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		<title>Two Approaches to Women&#8217;s Issues</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[R. Shmuel Goldin&#8217;s latest book on the Torah, Unlocking the Torah Text: An In-Depth Journey Into the Parsha on Vayikra, was just published by Gefen and OU Press (I work for the latter). It will be available in the US after Pesach (join us at Judaica House in Teaneck on Sunday, April 11 from 1-3pm [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Time Should the Seder Finish?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2010 01:28:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest post by Rabbi Daniel Roselaar
For many years I was always careful to eat the afikoman by chatzot [midnight, 1am with daylight savings] on Seder night, and if possible I regarded it as a hiddur [extra-meritorious practice] to drink the fourth of the cups by that time also. I believed that I was conducting a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Weekly Links</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2010 12:49:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rules: link (Note that this post will move every day until the end of the week)
Thursday

SALT today: link
David Greenfield&#8217;s win &#8211; was it frustration with Jewish institutional leadership?: link
Archeologists dig up controversy in Jerusalem: link
Catholics interrupt rabbi at Notre Dame Cathedral: link
Bartons Returns for Pesach: link
Lost segment of Jerusalem Talmud unearthed in Geneva: link
Thoroughly modern [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Parashah Roundup: Tzav-HaGadol 5770</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2010 01:31:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Steve Brizel
The Commanded Life
R Berel Wein tells us why the first word of this week&#8217;s Parshah conveys the basic message of Judaism and the traditions of a Torah based life: link

R Aharon Lichtenstein, based upon the role of the Kohen in performing Terumas HaDeshen, reminds us that a person who wants to engage in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can a Woman Serve as a Synagogue Rabbi?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2010 01:23:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is the question I sent to R. Shlomo Aviner and the response he sent back. Sorry but I don&#8217;t have the time to translate into English. Hopefully a reader will take the initiative in the comments section:
????: ??? ???? ???? ???? ??? ?? ?????? ?? ????? ????? ?????? ????? ????? ?? ????? ??? ???? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Churva Shul</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2010 01:21:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The &#8220;Churva Shul&#8221; in Jerusalem, which was destroyed in 1721, rebuilt in 1864 and destroyed again in 1948, was recently rebuilt and dedicated (link). I received (with permission to post) what I believe is an excerpt from the introduction to the shortly forthcoming Citadel and Tower: Quest for Jewish Majesty, volume 6 by R. Meir [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Waiting for Mashiach II</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 01:31:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I. Three Views
Do we have to believe that Mashiach can come any time? There are three positions that I have seen about this, that we must believe that: 

Mashiach will come today
Mashiach can come today
Mashiach cannot come on all days but he will come

The first view appears in the name of R. Yitzchak Ze&#8217;ev Soloveitchik, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Erev Pesach &amp; The Fast of the Firstborn</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 07:16:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By: Rabbi Ari Enkin
It is customary[1] for all firstborn males to fast on Erev Pesach in order to recall the tenth and final plague which God inflicted upon Egypt &#8211; the death of the firstborn.[2] There are grounds to suggest that the Fast of the Firstborn is actually of relatively recent vintage, as it is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Periodical: Milin Havivin vol. 4</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 22:14:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New issue of Milin Havivin (vol. 4, 5769-5770, 2008-2010), the YCT annual student journal devoted to studies in Torah, society and the rabbinate (I can&#8217;t find it online yet: link):

&#8216;I am the Seer&#8217;: Objective and Subjective Elements of Samuel&#8217;s Relationship to Saul and the Monarchy in I Samuel 8-16 by R. Hayyim Angel &#8211; A [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Creating the Sanctity of the Temple</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 01:27:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My comments at a recent shul dinner:
I. Moving a Synagogue
The Gemara (Megillah 29a) makes a fantastic statement that is difficult to take literally. It says that all the synagogues in Bavel will be transplanted to the land of Israel. Commentators explain it to mean that at the time of the final redemption, the synagogues in [...]]]></description>
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