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    <title>Meeting Jews Is Easy</title>
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    <dc:date>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 08:38:41 +0000</dc:date>
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      <title>Meet Adam: Jewish paparazzi</title>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<i>A member of the paparazzi, Adam’s a freelancer who has photographed the likes of Brad Pitt, Michael Jackson and the Kardashians. He works for a small agency that buys his photographs and distributes them to publications like People magazine. I met him in Beverly Hills, where he was “roaming” – a paparazzi term for wandering from hot location to another hot location – for celebrities. ]]></content:encoded>
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      <dc:date>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 08:38:41 +0000</dc:date>
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      <title>Elaine and Lee—on democratic empathy</title>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Last weekend, I met Elaine and Lee, an older retired couple, in a Starbucks in the Santa Monica area. They were talking about Robert Reich, the former labor secretary to President Bill Clinton.]]></content:encoded>
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      <dc:date>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 01:01:39 +0000</dc:date>
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      <title>Christopher Hitchens, the man who was interested in everything</title>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[I woke up this morning to a text message from my father: “Christopher Hitchens died.” The writer and public intellectual died on Dec. 15 at the age of 62 from esophageal cancer. <br />
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      <dc:date>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 18:54:23 +0000</dc:date>
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      <title>Meet Eli Lipmen</title>
      <link>http://www.jewishjournal.com/meeting_jews_is_easy/item/bermuda_bahama_come_on_eli_lipmen_20111019</link>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Eli Lipmen, communications strategist for the American Jewish Committee (AJC) in Los Angeles, was raised in Bermuda, the island and British colony in the Atlantic Ocean. <br />
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      <dc:date>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 12:22:27 +0000</dc:date>
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      <title>Getting deep at Occupy L.A.</title>
      <link>http://www.jewishjournal.com/meeting_jews_is_easy/item/occupy_los_angeles_return_to_paradise_201110151</link>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Yesterday, I was at Occupy L.A., asking people what that they were doing there, why’d they come – and I got the predictable responses: corporate greed, the income gap between the rich and the poor, rising unemployment, the endless, fruitless bickering between the right and left.<br />
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      <dc:date>Sun, 16 Oct 2011 01:21:24 +0000</dc:date>
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      <title>Brain Cancer Survivor-Turned-Poet Judi Kaufman</title>
      <link>http://www.jewishjournal.com/meeting_jews_is_easy/item/brain_cancer_survivor-turned-poet_judi_kaufman_20111014</link>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Brain cancer survivor Judi Kaufman has suffered through three brain tumors – yes, three. Her first diagnosis, back in 1997, was that she’d suffered a stroke, but the neuro-oncology department at UCLA identified it as a tumor, which might have saved her life. That’s why Kaufman, who Journal contributor Jessica Pauline Ogilive highlighted in the Journal’s 2010 annual mensch issue, founded, in 2001, Art of the Brain. ]]></content:encoded>
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      <dc:date>Fri, 14 Oct 2011 10:04:57 +0000</dc:date>
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      <title>Continuing Viral Success, Scott Gairdner Impersonates Jesse Eisenberg</title>
      <link>http://www.jewishjournal.com/meeting_jews_is_easy/item/continuing_viral_success_scott_gairdner_impersonates_jesse_eisenberg_201106</link>
      <guid>http://www.jewishjournal.com/meeting_jews_is_easy/item/continuing_viral_success_scott_gairdner_impersonates_jesse_eisenberg_201106#When:18:59:14Z</guid>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Comedian Scott Gairdner’s recent sketch, "Staying Positive with Jesse Eisenberg"--featuring him impersonating the Oscar-nominated star of "The Social Network"--has gone viral. He discusses the video, comedy and his job at Funny or Die. ]]></content:encoded>
