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		<title>Interesting Problem of Jewish Samoa and the International Date Line</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 04:55:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Samoa is moving its place on the dateline and the solution involves deleting a day, Friday December 30 and go straight to Saturday. But what does this mean for the observance of Shabbat? Well, the answer &#8220;depends.&#8221; Our early ancestors must have thought the world was flat, after all we Jews were scattered to its [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kavvanotes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13698098&amp;post=101&amp;subd=kavvanotes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Editing Failure of English-Hebrew Dictionary</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 00:25:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently purchased the Oxford English-Hebrew/Hebrew-English Dictionary published by Kernerman &#8211; Lonnie Kahn. This is a hardcopy dictionary, just to be clear. It was edited by Ya&#8217;acov Levy. And it has a significant usability failing: that means you Mr. Editor Levy. Hebrew is gender-based. Nouns have a gender and that&#8217;s important to writing and speaking. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kavvanotes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13698098&amp;post=98&amp;subd=kavvanotes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fantastic Jewish-themed T-shirts</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 02:12:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Jewnion Label is a fun online store filled with clever Jewish-centric paraphernalia. It&#8217;s back-ended by CafePress. The founders, Stacey and Joshua Abarbanel of Santa Monica, Calif., created emblems honoring a wide range of unsung heroes, including latke flippers and Jewish mothers. All of these designs can be put on the usual Cafe Press fare [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kavvanotes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13698098&amp;post=94&amp;subd=kavvanotes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Last Year&#8217;s New Year Column for the BIJ Newsletter</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 19:24:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is my column from last September&#8217;s BIJ Bulletin, entitled: Fresh Mitzvot For Your New Year. I referred to it in my current column, so here it is &#8230; The High Holy Days are a time of deep reflection, heartfelt prayers and renewal. At the same time, they can bring opportunities for new blessings and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kavvanotes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13698098&amp;post=90&amp;subd=kavvanotes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hateful transliteration rules</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2011 05:56:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I note that a number of my B. Mitzvah students have trouble with the &#8220;ch&#8221; sound of the &#8220;chet&#8221; and &#8220;khaf,&#8221; even those who attend a Jewish school with plenty of Hebrew. They make it more of a aspirated &#8220;h,&#8221; rather than a nice strong &#8220;ch&#8221; sound. And yes, I know about the pronunciation difference [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kavvanotes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13698098&amp;post=88&amp;subd=kavvanotes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Teaching &amp; Guided Meditation for Sacred Hebrew Chant &amp; Drum Service, Shabbat Mishpatim 5771</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Mar 2011 20:38:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the teaching and guided meditation that I offered in January at Congregation Beth Israel Judea&#8217;s Sacred Hebrew Chant &#38; Drum Service for Shabbat Mishpatim, 24 Sh’vat 5771. Here are some thoughts on uncertainty from the book Yearnings by Irwin Kula: “The mystical text the Zohar tells us that G*d says to every human [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kavvanotes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13698098&amp;post=84&amp;subd=kavvanotes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gloomy Analysis for Two-State Solution</title>
		<link>http://kavvanotes.wordpress.com/2010/12/10/gloomy-analysis-for-two-state-solution/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Dec 2010 22:26:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent analysis by Benny Morris on Tablet Magazine, titled Bleak House, is worth reading.  In the piece, Morris says that prospects for a Palestinian state have &#8220;rarely been more grim.&#8221; First, is a fact that he says American and EU politicos won&#8217;t admit: that there&#8217;s no will for peace on the Palestinian side, even from [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kavvanotes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13698098&amp;post=78&amp;subd=kavvanotes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Stop cheapening the word &#8216;Holocaust&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 17:43:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The word "Holocaust," whether in caps or lowercase has a specific meaning in our time. It shouldn't be cheapened or demeaned by trivial and casual usage.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kavvanotes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13698098&amp;post=73&amp;subd=kavvanotes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Unbelievable ADL Decision</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Aug 2010 05:26:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  The ADL recently said it would not support the establishment of the Cordoba House, an Islamic Center that would include a mosque located 2.5 blocks from Ground Zero in New York. This decision is just awful and shows ZERO backbone.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kavvanotes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13698098&amp;post=67&amp;subd=kavvanotes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Knicks basketball star seeks Jewish roots</title>
		<link>http://kavvanotes.wordpress.com/2010/07/28/knicks-basketball-star-seeks-jewish-roots/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 21:44:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to Ha'aretz, New York Knicks basketball power forward Amare Stoudemire is heading to Israel to find his roots. He recently learned that his mother is Jewish and wants to find out more about Israel and Judaism.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kavvanotes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13698098&amp;post=63&amp;subd=kavvanotes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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