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		<title>The December 2009 Mosque Incident</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[What happened The responses Rabbi Avi Weiss The political left The political right The Jewishly appropriate attitudinal response I. What Happened On December 11, 2009, a Jewish, presumably nationalist settler, desecrate a Mosque in a village called Yusuf, meaning “Joseph. The act of mosque desecration, like synagogue desecration, choreographs contempt, disgust, and revulsion. Regardless of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is the Relationship between Torah narrative and Torah law? &#8211;  Parashat Miqqets</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 07:26:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Alan Yuter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Parashat Miqqets, we find heroes who are unique in ancient writing. Ancient pagan heroes, both outside and inside the Bible, are mighty men with insatiable passions. They crave wealth, power, sex, glory, and immortality. Their lives are larger than others, but their goals are no less petty and their passions no less pedestrian than [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Hanukka Confict</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 07:19:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Alan Yuter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The fight between the Syrian Greeks and their Hellenistic Jewish clients and the historically faithful Jews the “Hassidim” not a fight between Orthodox religion, the good old ways of the old time religion that is not good enough for everyone, and the new high culture, the Hellenism which is the culture of conquest, the domain [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Rabbis are Not Trusted</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jul 2010 07:16:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Alan Yuter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The short answer to the question everyone asks, why rabbis are not trusted, is expressed in an Aramaic aphorism, palginan dibbura, our words are bifurcated, we speak with the self-interestedness of the forked tongue. We by word mislead and do misdeed when we speak, we misrepresent when we explain, and we mystify in order to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Piety Polemic and its Implications for Orthodox Judaism:  Identifying the Real Religion of Jewish Extremism</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 16:41:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Alan Yuter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rabbi Moses D. Tendler taught that when all else fails, one would be wise to just tell the truth. Exodus 23:7 and B. Shavuot 30b-31a take this ethical principle rather seriously. We may not lie and we may not even misrepresent Torah truth. 1. Sucking at circumcision There are those who claim that after the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Barzilai Hospital Crisis</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jul 2010 07:13:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Alan Yuter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Facts In order to protect and serve people wounded in war, it was decided to build a fortified emergency room adjacent to Barlizai hospital in Ashekelon, Recalling that Hamas rocked reached Ashkelon, it was decided to initiate a building program. Graves were found at the site, IBA news reported that Orthodox physicians were not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Middle East Peace is Not at this Time Attainable</title>
		<link>http://Viewpoints.utj.org/?p=703</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jul 2010 07:12:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Alan Yuter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[the Arab Side the Arab narrative Israel usurped Arab/ Islamic land Jews have no right to sovereignty in Israel Neither Hamas nor Fatah are prepared to concede a Jewish state Arabs may live in Israel but no Jews in Palestine Because Jews have no legitimate claim Israel is oppressor and occupier Arabs are new Jews [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Avot 1:16   Sages’ advice should be sagacious</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 07:41:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[רבן גמליאל אומר עשה לך רב והסתלק מן הספק ואל תרבה לעשר אומדות : Avot 1:16 Rabban Gamaliel taught: Make for yourself a master remove yourself from doubt do not estimate the tithe tax overmuch Rabban Gamaliel was not just a rabbi; he was the nasi, the one who is lifted up. He is cited [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Quest for the Original Torah</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jul 2010 07:47:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We raise the Torah in the air and proclaim, with the demonstrative pronoun, that this is the Torah that Moses placed before the Jewish people. Using computers, Biblical scholarship, and later, post-Biblical Halakhic opinion, modern Orthodox scholars armed with academic tools attempt to arrive at the Mosaic original or close facsimile thereof as a religious [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Avot  1:17  The Attentive Disposition</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 07:40:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[שמעון בנו אומר כל ימי גדלתי בין החכמים ולא מצאתי לגוף טוב אלא שתיקה ולא המדרש הוא העיקר אלא המעשה וכל המרבה דברים מביא חטא : Rabban Gamaliel’s son, saw that to survive and to impose order on chaos, one must be a good listener. He does not command; he observes: I [in my anecdotal [...]]]></description>
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