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		<title>Jewish Witch: The American’s Guide to Getting Ebola</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2014 13:18:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Black and brown lives, in the ideology of the West, are simply worth less than white lives. At all times, in every way. This attitude simmers, then erupts when a white person has the gall to treat black and brown lives as important. She’s seen as a traitor. How dare she prioritize “them” over “us.”]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Jewish Witch: Ancestors and Genocide</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2014 14:04:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[There are only so many prayers you can say for the dead before, like the dybbuk of Jewish legend, they begin to graft themselves onto you.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Jewish Witch: Fasting, Shamanism, and the Otherworld</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2014 13:31:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It’s well-documented that fasting is a tool in the shaman’s toolbox. It fosters altered states. It induces visions. With that in mind, I decided to make my Yom Kippur fast this year an explicitly magical practice.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Jewish Witch: My Devotionals, Part 2 &#8211; The Work</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Asa West]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2014 15:12:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[My devotionals consist of my declaration to the Goddess, followed by devotionals to the deities I’m working with, then a hello to the fey folk and ancestors and spirits of the land, a lovingkindness chant, and finally a few moments of silent meditation. The latter three always feel pretty straightforward. But the deity devotions tend to give me trouble.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Jewish Witch: My Devotionals, Part One &#8211; The Shema</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Asa West]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2014 14:12:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It’s funny--whenever my practice begins to falter, whenever I get tied up in how to please this deity or how to work that spell, it’s science that helps me center myself. The Tree of Life and the breathing Earth. The race of electrons and the swirl of galaxies. These things are my declaration. My Shema.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Jewish Witch: Despair, Tikkun Olam, and Rewilding Witchcraft</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/agora/2014/08/jewish-witch-despair-tikkun-olam-and-rewilding-witchcraft/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Asa West]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2014 12:26:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[My job, as a Witch, is to explore my own wildness--to embrace it and understand it and fashion it into a weapon that heals. My job is to embody that deep paradox. My job is to face it without denial, rather than ignore it and thus let it control me.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Jewish Witch: I Have Conversed with the Morrígan about Gaza</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Asa West]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2014 13:50:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Would you take me seriously if I suggested that the Morrígan advocates nonviolence?]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Jewish Witch: Finding Asherah</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/agora/2014/07/jewish-witch-finding-asherah/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Asa West]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2014 13:28:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It breaks my heart whenever I hear modern Jews talk about the end of Israelite paganism with relief and back-patting, as if the worship of a beloved goddess were akin to alcoholism or online poker.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Jewish Witch: The Witch in the Prayer Shawl &#8211; The Power of Sacred Garments</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/agora/2014/07/jewish-witch-the-witch-in-the-prayer-shawl-the-power-of-sacred-garments/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Asa West]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2014 13:25:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[One of my very first decisions as a teenage Witch was that robes--at least, the quality of robes I could make myself or afford to buy--weren’t for me. Yet it never felt quite right to do ritual in my street clothes.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>How a Jewish Witch is Formed</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/agora/2014/07/jewish-witch-how-a-jewish-witch-is-formed/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Asa West]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2014 08:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I finally let myself return to Witchcraft after I gave birth to my daughter. But there were aspects of Jewish practice that I didn't want to leave behind.]]></description>
		
		
		
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