<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0" xmlns:activity="http://activitystrea.ms/spec/1.0/" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" ><channel><title>Newsvine - Alan Abbey's Column - Articles and Seeds</title><link>http://abbeycontent.newsvine.com/</link><description>Newsvine - Alan Abbey's Column - Articles and Seeds</description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2009</copyright><lastBuildDate>Mon, 8 Sep 2008 09:45:53 +0000</lastBuildDate><pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 09:43:11 +0000</pubDate><generator>http://www.newsvine.com</generator><docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs><item><title>Livecasting from Shalom Hartman Institute in jerusalem, Israel</title><description><![CDATA[]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Alan Abbey]]></dc:creator><link>http://abbeycontent.newsvine.com/_news/2008/09/08/1840314-livecasting-from-shalom-hartman-institute-in-jerusalem-israel</link><guid>http://abbeycontent.newsvine.com/_news/2008/09/08/1840314-livecasting-from-shalom-hartman-institute-in-jerusalem-israel</guid><category>religion</category><pubDate>Mon, 8 Sep 2008 09:45:53 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Swapping live terrorists for dead soldiers - Los Angeles Times</title><description><![CDATA[]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Alan Abbey]]></dc:creator><link>http://abbeycontent.newsvine.com/_news/2008/07/02/1632127-swapping-live-terrorists-for-dead-soldiers-los-angeles-times</link><guid>http://abbeycontent.newsvine.com/_news/2008/07/02/1632127-swapping-live-terrorists-for-dead-soldiers-los-angeles-times</guid><category>latimes</category><pubDate>Wed, 2 Jul 2008 12:39:49 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Israel at 60: Unfinished Business</title><description><![CDATA[Rabbi Dr. Donniel Hartman, Co-Director of Jerusalem's Shalom Hartman Institute, discusses the successes and future of Israel as it reaches 60 years old on May 8, 2008.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Alan Abbey]]></dc:creator><link>http://abbeycontent.newsvine.com/_news/2008/05/04/1468182-israel-at-60-unfinished-business</link><guid>http://abbeycontent.newsvine.com/_news/2008/05/04/1468182-israel-at-60-unfinished-business</guid><category>politics</category><category>israel</category><category>jerusalem</category><category>jewish</category><category>donniel-hartman</category><category>hartman-institute</category><category>atzmaut</category><pubDate>Sun, 4 May 2008 10:14:07 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Krister Stendahl, theologian, former Hartman Institute director, dies at 86</title><description><![CDATA[Stendahl was one of the 20th century`s pioneers of Jewish-Christian dialogue and helped run annual Institute Theology conference for Jews, Christians and Muslims]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Alan Abbey]]></dc:creator><link>http://abbeycontent.newsvine.com/_news/2008/04/16/1434215-krister-stendahl-theologian-former-hartman-institute-director-dies-at-86</link><guid>http://abbeycontent.newsvine.com/_news/2008/04/16/1434215-krister-stendahl-theologian-former-hartman-institute-director-dies-at-86</guid><category>religion</category><category>christian</category><category>jewish</category><category>protestant</category><category>paul</category><category>interfaith</category><category>judaism</category><category>hartman-institute</category><category>krister</category><category>stendahl</category><category>krister-stendahl</category><pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 13:37:07 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Make room for Israeli Arabs</title><description><![CDATA[By Avi Sagi ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Alan Abbey]]></dc:creator><link>http://abbeycontent.newsvine.com/_news/2008/04/08/1417632-make-room-for-israeli-arabs</link><guid>http://abbeycontent.newsvine.com/_news/2008/04/08/1417632-make-room-for-israeli-arabs</guid><category>world-news</category><category>israel</category><category>arab</category><category>galilee</category><category>palestinian</category><category>multicultural</category><category>bi-national</category><category>jewish</category><category>muslim</category><category>hartman</category><category>hartman-institute</category><pubDate>Tue, 8 Apr 2008 11:27:48 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>The challenge and crisis of conversion in Israel   </title><description><![CDATA[The challenge and crisis of conversion in Israel   (31/03/2008)
  
