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		<title>Interfaith Trip to Israel</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Discovering Our Common Roots — An Interfaith Journey through Israel Celebrate an interfaith experience within the Marblehead community. . February 6th 7:00 &#8211; 8:30 pm Abbot Public Library . With reflections from Reverend Dennis Calhoun and Rabbi David Meyer. . Reception open to all. Refreshments will be served! . Click here for details.]]></description>
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		<title>High Holyday Speech to Congregation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Delivered Yom Kippur, 5772 (October 2011) by Stuart Cohen   Pleasure is transitory. Enjoyment doesn’t last after the activity ends. Researchers in the field of positive psychology tell us that pleasure, as enjoyable as it is, does not contribute significantly to a long-term sense of well-being. What does make us feel contented and satisfied with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://emanu-el-stage.org/2011/10/10/high-holyday-speech-to-congregation/</link>
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		<title>Date Callout</title>
		<description><![CDATA[  B&#8217;shalach, 5772]]></description>
		<link>http://emanu-el-stage.org/2011/10/09/date-callout/</link>
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		<title>THE TORTOISE AND THE SCORPION: CAN PEOPLE CHANGE?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yom Kippur Morning 5772 In the middle of his beautiful work of poetic fiction, David Rakoff, recent winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor, included an original version of an ancient fable, which like the rest of his composition, is written in rhyming couplets.  The theme of the fable carries not an answer, but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://emanu-el-stage.org/2011/10/08/yom-kippur-morning-5772/</link>
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		<title>“FOR THIS WERE YOU CREATED”</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Kol Nidre 5772 For the past 20 years, Dr. Richard Light, a professor of education at Harvard, has been conducting interviews with Harvard College students who are on the verge of graduation. Not long ago, he started to notice a trend. Even though undergraduates were content with the academic education they were receiving, many felt [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FROM JERUSALEM TO RAMALLAH (AND BACK)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Rosh Hashanah Morning 5772 The nationalistic fervor which swept across Europe through the middle and late 19th Century found its Jewish expression in the Zionist movement, and the dream of a modern Jewish State in our ancestral homeland of Israel.  As Jewish pride and hope blossomed, Jewish soccer clubs sprouted throughout metropolitan Europe – in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://emanu-el-stage.org/2011/09/29/from-jerusalem-to-ramallah-and-back/</link>
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		<title>A NEW MACHZOR – CHANGES AND CHALLENGES</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Erev Rosh Hashanah 5772 In his recent book, The Beginning of Infinity, physicist and cosmologist, David Deutsch, makes the following, rather fascinating insight.  He writes: “Progress that is both rapid enough to be noticed and stable enough to continue over many generations has been achieved only once in the history of our species. It began [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://emanu-el-stage.org/2011/09/28/a-new-machzor-%e2%80%93-changes-and-challenges/</link>
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		<title>Music at Temple Emanu-El Today</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Music is such a vital element of worship. That’s why the Temple leadership, including Rabbi Meyer and the volunteer board, has put so much emphasis on developing an excellent music program. If you haven’t come to services since last year’s High Holydays, you may have missed what we’ve done.           Our musical evolution has been [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://emanu-el-stage.org/2011/09/16/music-at-temple-emanu-el-today/</link>
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		<title>Jewish Continuity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[          A friend recently told me how much Jewish culture means to him, and how proudly he identifies with Jewish history. He also said that Jewish religion and its practice has no meaning. Like many Reform Jews, he has a strong sense of belonging but is uncomfortable with worship and the traditional notion of God. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://emanu-el-stage.org/2011/08/16/jewish-continuity/</link>
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		<title>News Callout</title>
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		<link>http://emanu-el-stage.org/2011/06/15/news-callout/</link>
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