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    <title>YUTORAH:  R' Mordechai Torczyner</title>
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    <itunes:author>Torczyner, Rabbi Mordechai</itunes:author>
    <itunes:summary>YUTORAH: R' Mordechai Torczyner</itunes:summary>
    <description>YUTORAH:  R' Mordechai Torczyner</description>
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    <itunes:subtitle>Celebrating 70 years of Israel</itunes:subtitle><item>
      <title>Celebrating 70, Topic 6: Fallout of the Disengagement</title>
      <link>https://www.yutorah.org/lectures/details?shiurID=901698</link>
      <itunes:author>Torczyner, Rabbi Mordechai</itunes:author>
      <itunes:summary>Celebrating 70, Topic 6: Fallout of the Disengagement - May 30, 2018 - How did the Disengagement from Aza (Gaza) of 2005 happen, and what has been its impact on the world of Religious Zionism in the years since? [NOT discussing whether the Disengagement should/shouldn't have happened.] Geared toward a group including people without strong background in Torah text study.</itunes:summary>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2018 12:39:19 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Celebrating 70, Topic 5b: The Aliyah of Ethiopian Jewry</title>
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      <itunes:author>Torczyner, Rabbi Mordechai</itunes:author>
      <itunes:summary>Celebrating 70, Topic 5b: The Aliyah of Ethiopian Jewry - May 30, 2018 - Part 2 of 2: What is the status of Ethiopian Jewry in Jewish law, and why was their aliyah delayed until Operation Moses in 1984? Geared toward a group including people without strong background in Torah text study.</itunes:summary>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2018 12:34:26 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Celebrating 70, Topic 5a: The Aliyah of Ethiopian Jewry</title>
      <link>https://www.yutorah.org/lectures/details?shiurID=901281</link>
      <itunes:author>Torczyner, Rabbi Mordechai</itunes:author>
      <itunes:summary>Celebrating 70, Topic 5a: The Aliyah of Ethiopian Jewry - May 23, 2018 - Part 1 of 2: What is the status of Ethiopian Jewry in Jewish law, and why was their aliyah delayed until 1984? Geared toward a group including people without strong background in Torah text study.</itunes:summary>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2018 14:50:58 GMT</pubDate>
      <itunes:duration>1978</itunes:duration>
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      <title>Celebrating 70, Topic 4b: The Election of Menachem Begin</title>
      <link>https://www.yutorah.org/lectures/details?shiurID=901278</link>
      <itunes:author>Torczyner, Rabbi Mordechai</itunes:author>
      <itunes:summary>Celebrating 70, Topic 4b: The Election of Menachem Begin - May 23, 2018 - Part 2 of 2. What was it about the election of Prime Minister Menachem Begin that inspired some, and frightened others? Geared toward a group including people without strong background in Torah text study.</itunes:summary>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2018 14:39:29 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Celebrating 70, Topic 4a: The Election of Menachem Begin</title>
      <link>https://www.yutorah.org/lectures/details?shiurID=901001</link>
      <itunes:author>Torczyner, Rabbi Mordechai</itunes:author>
      <itunes:summary>Celebrating 70, Topic 4a: The Election of Menachem Begin - May 16, 2018 - What was it about the election of Prime Minister Menachem Begin that inspired some, and frightened others? Geared toward a group including people without strong background in Torah text study.</itunes:summary>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2018 18:31:50 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Celebrating 70, Topic 3b: Zionism = Racism?</title>
      <link>https://www.yutorah.org/lectures/details?shiurID=901000</link>
      <itunes:author>Torczyner, Rabbi Mordechai</itunes:author>
      <itunes:summary>Celebrating 70, Topic 3b: Zionism = Racism? - May 16, 2018 - United Nations General Assembly Resolution 3379 condemning Zionism as a form of racism. Is the charge entirely unfounded? Does Judaism require discrimination? The issue of non-Jewish life in a Jewish state. Geared toward a group including people without strong background in Torah text study.</itunes:summary>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2018 18:27:45 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Celebrating 70, Topic 3a: Zionism = Racism?</title>
      <link>https://www.yutorah.org/lectures/details?shiurID=900481</link>
      <itunes:author>Torczyner, Rabbi Mordechai</itunes:author>
