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         <title>Second Annual Uri L'Tzedek College Shabbaton! (Columbia University, 20-22 November 2009)</title>
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Join Uri L’Tzedek for our second annual college shabbaton, November 20-22nd at Columbia University. We will gather together for a weekend of learning, networking, and action with Jewish social justice leaders from college campuses around the country. Together we will explore Jewish texts relating to issues of Orthodoxy and social justice, develop social justice visions for our campus communities, and build relationships with other student leaders.&#160; On Sunday participants will take action...]]></description>
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         <title>JFREJ/Uri L'Tzedek Housing Crisis Beit Midrash</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Housing is one of the most pressing social issues in New York City, leading to a crisis for many New York City residents every day.The crisis&#160;is characterized by severe affordability and housing quality problems as well as rising rates of eviction and homelessness amongst the Lower East Side’s low-income and long-term residents.&#160;What does halacha have to say about housing and the rights of tenants? &#160;How is the changing housing landscape affecting long time residents of the LES?...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 22:03:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title>Uri L'Tzedek at Kehillat Rayim Ahuvim (August 8th)</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Shmuly Yanklowitz will be speak on "The Battle for a Just Health Care System - How can the Jewish Tradition Inform us to Respond to this Crisis?" at Kehillat Rayim Ahuvim (241 West 72nd Street) on the Shabbat of August 8th.]]></description>
         <pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2009 23:49:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title>Health Care and the Jewish Tradition</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Health Care shiur (ADW).pdf (220,6 kB)]]></description>
         <pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2009 22:09:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title>Social Justice in the Torah: Intro</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Social justice intro (Rachel Rosenthal's mekorot).doc.pdf (92,8 kB)]]></description>
         <pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2009 22:08:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title>Food and Torah</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Food and torah (Rachel Rosenthal's sources).doc.pdf (173,8 kB)]]></description>
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         <title>Poverty Sources</title>
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         <pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2009 22:02:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title>Humanity and Divinity (Diversity)</title>
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         <pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2009 21:57:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title>If He Saw or Knew: Social Protest and Responsibility in the Jewish Tradition</title>
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         <title>Poetry as Protest</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Final Packet.doc (3,3 MB)]]></description>
         <pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 00:01:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title>Social Change in the Torah: Zrizut or Savlanut?</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[This sourcesheet was used in a shiur delivered by Shmuly Yanklowitz at the YCT Yom Iyun.]]></description>
         <pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 11:26:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title>Rabbi Sachs on Prayer in a Time of Disaster or Crisis</title>
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         <pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 10:57:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <category>Social Justice Torah</category>
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         <title>Accountability and Transparency</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[This sourcesheet comes from a shiur given by Rabbi Yisoscher Katz on Accountability and Transparency.]]></description>
         <pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 16:55:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title>Mitzvot for the Hearing Impaired (Joey Pick)</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[This is the source sheet for Joey Pick's shiur on hearing aids and mitzvot.]]></description>
         <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 16:06:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title>Ethical Kashrut on My Jewish Learning</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[&#160;
Ethical Kashrut: Bringing animal treatment, workers' conditions, and environmental issues to a kosher table (Shmuly Yanklowitz)
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         <pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2009 12:18:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title>Uri L'Tzedek's Responses to Educational Challenges</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Creative Responses to Educational Challenges: Uri L’Tzedek -- a thread on LookJed,&#160;a&#160;listserve for&#160;Orthodox educators.]]></description>
         <pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2009 12:14:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title>Yirat Shamayim Curriculum</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[“’The Beginning of Wisdom:’ Towards a Curriculum of Yirat Shamayim in Modern Orthodox High Schools,” published in the new Orthodox Forum volume Yirat Shamayim, The Awe, Reverence, and Fear of G-d."]]></description>
         <pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2009 10:11:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title>Uri L'Tzedek on LookJed: Educators Respond</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[This is an exchange by Modern orthodox educators on the Lookstein Center's LookJed forum: http://lookstein.org/lookjed/read.php?1,17785,17785#msg-17785.]]></description>
         <pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 11:51:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title>The Moral Foundations of Gilgulim (Reincarnation), by Shmuly Yanklowitz</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[

