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		<title>Which blog shall live and which shall die</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2011 17:07:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear friends, fellow travelers, and accidental readers, I don’t want to beat around the bush. It’s Thursday, the first day of Sukkot, with the annual Torah cycle drawing to a close, and I’m up to my eyeballs in contemplation: Should I re-up Awkward Offerings for a third year?The High Holy Days have that (intended) effect [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swartzsue.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9095807&amp;post=1685&amp;subd=swartzsue&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 20:58:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have gone astray, we have led others astray. Friends, I was going to write an extended meditation about the Vidui, the confessional prayer we return to again and again during the 25 hours of Yom Kippur, where we communally admit to abuse, betrayal, cruelty, gossip, insult, hatred, neglect, oppression, rebellion, theft, and xenophobia (to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swartzsue.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9095807&amp;post=1676&amp;subd=swartzsue&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Happy birthday to the world!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 18:44:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Like a pencil poised for calculation, a key not yet turned in the twitchy ignition, so was the curved throat of God in the nothing before the (ready, so ready) beginning.   Then: Black letters proclaimed onto the white parchment universe.     Then: Big Bang (call it what you will)—   Water swirling [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swartzsue.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9095807&amp;post=1657&amp;subd=swartzsue&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How are we to live in this world?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2011 19:24:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is not a trifling thing for you: it is your very life. I ask you. On any given day, someone is rude to you for no good reason. Your mother lays a heavy guilt trip for not calling her since Saturday. A friend asks if they look fat. You wonder whether to ignore someone&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swartzsue.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9095807&amp;post=1651&amp;subd=swartzsue&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Heaven &amp; Earth will surely witness against us</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 22:33:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The state of Georgia may execute Troy Davis on September 21st and if there is only one thing you read in the next 24 hours, make it Explaining the Death Penalty to my Children by blogger Emily Hauser. Emily writes movingly about Davis, sentenced 20 years ago in the killing of a police officer, and how [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swartzsue.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9095807&amp;post=1643&amp;subd=swartzsue&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Love is a battlefield</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2011 15:41:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[First paragraph: If you go out to battle and see a woman fair of form, don&#8217;t be a brute. Take her home, let her mourn for 30 days, and only then can she be yours to marry. If after that you tire of her, she is not to be sold, but set free. Next paragraph: [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swartzsue.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9095807&amp;post=1635&amp;subd=swartzsue&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On the eve of Elul</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2011 14:20:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve got tzara&#8217;at. You know &#8212; the Biblical oozing creeping scales &#38; red spots. Otherwise known mistakenly as &#8220;leprosy&#8221; which I&#8217;ve written about here and here. Also known as unidentified bug bites (not bedbugs, however, thankfully &#8212; my sin wasn&#8217;t bad enough for that), perhaps spiders, who knows what, that got slightly infected &#38; began [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swartzsue.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9095807&amp;post=1628&amp;subd=swartzsue&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Torah Mad Libs</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Aug 2011 14:43:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My stepdaughter Lonica is getting married in 9 days. Tomorrow morning, she and her dear Joey will be called up the Torah for an aliyah in celebration and anticipation of  the nuptials. I will be blessing them with some combination of generalized &#8220;good luck&#8221; &#38; Torah wisdom. In preparation, I&#8217;m reading this week&#8217;s Torah portion, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swartzsue.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9095807&amp;post=1620&amp;subd=swartzsue&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fantasy land</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2011 20:25:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Torah is fantasy.  No, not that kind of fantasy, i.e., totally made up stuff. Nor do I mean the wizards/dragons/alien marauders/magical ring stuff that entertains and enthralls. More like the oh-if-only-this-relationship-would-work-out-my-life-would-be-perfect kind of fantasy – a communal dream of grandeur and happy times with deep psychological resonance and lots of prescriptive morality thrown for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swartzsue.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9095807&amp;post=1615&amp;subd=swartzsue&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Yet another &#8220;translation&#8221; of the Sh&#8217;ma</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Aug 2011 13:22:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week&#8217;s Torah portion contains the Sh&#8217;ma and V&#8217;ahavta (&#8220;listen!&#8221; and &#8220;love!&#8221;), what is often described as the central Jewish creed or statement of faith. Hear O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is One! Seems about right &#8212; delineating, as it does, that Israel is to shush for a moment and remember that YHWH, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swartzsue.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9095807&amp;post=1611&amp;subd=swartzsue&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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