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      <dc:date>Fri, 17 Jun 2011 18:59:14 +0000</dc:date>
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      <title>Commentary Magazine’s “Why Jews Laugh at Themselves”</title>
      <link>http://www.jewishjournal.com/meeting_jews_is_easy/item/why_jews_laugh_at_themselves_20110605</link>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[“Why Jews Laugh at Themselves,” an article in Commentary Magazine,  argues that Jewish humor relies on Jewish stereotypes and identifies what these stereotypes are.]]></content:encoded>
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      <dc:date>Mon, 06 Jun 2011 00:12:27 +0000</dc:date>
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      <title>Mark LeVine: on plane to Egypt, all journalists pretending not to be…</title>
      <link>http://www.jewishjournal.com/meeting_jews_is_easy/item/mark_levine_20110303</link>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Before speaking at the Levantine Cultural Center on Wednesday night, Mark LeVine, a history professor at UC Irvine and the author of "Heavy Metal Islam,” discussed the unusual plane ride to Egypt during the revolution there.]]></content:encoded>
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      <dc:date>Thu, 03 Mar 2011 10:29:36 +0000</dc:date>
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      <title>Yorke’s Vocals Shine on New Radiohead Album “King of Limbs”</title>
      <link>http://www.jewishjournal.com/meeting_jews_is_easy/item/thom_yorkes_vocals_shine_on_new_radiohead_record_king_of_limbs_20110219</link>
      <guid>http://www.jewishjournal.com/meeting_jews_is_easy/item/thom_yorkes_vocals_shine_on_new_radiohead_record_king_of_limbs_20110219#When:11:38:29Z</guid>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Who would’ve thought? The new Radiohead album, “King of Limbs,” released on February 18 as a digital download, is a singer-songwriter record.<br />
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      <dc:date>Sat, 19 Feb 2011 11:38:29 +0000</dc:date>
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      <title>The Culinary Art of Pasta Inspires Puppet Show</title>
      <link>http://www.jewishjournal.com/meeting_jews_is_easy/item/the_culinary_art_of_pasta_inspires_puppet_show_20101123</link>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[“PASTA! A Pop Ups Puppet Musical” follows around two wannabe-chefs (Jacob Stein, Jason Rabinowitz) who scour Brooklyn in search of the best pasta ingredients.  <br />
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      <dc:date>Wed, 24 Nov 2010 06:06:24 +0000</dc:date>
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      <title>Supporting her latest novel, author Nicole Krauss comes to L.A.</title>
      <link>http://www.jewishjournal.com/meeting_jews_is_easy/item/supporting_latest_novel_author_nicole_krauss_comes_to_la_20101103</link>
      <guid>http://www.jewishjournal.com/meeting_jews_is_easy/item/supporting_latest_novel_author_nicole_krauss_comes_to_la_20101103#When:00:44:48Z</guid>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[On Tuesday, November 2, author Nicole Krauss discussed her new book, “Great House” (a 2010 National Book Award finalist), in front of an intimate audience at the Los Angeles Central Library. ]]></content:encoded>
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      <dc:date>Thu, 04 Nov 2010 00:44:48 +0000</dc:date>
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      <title>Q-and-A with Big Sunday founder, David Levinson</title>
      <link>http://www.jewishjournal.com/meeting_jews_is_easy/item/q-and-a_with_big_sunday_founder_david_levinson_20101018</link>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[A profile on Big Sunday founder David Levinson, author of the new book, “Everyone Helps, Everyone Wins,” which blends memoir with handbook - offering useful advice for any person, family, school, faith group or business interested in giving back – appeared in the latest issue of the Jewish Journal, the week of Oct. 15-21. Read below for an excerpt from the interview.<br />
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      <dc:date>Mon, 18 Oct 2010 18:38:19 +0000</dc:date>
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      <title>Video: Scuffle breaks out when Neturei Karta Jews wave Palestinian flag</title>
      <link>http://www.jewishjournal.com/meeting_jews_is_easy/item/video_neturei_karta_jews_wave_palestinian_flag_20100806</link>
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      <dc:date>Sat, 07 Aug 2010 00:36:39 +0000</dc:date>
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      <title>“Knock Out Addiction”: Tom Arnold boxes Rabbi Mark Borovitz to raise funds for Beit T’Shuvah</title>