Shmuly's Drashah - 17 March 2009.
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         <pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 14:32:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title>Intellectual Property</title>
         <link>http://www.uriltzedek.webnode.com/news/intellectual-property/</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Shavuot Learning Packet on&#160;Are We All Thieves? Hi-Tech Heists and Halacha, from YUTorah!
http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/718421//Shavuot-To-Go_5767:_Are_We_All_Thieves?_Hi-Tech_Heists_and_Halacha]]></description>
         <pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 12:48:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title>Cloning</title>
         <link>http://www.uriltzedek.webnode.com/news/cloning1/</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Yigal Shafran on&#160;A Matter of Time: The Moral Status of Cloning, from YUTorah!
http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/703950//A_Matter_of_Time:_The_Moral_Status_of_Cloning_(Symposium:_Judaism,_Genetic_Engineering,_and_the_Cloning_of_Humans)]]></description>
         <pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 12:37:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <category>Social Justice Torah</category>
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         <title>Individualism and Collectivism</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Rabbi Yonason Sacks on Individualism and Collectivism: A Torah Perspective, from YUTorah!
http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/704411/Rabbi_Yonason_Sacks/Individualism_and_Collectivism:_A_Torah_Perspective]]></description>
         <pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 12:36:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title>Judaism and Democracy</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Rabbi Sol Roth on Judaism and Democracy, from YUTorah!
http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/704412/Rabbi_Sol_Roth/Judaism_and_Democracy]]></description>
         <pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 12:35:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title>Cloning</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Rabbi Michael Broyde on Cloning and the Noahide Legal Code (Symposium: Judaism, Genetic Engineering, and the Cloning of Humans), from YUTorah!
http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/703937/Rabbi_Michael_Broyde/Cloning_and_the_Noahide_Legal_Code_(Symposium:_Judaism,_Genetic_Engineering,_and_the_Cloning_of_Humans)]]></description>
         <pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 12:29:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title>Middot Reflection #6 - Actualizing one's potential, by Shmuly Yanklowitz</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Our  work is never done! This is what makes Jewish activism so intimidating  and also so invigorating. We never complete the larger goals. We are  never whole. Until the day that we pass from the earth, we are unable  to fully step back and “throw the towel in.” The Maharal M’Prague  taught: &#160;

  “Man is not created in his final wholeness. Man was created to actualize  his wholeness. That is the meaning of the verse  ‘Man was born to toil.’ Man is born and exists for the aim of this  toil,...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 23:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title>Middot Reflection #7 - Activisms of Love and Hate, by Shmuly Yanklowitz</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[&#160;&#160; &#160; &#160;Should we fight for justice with hearts full of love or hearts full of anger? Which is more rewarding? Which is more productive? Which must we cultivate as religious activists? &#160;
&#160;
&#160;&#160; &#160; &#160;Rav Soloveitchik argued (A Theory of Emotions, 183): &#160;&#160;
&#160;&#160; &#160; &#160;“Of course, love is a great and noble emotion, fostering the social spirit and elevating man, but not always is the loving person capable of meeting the challenge...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 22:59:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title>Middot reflection #8 - Sloth, By Shmuly Yanklowitz</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Classically, the vice of sloth (laziness) had two components:&#160;
&#160;&#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; 1. acedia – a lack of caring or indifference
&#160;&#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; 2. tristtitia – sadness, sorrow, or despair &#160; &#160;
&#160;&#160; &#160; &#160;I would argue that the negative aspect of individualism that exists today in 21st century is furthered by acedia. The sociologist Robert Bellah says it well:
&#160;&#160; &#160;“The individualism that’s on the rise recently in the...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 22:56:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title>Uri L'Tzedek launches social justice project at SAR High School</title>
         <link>http://www.uriltzedek.webnode.com/news/uri-ltzedek-launches-social-justice-project-at-sar-high-school/</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Uri L'Tzedek launches search for social justice project at SAR High school. The winning proposal will address the Jewish value of social justice through action. The proposal should address a systemic social justice issue, such as poverty, health, housing, or prejudice. The project proposal should have a concrete, achievable goal, that will include an initial phase and long term follow up. Finally, the proposal will also include the student's greater community.&#160;

To support of the project,...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2008 15:07:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title>Ethical Issues in Kashrut and Jewish Law - Young Israel of Stamford</title>
         <link>http://www.uriltzedek.webnode.com/news/ethical-issues-in-kashrut-and-jewish-law-young-israel-of-stamford/</link>
         <description><![CDATA[&#160;Rabbi Ari Weiss, Executive Director of Uri L'Tzedek presents insights into ethical issues in kashrut and Jewish law.


