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	<title>The Atheist Rabbi</title>
	
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		<title>National Day Of Prayer?  #ChoosetoACT Instead!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 12:21:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Jeffrey Falick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This year’s presidential proclamation of a National Day of Prayer was notable in its mention of the desire of a growing number of Americans not to pray: On this National Day of Prayer, we give thanks for our democracy that &#8230; <a href="http://www.theatheistrabbi.com/2013/04/national-day-of-prayer-choosetoact-instead.html">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Intermarriage And The Ghetto Mentality</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Mar 2013 17:33:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Jeffrey Falick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ever the hot topic in the &#8220;Shry Gevalt&#8221; quarters of the Jewish community, intermarriage still remains a bogeyman for many otherwise liberal rabbis. Even open-minded Reform rabbis who have no problem welcoming gay couples often draw the line at those &#8230; <a href="http://www.theatheistrabbi.com/2013/03/intermarriage-and-the-ghetto-mentality.html">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A Supplement For Your Seder</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2013 20:16:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Jeffrey Falick</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.theatheistrabbi.com/?p=2269</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Humanistic Jews are faced with challenges at every holiday. How do we make our celebrations relevant when we know that in many cases they&#8217;re commemorating events that never happened? Or at least not the way the legends developed. Passover celebrates &#8230; <a href="http://www.theatheistrabbi.com/2013/03/a-supplement-for-your-seder.html">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Truth Is Stranger Than Truth</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Mar 2013 19:22:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Jeffrey Falick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are few moments in my education that stand out more than the time when I asked a professor in rabbinical school about whether and how we should teach biblical criticism. After all, we’d been learning about the approach of &#8230; <a href="http://www.theatheistrabbi.com/2013/03/truth-is-stranger-than-truth.html">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A New Day In Israeli Politics?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Mar 2013 19:11:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Jeffrey Falick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am a political junkie.  My drug is not domestic, as I prefer to feed my addiction with Israeli politics.  This current round of elections has provided me with a particularly potent dose and it’s one that’s never been concocted &#8230; <a href="http://www.theatheistrabbi.com/2013/03/a-new-day-in-israeli-politics.html">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Atheist Rabbi And The Orthodox Women’s Seminary</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2013 12:43:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Jeffrey Falick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I mentioned in a previous post, I returned last Sunday from a two-week stay in Jerusalem. The sole purpose of my trip was to visit my youngest daughter who is in an Orthodox gap-year program. (For some odd reason, &#8230; <a href="http://www.theatheistrabbi.com/2013/02/the-atheist-rabbi-and-the-orthodox-womens-seminary.html">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Crime Wave At The Western Wall</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2013 17:16:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Jeffrey Falick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just returned from Jerusalem to news about the latest round of arrests of Jewish women for the crime of wearing a tallit (prayer shawl) and organizing a women’s prayer service at the Western Wall. I have written before about &#8230; <a href="http://www.theatheistrabbi.com/2013/02/crime-wave-at-the-western-wall.html">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Quote Of The Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2013 22:14:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Jeffrey Falick</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.theatheistrabbi.com/?p=2227</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[“You can safely assume you&#8217;ve created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.” ― Anne Lamott]]></description>
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		<title>Leonard Fein &amp; Steven Cohen: Let Secular Jews Be Secular Jews</title>
		<link>http://www.theatheistrabbi.com/2013/01/leonard-fein-steven-cohen-let-secular-jews-be-secular-jews.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2013 13:26:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Jeffrey Falick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Leonard Fein and Steven M. Cohen have written a masterful reply to Rabbi Eric Yoffie&#8217;s screed about the delusions of secular Jews. It is a must-read for anyone who has been involved in this conversation. Favorite bit: Yoffie complains that &#8230; <a href="http://www.theatheistrabbi.com/2013/01/leonard-fein-steven-cohen-let-secular-jews-be-secular-jews.html">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The New York Times Asks:  Is Atheism A Religion?</title>
		<link>http://www.theatheistrabbi.com/2013/01/the-new-york-times-asks-is-atheism-a-religion.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2013 18:32:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Jeffrey Falick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the New York Times’ latest installment of “Room for Debate,” writers discuss the question, “Is Atheism a Religion?” The exchange was inspired by Susan Jacoby’s recent piece, “The Blessings of Atheism” and by the new efforts of a couple &#8230; <a href="http://www.theatheistrabbi.com/2013/01/the-new-york-times-asks-is-atheism-a-religion.html">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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