when I chaired the fact-finding mission &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/this-is-a-big-deal/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Problem of Independence</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/the-problem-of-independence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2011 23:24:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conservative Judaism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Dreyfus, who blogs as BZ at JewSchool, and who has even left some comments here on this blog, has a piece in The Forward about the issue.  This point, I think, is very strong: Independent minyanim do not claim &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/the-problem-of-independence/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Awkward</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/awkward/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Mar 2011 23:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Humor]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This is what happens when you get downgraded: The visit to Mercury is last frontier of planetary exploration that NASA will reach for a quite some time. The space agency has sent orbiters to five planets — Mercury, Venus, Mars, &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/awkward/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>This is not an Onion Article</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/this-is-not-a-joke/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:19:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Humor]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[At least I don&#8217;t think it is.  There&#8217;s a new Jewish dating site out there, and this time, it&#8217;s the moms who are in charge: &#8220;My mom is the typical Long Island Jewish mommy,&#8221; said Amanda, a 29-year-old teacher in &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/this-is-not-a-joke/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The God Question</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/the-god-question/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Mar 2011 19:39:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Watch this video on YouTube If you have some time, it is well worth watching this debate between Rabbi Shmuley Boteach and Christopher Hitchens.  Hitchens is the author of God is Not Great and is one of the so called &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/the-god-question/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Bad Ideas Department</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/bad-ideas-department/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2011 22:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Double Oops. Motocross star James &#8220;Bubba&#8221; Stewart Jr. has been charged with impersonating a police officer after authorities said he used flashing lights to pull over two off-duty highway patrol troopers. And here&#8217;s me thinking Motocross is just about men &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/bad-ideas-department/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>That&#8217;s Some Fiesta!</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/thats-some-fiesta/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2011 21:54:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Current Events]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oops. Top executives at the Fiesta Bowl, the host of one of the nation’s pre-eminent college football games, funneled campaign contributions to local politicians, flew other Arizona elected officials around the country at the bowl’s expense, racked up a $1,000 &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/thats-some-fiesta/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Fixing New Orleans</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/fixing-new-orleans/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/fixing-new-orleans/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2011 20:57:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[New Orleans]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shir Chadash member Josh Lichtman, who is the director of Avodah in New Orleans, and Moshe Kornfeld, an anthropologist at the University of Michigan (who also happens to be my brother-in-law) have a nice article up at PresentTense, one of &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/fixing-new-orleans/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>On Hope</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/on-hope/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2011 19:06:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Humor]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Spring is in the air, and the first pitch of the 2011 Major League Baseball season is right around the corner.  I was chatting with my brother the other night and we were reviewing the stages of Pittsburgh Pirates Fan &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/on-hope/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>J Street</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/j-street/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2011 16:19:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I can&#8217;t say much more than Jeffrey Goldberg already has. The Knesset is debating whether or not J Street is Zionist. This is a farce. The prime minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, refuses to meet with J Street. This, too, &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/j-street/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Self-Defeating</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/self-defeating/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2011 16:16:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[That&#8217;s what the Israel&#8217;s current Knesset is trying to prove it can be: On one side were members of the Israeli Parliament and advocates who argued that there was only one legitimate way to support Israel from abroad — unconditionally. &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/self-defeating/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Great Resource</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/great-resource/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/great-resource/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Mar 2011 19:32:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In honor of the one hundredth anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, The Jewish Daily Forward has posted a selection of translated articles from its original reporting from the immediate aftermath of the disaster.  (The original articles were in &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/great-resource/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A Portion of the Portion Shimini</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/a-portion-of-the-portion-shimini/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/a-portion-of-the-portion-shimini/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2011 21:27:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Dvar Torah]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Leviticus 9:22-23 22Aaron lifted his hands towards the people and blessed them, and he stepped down after offering the purification offering, the burnt offering, the offering of well-being.  23Moses and Aaron then went inside the Tent of Meeting.  When they &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/a-portion-of-the-portion-shimini/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Movement and Institution</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/movement-and-institution/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/movement-and-institution/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Mar 2011 21:39:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conservative Judaism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Rabbi Julie Schonfeld, the Executive Director of the Rabbinical Assembly, makes the same point I made: We in the Conservative community, and indeed, in the larger Jewish community, have been confusing the Conservative “movement,” with Conservative “institutions.” The Conservative movement &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/movement-and-institution/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Seeing it Another Way</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/seeing-it-another-way/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/seeing-it-another-way/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Mar 2011 21:15:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Current Events]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Via Jeffrey Goldberg, Nicholas Kristof, writing in The New York Times, makes a very strong case for the Libyan intervention: Critics of the intervention make valid arguments. It’s true that there are enormous uncertainties: Can the rebels now topple Colonel &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/seeing-it-another-way/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Center Bashing</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/center-bashing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/center-bashing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Mar 2011 20:12:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conservative Judaism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Bob Goldfarb, writing at ejewishphilanthropy.com, has some not-nice things to say about Conservative Judaism and the Draft Strategic Plan of the USCJ: In short, the Conservative movement’s inclinations towards moderation and compromise have become weaknesses, not strengths. Preferences for Jewish &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/center-bashing/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Progress</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/progress/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/progress/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Mar 2011 16:16:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have no idea what is actually going on in this video, but it seems to be happening in Russia, in front of a large studio audience.  I would say many generations of Russian leaders are rolling over in their &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/progress/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;It&#8217;s Really Imaginary&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/its-really-imaginary/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/its-really-imaginary/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Mar 2011 15:34:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Humor]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This Daily Show video, sent to me by someone who knew I would love it (thanks, Avram!) is hysterical, but also rather poignant.  The &#8220;correspondent&#8221; Wyatt Cenac, does a great job.]]></description>
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		<title>The Future of History</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/the-future-of-history/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/the-future-of-history/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Mar 2011 19:20:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Jewish world]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Interesting review in The New York Times of the new Los Angeles Holocaust museum.  As the article notes, there are Holocaust museums all over the United States (and of course a national Holocaust museum in Washington D.C.) and the Holocaust &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/the-future-of-history/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Escalation?</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/escalation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/escalation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Mar 2011 15:34:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, a rocket from Gaza landed in Beer Sheva, representing a deeper attack into Israel than we have seen since the war in Gaza ended over two years ago. Today, what appears to be a terrorist attack in central Jerusalem &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/escalation/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Bad News</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/bad-news-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/bad-news-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Mar 2011 14:28:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[News reports indicate that a bus just exploded in Jerusalem.  It is unclear right now what happened. Update: Channel 10 in Israel is reporting that the bomb was not a suicide bomber, but was a bomb of &#8220;medium&#8221; size placed &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/bad-news-2/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s the Worst That Could Happen? ctd.</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/whats-the-worst-that-could-happen-ctd/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/whats-the-worst-that-could-happen-ctd/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Mar 2011 03:23:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Current Events]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I mentioned in an earlier post that Richard Posner had written a book called Catastrophe: Risk and Response about the topic of planning for the worst case scenarios.  