A major in the Israeli Army came to me recently and said, "Rabbi Hartman, I need your help. Three years ago I adopted my first child.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Alan Abbey]]></dc:creator><link>http://abbeycontent.newsvine.com/_news/2008/04/08/1417626-the-challenge-and-crisis-of-conversion-in-israel-</link><guid>http://abbeycontent.newsvine.com/_news/2008/04/08/1417626-the-challenge-and-crisis-of-conversion-in-israel-</guid><category>religion</category><category>israel</category><category>jewish</category><category>conversion</category><category>religious</category><category>orthodox</category><category>conservative</category><category>reform</category><category>convert</category><category>judaism</category><category>donniel</category><category>jerusalem</category><category>donniel-hartman</category><category>hartman-instiute</category><pubDate>Tue, 8 Apr 2008 11:23:07 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Don't invoke Amalek's name lightly</title><description><![CDATA[]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Alan Abbey]]></dc:creator><link>http://abbeycontent.newsvine.com/_news/2008/03/18/1375193-dont-invoke-amaleks-name-lightly</link><guid>http://abbeycontent.newsvine.com/_news/2008/03/18/1375193-dont-invoke-amaleks-name-lightly</guid><category>religion</category><pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2008 21:59:10 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Hartman Institute Explores the Holidays: Purim</title><description><![CDATA[There's a lot more to Purim than masks and reverlry. Take a deeper look at this most fascinating holiday with the scholars of the Shalom hartman Institute of Jerusalem, Israel]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Alan Abbey]]></dc:creator><link>http://abbeycontent.newsvine.com/_news/2008/03/12/1360390-hartman-institute-explores-the-holidays-purim</link><guid>http://abbeycontent.newsvine.com/_news/2008/03/12/1360390-hartman-institute-explores-the-holidays-purim</guid><category>religion</category><category>purim</category><category>jewish-holiday</category><category>holiday</category><category>jewish</category><category>persia</category><category>megillah</category><category>esther</category><category>diaspora</category><pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2008 08:16:19 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>International condemnation good for Israel   </title><description><![CDATA[My blood boiled when I read the headlines. I'm sure yours did too. Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the UN, as well as an official European Union statement, and various other world officials and bodies, condemned Israel's use of force in Gaza as "excessive and disproportionate."]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Alan Abbey]]></dc:creator><link>http://abbeycontent.newsvine.com/_news/2008/03/10/1355615-international-condemnation-good-for-israel-</link><guid>http://abbeycontent.newsvine.com/_news/2008/03/10/1355615-international-condemnation-good-for-israel-</guid><category>world-news</category><category>israel</category><category>hamas</category><category>kassam</category><category>katyusha</category><category>united-nations</category><category>un</category><category>ban-ki-moon</category><category>condemn</category><category>gaza</category><category>middle-east</category><category>palestinians</category><category>force</category><pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2008 09:01:11 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Hartman Institute scholars meet with President Shimon Peres</title><description><![CDATA[A delegation from Shalom Hartman Institute gave President Shimon Peres the first Hebrew volume of "The Jewish Political Tradition" in a visit to the President's Residence.
