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		<title>&#8220;Diverse&#8221; Continued</title>
		<link>http://jewpanese.wordpress.com/2009/03/24/diverse-continued/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 05:16:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t mean to undermine the efforts to spread the awareness that Jews exist in all colors.
But, the way that that is being propagated lately makes me a little uncomfortable.
When you look at the posters of &#8220;diverse&#8221; Jews in America, you always see a &#8220;black&#8221; face, an &#8220;Asian&#8221; face, and a &#8220;Middle-Eastern&#8221; face. To the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jewpanese.wordpress.com&blog=189641&post=85&subd=jewpanese&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fired Up</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 05:24:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is an organization that I love.
It is a community that has nurtured me as a person in yesteryears.
It has been and remains a place of kindness and seriousness.
I have heard about its dwindling and have been sick-worried. I have been wondering what was going on and wondering if there was anything that I could [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jewpanese.wordpress.com&blog=189641&post=82&subd=jewpanese&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Diverse&#8221; as a Euphemism</title>
		<link>http://jewpanese.wordpress.com/2009/02/02/diverse-as-a-euphamism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2009 01:51:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The other day I was standing in line in a post office in Harlem.
I turned to a woman behind me, who was the only other &#8220;white&#8221;(-ish) face in the post office and asked, &#8220;how do you like living here?&#8221; She said, &#8220;oh, you are thinking of moving here?&#8221; I said, yes, and she started off [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jewpanese.wordpress.com&blog=189641&post=78&subd=jewpanese&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Discontinued!? No!!!!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 07:26:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I grew up on this stuff. Even though now I can drink coffee, I definitely prefer&#8230;well, I guess now, &#8220;prefered&#8221; would be correct&#8230;this stuff to coffee: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postum. But this entry brings the news, it has been discontinued. Now I must make it myself if I want to replicate this delicious and better-than-coffee taste by following [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jewpanese.wordpress.com&blog=189641&post=77&subd=jewpanese&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Very Sad</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2009 19:20:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://ayecha.org/
This is one of the most inspiring organizations I have been involved with. Very sad to hear that they have closed their doors. 
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		<title>&#8220;Dirty&#8221; Mumbai</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 02:31:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kaguya</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am one of those deeply saddened by what has happened in Mumbai recently, and particularly to the Chabad shluchim.
I am particularly saddened because I have met and have been helped by many shluchim in my travels.
I have seen and heard of Chabad shluchim breaking up old native communities in &#8220;far-flung&#8221; places, but I have [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jewpanese.wordpress.com&blog=189641&post=74&subd=jewpanese&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Talking Politics</title>
		<link>http://jewpanese.wordpress.com/2008/10/26/talking-politics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Oct 2008 15:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kaguya</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://jewpanese.wordpress.com/?p=72</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I believe that in the blogosphere, for many reasons, I should keep my political opinions to myself. But, I was compelled to write something. But then again, I decided that no&#8211;my opinion is not going to change any political outcome anyway (the states that I vote in always vote the same) and it just jeopardizes [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jewpanese.wordpress.com&blog=189641&post=72&subd=jewpanese&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Recent Controversy Over the Kotel and Obama</title>
		<link>http://jewpanese.wordpress.com/2008/08/17/the-recent-controversy-over-the-kotel-and-obama/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Aug 2008 07:55:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1006186.html
What made my jaw drop in Maariv&#8217;s response to the outrage expressed by a Jerusalem lawyer: &#8220;since he [Sen. Obama] is not Jewish, there is no violation of privacy as there would be for a Jewish person who places a note in the wall&#8220;
Obnoxious&#8230;. That&#8217;s all I&#8217;ve got to say.
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		<title>The Pressure to be &#8220;Liberal&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://jewpanese.wordpress.com/2008/06/25/the-pressure-to-be-liberal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 14:22:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a multi-racial individual, I often encounter the expectation that I should be or must be &#8220;liberal.&#8221; This, at times, has made me want to run the other way, and just to prove people wrong, be &#8220;conservative.&#8221;
Luckily, though, I have worked very hard not to let social pressures like that decide my very personal opinions [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jewpanese.wordpress.com&blog=189641&post=66&subd=jewpanese&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Media&#8217;s Presedential Race</title>
		<link>http://jewpanese.wordpress.com/2008/06/05/the-medias-presedential-race/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2008 05:11:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The media (the ones that I have kept up with and I think wield the most influence, are Time magazine and New York Times) wanted Obama to be the Democratic nominee so it ran a free campaign for him&#8211;consistently portraying Rodham Clinton in an unfavorable light.
New York Times was a little more subtle about the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jewpanese.wordpress.com&blog=189641&post=65&subd=jewpanese&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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