Well, here&#8217;s the man himself discussing the Japanese crisis: A catastrophic risk, &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/whats-the-worst-that-could-happen-ctd/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Reforming Reform</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/reforming-reform/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/reforming-reform/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Mar 2011 19:27:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Jewish world]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t pay much attention the politics of the Reform movement, since I can hardly keep up with the zigs and zags of my own Movement, let alone trying to worry about the largest American denomination.  But I was interested &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/reforming-reform/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Single Serving</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/single-serving/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/single-serving/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Mar 2011 18:49:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Jewish world]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rabbi Thoughts]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Interesting article from The New York Times about the difficulty for single men or women of finding a job as pastor in Evangelical churches.  This sort of thing certainly exists in synagogue life as well, and is more pervasive, I &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/single-serving/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>All We Need is (Not) Love</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/all-we-need-is-not-love/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/all-we-need-is-not-love/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Mar 2011 17:54:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Jewish Thought]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jewish world]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Alex Sinclair, who used to teach at the Jewish Theological Seminary and is now the Director of Israel programs for JTS, thinks Liberal Judaism needs to be more combative in confronting Orthodox excesses: A new world Jewish movement is needed: &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/all-we-need-is-not-love/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Libya Again</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/libya-again/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/libya-again/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Mar 2011 03:56:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Current Events]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In the end, I guess what I have been trying to say about Libya boils down to this: why not Yemen, or Syria, or Bahrain, or, for that matter the Ivory Coast, all of which have seen violence against unarmed &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/libya-again/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Libya Redux, ctd</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/libya-redux-ctd-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/libya-redux-ctd-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Mar 2011 22:39:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Add Jeffrey Goldberg the Linden/Lynch camp: And another question: Are we seeking to depose Qaddafi, who, we are informed by various American officials, has &#8220;lost his legitimacy&#8221; to rule (as if he didn&#8217;t lose it when, for instance, he blew &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/libya-redux-ctd-2/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Libya Redux, Ctd.</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/libya-redux-ctd/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/libya-redux-ctd/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Mar 2011 18:17:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Marc Lynch, who is always worth reading on the Middle East, is basically on the same page as I am&#8230;or I should probably say (since he is a Middle East expert and I am a congregational rabbi) I am on &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/libya-redux-ctd/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Kafka in Israel</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/kafka-in-israel/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/kafka-in-israel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Mar 2011 17:55:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is what happens when one group of fanatics get to run the religious part of a modern secular state: Under instruction of the Supreme Court, in mid March the state proposed its solution to the problem of people who &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/kafka-in-israel/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Sigh.</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/sigh-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/sigh-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Mar 2011 17:12:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The headline says it all. CNN Sending Eight Times More Staff to Royal Wedding Than to Japan This is why I&#8217;ll happily be paying to read The New York Times online.]]></description>
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		<title>A Portion of the Portion Tzav</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/a-portion-of-the-portion-tzav/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/a-portion-of-the-portion-tzav/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Mar 2011 17:12:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Dvar Torah]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Leviticus 6:5-6 5The fire on the altar shall be kept burning, not to go out: every morning the priest shall feed wood to it, lay out the burnt offering on it, and turn into smoke the fat parts of the &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/a-portion-of-the-portion-tzav/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Feeling&#8217; Good</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/feeling-good/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/feeling-good/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Mar 2011 16:47:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Jewish world]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s what&#8217;s wrong with Judaism in America, in case you were wondering: The Pirates lost, 13-3, to the Orioles in a game Thursday at McKechnie Field. Baltimore had 20 hits and scored six earned runs in the third inning against &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/feeling-good/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Solving the Problem</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/solving-the-problem/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Mar 2011 14:39:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Current Events]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Humor]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[After tefillin-gate, Alaska Airlines is stepping up: Alaska Airlines apologizes Thursday for the misunderstanding that occurred earlier this week on board one of their flights, in which flight attendants issued a security alert when three Mexican Jews began praying with &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/solving-the-problem/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Libya Redux</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/libya-redux/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/libya-redux/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Mar 2011 14:20:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have posted previously about Libya, specifically voicing concern over the seemingly simple intervention of establishing a no-fly zone.  Now that U.N. Security Council has approved military action in the conflict, the real question will be: who will do it &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/libya-redux/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Two Kinds of Civil Rights</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/two-kinds-of-civil-rights/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/two-kinds-of-civil-rights/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2011 19:58:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Via Andrew Sullivan, I see that today is the birthday of Bayard Rustin who died in 1987.  As I have mentioned previously, I have been reading Parting the Waters, a big, excellent book on the Civil Rights movement.  One of &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/two-kinds-of-civil-rights/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s the Worst That Could Happen?</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/whats-the-worst-that-could-happen/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/whats-the-worst-that-could-happen/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2011 15:17:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few years ago, Richard Posner wrote a book (which I have not read) called Catastrophe: Risk and Response about how to think about&#8230;well, catastrophes.  Specifically, how to think about the cost/benefit analysis for the preparation of catastrophic events.  As &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/whats-the-worst-that-could-happen/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A Different Sort of Grieving</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/a-different-sort-of-grieving/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/a-different-sort-of-grieving/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2011 13:40:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the comments on this post (thanks, Amanda!) direct me to this amazing interview with a Harvard law professor named William Stuntz who was dying with cancer (and has since died.)   Professor Stunzt suffered from chronic pain in his &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/a-different-sort-of-grieving/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Women and Purim</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/women-and-purim/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/women-and-purim/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2011 01:25:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It seems like in Purim of all places, that&#8217;s a no-brainer.  The book is called &#8220;Esther&#8221; after all.  So, where, pray tell, are the women in the new Maccabeats video?  That&#8217;s what Natalie Blitt and Rabbi Josh Feigelson are asking. &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/women-and-purim/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Speechless</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/speechless/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/speechless/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2011 20:55:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Current Events]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I have been trying to think of something even remotely intelligent to say about the horrible events in Itamar.  Murder of civilians sleeping in their homes is always and everywhere completely unacceptable.  The politics do not matter, the borders do &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/speechless/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Not an Onion Article</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/not-an-onion-article/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/not-an-onion-article/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2011 20:29:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Humor]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Manhattan mom sues $19K/yr. preschool for damaging 4-year-old daughter&#8217;s Ivy League I promise.  