      <link>http://www.jewishjournal.com/meeting_jews_is_easy/item/knock_out_addiction_tom_arnold_boxes_rabbi_mark_borovitz_20100621</link>
      <guid>http://www.jewishjournal.com/meeting_jews_is_easy/item/knock_out_addiction_tom_arnold_boxes_rabbi_mark_borovitz_20100621#When:19:31:08Z</guid>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[A sold-out audience of approximately 500 people, either by invite or by coughing up dough for a pricey $250 ticket, attended "Knock out Addiction," a fundraiser featuring live celebrity boxing between actor Tom Arnold and Rabbi Mark Borovitz of Beit T'Shuvah.]]></content:encoded>
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      <dc:date>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 19:31:08 +0000</dc:date>
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      <title>Q&amp;amp;A with Susan Polis Schutz</title>
      <link>http://www.jewishjournal.com/meeting_jews_is_easy/item/qa_with_susan_polis_schutz_20100520</link>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Susan Polis Schutz is a filmmaker, poet and greeting card writer. Her new documentary, “The Misunderstood Epidemic: Depression,” aired recently on PBS. The film explores the lives of 12 people who suffer from depression, a clinical disorder which affects approximately 20 million Americans each year. <br />
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During a phone interview, Schutz explained the filmmaking process and opened up about her own struggle with depression.]]></content:encoded>
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      <dc:date>Fri, 21 May 2010 01:06:59 +0000</dc:date>
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      <title>Not a Jew, Bret Easton Ellis tells the Jewish Journal at the L.A. Times Festival of Books at UCLA</title>
      <link>http://www.jewishjournal.com/meeting_jews_is_easy/item/not_a_jew_bret_easton_ellis_tells_the_jewish_journal_at_the_la_times_fest</link>
      <guid>http://www.jewishjournal.com/meeting_jews_is_easy/item/not_a_jew_bret_easton_ellis_tells_the_jewish_journal_at_the_la_times_fest#When:20:21:40Z</guid>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[After a panel session featuring Ellis (“Less Than Zero”, “American Psycho”) at the Festival of Books at UCLA on Sunday, nervously I approached the clean-cut, bright blue polo shirt-wearing author, introduced myself as a writer from the Jewish Journal and asked if he was Jewish.]]></content:encoded>
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      <dc:date>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 20:21:40 +0000</dc:date>
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      <title>The Best of Coachella 2010</title>
      <link>http://www.jewishjournal.com/meeting_jews_is_easy/item/the_best_of_coachella_2010_20100419</link>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Like a lot of people I’m sure, I took the day off from work on Friday and went to Coachella with a few friends. Some of the best musical moments from the three-day festival were:]]></content:encoded>
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      <dc:date>Mon, 19 Apr 2010 20:51:45 +0000</dc:date>
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      <title>Israeli short story writer Etgar Keret inspires, jokes, reads new work and more in Santa Monica</title>
      <link>http://www.jewishjournal.com/meeting_jews_is_easy/item/israeli_short_story_writer_etgar_keret_inspires_jokes_reads_new_work_and_mo</link>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Last night, during an interview and Q-and-A session with Israeli short story writer and filmmaker Etgar Keret, held by Birthright Israel at Bergamot Station, a Santa Monica art gallery, Keret gave me goosebumps (the good kind). Answering a question about his writing process, Keret said that he writes when he doesn’t want to go out and doesn’t want to stay at home. <br />
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      <dc:date>Tue, 13 Apr 2010 21:46:58 +0000</dc:date>
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      <title>The Food Stamp Challenge:&amp;nbsp; $21 for Seven Days</title>
      <link>http://www.jewishjournal.com/meeting_jews_is_easy/item/the_food_stamp_challenge_21_for_seven_days_20100409</link>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[In 2008, at a food justice conference held by environmental advocacy organization Hazon, a rabbinical student from American Jewish University -- Justin Goldstein -- saw a documentary that resonated with him. The film, “Food Stamped,” followed a young, socially conscious Berkeley couple and their decision to only spend $21 for food over seven days. ]]></content:encoded>
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      <dc:date>Sat, 10 Apr 2010 00:36:19 +0000</dc:date>
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