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						<a href="https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/when-egypt-decided-to-restore-a-beautiful-synagogue/" rel="external">There are virtually no Jews in Alexandria to make use of the again-glorious edifice, but its message of diversity should reach everyone</a>
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						<a href="https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/israels-third-election-needs-a-game-changer-will-it-get-one/" rel="external">The future of Israel’s slowly eroding democracy doesn’t just depend on whom you vote for &#8211; but on who votes!</a>
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					<a href="https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-perpetual-elections-virus/" rel="external">The last weeks of this third round of Israeli elections are accompanied by intense – almost frenetic – activity by party leaders and a handful of their diehard supporters. Most Israelis are no longer listening. They are busy distancing themselves from the campaign as if it were more contagious than the coronavirus.    Whatever the actual outcome of the March 2nd ballot, ongoing electoral cycles have the effect of not only stripping the last vestiges of popular confidence in the system, but also of totally undoing what's left of the democratic...</a>
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						<a href="https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/hotels-put-bathroom-signs-on-your-buffets/" rel="external">We’re all worried about the water needed to wash extra towels, but we don’t care about the thousands of liters used to grow the food we throw away</a>
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						<a href="https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/ein-bokek-going-after-the-polluters/" rel="external">Is this a tragic tale of unchecked industrial pollution or an inspiring story of one angry citizen’s gutsy tenacity? Yes.</a>
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						<a href="https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/can-i-come-to-your-house-for-shabbat/" rel="external">When a non-Jewish tween heard me describe our weekly Sabbath dinner, his next question suggested a hunger for meaning and connection that he couldn’t quite name</a>
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						<a href="https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/parshat-yitro-decimal-system/" rel="external">The Ten Commandments offer a framework that categorizes all the other laws. They also include a succinct reminder of Sinai (Yitro)</a>
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						<a href="https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/talmud-every-day/" rel="external">Moses discovered early how necessary the Oral Law is to understand the Torah &#8212; it’s one reason I believe everyone should try learning Daf Yomi (Yitro)</a>
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						<a href="https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/youre-mine-youre-not-leaving-i-wont-let-you-go/" rel="external">&#8216;You’re mine, you&#8217;re not leaving, I won&#8217;t let you go&#8217;</a>
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						<a href="https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/defeating-the-beast-i-didnt-know-dwelled-within/" rel="external">I had never been claustrophobic, never. Then suddenly, I couldn’t sleep with the windows closed, let alone enter an elevator or a subway car or a plane</a>
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				<a href="https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/what-100-looks-like/" rel="external">Feeble, frail and bent over. That’s how some children are being encouraged to portray centenarians &#8212; and that’s ageism</a>
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				<a href="https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-day-i-realized-that-i-was-the-messiah/" rel="external">After 50 years, the Black Hebrews still really only want Israel to understand that they love the land and want to be friends of all people (PHOTO ESSAY)</a>
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