Liba specializes in sending me article like this, which I have to come think of as &#8220;evidence that some future historian will point to when attempting to &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/not-an-onion-article/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Phylacteries on a Plane</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/phylacteries-on-plan/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/phylacteries-on-plan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2011 19:17:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[They are not as scary as snakes, but they did cause a bit of security uproar on a recent Alaska Airlines flight. The three passengers had startled members of the cabin crew with what what was interpreted as suspicious behavior &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/phylacteries-on-plan/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Asked and Answered Watch</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/asked-and-answered-watch/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/asked-and-answered-watch/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2011 18:38:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Humor]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Ok, ok, I promise not to do this all season, but Pirates Manager Clint Hurdle is really good at the whole ask-myself-a-question thing: &#8220;Offensively, we&#8217;re just trying to get him to shorten up [his swing] a little bit. We know &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/asked-and-answered-watch/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A Portion of the Portion Vayikra</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/a-portion-of-the-portion-vayikra/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/a-portion-of-the-portion-vayikra/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2011 17:33:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Dvar Torah]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Leviticus 4:1-3 The Lord spoke to Moses saying, Speak to the Israelite people thus: When a person unwittingly incurs guilt in regard to any of the Lord’s commandments about things not to be done, and does one of them—If it &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/a-portion-of-the-portion-vayikra/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Hebrew As A Secular Language</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/hebrew-as-a-secular-language/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/hebrew-as-a-secular-language/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2011 17:08:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Jewish world]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There is a new but growing phenomenon of Hebrew charter schools.  These are public charters that are&#8211;to one extent or another&#8211;Hebrew immersion programs.  Of course, as publicly funded charter schools, there can be no hint of religious education.  Even teaching &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/hebrew-as-a-secular-language/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Speech</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/the-speech/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/the-speech/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2011 06:25:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I&#8217;ve noted before, I am reading Taylor Branch&#8217;s remarkable book Parting the Waters, the first in a trilogy about Martin Luther King and the civil rights movement.  The book is marvelous, and just absolutely packed with detail and moving &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/the-speech/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Did I Need to Post this? Yes.</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/did-i-need-to-post-this-yes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/did-i-need-to-post-this-yes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Mar 2011 17:46:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Humor]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I read a lot of sports journalism, and sports figures seem to love being interviewed, as long as they are the ones asking the questions.  For example, here is Pirates manager Clint Hurdle talking about a newly acquired player: &#8220;Can &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/did-i-need-to-post-this-yes/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Taxi to the Dark Side</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/taxi-to-the-dark-side/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/taxi-to-the-dark-side/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Mar 2011 22:29:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Humor]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This story about New York City cab drivers illegally refusing to take people to destinations in New York City reminded me of my all time scariest cab moment.  I was a student at JTS on the Upper, Upper West Side &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/taxi-to-the-dark-side/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Abolishing the Death Penalty</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/abolishing-the-death-penalty/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/abolishing-the-death-penalty/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Mar 2011 21:51:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Current Events]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Public opinion polling consistently shows strong support among Americans for the death penalty.  The most recent Gallup polling, for example, shows the American public split 64/29 in favor. (The graph showing the trends on this question are very interesting: the &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/abolishing-the-death-penalty/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Strange Bedfellows</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/strange-bedfellows/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/strange-bedfellows/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Mar 2011 16:34:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love the The New York Times because it brings me stories like this, stories I would never find on my own The calls from Malaysia come in daily to Ralph Isenberg, a Texas businessman who has become an unorthodox &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/strange-bedfellows/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Options in Libya, Ctd</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/options-in-libya-ctd/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/options-in-libya-ctd/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Mar 2011 15:31:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apropos of my earlier post about Libya, Muammar el-Qaddafi is threatening to resist any attempt to institute a no-fly zone with force: As world powers debate measures against Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, including the creation of a possible no-fly zone to &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/options-in-libya-ctd/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Of Chefs and Halakhah</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/of-chefs-and-halakhah/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Mar 2011 18:30:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conservative Judaism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Maybe &#8220;your way, right away&#8221; isn&#8217;t the best way to run a restaurant.  The notion of customer service is at the forefront of any retail experience, and certainly restaurants are chief among those business that worry about their &#8220;service&#8221; record.  &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/of-chefs-and-halakhah/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Thinking About Grief</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/thinking-about-grief/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/thinking-about-grief/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Mar 2011 17:30:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have written previously that as a young rabbi one of the great challenges I have is accessing people&#8217;s grief when a parent, spouse or child dies.  These are not losses I have experienced, nor have most of my peers, &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/thinking-about-grief/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Options in Libya</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/options-in-libya/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/options-in-libya/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Mar 2011 06:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to this article in The New York Times, the U.S. government has begun to debate the possibility of assisting the rebels forces in Libya in some way. As the article notes, there are a multitude of options, from the use &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/options-in-libya/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>New Orleans is #1!</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/new-orleans-is-1/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/new-orleans-is-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Mar 2011 06:45:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At dysfunction&#8230; Calling New Orleans city government the most dysfunctional he&#8217;s ever seen, a leading turnaround specialist delivered a report to Mayor Mitch Landrieu this week identifying a long list of problems at City Hall, as well as a 10-point &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/new-orleans-is-1/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Best Highlight Call Ever?</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/best-highlight-call-ever/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/best-highlight-call-ever/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Mar 2011 17:14:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I saw this on a friend&#8217;s Facebook page. It&#8217;s kinda awesome. Watch this video on YouTube]]></description>
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		<title>Honor Codes</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/honor-codes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Mar 2011 11:58:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This article in The New York times about the honor code at Brigham Young University is fascinating.  As the article points out, many schools have various kinds of code: academic codes, honor codes, etc.  But B.Y.U. has a very extensive &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/honor-codes/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Foundation of Louisiana Politics</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/the-foundation-of-louisiana-politics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Mar 2011 11:07:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fascinating article from The New York Times about a new way to curry favor with politicians. Louisiana’s biggest corporate players, many with long agendas before the state government, are restricted in making campaign contributions to Gov. Bobby Jindal. But they &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/the-foundation-of-louisiana-politics/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Evil</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/evil/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Mar 2011 06:04:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stories like this are hard to fathom: On Jan. 28, the police arrived at a two-story house on a quiet cul-de-sac in Tampa Palms to find Julie Schenecker unconscious on the patio, blood on her white bathrobe. Inside were the &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/evil/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A Portion of the Portion Pekudei</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/a-portion-of-the-portion-pekudei/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Mar 2011 05:51:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Exodus 39:42 Just as the Lord had commended Moses, so the children of Israel had done all the work.  Moses saw all the work&#8211; just as God had commanded them, so they had done&#8211;and Moses blessed them. This verse is &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/a-portion-of-the-portion-pekudei/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The New Olympic Logo</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/the-new-olympic-logo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Mar 2011 04:14:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I blogged recently about Iran&#8217;s concerns about the 2012 Olympic Logo.  I assume they really won&#8217;t like this change:]]></description>
