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    <title>12:12</title>
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      <title>A Bright Young Light Offers a Roadmap Through the Bible</title>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[If you've set the Tivo for the third presidential debate, here's something else - and something more challenging and illuminating - to do on Monday night.]]></content:encoded>
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      <dc:date>Sat, 20 Oct 2012 15:56:35 +0000</dc:date>
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      <title>Word to the Yeladudes</title>
      <link>http://www.jewishjournal.com/twelvetwelve/item/word_to_the_yeladudes_2012094</link>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Whether she is contemplating toddlers or Osama bin Laden, Shoshana Kordova's "Word of the Day" column in Haaretz explains how Hebrew is actually used by native speakers. But it is also a window into the culture, politics and lifestyle of Israel. Never pedantic and often funny, Kordova's column is a must-read for me.]]></content:encoded>
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      <dc:date>Tue, 04 Sep 2012 16:57:18 +0000</dc:date>
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      <title>Are Readers of “Dead Tree Books” an Endangered Species?</title>
      <link>http://www.jewishjournal.com/twelvetwelve/item/are_readers_of_dead_tree_books_an_endangered_species_39120802</link>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[David A. Bell is the latest visionary to predict the die-off of bookstores, libraries, “dead tree books” and, alarmingly, those of us who prefer to read print on paper. "How many will be troubled, twenty years hence," he asks, "by the disappearance of the physical books?" But my five-year-old grandson gives me hope that he’s wrong.<br />
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      <dc:date>Thu, 02 Aug 2012 17:13:47 +0000</dc:date>
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      <title>‘I always wondered when and how it was going to end’</title>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[A few months ago, I received an alarming email from journalist, historian and biographer Philip L. Fradkin, a friend of long acquaintance.  Like everything he wrote, his email was lucid, impactful, elegant and even noble, all qualities that I associate with the man himself. Now we know how his story ends, and I am moved to salute one who was truly great.<br />
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      <dc:date>Wed, 11 Jul 2012 17:03:11 +0000</dc:date>
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      <title>Couscous, flags and ‘The Color Purple’</title>
      <link>http://www.jewishjournal.com/twelvetwelve/item/couscous_flags_and_the_color_purple_39120626</link>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[I don’t think Alice Walker really believes that the demand for a Hebrew-language edition of “The Color Purple” is so great that the government of Israel will evacuate the Jewish settlements in the West Bank in order to win her approval for its publication. But those of us who worry about the Jewish state ought to be concerned that a writer of Walker’s stature is lending her name to the cultural subsection of the BDS (Boycott Divest Sanction) movement. No matter where you stand on the settlements, the notion that the Jewish state cannot be safely included or even mentioned in the public conversation is not good for Israel.<br />
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      <dc:subject>Mobile, Mobile-Homepage, Is Featured?, newspulse, Top Stories, Israel,</dc:subject>
      <dc:date>Tue, 26 Jun 2012 18:51:09 +0000</dc:date>
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      <title>Himmler’s Brain</title>
      <link>http://www.jewishjournal.com/twelvetwelve/item/himmlers_brain_20120606</link>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Not long ago, I reviewed Peter Longerich's benchmark biography of Heinrich Himmler in these pages -- a work of meticulous and compelling scholarship about the master architect of the Final Solution, a mostly ordinary human being whose claim on history is that he succeeded in putting Hitler's apocalyptic fantasies about mass murder into operation on an industrial scale.]]></content:encoded>
      <dc:subject>Mobile, Mobile-Homepage, newspulse, Arts, Books, 12:12,</dc:subject>
      <dc:date>Wed, 06 Jun 2012 18:38:10 +0000</dc:date>
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      <title>Why Is Peter Beinart’s Book About Israel Different From All Other Books?</title>
      <link>http://www.jewishjournal.com/twelvetwelve/item/why_is_peter_beinarts_book_about_israel_different_from_all_other_books</link>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Of Peter Beinart’s much-attacked book, “The Crisis of Zionism,” I am compelled to ask: Why is this book different from all other books about the politics of Israel and Zionsm? My answer: It’s not. And Beinart only subverts his own arguments by calling on American Jews to use their checkbooks as a weapon against the settlers in the West Bank.<br />
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      <dc:date>Sat, 07 Apr 2012 18:29:53 +0000</dc:date>
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      <title>“The Last Romanov” Debuts at Fairfax and Third</title>
      <link>http://www.jewishjournal.com/twelvetwelve/item/the_last_romanov_debuts_at_fairfax_and_third_39120401</link>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[For fans of Dora Levy Mossanen, author of the provocative historical novels “Harem” and “Courtesan,” a much-anticipated day has finally arrived — the official publication date of “The Last Romanov," yet another example of her gift at conjuring up the enchantments of the past. Dora will unveil her new book at the Barnes & Noble at The Grove at 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday, April 3, 2012.<br />
