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		<title>How Jews Pray</title>
		<link>http://www.levitt.com/news/2009/09/24/how-jews-pray/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 11:05:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margot</dc:creator>
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By Ludwig Schneider, Israel Today
Most of the Jewish prayers are brachot (benedictions or blessings), in which the one praying blesses God. Blessings begin with this formula:
Baruch Ata Adonai, Eloheinu,
Melech ha’olam…
Blessed are You, O Lord our
God, King of the universe&#8230;
There are specific blessings for all occasions—for bread and wine on the Sabbath, for festivals like Passover [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Silent No More: Christians United for Israel</title>
		<link>http://www.levitt.com/news/2009/07/26/silent-no-more-christians-united-for-israel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2009 21:55:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Peggy Shapiro, www.americanthinker.com
Where could you hear radio talk show hosts Dennis Prager and Michael Medved, military analyst Elliot Chodoff, Israel&#8217;s Ambassador Michael Oren, Senator Joe Lieberman, country music star Randy Travis, and cantor and musical theater singer Dudu Fisher on the same stage with ministers and orthodox rabbis? Where could you see over four [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. Jews React To Obama&#8217;s Cairo Speech</title>
		<link>http://www.levitt.com/news/2009/07/20/u-s-jews-react-to-obamas-cairo-speech/</link>
		<comments>http://www.levitt.com/news/2009/07/20/u-s-jews-react-to-obamas-cairo-speech/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2009 21:43:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Ronald Kessler, www.NewsMax.com
 
Reaction to President Obama’s speech to a Muslim audience in Cairo in early June has drawn a range of reaction from many Jewish leaders. Detractors condemned it as a revision of the long and close relationship between the U.S. and Israel. But many who backed Obama were also surprised and dismayed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Passover, God anxiously waits for His children to come home</title>
		<link>http://www.levitt.com/news/2009/04/08/on-passover-god-anxiously-waits-for-his-children-to-come-home/</link>
		<comments>http://www.levitt.com/news/2009/04/08/on-passover-god-anxiously-waits-for-his-children-to-come-home/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 00:34:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Passover begins April 9, with tonight being the First Seder on Passover Eve. 
Where Are You?
by Sara Debbie Gutfreund, www.aish.com
 
Every year my great grandmother stood by the living room window on Seder night looking for her son. Uncle Leo was always late, year after year. I would stand beside her in my pink and white dresses [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Muslim guardian of Israel&#8217;s daily bread</title>
		<link>http://www.levitt.com/news/2009/04/08/the-muslim-guardian-of-israels-daily-bread/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 11:01:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margot</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Ben Lynfield, www.independent.co.uk
When Jaaber Hussein signed an agreement with Israel&#8217;s Chief Rabbis last Monday, he inked the only Arab-Jewish accord sure to be meticulously observed by both sides. The deal makes him the owner for one week of all bread, pasta, and beer in Israel – well a huge amount of it anyway. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iran On International Holocaust Remembrance Day</title>
		<link>http://www.levitt.com/news/2009/01/28/iran-on-international-holocaust-remembrance-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 03:22:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Susan Estrich
news.yahoo.com
On Jan. 27, 1945, Soviet soldiers entered the largest Nazi death camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau, in Poland and liberated the 7,000 prisoners who were still there, most of them sick and dying.
In 2005, for the 60th anniversary of the liberation, the United Nations designated Jan. 27 as International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
And so it was certainly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gazan baby&#8217;s life saved by Israel&#8217;s Wolfson heart surgery</title>
		<link>http://www.levitt.com/news/2009/01/09/gazan-babys-life-saved-by-israels-wolfson-heart-surgery/</link>
		<comments>http://www.levitt.com/news/2009/01/09/gazan-babys-life-saved-by-israels-wolfson-heart-surgery/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 20:57:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Judy Siegel-Itzkovich The Jerusalem Post 
The war in Gaza has not slowed down the work of Save a Child&#8217;s Heart (SACH), the voluntary organization based at Holon&#8217;s Wolfson Medical Center that has provided free cardiac surgery to over 600 Palestinians and nearly 2,000 others from around the world. 
A three-week-old baby named Jafar from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Torah’s Tale is Kept Alive</title>
		<link>http://www.levitt.com/news/2008/12/30/torah%e2%80%99s-tale-is-kept-alive/</link>
		<comments>http://www.levitt.com/news/2008/12/30/torah%e2%80%99s-tale-is-kept-alive/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2008 21:08:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margot</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2009-1 Levitt Letter]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Duke Helfand  Los Angeles Times
Dr. Joel Kushner, left, and Rabbi Richard N. Levy unroll the Yanov Torah during a ceremony at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion near USC. The Torah survived the Holocaust by being cut into pieces, hidden during the war and reassembled afterward. photo credit: Mark Boster / Los [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scholars Hunt Missing Pages Of Ancient Hebrew Bible</title>
		<link>http://www.levitt.com/news/2008/11/26/scholars-hunt-missing-pages-of-ancient-hebrew-bible/</link>
		<comments>http://www.levitt.com/news/2008/11/26/scholars-hunt-missing-pages-of-ancient-hebrew-bible/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2008 01:39:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margot</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2008-12 Levitt Letter]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Matti Friedman  Associated Press 
JERUSALEM (AP) — A quest is under way on four continents to find the missing pages of one of the world&#8217;s most important holy texts, the 1,000-year-old Hebrew Bible known as the Crown of Aleppo.
Crusaders held it for ransom, fire almost destroyed it, and it was reputedly smuggled across [...]]]></description>
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		<title>She rescued 3,228 Jews</title>
		<link>http://www.levitt.com/news/2008/11/16/she-rescued-3228-jews/</link>
		<comments>http://www.levitt.com/news/2008/11/16/she-rescued-3228-jews/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Nov 2008 12:36:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Rescuer
By Haviv Rettig  www.aish,com
In 1972, Toronto high school music teacher Judy Feld Carr came across a news article in The Jerusalem Post that told of the tragic deaths of 12 young Syrian Jewish men who ran across a minefield while attempting to flee Syria across the Turkish border. 
&#8220;I saw the article and [...]]]></description>
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