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		<title>Costs of War</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/costs-of-war/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2011 11:58:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is horrible: Nine boys collecting firewood to heat their homes in the eastern Afghanistan mountains were killed by NATO helicopter gunners who mistook them for insurgents, according to a statement on Wednesday by NATO, which apologized for the mistake. &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/costs-of-war/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Summing Us Up</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/summing-us-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2011 11:34:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to Gary Rosenblatt, that&#8217;s what go-to sociologist Steven M. Cohen did the other night, in a discussion about the current state of the Jewish world: “We are demographically distressed and culturally creative.” It&#8217;s a nice pithy phrase.  But really, &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/summing-us-up/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A National Conversation About Abortion?</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/a-national-conversation-about-abortion/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/a-national-conversation-about-abortion/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2011 09:32:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[That&#8217;s what my colleague, Rabbi Jill Jacobs wants: [I]magine a national religion and values-based conversation about abortion. A Catholic might say, &#8220;In my religious tradition, life begins at conception and I feel that I have a responsibility to protect every &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/a-national-conversation-about-abortion/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Jews: Is there anything we can&#8217;t do?</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/jews-is-there-anything-we-cant-do/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/jews-is-there-anything-we-cant-do/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2011 09:15:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[No.  Just ask WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange: A report published by a British magazine on Tuesday said the WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, suggested that British journalists, including the editor of The Guardian, were engaged in a Jewish-led conspiracy to smear &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/jews-is-there-anything-we-cant-do/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Phew!</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/phew/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2011 05:48:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Jewish world]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Looks like we&#8217;re off the hook: Pope Benedict XVI has made a sweeping exoneration of the Jewish people for the death of Jesus Christ in a new book, tackling one of the most controversial issues in Christianity. If only this &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/phew/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Civil War and the Jewish Question</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/the-civil-war-and-the-jewish-question/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2011 04:39:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s an old joke that goes like this, or some variation of this: Four doctoral students — a German, a Frenchman, a Russian and a Jew — took a seminar requiring a paper about elephants. The German wrote about authority &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/the-civil-war-and-the-jewish-question/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A Jewish Entertainer!?</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/a-jewish-entertainer-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2011 02:58:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In case you were wondering about Jews at the Oscars, The Jewish Journal is on the case. During a brief moment of the opening montage of Sunday’s Academy Award ceremony, hosts James Franco and Anne Hathaway played with a dreidel, &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/a-jewish-entertainer-2/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Rethinking the USCJ, Ctd</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/rethinking-the-uscj-ctd/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2011 09:18:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my first post about the Draft Strategic Plan for the USCJ, I noted that I agreed with the generally bleak assessment of Koach, the college arm of the Conservative Movement.  As I noted in that post, the Strategic Plan &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/rethinking-the-uscj-ctd/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Best Story of the Day</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/best-story-of-the-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2011 07:22:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Look at this logo for the 2012 Olympic Games in London: Do you see the hidden word &#8220;Zion&#8221;?  Well, you should: Iran is protesting the logo for the 2012 Olympic Games, saying it spells the word “Zion.” Mohammad Aliabadi, head &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/best-story-of-the-day/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Independent Minyan, Ctd</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/independent-minyan-ctd-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/independent-minyan-ctd-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2011 05:39:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week The Forward published what I thought was a very fair editorial on the Independent Minyan phenomenon.  I think the writer did a good job of citing the strengths and weakness of the Movement (or non-Movement, depending on how &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/independent-minyan-ctd-2/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Flip Side</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/flip-side/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2011 05:16:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Humor]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s Yemen&#8217;s president Ali Abdullah Saleh, finally figuring out what&#8217;s behind all these uprisings in the Middle East: &#8220;The wave of political unrest sweeping across the Arab world is a conspiracy that serves Israel and the Zionists,&#8221; Saleh said while &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/flip-side/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Blog Archives</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2011 04:56:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A regular reader of the site (thanks Lauren!) writes in to ask if we can add a monthly archive of blog posts to the site.  We can!  And we have.  Thanks for the suggestion and keep &#8216;em coming!]]></description>
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		<title>Boo Hoo</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/boo-hoo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2011 04:53:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A front page article in today&#8217;s Times Picayune makes the point that it can sometimes be hard to figure out when Mardi Gras is going to be: The exact Easter calculation is surprisingly complex, but the general formula — not &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/boo-hoo/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m Actually From Connecuticut But That&#8217;s Neither Here Nor There</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/im-actually-from-connecuticut-but-thats-neither-here-nor-there/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2011 03:57:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From a letter to the editor in last week&#8217;s Times Picayune: The oil spill fund and its claims process is shaping up as the &#8220;Battle of British Petroleum.&#8221; Mr. Feinberg is one savvy New York lawyer, but as he goes &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/im-actually-from-connecuticut-but-thats-neither-here-nor-there/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Historical Imagination</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/historical-imagination/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2011 03:08:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seems like we&#8217;ve been talking about history a lot over the last few days.  Well, here&#8217;s another little revision, from Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski&#8217;s recent interview with Haaretz. &#8220;We feel solidarity with both peoples of the holy land, who &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/historical-imagination/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>More History Lessons</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/more-history-lessons/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2011 07:43:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The situation in Wisconsin continues to be very strange.  Just yesterday, a journalist from Buffalo called up Wisconsin Governor Scott Walked and pretended to be billionaire supporter David Koch.  The full transcript of the conversation is here.  A lot of &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/more-history-lessons/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Beck Apologizes&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/beck-apologizes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2011 05:20:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;on his radio show for comparing Reform Judaism to radical Islam. “I was wrong on this … and I apologize for it,” said Beck. “In this case I did not do enough homework.” “Somebody has called me ignorant for what &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/beck-apologizes/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>History as Politics</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/history-as-politics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2011 03:38:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rick Santorum, a former United States Senator, has a bone to pick with history and the people who tell it: “The idea that the Crusades and the fight of Christendom against Islam is somehow an aggression on our part is &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/history-as-politics/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Union Maid</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/union-maid/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2011 01:01:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rabbi Jill Jacobs has been thinking along the same lines that I have, and she has a strong article up at the website Religion Dispatches. (Jill did Seminary Summer the same year I did, so it seems the AFL-CIO got &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/union-maid/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>BP: We Will Make It (the Commercials) Right</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/bp-we-will-make-it-the-commercials-right/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/bp-we-will-make-it-the-commercials-right/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2011 13:50:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[New Orleans]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Perhaps you&#8217;ve seen those heart-string tugging BP ads about how they&#8217;re really helping to make it right: Watch this video on YouTube Well, just so you know, BP is full of &#60;word removed&#8230;this is a family blog&#62;.  Mark Schleifstein, writing &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/bp-we-will-make-it-the-commercials-right/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Remembering My Childhood</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/remembering-my-childhood/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/remembering-my-childhood/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2011 06:41:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in the glory days of America, when I was a young teen, everybody who was anybody watched NBC.  The Cosby show, ER, Friends, Cheers, The West Wing, Law and Order, Law and Order Special Victims Unit, Law and Order: &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/remembering-my-childhood/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Bad Economy + Overheated Rhetoric =</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/bad-economy-overheated-rhetoric/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/bad-economy-overheated-rhetoric/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2011 06:22:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hate group-a-palooza! A new study by the Southern Poverty Law Center describes a big rise in hate groups across the country. By its count, there are now more than 1,000 active extremist groups in the U.S. Experts say the largest &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/bad-economy-overheated-rhetoric/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Reform(ed) Judaism versus Glenn Beck</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/reform-judaism-versus-glenn-beck/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/reform-judaism-versus-glenn-beck/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2011 06:15:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conservative Judaism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I try really hard not to write about Glenn Beck, because really, what&#8217;s the point?  But sometimes the guy is just screaming for attention from a rabbi.  Here&#8217;s a transcript of a recent Beck radio show.  He is talking about &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/reform-judaism-versus-glenn-beck/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Better Late Than Never</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/better-late-than-never/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/better-late-than-never/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2011 05:57:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to the I&#8217;m-angry-at-Israel-over-conversion party Modern Orthodox world! Dozens of North American Orthodox rabbis protested to Israel’s Interior Ministry following reports that converts under Orthodox auspices are being denied the right to immigrate. “We are concerned that conversions performed under &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/better-late-than-never/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Solidarity Forever</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/solidarity-forever/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/solidarity-forever/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2011 04:20:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I spent one summer in a program called Seminary Summer, a program run by the AFL-CIO that gave seminary students (of which I was one) a chance to work as organizers in the labor movement.  