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		<title>Audacious Religious Responsibility in Response to Orlando</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rabbi Ben Greenberg]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2016 18:30:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[There are those who will address the complex questions of gun ownership in the wake of the massacre in Orlando. There are those that will address the challenging nature of political radicalization in response to Orlando. Yet, in the face of so much loss of life — tragically, horrifically and devastatingly — those of us [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Prayer, Good Deeds and Sacrifices? Explaining The Role of Sacrifices in Judaism</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rabbi Ben Greenberg]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2015 12:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The most read book in human history, the Bible, spends much of its time concerned with the construction of a special sanctuary, a Tabernacle, in which animal (and grain) sacrifices were performed regularly. We may have grown up on the stories of Adam and Eve, Noah and the Great Deluge, the Twelve Tribes and the Exodus [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Living Life With The GPS Off</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rabbi Ben Greenberg]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2015 21:53:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[When is the last time you got lost? I don’t mean you missed a turn that you should have taken and you experienced a short inconvenience. I mean genuinely seriously lost, as in stuck on a back mountain road with no idea where you were and the sun was quickly setting. I can remember the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Religious Conservatives: Let&#8217;s Celebrate Marriage!</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rabbi Ben Greenberg]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2015 12:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I am an Orthodox rabbi. In my faith community we do not perform same-sex marriages. We believe that the Torah and subsequent rabbinic tradition rule out the possibility of two people of the same sex coming together in marriage. Yet, we are called upon to be welcoming, to be embracing and to be inclusive of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>A Modest Case for Civil Marriage Equality (Two Years Later)</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rabbi Ben Greenberg]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2015 22:15:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Supreme Court may very well transform the landscape of marriage rights in the United States this coming June when it offers its decision on Obergefell v. Hodges. The questions are many and the answers are contradictory and confusing. For those of us who cannot officiate same sex marriages in our faith traditions, what will [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Koren Yom Ha&#8217;atzmaut Mahzor: When Your Values Align With Your Prayer Book</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rabbi Ben Greenberg]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2015 01:45:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I remember the first time I encountered the black cover siddur, prayer book, from Artscroll. I was well acquainted with the brown cover Artscroll prayer book but had not yet seen this edition before. What was different about it? The first thing I noticed was that it was the “Rabbinical Council of America (RCA) Edition”. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Is There A Future For Jews In Europe?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rabbi Ben Greenberg]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2015 23:17:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A young girl’s bat mitzvah is cut short. The life of a volunteer security guard is permanently cut short. The Jewish community of Copenhagen is only the latest in Europe to face the rising tide of anti-Semitic violence. It is almost impossible to comprehend how a community that still within living memory experienced the most [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Why Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia Will Determine the Fate of European Society</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rabbi Ben Greenberg]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2015 01:41:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The future of Europe rests on how it protects the Jews and Muslims who live on the continent. The fate of the liberal political experiment in Europe, initiated in the 18th century and brought to the brink of collapse numerous times in the years that have followed, rests entirely on whether Jews and Muslims can [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Please God, Help Us Bring About Your Third Temple: A Response to Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/rabbigreenberg/2015/01/please-god-help-us-bring-about-your-third-temple-a-response-to-rabbi-shmuly-yanklowitz/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rabbi Ben Greenberg]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2015 19:19:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[My friend and colleague, Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz, has written a provocative personal essay in the form of a prayer questioning the necessity for the restoration of the Beit HaMikdash, The Temple and its Divine service. I do not question the sincerity of his questioning or of his convictions. He is a man of integrity and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>One Lesson From The Voyeur Rabbi Scandal: Women Must Be Part of Every Board Room</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rabbi Ben Greenberg]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2014 15:33:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It has now been more than a week since the revelations occurred in the media of the alleged voyeuristic spying committed by one of the most influential and powerful Modern Orthodox rabbis in America, Rabbi Barry Freundel. If it was not horrible enough that women, most of them in the process of converting to Judaism, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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