      <itunes:summary>Celebrating 70, Topic 3a: Zionism = Racism? - May 9, 2018 - United Nations General Assembly Resolution 3379 condemning Zionism as a form of racism. How did it happen? And is the charge entirely unfounded? The issue of non-Jewish life in a Jewish state. Geared toward a group including people without strong background in Torah text study.</itunes:summary>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2018 11:32:50 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Celebrating 70, Topic 2b: The Langer Affair</title>
      <link>https://www.yutorah.org/lectures/details?shiurID=900480</link>
      <itunes:author>Torczyner, Rabbi Mordechai</itunes:author>
      <itunes:summary>Celebrating 70, Topic 2b: The Langer Affair - May 9, 2018 - The story of Chava Langer's two marriages, and the question of whether her children Chanoch and Miriam from her second marriage would be viewed as mamzerim. The impact on Religion and State in Israel. Geared toward a group including people without strong background in Torah text study.</itunes:summary>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2018 11:26:54 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Celebrating 70, Topic 2a: The Langer Affair</title>
      <link>https://www.yutorah.org/lectures/details?shiurID=900068</link>
      <itunes:author>Torczyner, Rabbi Mordechai</itunes:author>
      <itunes:summary>Celebrating 70, Topic 2a: The Langer Affair - May 2, 2018 - The story of Chava Langer's two marriages, and the question of whether her children Chanoch and Miriam from her second marriage would be viewed as mamzerim. The impact on Religion and State in Israel. Geared toward a group including people without strong background in Torah text study.</itunes:summary>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2018 11:51:29 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Celebrating 70, Topic 1b: Israel's Nuclear Energy Commission</title>
      <link>https://www.yutorah.org/lectures/details?shiurID=900066</link>
      <itunes:author>Torczyner, Rabbi Mordechai</itunes:author>
      <itunes:summary>Celebrating 70, Topic 1b: Israel's Nuclear Energy Commission - May 2, 2018 - Concluding our discussion of nuclear ethics. Geared toward a group including people without strong background in Torah text study.</itunes:summary>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2018 11:47:37 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Celebrating 70, Topic 1a: Israel's Nuclear Energy Commission</title>
      <link>https://www.yutorah.org/lectures/details?shiurID=899569</link>
      <itunes:author>Torczyner, Rabbi Mordechai</itunes:author>
      <itunes:summary>Celebrating 70, Topic 1a: Israel's Nuclear Energy Commission - Apr 25, 2018 - Why did Israel develop nuclear weapons? How does war, and particularly the pursuit of weapons of mass destruction, fit into Jewish law and philosophy? Geared toward a group including people without strong background in Torah text study.</itunes:summary>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2018 12:08:56 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Celebrating 70: Divrei Torah from a Pop-up Restaurant </title>
      <link>https://www.yutorah.org/lectures/details?shiurID=896131</link>
      <itunes:author>Torczyner, Rabbi Mordechai; Friedmann, Adam; Ziring, Rabbi Jonathan; Perez, Yaron</itunes:author>
      <itunes:summary>Celebrating 70: Divrei Torah from a Pop-up Restaurant  - Feb 26, 2018 - In conjunction with Ely's Fine Foods, the YU Torah MiTzion Beit Midrash Zichron Dov created a pop-up restaurant. The food was themed to reflect an "updated Israeli cuisine" celebrating 70 years to the State of Israel, and the accompanying divrei Torah shed light on the Torah and historical meaning of food in Jewish life.  The flyer is in the sources with the description of each course.  </itunes:summary>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 26 Feb 2018 09:22:31 GMT</pubDate>
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      <itunes:summary>Celebrating 70: Divrei Torah from a Pop-up Restaurant  - Feb 26, 2018 - In conjunction with Ely's Fine Foods, the YU Torah MiTzion Beit Midrash Zichron Dov created a pop-up restaurant. The food was themed to reflect an "updated Israeli cuisine" celebrating 70 years to the State of Israel, and the accompanying divrei Torah shed light on the Torah and historical meaning of food in Jewish life.  The flyer is in the sources with the description of each course.  </itunes:summary>
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      <itunes:summary>Celebrating 70: Divrei Torah from a Pop-up Restaurant  - Feb 26, 2018 - In conjunction with Ely's Fine Foods, the YU Torah MiTzion Beit Midrash Zichron Dov created a pop-up restaurant. The food was themed to reflect an "updated Israeli cuisine" celebrating 70 years to the State of Israel, and the accompanying divrei Torah shed light on the Torah and historical meaning of food in Jewish life.  The flyer is in the sources with the description of each course.  </itunes:summary>
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