The idea was to give &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/solidarity-forever/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Ouch (Or: Rethinking the USCJ Part II)</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/ouch/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/ouch/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Feb 2011 22:08:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conservative Judaism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A reform rabbi chastises his own movement for maintain a vague and ultimately unsatisfying theology.  Rabbi Dana Evan Kaplan argues that the organizational issues of Reform Judaism (mirrored by the Conservative Movement issues I discussed here) are not really the &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/ouch/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Home News</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/home-news-3/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/home-news-3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Feb 2011 11:13:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[New Orleans]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a great article about covering Katrina and the BP Oil Spill from Mark Schleifstein, a Pulitzer Prize winning reporter at the Times Picayune and an active member of Shir Chadash.  Here&#8217;s a teaser, but read the whole thing: At &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/home-news-3/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Libya</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/libya/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/libya/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Feb 2011 04:32:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Things have gotten increasingly violent in Libya, and recent reports indicate that over 170 have died.  Not every dictator is going to go as easy as those in Tunisia and Egypt.  The violence is a remember of how much courage &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/libya/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Hosting</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/hosting/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/hosting/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Feb 2011 23:48:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This Shabbat we hosted a great group from Ikar, a terrific schul out in Los Angeles.  Here is a blog they are keeping with some of their reflections.  They were a great group.  It&#8217;s always inspiring to have people come &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/hosting/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Middle Eastern/North African Turmoil</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/middle-easternnorth-african-turmoil/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/middle-easternnorth-african-turmoil/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2011 23:42:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is a nice summary of the government responses in Yemen, Libya and Bahrain, as well as some updates on Egypt.  The short story is that other governments are determined to stay ahead of the protests by engaging n increasingly &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/middle-easternnorth-african-turmoil/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>What The American Jewish Apocolypse Looks Like</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/what-the-american-jewish-apocolypse-looks-like/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/what-the-american-jewish-apocolypse-looks-like/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2011 20:26:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Inspired by BZ over at Jew School, I feel that I should fisk (=to carefully read and tear apart mercilessly) this absurd Haartez article by Anschel Pfeffer which promises to explain &#8220;Why Liberal Judaism is in free fall.&#8221; Shall we &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/what-the-american-jewish-apocolypse-looks-like/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>He Who Saves One Life&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/he-who-saves-one-life/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/he-who-saves-one-life/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2011 02:01:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;saves 9.1 million dollars.  If you work for the EPA.  If you work for the FDA he who save one life saves 7.9 million dollars. This fascinating article in The New York Times, about the monetary value of life is &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/he-who-saves-one-life/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Uncertainty</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/too-soon/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/too-soon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Feb 2011 19:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Regular reader Will sent this to me and commented, &#8220;either very awesome or very scary.&#8221;  I&#8217;ve now watched this twice, and I don&#8217;t know either. Watch this video on YouTube My favorite rhyme by the way: twitter with siddur.  I &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/too-soon/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Learning</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/learning/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/learning/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Feb 2011 18:24:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the wake of the successful (at least in the short term) revolutions in Egypt and Tunisia, one question was what the other despotic rulers in the region would learn.  Well, in Bahrain and Libya, the governments seemed to have &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/learning/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Paging John Connor, ctd</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/paging-john-connor-ctd/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/paging-john-connor-ctd/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Feb 2011 04:38:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Science Fiction, there are basically two strands of thought on what will happen when robots and computers achieve human-like intelligence, as opposed to simple brute computing speed.  One strand of thought, represented by movies like Terminator and 2001: A &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/paging-john-connor-ctd/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Independent Minyan, Ctd</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/independent-minyan-ctd/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/independent-minyan-ctd/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Feb 2011 22:52:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was going to write a follow up post to my several posts (I, II, III, IV, V) on Independent Minyanim, but I was sort of putting it off.  But now I see that Margot Lurie, whose review of Rabbi &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/independent-minyan-ctd/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Family Values</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/pro-family/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/pro-family/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Feb 2011 18:18:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From The Forward, an editorial about new policies at the Jewish Federation of North America concerning maternity and paternity leave: JFNA is the latest, and one of the most prominent, Jewish communal organizations to move into the 21st century by &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/pro-family/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Blog Love</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/blog-love/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/blog-love/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Feb 2011 17:12:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just wanted to thank Rabbi Menachem Creditor for re-posting one of my posts on his blog TheTisch.  Rabbi Creditor&#8217;s blog is well worth a regular look. I also want to thank Zach Silver, a regular reader, for giving me &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/blog-love/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Scientology</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/scientology/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/scientology/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Feb 2011 08:15:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a religious person, I am extremely reticent to judge other religions, their founding stories, or their rituals.  Certainly Jews have been the subject of all kinds of dangerous attempts to mischaracterize our beliefs and practices.  So it is with &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/scientology/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Tiger Mom book, Ctd</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/the-tiger-mom-book-ctd/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2011 22:46:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I posted earlier on The Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, the controversial book by Amy Chua.  One of my regular readers (thanks, David!) commented that I should read Ayelet Waldman&#8217;s response to the book.  I did, and it&#8217;s quite &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/the-tiger-mom-book-ctd/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Abortion and the Rubber Hitting the Road</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/abortion-and-the-rubber-hitting-the-road/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/abortion-and-the-rubber-hitting-the-road/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2011 20:14:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Out of South Dakota comes news that a new bill would expand the definition of justifiable homicide to include the killing of someone who seeks to harm or kill what the bill calls an &#8220;unborn child&#8221;.  As this article from &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/abortion-and-the-rubber-hitting-the-road/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Fishbowl Life</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/fishbowl-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2011 09:15:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m working my way through Tyler Branch&#8217;s Parting the Waters, the first book in his trilogy about Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights movement.  The book is great so far, and I have already learned a tremendous amount about &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/fishbowl-life/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>More Conversion Madness</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/more-conversion-madness/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/more-conversion-madness/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2011 08:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the past year, the Liberal Jewish Movements and the secular leadership of American Jewry have been engaged in a running battle with the Orthodox parties inside the current Israeli government over issues of conversion as it related to aliyah.  &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/more-conversion-madness/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Lindsey Lohan Was Right</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/lindsey-lohan-was-right/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/lindsey-lohan-was-right/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2011 05:44:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Drop Everything And...]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Okay, that&#8217;s not true, but since news about Lindsey Lohan seems so popular, especially if you try to watch CNN or Fox News I thought I&#8217;d try a little bloggy marketing.  Lohan was in a good little movie called Mean &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/lindsey-lohan-was-right/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Just Say &#8220;No&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/just-say-no/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/just-say-no/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2011 01:01:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Current Events]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religion in America]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[David Gregory, host of the &#8220;Meet the Press&#8221; has made a habit of asking top ranking Republican leaders in Congress what they think about the (insane) idea that President Barack Obama is secretly not an American citizen, or not  a &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/just-say-no/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Complete This Setence: Egypt and Iran are&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/complete-this-setence-egypt-and-iran-are/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/complete-this-setence-egypt-and-iran-are/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Feb 2011 18:10:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;not the same.  Or at least, they don&#8217;t have to be.  That&#8217;s the message of this article from The New York Times: There is a fear in the West, one rarely echoed here, that Egypt’s revolution could go the way of Iran’s, &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/complete-this-setence-egypt-and-iran-are/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Mubarak has left the building</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/mubarak-has-left-the-building/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/mubarak-has-left-the-building/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Feb 2011 17:18:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Finally. Of course, now the really hard work begins.]]></description>
