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		<title>Return us to you, o Music!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This year, I have taken up a new hobby of writing music, among other things. This practice did not start out-of-the-blue this year; the first significant piece I arranged was a medley of Carlebach tunes (Hashiveinu Hashem, Uva&#8217;u ha&#8217;ovdim, Ki mitzion), contrasted with more traditional European synagogue music.
I wrote it as a 4-minute four-part choral [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joelnothman.com/2009/11/18/return-us-to-you-o-music/</link>
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		<title>Kohelet and the lost art of piyyut</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A dvar torah given at Or Chadash on Shemini Atzeret, 10 October, 2009.
What has been is what will be, and what was done will be done again, for there is nothing new under the sun.
Though often deeply profound, the words of Kohelet can be depressing.
Some have said that&#8217;s precisely why Ecclesiastes is read on Sukkot; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joelnothman.com/2009/11/17/kohelet-and-the-lost-art-of-piyyut/</link>
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		<title>Facebook frustrations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Many things have annoyed me about Facebook lately. I ranted at their representative at ACL the other week, but his job was natural language processing, not bug-fixing.
Things have become especially frustrating when dealing with two of their most under-baked utilities: Pages (whataretheyanyway?!) and Events (beentheresinceforeverandstilldon&#8217;twork) in order for my Page, Barefoot, to advertise its concert [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joelnothman.com/2009/08/23/facebook-frustrations/</link>
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		<title>Moses the Interpreter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Deuteronomy is literally translated as &#8220;second law&#8221;, just as is משנה תורה. In being a repetition, the book is of great interest as an interpretation of the preceding books of the Torah.
Its selection of laws to repeat and to add apparently shows different priorities to other books that have been noted by commentators since the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joelnothman.com/2009/08/14/moses-the-interpreter/</link>
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		<title>Happy birthday (belated), Singapore!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Suddenly, the food in Sydney (even in Newtown) seems extremely expensive; WiFi internet is frustratingly occasional; our city is congested with cars and many outrageously-overpriced taxis; it lacks in ethnicity, its streets are dirty, and it is simply cold.
 At least that&#8217;s how it seems after a week in Singapore. Where else can you eat [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joelnothman.com/2009/08/14/happy-birthday-belated-singapore/</link>
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		<title>To Sing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Music has become a rapidly growing part of my life over the past year. While I first soloed on stage singing Yerushalayim Shtot Fun Golt in year 1 with the Moriah Collage Yiddish Group, it was in June that I finally began receiving vocal tuition, with the wonderful classical teacher Sue Falk. Some do say [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joelnothman.com/2009/07/31/to-sing/</link>
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		<title>To Singapore</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve neglected this blog for quite a while, but as one does on long flights, I might as well say hello. Yes, I&#8217;m flying again, for the third international trip this year. This is in great violation of an ideal I&#8217;d conjured up a few years ago: that international travel should be minimal and efficient.
On [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joelnothman.com/2009/07/31/to-singapore/</link>
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		<title>Upset by evolution</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I did not attend a Shavuot dinner hosted by Young Adult Chabad with Emeritus Professor of Statistics Abraham Michael Hasofer speaking on the conflict between Science and Religion: Do they Conflict?. I have only heard one attendee&#8217;s summary of the argument, and in public rhetoric the audience&#8217;s response is perhaps more important than what was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joelnothman.com/2009/05/31/upset-by-evolution/</link>
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		<title>Four letter words</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As one does at birthday parties, some friends of mine attempted on Saturday night to find words which have newly appeared in English in the last 50 years or so and which have exactly four letters. (Of course looking up a list of neologisms online would be cheating!)
The only completely new word I&#8217;ve found is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joelnothman.com/2009/05/18/four-letter-words/</link>
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		<title>Too much to learn!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Limmud-Oz 2009 programme is out. It&#8217;s the tiniest shard of what&#8217;s available at London&#8217;s Limmud, or other copycats in North America, Europe or Israel. It clearly lacks their masses of Jewish-learning celebrities, but does what it can considering our distance from the rest of the Jewish world and the fact that we have a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joelnothman.com/2009/05/13/too-much-to-learn/</link>
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