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      <dc:subject>Books, Culture,</dc:subject>
      <dc:date>Sun, 01 Apr 2012 16:14:37 +0000</dc:date>
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      <title>Why the Death of the Britannica Print Edition Doesn’t Matter</title>
      <link>http://www.jewishjournal.com/twelvetwelve/item/why_the_death_of_the_britannica_print_edition_doesnt_matter_39120314</link>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[The Encyclopedia Britannica is going out of print after 244 years.  No one is much surprised or unsettled by the news. TEven the Britannica calls it "just another historical data point." The life-or-death issue for Encyclopedia Britannica — and it’s a grave issue — is Wikipedia.]]></content:encoded>
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      <dc:date>Wed, 14 Mar 2012 17:18:48 +0000</dc:date>
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      <title>EXODUS - THE NOVEL AND THE BOOKSHOP</title>
      <link>http://www.jewishjournal.com/twelvetwelve/item/exodus_-_the_novel_and_the_bookshop_39120302</link>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Leon Uris may have been best known as a novelist but he played a crucial role in using his books to focus attention on the Holocaust and Israel in the late 1950s and early 1960. It turns out that he did not only write books; he sold them, too, as Kevin Roderick has revealed at his indispensable website, LA Observed.<br />
It turns out that Uris did not only write books — he sold them, too. Roderick discovered that Uris opened a bookstore of his own on Ventura Blvd. in Sherman Oaks in the summer of 1960.  In a play on his own literary success, Uris dubbed it the Exodus Book and Record Shop.]]></content:encoded>
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      <dc:date>Sat, 03 Mar 2012 01:44:09 +0000</dc:date>
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      <title>Denial Ain’t Just a River in Egypt</title>
      <link>http://www.jewishjournal.com/twelvetwelve/item/denial_aint_just_a_river_in_egypt_39120223</link>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Tragically, we are still obliged to keep the memory of genocide alive — not only the Holocaust, but also the atrocities that took place in Nanking and the killing fields of Turkey — against those insist of forgetting them, explaining them away, or denying them altogether.  Dr. Kirsten Grimstad, a professor at Antioch University, stands in the vanguard of the effort to do so. ]]></content:encoded>
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      <dc:date>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 21:02:06 +0000</dc:date>
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      <title>A Scholar Who Can Really Shake Things Up</title>
      <link>http://www.jewishjournal.com/twelvetwelve/item/a_scholar_who_can_really_shake_things_up_39120222</link>
      <guid>http://www.jewishjournal.com/twelvetwelve/item/a_scholar_who_can_really_shake_things_up_39120222#When:19:53:37Z</guid>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Now and then, an historian comes along who can really shake things up.  Yale University professor Timothy Snyder is one such scholar, and I am excited to announce that we will all be afforded an opportunity to meet him in person when Snyder appears as part of the ALOUD series at the Los Angeles Central Library on Tuesday, March 6, 2012, at 7:00 p.m.  His late co-author, Tony Judt, will be there, too, if only in spirit.]]></content:encoded>
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      <dc:date>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 19:53:37 +0000</dc:date>
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      <title>Leon Wieseltier on the Dangers of Radical Jews</title>
      <link>http://www.jewishjournal.com/twelvetwelve/item/leon_wieseltier_on_the_dangers_of_radical_jews_39120214</link>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Leon Wieseltier, literary editor of The New Republic, is a knowledgeable Jew.  But he insists that the latest outrages among the <i>haredim</i> have less to do with the place of women in Judaism than with the role of Judaism in the Israeli democracy.  It is not only scandalous but downright heartbreaking that women are harassed and demeaned at the same time that they are called upon to bear arms in defense of the Jewish homeland. Nothing less than the survival of Israel as a secular state is at stake.]]></content:encoded>
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      <dc:date>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 22:04:07 +0000</dc:date>
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      <title>When the Stars Are in Alignment Above North Vermont Avenue</title>
      <link>http://www.jewishjournal.com/twelvetwelve/item/when_the_stars_are_in_alignment_above_north_vermont_avenue_39120202</link>
      <guid>http://www.jewishjournal.com/twelvetwelve/item/when_the_stars_are_in_alignment_above_north_vermont_avenue_39120202#When:01:16:32Z</guid>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[When it comes to arts and letters in Los Angeles, an exceptionally bright spot can be found on a short stretch of Vermont Avenue just a bit north of Hollywood Boulevard. That's where we found our way to the Skylight Theatre and a performance of "Hermetically Sealed."  But there's much more to behold and savor on that short stretch of North Vermont Avenue.]]></content:encoded>