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		<title>Climate and Revolution</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/climate-and-revolution/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/climate-and-revolution/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Feb 2011 15:13:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This in an interesting take (thanks Debbie!) on the revolution in Egypt from J.J. Goldberg writing in The Forward.  His take: rising food prices, driven largely by climate change, were prime motivators in Tunisia and are again in Egypt: The &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/climate-and-revolution/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A Portion of the Portion Tetzaveh</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/a-portion-of-the-portion-tetzaveh/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/a-portion-of-the-portion-tetzaveh/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Feb 2011 09:01:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Exodus 29:42b-44 42For there [the Tent of Meeting] I will meet with you, there I will speak with you, 43and there I will meet with the Israelites, and it shall be sanctified by My Presence.  44I will sanctify the Tent &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/a-portion-of-the-portion-tetzaveh/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Tiger Mom Book</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/the-tiger-mom-book/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/the-tiger-mom-book/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Feb 2011 08:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As regular readers of this blog know, I have a bit of a crush on David Brooks.  I also have a crush on my wife.  So, when David Brooks writes a column about a book that Liba also tells me &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/the-tiger-mom-book/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Endless War</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/endless-war/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Feb 2011 22:23:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have largely fallen off the front page, but Americans continue to fight and die in those countries.  (If you haven&#8217;t had a chance to see the extraordinary Oscar nominated film Restrepo, you should.)  This &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/endless-war/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Reason for Optimism in Egypt</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/reason-for-optimism-in-egypt/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/reason-for-optimism-in-egypt/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Feb 2011 21:40:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I hadn&#8217;t though of largely peaceful revolution in Egypt in terms of its impact on global terrorism, but Jeffrey Goldberg makes an interesting point: If it is true that Hosni Mubarak is stepping down, the people of Egypt will have &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/reason-for-optimism-in-egypt/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Why the Internet Was Invented</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Feb 2011 08:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For lists like this, from the website Jewcy: The 50 Most Essential Works of Jewish Fiction of the Last 100 Years.  Number #1, by the way, is The Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka.  I&#8217;d love hear some thoughts on this list.  &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/why-the-internet-was-invented/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Rethinking the USCJ Part One: Mirror, Mirror on the Wall</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/rethinking-the-uscj-part-one-mirror-mirror-on-the-wall/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/rethinking-the-uscj-part-one-mirror-mirror-on-the-wall/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Feb 2011 04:15:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the first things I noticed about the Draft Strategic Plan for the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism was that it was admirably blunt about the challenges: The absolute number of Conservative Jews in North America, and their “market &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/rethinking-the-uscj-part-one-mirror-mirror-on-the-wall/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Nature of the Challenge</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/the-nature-of-the-challenge/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Feb 2011 19:21:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of my former students at Harvard Hillel is down here in New Orleans as a corps member in Teach for America.  She sent along this terrific story about one of her students: //]]></description>
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		<title>Eric Cantor and Being Jewish in America</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/eric-cantor-good-jew/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/eric-cantor-good-jew/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Feb 2011 10:09:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Representative Eric Cantor of Virginia is the House majority leader, and thus, by some measures, the most powerful elected Jewish official in U.S. history.  (These things can be hard to measure, and certainly there have been Jews closer to the &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/eric-cantor-good-jew/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Art Of Spin</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/the-art-of-spin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Feb 2011 09:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Humor]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the face of disappointing returns from the New York Federation&#8217;s Super Sunday event, a senior Vice President Mark Medin had this to say: “My expectation is by the end of the week, based on flow from previous years” that &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/the-art-of-spin/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Saadia Gaon Bill O&#8217;Reilly Convergence</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/the-saadia-gaon-bill-oreilly-convergence/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/the-saadia-gaon-bill-oreilly-convergence/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Feb 2011 08:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s Rabbi Saadia Gaon in his The Book of Beliefs and Opinions: This treatise starts out with the preliminary observation that whoever ventures into is seeking light on something that has never been beheld with human eyes nor been perceived &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/the-saadia-gaon-bill-oreilly-convergence/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A Place Holder</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/a-place-holder/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Feb 2011 21:17:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conservative Judaism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism recently released the draft version of its strategic plan. (In case you missed that it&#8217;s a draft, the word draft is stamped on every page.)  I have a lot to say on the plan, &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/a-place-holder/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Wages of Demagoguery</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/the-wages-of-demagoguery/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Feb 2011 19:25:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The fight over immigration in this country has gotten uglier and uglier since President George W. Bush&#8217;s laudable effort to find some way out of the morass.  Nothing epitomizes this ugliness better than the recent battle over the Dream Act, &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/the-wages-of-demagoguery/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Reasons to Worry</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/reasons-to-worry/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Feb 2011 14:58:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This type of instability is troubling: Attacks in recent days suggest that provocateurs are trying to take advantage of the political turmoil in Cairo to spread unrest in Sinai, the desert peninsula that lies between Israel and the main territory &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/reasons-to-worry/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Reasons to Rejoice (Maybe)</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/reasons-to-rejoice-maybe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Feb 2011 09:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amidst all the turmoil in Egypt and Tunisia, it was easy to miss the other big story coming out of the region: the Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir has agreed, in principle, to allow the southern part of his country &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/reasons-to-rejoice-maybe/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Talking About Death</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Feb 2011 22:46:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have written here before about my strong preference for end of life planning, and for frank discussions about the time leading up to death.  This excellent article about a new era of candor from doctors who treat cancer patients &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/talking-about-death/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Youngers of Zion</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/elders-of-zion/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/elders-of-zion/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Feb 2011 17:10:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Humor]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[You know how the Jews are to blame for everything?  Well, it seem Justin Bieber is part of the world-wide Jewish plot: This afternoon I saw “Justin Bieber:  Never Say Never,” a 3D documentary about the munificently-coiffed, uber-popular teen crooner &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/elders-of-zion/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Independent Minyan Cont</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/independent-minyan-cont/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/independent-minyan-cont/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Feb 2011 16:27:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conservative Judaism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[At the risk of becoming a one-topic blog, there&#8217;s a few reactions to my two long posts of Independent Minyanim that I&#8217;d like to highlight.  Here&#8217;s one I especially like, from a woman who lives in New York (but grew &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/independent-minyan-cont/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Independent Minyan Cont.</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/indepdent-minyan-cont/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/indepdent-minyan-cont/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Feb 2011 12:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conservative Judaism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This issue has really touched a nerve, which I think is great.  Here is part of a response I got from someone who knows Shir Chadash and is currently studying at Yeshivat Hadar, an egalitarian program of Jewish learning in &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/indepdent-minyan-cont/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Imagining Death and Grief</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/death-and-dying/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/death-and-dying/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Feb 2011 20:32:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Rabbi Thoughts]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One of the realities of working as a pulpit rabbi is that dealing with illness and death are an essential part of the role.  