]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Alan Abbey]]></dc:creator><link>http://abbeycontent.newsvine.com/_news/2008/03/05/1345130-hartman-institute-scholars-meet-with-president-shimon-peres</link><guid>http://abbeycontent.newsvine.com/_news/2008/03/05/1345130-hartman-institute-scholars-meet-with-president-shimon-peres</guid><category>world-news</category><category>israel</category><category>judaism-philosophy</category><category>hartman</category><category>peres</category><pubDate>Wed, 5 Mar 2008 15:11:26 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>When an earthquake is not just an earthquake </title><description><![CDATA[People who speak in the name of God, with great certainty as to how God acts in history, are expressing a vulgarity of arrogance, of presuming to understand how God acts in history - an understanding all of us know we clearly lack]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Alan Abbey]]></dc:creator><link>http://abbeycontent.newsvine.com/_news/2008/02/26/1326262-when-an-earthquake-is-not-just-an-earthquake-</link><guid>http://abbeycontent.newsvine.com/_news/2008/02/26/1326262-when-an-earthquake-is-not-just-an-earthquake-</guid><category>religion</category><category>israel</category><category>god</category><category>adoption</category><category>gay</category><category>lesbian</category><category>jewish</category><category>orthodox</category><category>shas</category><category>ultra-orthodox</category><category>benizri</category><pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2008 14:14:15 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>The Iranian bomb: bane or boon?</title><description><![CDATA[Arab national regimes, once quite content to allow radical Islam to spearhead their war against Israel for them, now find themselves within fatal range of the nuclear monster they've helped create]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Alan Abbey]]></dc:creator><link>http://abbeycontent.newsvine.com/_news/2008/02/20/1313469-the-iranian-bomb-bane-or-boon</link><guid>http://abbeycontent.newsvine.com/_news/2008/02/20/1313469-the-iranian-bomb-bane-or-boon</guid><category>world-news</category><category>israel</category><category>middle-east</category><category>iran</category><category>nuclear</category><category>ahmadinejad</category><category>halbertal</category><category>hartman</category><category>atomic</category><category>bomb</category><pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2008 14:10:21 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Hartman Institute holds special seminar for Jewish Funders Conference</title><description><![CDATA[Hartman Institute holds special seminar for Jewish Funders Conference in March]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Alan Abbey]]></dc:creator><link>http://abbeycontent.newsvine.com/_news/2008/02/12/1295233-hartman-institute-holds-special-seminar-for-jewish-funders-conference</link><guid>http://abbeycontent.newsvine.com/_news/2008/02/12/1295233-hartman-institute-holds-special-seminar-for-jewish-funders-conference</guid><category>world-news</category><category>israel</category><category>jerusalem</category><category>hartman</category><category>hartman-institute</category><category>judaism</category><category>sovereignty</category><category>zionism</category><category>funders</category><category>conference</category><category>philanthropic</category><category>jewish</category><pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 09:55:41 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Choosing the ideal U.S. president for Israel</title><description><![CDATA[For us Israelis, and for many Jews around the world, the identity of the president of the United States is understood as an issue of existential significance.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Alan Abbey]]></dc:creator><link>http://abbeycontent.newsvine.com/_news/2008/02/11/1292873-choosing-the-ideal-us-president-for-israel</link><guid>http://abbeycontent.newsvine.com/_news/2008/02/11/1292873-choosing-the-ideal-us-president-for-israel</guid><category>politics</category><category>israel</category><category>jewish</category><category>president</category><category>clinton</category><category>obama</category><category>mccain</category><category>hartman</category><category>donniel-hartman</category><category>shalom-hartman-institute</category><category>zionism</category><pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2008 13:41:57 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Leibowitz and Heschel: Prayer and relationship of God to modern individual</title><description><![CDATA[How Leibowitz and Heschel try to bring themselves a better understanding of the Jewish God in the 20th century]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Alan Abbey]]></dc:creator><link>http://abbeycontent.newsvine.com/_news/2008/02/11/1292859-leibowitz-and-heschel-prayer-and-relationship-of-god-to-modern-individual</link><guid>http://abbeycontent.newsvine.com/_news/2008/02/11/1292859-leibowitz-and-heschel-prayer-and-relationship-of-god-to-modern-individual</guid><category>religion</category><category>hartman</category><category>david-hartman</category><category>shalom-hartman-institute</category><category>leibowitz</category><category>heschel</category><category>jewish</category><category>judaism</category><category>phislophy</category><category>halakha</category><category>god</category><pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2008 13:33:17 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>&quot;Like a Newborn Baby&quot;: Intermarriage and Conversion   (07/02/2008)</title><description><![CDATA[Since Rabbi Uziel wrote these words, the rate of intermarriage has increased, and with it - the debate surrounding giyyur.