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		<title>New Hot/Cold Water Dispenser!</title>
		<link>http://theseandthose.pardes.org/2012/02/22/new-hotcold-water-dispenser/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 11:06:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<title>[Self / Soul &amp; Text] Hitbodidut</title>
		<link>http://theseandthose.pardes.org/2012/02/21/self-soul-text-hitbodidut/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 21:06:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bogo</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Rabbi James Moshe Jacobson-Maisels]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear G-d, I&#8217;m going to write to You now to review our shared experience of the last hour. I preceded my hitbodidut discussion with a quiet meditation in the yard by my apartment. I meditated for twenty five minutes or so, and I was very pleased to find that my alarm signaled the end of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pardes in Poland-Auschwitz-Birkenau</title>
		<link>http://theseandthose.pardes.org/2012/02/21/pardes-in-poland-auschwitz-birkenau/</link>
		<comments>http://theseandthose.pardes.org/2012/02/21/pardes-in-poland-auschwitz-birkenau/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 20:11:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leah S.</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[death]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://theseandthose.pardes.org/?p=8177</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This was it. This was the part of the trip that I had most been afraid of. I had always been afraid of visiting this place, it was part of the reason I had delayed going to Poland until now. The name that is engraved on the heart of every Jew: Auschwitz. I have always [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Egalitarianism in Judaism</title>
		<link>http://theseandthose.pardes.org/2012/02/21/egalitarianism-in-judaism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 16:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barer</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[egalitarianism]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Fellows Program]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[feminism / women]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://theseandthose.pardes.org/?p=8392</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Many of us who fall under the label ‘modern liberal Jew’  view women’s role (or lack thereof) in traditional Judaism to be a serious affront to our notions of egalitarianism.  ‘How can it be’ we ask, ‘that anyone could live in a Western democracy in the 21st century and subject women to secondary-citizen status in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>[Student Profile] Stu Jacobs</title>
		<link>http://theseandthose.pardes.org/2012/02/21/student-profile-stu-jacobs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 13:53:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bogo</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Alexander Muss High School]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I&#8217;m very adamant about a pluralistic model of Jewish practice.&#8221; -Stu Jacobs In 5th grade, a teacher inspired Stu Jacobs to explore and gradually start keeping more mitzvot, and throughout his youth the young man strived to connect to and practice a new mitzvah every single year. His teacher had said that &#8216;he didn&#8217;t have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nerves!!!!!!!!!!!</title>
		<link>http://theseandthose.pardes.org/2012/02/20/nerves/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 19:46:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrea</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://theseandthose.pardes.org/?p=8374</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I am so nervous, and so excited! I am flying in two days to the US for student teaching! I am really lucky since I will be able to see my family first in Chicago before going to Philadelphia, but then it will be down to business! I am so excited to see what a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Egalitarian Minyan in Hebron</title>
		<link>http://theseandthose.pardes.org/2012/02/20/an-egalitarian-minyan-in-hebron/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 18:51:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Murstein</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://theseandthose.pardes.org/?p=8370</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last weekend, I spent a lovely Shabbat in the holy city of Hevron.  What a place! The four Pardesniks that went were a tour de force of “peace and conflict.”  Personally, I made it my duty to wear a huge smile and say hello to every person I happened across, be they Jew, Arab or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Student Campaign &#8211; Update!</title>
		<link>http://theseandthose.pardes.org/2012/02/20/student-campaign-update-4/</link>
		<comments>http://theseandthose.pardes.org/2012/02/20/student-campaign-update-4/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 16:30:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kalie</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Fellows Project]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[raising money / fundraising]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://theseandthose.pardes.org/?p=8363</guid>
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		<title>Bring-your-Mom-to-Pardes Day</title>
		<link>http://theseandthose.pardes.org/2012/02/20/bring-your-mom-to-pardes-day/</link>
		<comments>http://theseandthose.pardes.org/2012/02/20/bring-your-mom-to-pardes-day/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 12:04:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mira</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Aliyah]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://theseandthose.pardes.org/?p=8352</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The shift from first semester to second semester started during our week off when half of Pardes went on a tiyul to the Arava desert. I’m not a hiking fan, but I love the desert in Israel and have always felt connected to it. This was a wonderful opportunity for me to reflect on my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Week 24: More Leftovers</title>
		<link>http://theseandthose.pardes.org/2012/02/19/week-24-more-leftovers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2012 12:28:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Derek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Mostly X-posted from my home blog, Yinzer in Yerushalayim) * For Tuesday’s group lecture, Robby Berman, head of the Halakhic Organ Donor Society came to give a riveting, inspiring, infuriating talk. I’ll sum it up in brief: There is no valid Jewish (or non-Jewish) reason to not save lives by being an organ donor. If [...]]]></description>
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