I would say that young clergy and medical professionals probably deal with these issues more than &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/death-and-dying/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>On Reading the Bible</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/on-reading-the-bible/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/on-reading-the-bible/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Feb 2011 01:20:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Religion in America]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Ok, first the headline, from Fox Nation: Obama Botches Bible Verse at Prayer Breakfast Wow.  That sounds pretty bad.  I mean, the guy claims to be a Christian.  Let&#8217;s learn more. President Obama misquoted a familiar Bible verse during a &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/on-reading-the-bible/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Indepdent Minyan Cont</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/indepdent-minyna-cont/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/indepdent-minyna-cont/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Feb 2011 00:58:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conservative Judaism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A reader responds (via Facebook) I think that you are assuming that the 46% of IM goers who were raised as Conservative Jews are somehow denominationally pure. You describe the leaders and organizers of IMs as &#8220;run and populated by &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/indepdent-minyna-cont/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>More on Independent Minyan (Long Again)</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/more-on-independent-minyan-long-again/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/more-on-independent-minyan-long-again/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Feb 2011 22:02:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conservative Judaism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Wow, if I had known this was the issue to blog about, I would have started doing so sooner.  I mean, here I am blogging about sex and drugs and violence and what&#8217;s our biggest day of traffic BY FAR?  &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/more-on-independent-minyan-long-again/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>More on Football</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/more-on-football/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/more-on-football/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Feb 2011 11:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Current Events]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This video is a little contrived and a little bit much, but it&#8217;s moving nonetheless.  The background is that the boy being interviewed was a victim of a terrible incident of bullying which made its way on to YouTube when &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/more-on-football/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A Thought About Football</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/a-thought-about-football/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/a-thought-about-football/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Feb 2011 09:12:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Current Events]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Given what we now know about the dangers of football, it seems to me morally indefensible for the owners of the NFL to push for an 18 game season.  It would be hard to expect the whole sport to shut &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/a-thought-about-football/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A Portion of the Portion Terumah</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/a-portion-of-the-portion-terumah/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/a-portion-of-the-portion-terumah/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Feb 2011 08:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Dvar Torah]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Exodus 25:8 And let them make me a sanctuary, that I may dwell among them. The medieval commentator Abarvanel begins his commentary on every parasha with a series of questions to which he will address himself.  (He doesn’t always seem &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/a-portion-of-the-portion-terumah/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Pittburgh Pride</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/pittburgh-pride/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/pittburgh-pride/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Feb 2011 01:28:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Current Events]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I know I am from Pittsburgh, and thus am almost impossibly biased, but Mike Tomlin, the head coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers, seems like a pretty impressive guy.]]></description>
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		<title>The Devil You Know&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/the-devil-you-know/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/the-devil-you-know/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Feb 2011 01:12:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Current Events]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Can also be pretty bad.  From Jeffrey Goldberg, a reminder that no matter what happens in Egypt, we shouldn&#8217;t imagine the current government is tolerant and open-minded: Egyptian state television has actively tried to foment the unrest by reporting that &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/the-devil-you-know/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>You Know You&#8217;re Running for President When&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/you-know-youre-running-for-president-when/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/you-know-youre-running-for-president-when/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Feb 2011 22:12:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Current Events]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[You have photo-op meetings like this with the Prime Minister of Israel. Watch this video on YouTube Mike Huckabee has not officially announced his intentions&#8230;but I sort of think it&#8217;s clear.  I mean, you don&#8217;t drag Jon Voight to Israel &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/you-know-youre-running-for-president-when/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Independent Minyan (Long)</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/independent-minyan-long/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/independent-minyan-long/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Feb 2011 04:51:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conservative Judaism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There are several terms in common use among political reporters that drive professional political scientists absolutely batty.  One of these, and the one I have read the most about, is the myth of the &#8220;independent&#8221; voter.  You have no doubt &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/independent-minyan-long/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Who Is Rich?</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/who-is-rich/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/who-is-rich/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Feb 2011 23:31:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Drop Everything And...]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The one who is happy with his portion (and we might add, her portion).  This article from The New York Times says it all, in a just a few more words than the rabbis in Pirkei Avot needed to make &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/who-is-rich/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>And We&#8217;re Back&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/and-were-back-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Feb 2011 22:38:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Shir Chadash]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Sorry about the radio silence for the last few days&#8230;we&#8217;ve have some slightly technical issues.  But now we&#8217;re back and better than ever.]]></description>
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		<title>A Portion of the Portion Mishpatim</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/a-portion-of-the-portion-mishpatim/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/a-portion-of-the-portion-mishpatim/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jan 2011 15:16:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Dvar Torah]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Exodus 22:27 You shall not revile God (Hebrew: elohim), nor put a curse upon a prince (Hebrew: nasi) among your people. At first glance, this seems a rather uncontroversial statement of law.  In fact, it seems so uncontroversial that the &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/a-portion-of-the-portion-mishpatim/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Why I Love The Jewish Press</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/why-i-love-the-jewish-press/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/why-i-love-the-jewish-press/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Jan 2011 21:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Humor]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For headlines like this: Jews Sweep Academy Award Nominations I mean really, is that even news?]]></description>
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		<title>Man Bites Dog</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/man-bites-dog/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Jan 2011 20:33:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Good news from the Israel/Palestine front?  Jeffrey Goldberg and Hussein Ibish think so. We tend to forget, amid the welter of commentary about Palestinian incitement and Israeli belligerence, that we have recently seen startling shifts in both Israeli and Palestinian &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/man-bites-dog/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Heartwarming</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/heartwarming/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/heartwarming/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Jan 2011 15:39:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Drop Everything And...]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From a friend I follow on twitter, who is also a reader of this blog (thanks Rachel!) a beautiful first person account of an infant death, then a new life, connected by a brit milah.  Worth a read, but have &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/heartwarming/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Not Heartwarming</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/not-heartwarming/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Jan 2011 14:19:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Jewish Thought]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This Haaretz article about the vast amount of fan mail received by the last living bodyguard of Adolf Hitler does not exactly bring that warm fuzzy feeling: Rochus Misch is 93 and uses a walking frame to move around his &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/not-heartwarming/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Mistake?</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/mistake/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jan 2011 19:55:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Humor]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Sent to me by alert reader Will, check out the the score this football game.  No wonder the Steelers won!]]></description>