    
        
            
            Shabbos, September 12, at a special extended shalosh seudot following mincha at the Young Israel
            
            Mincha: 5:30PM
            Shalosh Seudot: 5:50PM
            Maariv: 7:50PM
            
        
    



Young Israel of Stamfod
69 Oaklawn Ave, Stamford, CT 06905]]></description>
         <pubDate>Sat, 13 Sep 2008 14:59:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title>Thomas Miller - Iowa Attorney General's Office</title>
         <link>http://www.uriltzedek.webnode.com/news/thomas-miller-iowa-attorney-generals-office/</link>
         <description><![CDATA[While we stood outside the church, we spoke Thomas Miller, Deputy Attorney General of Iowa. Over the course of our visit, Hispanic teenagers had been walking in and out of the St. Bridget's rectory accompanied by professionals. We asked what this was about, and he stated that it was part of the Department of Justice Investigation into child labor allegations at the plant. He could not comment further, but wished us well.]]></description>
         <pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 15:46:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <category>The Trip To Postville</category>
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         <title>Community Worker - Sister Mary McCauley</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[We met with Sister Mary McCauley inside the social hall of St. Bridget's church. Sister Mary is responsible for overseeing the administering of resource to families that have been affected by the May 12 raid.

She told us that with many fathers in jail and mothers not not allowed to work or leave, the community she serves has been devastated. Sister Mary expressed deep gratitude for the Jewish community's response to what she termed the "humanitarian crisis" in Postville after May 12, through...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 15:39:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title>Current Workers</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[We drove onto the Agri factory compound and walked up to the Human Resource Department with interest in hearing a few worker narratives. Outside of the office, there were many workers congregating. We spoke with Koby who was on his first day on the job in the shipping department. He had just walked out of orientation. When asked how that time was spent, he responded that the majority of their time was in safety training. He reported that relative to other work experiences he'd had, that this...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 15:37:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title>Former Worker - Inez</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[We met Inez, a former Agriprocessors employee on the back porch of her house. She spoke in a quiet monotone, with her head down for most of the conversation. She held a small baby on her lap and her tracking device visible on her ankle.

Inez worked at the plant for 3 years in the chicken department. She stated that she made $6.25 when she started and ended at $6.75 when she finished. When asked, Inez was not aware that $6.75 was under the state minimum wage. She described what were for her...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 11:55:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title>Former Worker - Maria</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[We met Maria in the social hall at St. Bridget's Church where she was picking up supplies for the week. An undocumented immigrant arrested in the May 12 raid, Maria was awaiting news on whether or not she would be deported. Her five year old son, Ernesto, was playing nearby.

Maria had worked in the plant for the previous nine years in the beef department. She was paid $6.25 when she started, and paid $7.25 at the time she was arrested in May. She described her job at the plant as "very fast...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 11:36:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title>Workers' Justice: A Jewish Perspective</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Workers' rights and labor laws are concepts prevalent in the Jewish tradition, and ones that have become increasingly relevant in contemporary Jewish society. The recent events in Postville , Iowa that have aroused so much passion in the community compel us to examine what Jewish sources have to say about workers' rights. Join us for a Beit Midrash with Rabbi Mike Schultz as he explores these sources and how they address this very important issue.&#160;
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         <title>Middah Reflection #5 - Pursuit of God in Justice</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[&#160;“Your name shall no longer be Jacob, but Israel, for you have striven with beings divine and human and have prevailed,” (Bereshit 32:29). Yaakov Avinu is blessed with a new name only once he has struggled both with G-d and humanity together. The Jewish people are named Israel only after existential encounters with divinity and humanity!&#160;&#160;

