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		<title>Jewish Literary Links for Shabbat</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 04:02:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erika Dreifus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every Friday morning My Machberet presents an assortment of Jewish-interest links, primarily of the literary variety.]]></description>
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		<title>From My Bookshelf: Q&amp;A with Jonathan Kirsch, Author of New Herschel Grynszpan Bio</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 04:08:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erika Dreifus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["Herschel Grynszpan was a 17-year-old Jewish refugee whose family succeeded in smuggling him out of Nazi Germany and placing him with an uncle in Paris. In 1938, Herschel resolved to carry out an act of resistance to Nazi persecution of the Jews by assassinating a diplomat in the Paris embassy of the Third Reich, a man named Ernst vom Rath."]]></description>
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		<title>Jewish Literary Links for Shabbat</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 04:02:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erika Dreifus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every Friday morning My Machberet presents an assortment of links, primarily of the literary variety. The May Jewish Book Carnival is now online. Check out the recommended links for lots of recent news, reviews, and interviews. Rabbi Rachel Barenblat offers reflections on motherhood and context for her new book of poems over on ZEEK. Q&#038;A with Rutu Modan, whose forthcoming graphic novel, The Property, is on my TBR list. The Whole Megillah presents a Q&#038;A with author Lesléa Newman. Last, but maybe not least: I&#8217;m offering a free, signed copy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jewish Literary Links for Shabbat</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 04:03:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erika Dreifus</dc:creator>
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		<title>From My Bookshelf: A Safe Haven: Harry S. Truman and the Founding of Israel</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 16:58:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erika Dreifus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is worth noting that May 14 will mark the 65th anniversary of the United States, under President Truman's leadership, becoming the first nation to recognize the State of Israel.]]></description>
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		<title>Words of the Week</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 13:12:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erika Dreifus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whatever the reason, I can’t understand why some writers seem so intent on distancing their work from being identified as “Jewish.” That they do so while simultaneously benefiting from the “label” and showing no evidence of suffering from any career-stultifying “ghettoization” only adds salt to the wound.]]></description>
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		<title>Jewish Literary Links for Shabbat</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 04:01:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erika Dreifus</dc:creator>
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		<title>Anna Davidson Rosenberg Poetry Awards Update</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 14:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erika Dreifus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I've been wondering what was happening with the Anna Davidson Rosenberg Poetry Awards for Poems on the Jewish Experience. I routinely enter (and lose) this competition, and it seems to have a spring deadline. I wasn't finding any updates online for this year's contest, and then, lo and behold, an email message arrived this morning.]]></description>
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		<title>Jewish Literary Links for Shabbat</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 04:02:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erika Dreifus</dc:creator>
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		<title>Giving a Voice–and a Name–to Noah’s Wife: My Interview with Rebecca Kanner</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 21:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erika Dreifus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[These days, we attend more closely to the role of our biblical matriarchs. But while Sarah, Rebecca, Leah and Rachel occupy the spotlight, most of us haven’t thought much about another female antecedent: Noah’s wife.]]></description>
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