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	<title>Torah From the Rockies</title>
	
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		<title>Kumare: The Allure of Otherness</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 17:17:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Ben Greenberg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I watched the documentary Kumare this weekend and I was struck by its portrayal of the development of a religious community and the search of people for meaning and fulfillment in their own lives. The movie follows the filmmaker as he morphs into an Indian Guru and plants himself in Phoenix, Arizona where he develops [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Prayer For Boston</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2013 19:50:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following is the message I sent out to our community after the bombings at the Boston Marathon. As the City of Boston lay in the grip of fear and lockdown during the manhunt for the suspected bomber, I believe these words hold as true now as they did on Monday: Our hearts are heavy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Complaint</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2013 18:53:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Ben Greenberg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Houses of Worship are unique organizations in many ways. The House of Worship, regardless of faith, functions as a spiritual home for individuals to commune with their God, their traditions and their people. For many the House of Worship is an anchor in an ever-changing fluid world. A place of stability. A rock of peace [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Amazes You?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2013 04:33:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Ben Greenberg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tomorrow night people around the world will sit down with their family and friends and partake in the Passover seder. The seder is perhaps the oldest continuously practiced ritual unbroken throughout the generations. Throughout time and place it has adopted various new customs and adapted old ones but the essential component remains the same: the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Newtown and a Jewish Reflection on Gun Control</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2012 23:14:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Ben Greenberg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was only a few weeks after my family and I moved to Denver to assume the position of senior rabbi at a synagogue just a few miles from Aurora that the horrific massacre at the movie theater occurred. Our television screens and laptops were inundated with the life stories of the victims and the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chayei Sarah, Elections and Community</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Nov 2012 05:38:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Ben Greenberg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This sermon was delivered at BMH-BJ: The Denver Synagogue on Shabbat morning, November 10, 2012. Most of the country this past Tuesday found themselves glued to their television sets throughout the evening. We tried every way possible to avoid the nearly 73,000 commercials these past few months. We turned off all of our lights when [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hurricane Sandy: A Torah Perspective</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Nov 2012 19:31:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Ben Greenberg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This sermon was delivered this past Shabbat at BMH-BJ: The Denver Synagogue in Denver, Colorado. The Verazano Bridge, Triboro Bridge, George Washington Bridge, the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel, the Brooklyn Bridge, the Queens-Midtown Tunnel; all closed and shut down. No going in and no going out of New York City. This almost sounds like the beginning of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stand For Life: Minute of Silence in Honor of the Sacredness of Life</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jul 2012 02:27:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Ben Greenberg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: From:  Elaine Lichterman - BMH-BJ Congregation July 23, 2012 Contact:   Rabbi Ben Greenberg Email:      rabbi@bmh-bj.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:     STAND UP FOR LIFE – COMMUNITY GATHERING DATE:   SUNDAY JULY 29 TIME:    1:00 PM PLACE:  BMH-BJ CONGREGATION                                                                    560 S. Monaco Parkway, Denver 80224 PARKING:  EAST PARKING LOT This past week has been a hard [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Thread That Binds Us All</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jul 2012 22:29:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Ben Greenberg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Regular readers of this blog may have noticed a change in name from &#8220;Torah From The Square&#8221; to &#8220;Torah From The Rockies&#8221; and the reason is because my family and I have transitioned to new positions in Denver, Colorado. For the past three years I served as the full time rabbi of the Harvard Hillel [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Righteous Mind</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 21:17:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently finished reading Professor Jonathan Haidt&#8217;s new book The Righteous Mind and found it to be utterly fascinating. The objective of the book is to present readers with a nuanced psychologically based reason for why people of good will and character differ so sharply and so strongly on critical issues. He specifically draws our [...]]]></description>
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