&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;There is a religious crisis in our age! Many seek closeness to G-d but not to assist man in a rigorous...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 20:25:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title>Middah Reflection #4 - Messianic Yearning</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[&#160;Religious Jews are taught at a young age to yearn for the&#160;geulah&#160;(redemption). With sophistication, the student comes to learn that messianism is not just about seeking an end but is also a worldview, a process of living with a vision and with a dream. What is one to do if they lack this excitement for life, drive to make change, idealism to envision a better world? Rabbi Luzzatto (Mesillat Yesharim, Chapter 7) writes:
 
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&#160;“The best advice for the person in whom this...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 10:46:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title>Documentary Film about Tikkun Olam/social activism</title>
         <link>http://www.uriltzedek.webnode.com/news/documentary-film-about-tikkun-olam-social-activism/</link>
         <description><![CDATA[JTN PRODUCTIONS is developing a new documentary about Tikkun Olam -- Jews involved in "repairing the world"/social activism projects. We're looking to feature young Jewish Americans (under 35 years of age) spending 6 or more months engaged in exciting and interesting volunteer work and "direct service" projects far from the comforts of their homes.
Examples might be…those who are caring for babies orphaned by AIDS in South Africa, training Afghani women to use computers, perfecting crop...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 11:06:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title>Prayer for the People of Darfur - Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, Chief Rabbi of the UK</title>
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PRAYER  FOR THE PEOPLE OF DARFUR
Chief Rabbi Sir Jonathan Sacks
O God of Peace,
Who commands us to seek peace,
Send peace to the people of Darfur.
O God of compassion,
Who hears the cry of the afflicted,
Hear the cry of the victims,
The bereaved, the injured,
And all those who live their days  in fear.
Rouse the hearts of the leaders of  the world
To put an end to the bloodshed, the  violence,
The rape, the starvation, and the  terror,
That has ravaged and endangered an  entire population.
Be...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 10:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title>Middah Reflection #3 - Savlanut vs. Zrizut, Patience vs. Alacrity</title>
         <link>http://www.uriltzedek.webnode.com/news/middah-reflection-3-savlanut-vs-zrizut-patience-vs-alacrity/</link>
         <description><![CDATA[&#160;
Activism requires a very calculated and sensitive balance between patience and alacrity. On the one hand, one must have the patience for teaching and engaging the apathetic and the uninformed. On the other hand, one must also have the alacrity to respond to crises and injustices at the most crucial time. Most often the precise timing that necessitates immediate action precedes the completion of the essential education and mobilization of the public. This is one of the reasons why the...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 09:21:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title>Middah Reflection #2 - Anivut, Humility</title>
         <link>http://www.uriltzedek.webnode.com/news/middah-reflection-2-anivut-humility/</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Anivut (humility) has a very special priority in positive Jewish self development. Rav Kook wrote (The Moral Principles, page 174) that “Humility is associated with spiritual perfection. When humility effects depression it is defective, when it is genuine it inspires joy, courage, and inner dignity.” In short, humility should not diminish our special personality traits; rather it should help us to become unique moral courageous agents of...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Sun, 27 Jul 2008 22:14:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title>Social Action or Spiritual Practice: Which is the Priority? By Alan Morinis, Director of the Mussar Institute</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[The title of this essay makes no  sense to me. To set up social action on one hand and spiritual practice  on the other, as if these could be considered separable alternatives,  seems to me like asking, “Which is more important for life: brains  or heart?” Try living without either of them. &#160;
And yet this is precisely an argument  that goes on, because some activists disparage the introspective, contemplative  approaches to living that come under the heading of spirituality, while  people...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Sun, 27 Jul 2008 21:53:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title>Uri L'Tzedek Fights for Tibet</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
5/15, 2008 

On Monday May 12th, over 60 Orthodox Jews gathered in a synagogue basement to raise consciousness about what the Dalai Lama has called the "cultural genocide" taking place in Tibet. Author and Jewish leader Rabbi Yitz Greenberg, Tibetan activists and former political prisoners Phurbu Dorjee, Tashi Phuntsok, and Choeying Kunsang, Shana Dworkin, advocacy expert and leader in the Students for a Free Tibet, and Shmuly Yanklowitz, Uri L'Tzedek co-founder and...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 19:18:00 +0200</pubDate>
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