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		<title>Hazzanut and Jazz with the Afro-Semitic Experience</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 22:30:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For those of you who missed the concert, please watch the highlights! More video to come!]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m dreaming of a white&#8230; Hanukkah?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 15:22:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the most famous of Christmas songs is by a Jewish composer: Irving Berlin. I don&#8217;t care what face tradition you grew up with; White Christmas is a terrific song and it makes me think of the season. But where are all the great Hanukkah songs? Where is the Jewish &#8220;White Christmas?&#8221; Of course, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jacob of the old west.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 14:05:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Finding an &#8220;ultimate meaningful existence&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Oct 2011 13:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rabbi Alvin Reines, professor of philosophy at the Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati, Ohio from 1958 until his death in 2004, taught that religion exists because we realize that we are each destined to die. Because our life is finite, with a beginning and an end, we have a need to make sense of our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Finalitly of Judgment</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2011 20:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On September 21, 2011, at 10:53 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, Troy Davis was executed by the state of Georgia. He was tried and convicted for the assault of two men and the murder of a third, a police officer, in Savannah, Georgia in August of 1989. As with other capital cases in which someone is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Slow to Anger</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Feb 2011 20:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[God passed by before [Moses] and proclaimed, “The Eternal God, the Eternal God, omnipotent, merciful and kind, slow to anger, with tremendous love and truth. Who remembers deeds of love for thousands [of generations], forgiving sin, rebellion and error. Who does not clear [those who do not repent], but keeps in mind the sins of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Sabbatical Year (a sermon for Shabbat Shuva)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Sep 2010 20:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA["You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down... some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today."      --Aaron Copland]]></description>
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		<title>Finding Freedom</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Apr 2010 20:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of my favorite movies of all time is &#8220;The Matrix.&#8221; It is a story of a dystopian future in which humanity has been taken over by computers. The catch is that the humans are completely unaware of their captivity. People’s brains are all plugged into a vast computer network which simulates a mundane world [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shabbat Shirah 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 20:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Psalmist wrote: &#8220;Shiru Ladonai Shir Khadash.&#8221;—“Sing unto God a New Song.” This evening, we have experienced new songs and new expressions to words we say week in and week out. We change the music of our prayers not because the words of our prayerbook change. It is we who change, who grow. The human [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Entrance of Elul</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 19:30:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love the sound of cicadas in the summer. It is the tell-tale sign that it’s August. The cicada’s song is a mating call, but doesn’t sound that romantic to the human ear. If anything, it can be described, according to entomologist Gaye Williams, as “a million baby rattles.” But it is a sound that evokes [...]]]></description>
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