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		<title>a quick thought on Liberal Judaism</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the central tenets of liberal Judaism is that we make informed choices.  The Reform movement&#8217;s mantra of &#8220;Choice through Knowledge,&#8221; even if often ignored in the Reform movement itself, is still a significant thread that runs through the liberal Jewish world, and which I strongly believe in.  Even in the Conservative movement, which [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=zachmargulies.wordpress.com&amp;blog=89146&amp;post=195&amp;subd=zachmargulies&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>the Third Incarnation</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Dec 2011 06:08:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi all!  It&#8217;s been a long time since I updated this blog, and I thought it might be time to resurrect it for a second time.  I stopped writing when my stay in Israel (the raison d&#8217;etre of the blog) was over, but I still have some (hopefully interesting!) things to say, so we&#8217;ll see [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=zachmargulies.wordpress.com&amp;blog=89146&amp;post=191&amp;subd=zachmargulies&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Shavuot: a Temple Holiday without a Temple</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jun 2011 13:38:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I know a lot of my posts have been about how holidays are celebrated in Israel, but I hope you&#8217;ll bear with me through one more.  I promise, no more! Last week we celebrated Shavu&#8217;ot &#8211; the &#8220;Festival of Weeks&#8221; and the forerunner to Christian Pentecost.  Like most Jewish holidays, it was originally an agricultural [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=zachmargulies.wordpress.com&amp;blog=89146&amp;post=187&amp;subd=zachmargulies&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Memorial Day and Yom HaZikkaron</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jun 2011 15:07:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this week, I was talking with a friend who works for an American company, and she mentioned that she had a day off.  I was confused for a minute, since she works all the time.  Then she reminded me that it was Memorial Day in the US.  Having just recently witnessed the the big [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=zachmargulies.wordpress.com&amp;blog=89146&amp;post=178&amp;subd=zachmargulies&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Excavating Tel Burna and Spring in Israel</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Apr 2011 13:58:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(or almost)הנה הסתו עבר, הגשם חלף הלך לו Lo, the winter has passed, the rains have gone, gone away (song of songs, 2:11) Again, it&#8217;s been too long since my last post.  I&#8217;ve been studying hard at Pardes, and not much has changed.  But finally, Spring is here!  And with that, the first dig season [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=zachmargulies.wordpress.com&amp;blog=89146&amp;post=169&amp;subd=zachmargulies&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thoughts on Gemara</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Feb 2011 17:59:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[About a month ago, we began our second semester at Pardes, giving us the chance to switch up our class schedules.  I had been studying Tanakh, and enjoying it, but I didn&#8217;t find the Tanakh course offerings for the new semester very interesting.  Instead, I decided to take advantage of the opportunity to start studying [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=zachmargulies.wordpress.com&amp;blog=89146&amp;post=162&amp;subd=zachmargulies&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>a view from Nablus</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Dec 2010 13:48:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After the overview of my Chanukkah break, I wanted to go into a bit more depth about one of my day excursions.  A good friend of mine, Zak, a Palestinian Christian who owns a shop in the old city, and I were talking, and I mentioned that I wanted to see some of the West [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=zachmargulies.wordpress.com&amp;blog=89146&amp;post=128&amp;subd=zachmargulies&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Chanukkah break</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Dec 2010 18:54:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yet again, it&#8217;s been way too long since my last post. I seem to start every post that way&#8230; maybe I&#8217;ll get better at this eventually. Instead of giving the normal Christmas break that American schools give, Pardes, and Israel in general, has a winter break for the eight days of Chanukkah.  Chanukkah this year [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=zachmargulies.wordpress.com&amp;blog=89146&amp;post=123&amp;subd=zachmargulies&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Only in Israel&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Oct 2010 17:13:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One night last week, I was walking along Pierre Koenig Street near my house, and got to a red light at the intersection across from Pardes.  It was pretty deserted at that time of night, with only a few cars and pedestrians out.  While I was waiting, a van pulled up next to me, completely [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=zachmargulies.wordpress.com&amp;blog=89146&amp;post=120&amp;subd=zachmargulies&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>learning at Pardes</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Oct 2010 19:30:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now that I&#8217;ve been here for over a month, I&#8217;m getting into the routine of classes at Pardes, and have a pretty good idea how the rest of the year should look.  They way we learn here is very different from the way we learn in college; in college, classes meet two or three times [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=zachmargulies.wordpress.com&amp;blog=89146&amp;post=117&amp;subd=zachmargulies&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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