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		<title>Dog Bites Man</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/dog-bites-man/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jan 2011 19:45:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Current Events]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As the saying goes, that&#8217;s not news.  Neither, as my dad would say is, &#8220;Mideast Peace Process in Trouble.&#8221;  I mean, that&#8217;s hardly news at all.  But recently things in the region seem to unraveling, or the very least destabilizing, &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/dog-bites-man/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Redemption</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/redemption/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jan 2011 19:06:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jewish Thought]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Many people have asked me what I think about Ben Roethlisberger, given that I am 1) a rabbi, and thus presumably interested in moral behavior and 2) a Pittsburgher, and thus presumably interested in the continued dominance of the Pittsburgh &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/redemption/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>You Know Your Government is In Touble When</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/you-know-your-government-is-in-touble-when/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/you-know-your-government-is-in-touble-when/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jan 2011 08:30:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[They start having to make laws like this: At least six young Egyptians have set themselves on fire in recent weeks, in an imitation of the self-immolation that set off the Tunisian unrest. Egypt has forbidden gas stations to sell &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/you-know-your-government-is-in-touble-when/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Bad News</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/bad-news/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jan 2011 20:33:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[International Affairs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I am no Middle East scholar, but Hezbollah choosing the next Prime Minister of Lebanon does not seem like a particularly positive development.  Even worse is the fact that this whole came about because agents of Hezbollah were about to &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/bad-news/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Drop Everything and&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/drop-everything-and-17/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/drop-everything-and-17/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jan 2011 17:54:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Read this amazing, moving, and lovely obituary from The New York Times. You will not be sorry you spent five minutes learning a bit about the life of Maurice Mannion-Vanover.  It&#8217;s the kind of story that gives you faith in &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/drop-everything-and-17/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Constitutional Revelation</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/constitutional-revelation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jan 2011 12:46:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conservative Judaism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jewish Thought]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This past Shabbat we read in Parashat Yitro about the process of revelation, or perhaps about the content of revelation, or perhaps about the form.  In the end, the questions that come out of this narrative of revelation echo through &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/constitutional-revelation/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Only in Pittsburgh (and maybe New Orleans)</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/only-in-pittsburgh-and-maybe-new-orleans/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/only-in-pittsburgh-and-maybe-new-orleans/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Jan 2011 17:12:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Humor]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Also from The Post Gazette article about Jets fans in Pittsburgh: But as Jets fans started the cheer again, some University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy students attending a formal social at the Westin walked by in their formal dresses &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/only-in-pittsburgh-and-maybe-new-orleans/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Uh Oh</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/uh-oh/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Jan 2011 17:10:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Humor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shir Chadash]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From an article in The Pittsburgh Post Gazette about Jets fans visiting Pittsburgh for the AFC Championship game tonight: &#8220;I have to say, usually when there&#8217;s this much hype about something, you&#8217;re disappointed,&#8221; said Rob Lanz, 37, who grew up &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/uh-oh/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A Portion of the Portion Yitro</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/a-portion-of-the-portion-yitro/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/a-portion-of-the-portion-yitro/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jan 2011 15:56:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Dvar Torah]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Exodus 19:7-9 7 Moses came and summoned the elders of the people and put before them all that the Lord had commanded him.  8 All the people answered as one, saying, “All that the Lord has commanded we will do!”  &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/a-portion-of-the-portion-yitro/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>I ♥ David Brooks</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/i-%e2%99%a5-david-brooks/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/i-%e2%99%a5-david-brooks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jan 2011 15:27:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The other night at the Tu B&#8217;Shevat seder, regular reader David E. mentioned to me that I seemed to have a bit of a crush on David Brooks.  Guilty as charged.  I have even considered making a &#8216;David Brooks&#8217; category &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/i-%e2%99%a5-david-brooks/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A Different Kind of National Anthem</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/a-different-kind-of-national-anthem/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/a-different-kind-of-national-anthem/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jan 2011 21:26:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Via this ESPN column by Bill Simmons, I discovered this unbelievable Marvin Gaye version of the National Anthem.  It&#8217;s the most soulful version I&#8217;ve ever heard. Watch this video on YouTube Talk about making a song your own.]]></description>
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		<title>Yet More Blood Libel</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/yet-more-blood-libel/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/yet-more-blood-libel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jan 2011 20:03:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I can&#8217;t stop.  Here is a nice article from The Jewish Week about the most sensational of the blood libel cases, the arrest and trial of a Ukrainian Jew named Mendel Beilis for the alleged murder of a boy in &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/yet-more-blood-libel/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The &#8216;Burgh</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/the-burgh/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jan 2011 19:32:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not sure how many folks noticed, but the Saints season came to a rather sad end a couple of weeks ago in Seattle.  Luckily for Saints fans, Seattle showed itself to be a superior team, not just a fluke, &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/the-burgh/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Good News for NOLA Jews</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/good-news-for-nola-jews/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jan 2011 17:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[New Orleans]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jordan Aiken, a member of Shir Chadash, e-mailed me to let me know that a new and important organization is getting going here in the New Orleans area.  The group is called LGBTQ Jewish NOLA and they don&#8217;t (yet) have &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/good-news-for-nola-jews/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Tu B&#8217;Shevat Seder</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/tu-bshevat-seder/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jan 2011 16:53:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Shir Chadash]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Last night was a great night for Shir Chadash.  We held our first-ever stand alone Tu B&#8217;shevat seder and we had over 60 people attend.  It was a terrific evening, of singing, eating and celebration.  If you want to see &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/tu-bshevat-seder/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>More Birthright = More Jews?</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/more-birthright-more-jews/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jan 2011 20:50:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Jewish world]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[So it seems Birthright (the program that sends young Jew to Israel free of charge) is still going strong: A new landmark in the effort to strengthen Jewish identity and positive connection to Israel among diaspora youth was reached with &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/more-birthright-more-jews/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Rabbi Benjamin Franklin</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/ben-franklin-rabbi/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/ben-franklin-rabbi/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jan 2011 20:41:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not really.  But here&#8217;s something I didn&#8217;t know: a part of Ben Franklin&#8217;s autobiography found its way into the Hebrew language and then into the world of the Eastern European yeshivot.  This according to an interesting article in The Forward: &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/ben-franklin-rabbi/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A Bris/Conversion Horror Story</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/a-brisconversion-horror-story/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/a-brisconversion-horror-story/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jan 2011 20:23:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conservative Judaism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Surely, we Jews can do better than this.]]></description>
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		<title>All People Who Are My Brothers and Sisters Step Forward&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/all-people-who-are-my-brothers-and-sisters-step-forward/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/all-people-who-are-my-brothers-and-sisters-step-forward/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jan 2011 20:20:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Religion in America]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Not so fast. If I lived in Alabama, which I don&#8217;t, I&#8217;m not sure I&#8217;d be so excited about the new governor, Robert Bentley given these remarks: &#8220;There may be some people here today who do not have living within &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/all-people-who-are-my-brothers-and-sisters-step-forward/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>David Brooks ♥ Community</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/david-brooks-love-community/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/david-brooks-love-community/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jan 2011 18:37:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The guy just cannot get enough.  It seems like every column he writes comes down to groups, to societal pressures, to communities.  He&#8217;s not much of an individualist this guy.  Not that I&#8217;m complaining, because I think he&#8217;s right.  Check &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/david-brooks-love-community/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>More Again on &#8220;Blood Libel&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/more-again-on-blood-libel/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shirchadash.org/more-again-on-blood-libel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jan 2011 18:33:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sarah Palin is doubling down on the term &#8220;blood libel&#8221;.  This blog has already dealt with this issue twice, but now it seem Palin has her own definition of the term: “Blood libel obviously means being falsely accused of having &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/more-again-on-blood-libel/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Home News</title>
		<link>http://www.shirchadash.org/home-news-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jan 2011 14:30:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Linden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[New Orleans]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nice piece from a local TV station on the Martin Luther King day march held in downtown New Orleans, and if you watch to the end, you&#8217;ll see a member of the family&#8230; Update: The video I had embedded here &#8230; <a href="http://www.shirchadash.org/home-news-2/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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