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		<title>Cultivating a Soul: What Farming Can Teach You About Personal Growth</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 20:20:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday morning, when the baby started crying, my 8 year old daughter ran out of bed to get him so that my husband and I could sleep a little longer. After nearly a decade of constant exhaustion spread over the rearing of four children, getting those extra 15 minutes of rest was divine. It wasn't [...]


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		<title>Thank Your &#8220;Locky&#8221; Stars: The Source of Gratitude on Thanksgiving and Every Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 18:32:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Her name was Laura Dirken and she had the loveliest locks in the grade. Don't believe me? The proof still lies in the hall of fame section of my 8th grade yearbook where you'll see that Ms. Dirken was voted "best hair" in our class. If you think those things are just popularity contests, you're [...]


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		<title>The Key Is to Be Content: The Answer to a Social Media Junkie&#8217;s Prayers</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 21:48:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the end of August, I was DONE with summer. Too much heat. Too much humidity. WAY too many mosquito bites." I can't wait for fall," I thought to myself." Crisp weather. Cozy sweaters. Huddling around the fireplace. Fall can't come soon enough." And then, just a few days later, the temperature dropped, my two youngest kids got [...]


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		<title>I&#8217;m Becoming More Observant &#8211; Does it Ever Get Easier?</title>
		<link>http://www.jewinthecity.com/2011/10/im-becoming-more-observant-does-it-ever-get-easier/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 13:14:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>psalamon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Jew in the City, My cousin showed me your page when I started becoming interested in Orthodox Judaism. Since then (that was over 6 months ago) I started learning with someone, which is going great. I was just curious of a simple yet not so simple question. Is it always this difficult? (And I [...]


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		<title>The Road to Success: Reflections During the High Holidays</title>
		<link>http://www.jewinthecity.com/2011/10/the-road-to-success-reflections-during-the-high-holidays/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2011 15:08:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>psalamon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At a recent social media conference where I was a panelist, an audience member asked how I measure success for Jew in the City. My response to her was simple: not quitting. I’ve thought of quitting Jew in the City countless times over the years. Because the idea of improving the public perception of Orthodox [...]


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		<title>Impulse Control and the High Holidays</title>
		<link>http://www.jewinthecity.com/2011/09/impulse-control-and-the-high-holidays/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2011 17:59:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>psalamon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few months ago, my two-year old son looked up at me very sweetly and said, "Mommy, can I break that lamp?" as he gestured to the corner of the living room.  "No," I told him, "you cannot break that lamp." Although a broken-lamp-catastrophe was averted that time around, my son doesn't usually ask permission [...]


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		<title>Me, Myself, and (Hurricane) Irene: The Importance of Daily Personal Reflection</title>
		<link>http://www.jewinthecity.com/2011/08/me-myself-and-hurricane-irene-the-importance-of-daily-personal-reflection/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Aug 2011 16:50:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>psalamon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I heard  that a  hurricane was coming a few days ago, I didn't take it too seriously. People tend to get overexcited about these things. But when my husband, who works in a tall building in midtown, got an email from his office that he should clear out the space in front of his [...]


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		<title>Born This Way, But Commanded To Change</title>
		<link>http://www.jewinthecity.com/2011/08/born-this-way-but-commanded-to-change/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Aug 2011 22:44:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>psalamon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This morning, when I walked into the kitchen, my husband gave me the derisive look you give someone when you’ve asked them to do the same thing 5,247 times, yet they’re still ignoring you. “Can you PLEASE stop leaving your cereal bowl by the couch at night?!” I like to eat before-bed cereal. It’s a [...]


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		<title>Anthony Weiner&#8217;s Resignation and the Lesson We All Should Learn</title>
		<link>http://www.jewinthecity.com/2011/06/anthony-weiners-resignation-and-the-lesson-we-all-should-learn/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2011 15:42:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is cross posted on ModestlyYours.net So Congressman Anthony Weiner has resigned. Apparently a politician involved in lewd online behavior, who lies about aforementioned lewd online behavior when caught, is frowned upon by the general public. But how many regular people have recently found themselves in an embarassing (albeit less extreme) situation when they assumed that their online indiscretions were discreet? I'm talking about Facebook spam. [...]


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		<title>God Left Me, So Now I&#8217;m Leaving Jewish Observance</title>
		<link>http://www.jewinthecity.com/2011/05/god-left-me-so-now-im-leaving-jewish-observance/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jewinthecity.com/2011/05/god-left-me-so-now-im-leaving-jewish-observance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2011 18:43:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi Jew in the City, I grew up in a religious environment, but in the last few years I've pretty much left religion: I don't daven (pray) at all (too lazy), Shabbat (what's that ???), but still keep kosher [hmm...].  Although I still dress like a religious Jew, I don't really practice much and the reason for [...]


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