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		<title>Jewish Literary Links for Shabbat</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 05:53:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erika Dreifus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week, one of the little ones in Auntie Erika&#8217;s life turned 8, and as per usual, he received a birthday gift of a book. I sent him Richard Michelson&#8217;s Lipman Pike: America&#8217;s First Home Run King, which was recently named a Sydney Taylor Notable Book for Young Readers. Check out this interview with Mr. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oseh Shalom</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 02:17:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erika Dreifus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A fabulous video of a few moments from the recent Debbie Friedman Memorial Concert at HUC-JIR (Jerusalem). I love this arrangement. It is astonishing to realize (again) how Debbie Friedman influenced so many of us in our connections to our Judaism. May she rest in peace.]]></description>
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		<title>Words of the Week: Stephen Marche</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Feb 2012 05:09:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erika Dreifus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Israel, uniquely among nations, suffers from being turned into a synecdoche&#8211;of the part being taken for the whole. The other theater companies involved in the Globe&#8217;s program&#8211;whether from China, Zimbabwe or the United States&#8211;are simply not subject to the same scrutiny of their nation&#8217;s politics. No one would think of boycotting the English theater because [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jewish Literary Links for Shabbat</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 05:52:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erika Dreifus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The New York Times divulges author Nathan Englander&#8217;s Sunday routine. Speaking of Nathan Englander, not everyone will agree with Adam Kirsch&#8217;s take on his latest work, but you can&#8217;t deny that Kirsch&#8217;s conclusion is tantalizing and provocative: &#8220;Perhaps the great Jewish fiction of the near future will have to be less psychological and social than [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From My Bookshelf: AMERICAN DERVISH, by Ayad Akhtar</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 05:06:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erika Dreifus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a &#8220;Dear Reader&#8221; note on his website, author Ayad Akhar writes: Growing up in the &#8220;heartland,&#8221; I became acutely aware that my peers didn&#8217;t know what to make of Islam. It wasn&#8217;t ignorance; they were good, smart people. They&#8217;d just never been exposed to it. Since then, exposure to Islam has grown, for all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paired Writing Contests on “The Catskills and the Holocaust”</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 05:51:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erika Dreifus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not sure that I&#8217;ve ever seen anything quite like this before: paired writing contests&#8211;one in fiction and one in nonfiction&#8211;as part of a book project, Summer Haven: How the Catskills Experienced the Holocaust, edited by Holli Levitsky, Professor of English and Director of Jewish Studies at Loyola Marymount University, and Phil Brown, Professor of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jewish Literary Links for Shabbat</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 05:45:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erika Dreifus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to the Jewish Book Council for taking note of the Sophie Brody Medal news in its latest JLit Links post! (By the way, for a response to the kidlit link included in that post, see The PJ Library.) And speaking of kids&#8217; books: Marjorie Ingall writes about Holocaust books for children. And still more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Words of the Week: Paul Auster</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 22:54:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erika Dreifus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whatever the Prime Minister might think about the state of Israel, the fact is that free speech exists there and no writers or journalists are in jail. According to the latest numbers gathered by International PEN, there are nearly one hundred writers imprisoned in Turkey, not to speak of independent publishers such as Ragip Zarakolu, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jewish Literary Links for Shabbat</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 05:20:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erika Dreifus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two fabulous Twitter book club titles coming up from the Jewish Book Council: in February, Anna Solomon&#8217;s The Little Bride; in March, Nathan Englander&#8217;s What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank. Tablet summarizes all the latest Jewish book award news (and then some). Author Rachel Kadish writes about Hala Salah Eldin Hussein, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>QUIET AMERICANS Is a Sophie Brody Medal Honor Title</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 13:28:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erika Dreifus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I learned some amazing news last night via Google Alert: Quiet Americans has been named a 2012 Sophie Brody Medal Honor Title. The Sophie Brody recognition is deeply meaningful, because it &#8220;is given to encourage, recognize and commend outstanding achievement in Jewish literature.&#8221; I may have more to say once the news sinks in. For [...]]]></description>
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