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Alan Abbey]]></dc:creator><link>http://abbeycontent.newsvine.com/_news/2008/02/10/1290728-like-a-newborn-baby-intermarriage-and-conversion-07022008</link><guid>http://abbeycontent.newsvine.com/_news/2008/02/10/1290728-like-a-newborn-baby-intermarriage-and-conversion-07022008</guid><category>religion</category><category>judaism</category><category>jewish</category><category>halakha</category><category>intermarriage</category><category>conversion</category><category>giyyur</category><category>orthodox</category><pubDate>Sun, 10 Feb 2008 10:37:04 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Moshe Rabbeinu and the Winograd Commission</title><description><![CDATA[Israeli politicians would do well to learn a thing or two from Moshe as the Winograd Commission report comes out: a man humble enough to listen to others, but not so humble he can no longer lead]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Alan Abbey]]></dc:creator><link>http://abbeycontent.newsvine.com/_news/2008/01/29/1264041-moshe-rabbeinu-and-the-winograd-commission</link><guid>http://abbeycontent.newsvine.com/_news/2008/01/29/1264041-moshe-rabbeinu-and-the-winograd-commission</guid><category>world-news</category><category>israqel</category><category>lebanon</category><category>winograd</category><category>idf</category><category>olmert</category><pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2008 20:14:43 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Return education to Israeli priorities</title><description><![CDATA[As we enter 2008, while there is still a sense of ongoing physical threats and existential dangers, there is no doubt the State of Israel has turned the corner in our quest to insure our physical survival.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Alan Abbey]]></dc:creator><link>http://abbeycontent.newsvine.com/_news/2008/01/27/1258948-return-education-to-israeli-priorities</link><guid>http://abbeycontent.newsvine.com/_news/2008/01/27/1258948-return-education-to-israeli-priorities</guid><category>education</category><category>jewish</category><category>israel</category><category>donniel-hartman</category><pubDate>Sun, 27 Jan 2008 21:13:55 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Max Rosenbaum, 85, Australia, father of 'Crown Heights pogrom' victim, dies, Jan. 3 « In My Heart.org</title><description><![CDATA[Max Rosenbaum, 85, whose life was changed irrevocably after his son's 1991 death in race riots in Brooklyn, N.Y.'s Crown Heights neighborhood, died Friday, Jan. 3, 2007, of a heart attack in Melbourne, Australia.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Alan Abbey]]></dc:creator><link>http://abbeycontent.newsvine.com/_news/2008/01/07/1209774-max-rosenbaum-85-australia-father-of-crown-heights-pogrom-victim-dies-jan-3-in-my-heartorg</link><guid>http://abbeycontent.newsvine.com/_news/2008/01/07/1209774-max-rosenbaum-85-australia-father-of-crown-heights-pogrom-victim-dies-jan-3-in-my-heartorg</guid><category>world-news</category><category>1991</category><category>brooklyn</category><category>cato</category><category>chabad</category><category>crown-heights</category><category>death</category><category>dinkins</category><category>giuliani</category><category>jewish</category><category>kings-county</category><category>obituary</category><category>rosenbaum</category><category>stab</category><category>rebbe</category><category>pogrom</category><category>yankel</category><pubDate>Mon, 7 Jan 2008 19:24:00 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Abbey]]></dc:creator><link>http://abbeycontent.newsvine.com/_news/2008/01/03/1201041-ahikam-amichai-20-david-rubin-21-israel-off-duty-soldiers-murdered-on-hike-dec-28</link><guid>http://abbeycontent.newsvine.com/_news/2008/01/03/1201041-ahikam-amichai-20-david-rubin-21-israel-off-duty-soldiers-murdered-on-hike-dec-28</guid><category>world-news</category><category>israel</category><category>idf</category><category>soldier</category><category>palestinian</category><category>terror</category><category>shot</category><category>murdered</category><category>killed</category><category>hebron</category><category>sayeret</category><category>shaldag</category><pubDate>Thu, 3 Jan 2008 13:33:00 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item></channel></rss>