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      <dc:date>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 01:16:32 +0000</dc:date>
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      <title>A Holocaust Scholar Denounces Pols Who Pander to Jewish Voters</title>
      <link>http://www.jewishjournal.com/twelvetwelve/item/a_holocaust_scholar_denounces_pols_who_pander_to_jewish_voters_39111216</link>
      <guid>http://www.jewishjournal.com/twelvetwelve/item/a_holocaust_scholar_denounces_pols_who_pander_to_jewish_voters_39111216#When:17:28:15Z</guid>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[If there were a Congressional Medal of Honor for historians, I would bestow it upon Deborah Lipstadt.  What other historian, living or dead, has stood up in open court and defended the truth of her scholarship, as Lipstadt did when she was sued for libel by Holocaust-denier David Irving?  Now Lipstadt has spoken truth to power in a frank interview with Israeli journalist Chemi Shalev in Haaretz.  She denounced the rhetorical excesses of certain American politicians — including Newt Gingrich — who exploit the Holocaust and the conflicts of the modern Middle East to pander to Jewish voters in America.<br />
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      <dc:date>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 17:28:15 +0000</dc:date>
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      <title>Books and Pastrami Sandwiches</title>
      <link>http://www.jewishjournal.com/twelvetwelve/item/books_and_pastrami_sandwiches_39111215</link>
      <guid>http://www.jewishjournal.com/twelvetwelve/item/books_and_pastrami_sandwiches_39111215#When:17:34:31Z</guid>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[I read two obituaries today.  The New York Times noted the passing of George Whitman, owner of Shakespeare and Company in Paris, and the Los Angeles Times paid tribute to Marvin Saul, founder of Junior’s Deli at Pico and Westwood in West Los Angeles.  Each man figured in the cultural life of the place where he lived over many decades, and each one sated the appetites of his customers in different but equally primal ways.]]></content:encoded>
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      <dc:date>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 17:34:31 +0000</dc:date>
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      <title>A Rude Beast in the West Bank</title>
      <link>http://www.jewishjournal.com/twelvetwelve/item/a_rude_beast_in_the_west_bank_39111213</link>
      <guid>http://www.jewishjournal.com/twelvetwelve/item/a_rude_beast_in_the_west_bank_39111213#When:17:41:29Z</guid>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[The latest incidents in the West Bank — Jewish settlers attacking Jewish soldiers — will not be surprising to readers of Gershom Gorenberg’s provocative but important new book, “The Unmaking of Israel,” which I reviewed here not long ago.  Indeed, the outrages against the IDF validate his warning about the danger that the settler movement poses to the survival of Israel’s democracy and perhaps even to Israel itself.]]></content:encoded>
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      <dc:date>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 17:41:29 +0000</dc:date>
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      <title>Ray Bradbury Enters a Brave New World</title>
      <link>http://www.jewishjournal.com/twelvetwelve/item/ray_bradbury_enters_a_brave_new_world_39111129</link>
      <guid>http://www.jewishjournal.com/twelvetwelve/item/ray_bradbury_enters_a_brave_new_world_39111129#When:01:44:40Z</guid>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Even a futurist as famous and accomplished as Ray Bradbury is a bit unsettled about what's happening in the book business, but his dystopian classic about book-burning is finally available as an electronic book. Does it smell like burning fuel to you?]]></content:encoded>
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      <dc:date>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 01:44:40 +0000</dc:date>
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      <title>God Has His Critics, and So Does Harold Bloom</title>
      <link>http://www.jewishjournal.com/twelvetwelve/item/god_has_his_critics_and_so_does_harold_bloom_39111117</link>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA["The Harold Bloom Show" is still a ratings winner in American letters, and Bloom has been sounding off about Mormonism in the pages of The New York Times, but at least one scholar thinks he his "a big fat idiot."  Why does Bloom rub some people the wrong way?]]></content:encoded>
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      <dc:date>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 17:57:28 +0000</dc:date>
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      <title>The Mystery of the Missing Index</title>
      <link>http://www.jewishjournal.com/twelvetwelve/item/the_mystery_of_the_missing_index_39111115</link>
      <guid>http://www.jewishjournal.com/twelvetwelve/item/the_mystery_of_the_missing_index_39111115#When:18:18:25Z</guid>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[An index is an essential element of a non-fiction book for many readers. But don't look for one in Gilad Sharon's new biography of his father, Ariel Sharon. You will have to go on-line to find it.  That's just the latest unsettling change in the digital era of book publishing.]]></content:encoded>
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      <dc:date>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 18:18:25 +0000</dc:date>
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