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	<title>Beyond BT - The Baal Teshuva / Baal Teshuvah site for Baalei Teshuva / Baalei Teshuvah and Other Growth Oriented Jews</title>
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		<title>From Skinhead to Orthodox Jew</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After the Iron Curtain was lifted in Europe twenty years ago, a surprising thing occurred – thousands of people who had been raised as gentiles came to the startling realization that they were actually Jews. Poland is home to thousands of such stories. During the Holocaust and under Communist rule, many Jews there hid their [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.beyondbt.com/2010/03/11/from-skinhead-to-orthodox-jew/</link>
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		<title>How to Deal With a Rabbi with Issues?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How would you handle or react to your Rabbi who is often rude and has weak people interacting skills. He suggested that I need to give more to charity (the shul) after he asked you how much my wife and I make together and I told him we are giving what we can. When I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.beyondbt.com/2010/03/10/how-to-deal-with-a-rabbi-with-issues/</link>
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		<title>Building a Better Teacher</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Issues in Schooling
One of the challenges that parents face is the schooling of our children. Among the many issues in schooling, three stand out:
1) Lots of material to master in a full dual curriculum day.
2) Many schools have insufficient resources.
3) A lack of truly great teachers.
Lack of Great Teachers is a Recognized Problem
Well it seems [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.beyondbt.com/2010/03/09/building-a-better-teacher/</link>
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		<title>Guess Whose Not Coming to Dinner?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ever since making aliya decades ago, I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of times I’ve been visited by collateral relatives.  So it was with great excitement that I learned that cousin Adele her daughter Jan and  Jan’s two young daughters would be in the Holy Land and that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.beyondbt.com/2010/03/08/guess-whose-not-coming-to-dinner/</link>
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		<title>The Neshamah Project</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Neshamah Project is a wonderful and meaningful new organization.
You may have seen the book we are distributing: The Neshamah Should Have an Aliyah &#8211; What you can do in memory of a departed loved one. This new book stands at the forefront of our mission, which is both simple and profound: To help people [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.beyondbt.com/2010/03/04/the-neshamah-project/</link>
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		<title>Dealing With Clashes Between Orthodox and American Sensibilities</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What are the issues that you find most difficult personally?
What issues do your non-observant friends and family seem to have?
What are the issues that you have trouble explaining to others?
Some issues:
- Equal Rights vs Segregation of the sexes
- Equal Rights vs Different roles for men and women
- Pluralism vs The Chosen People
- Pluralism vs Differing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.beyondbt.com/2010/03/03/dealing-with-clashes-between-orthodox-and-american-sensibilities/</link>
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		<title>Looking Good</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This blast from the past was first posted on August 14, 2006.
Remember “Fernando,” Billy Crystal’s Saturday Night Live character whose mantra was, “I don’t feel mahvelous, but I look mahvelous, which is okey dokey with me ‘cause you know my credo, it is better to look good than to feel good?”  Satirical?  Sure. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.beyondbt.com/2010/03/02/looking-good/</link>
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		<title>In Scandals, a Wake-Up Call for Orthodoxy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By David Klinghoffer
For all its outward vigor, the Orthodox community, which is my own, appears to harbor a sickness. You don’t have to be an ideological critic of traditional Judaism to wonder if the cause should be sought in Orthodoxy itself.
The past year has brought what seems like a never-ending stream of financial or sexual [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.beyondbt.com/2010/03/01/in-scandals-a-wake-up-call-for-orthodoxy/</link>
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		<title>Beyond BT Announces Effort To Curtail Internet Usage</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In an effort to encourage others to reduce their internet* usage, Beyond Teshuva** has announced a weekly &#8220;Log Off Day&#8221;. 
Mark Frankel, one of BBT&#8217;s Administrators and its resident IT guru explained the endeavor: &#8220;Every week, from just before sundown Friday to just after nightfall Saturday evening, we are asking that all of our fellow [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.beyondbt.com/2010/02/26/beyond-bt-announces-effort-to-curtail-internet-usage/</link>
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		<title>However You Say It, We Wish Everybody a Wonderful Purim.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[However You Say It, We Wish Everybody a Wonderful Purim.
Is &#8220;Happy Purim&#8221; the traditional Purim greeting ?
Well, yes. &#8220;Happy Purim&#8221; is the principle anglicized version of a number of transliterated Hebrew variations of &#8220;Happy Purim&#8221;.
What are the transliterated Hebrew versions of &#8220;Happy Purim&#8221; ?
There are many traditional Purim greetings in Hebrew. The following are the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.beyondbt.com/2010/02/26/however-you-say-it-we-wish-everybody-a-wonderful-purim/</link>
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		<title>Parenting and Drinking Responsibly</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“It is an Aveira to Get Drunk on Purim,” was a direct quote from Rabbi Shmuel Kaminetsky shlit’a, who took precious time from his busy schedule and shared his da’as Torah with hundreds of participants worldwide last week during a Project Y.E.S. conference call, titled, “Purim Parenting: Keeping Our Children Safe and Sober.”
I had intended [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.beyondbt.com/2010/02/25/parenting-and-drinking-responsibly/</link>
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		<title>How Much Should A Person Learn Each Day?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How much Torah do you learn a day on average from Sunday through Thursday?
a) less than 1hour
b) between 1 and 2 hours
c) more than 2 hours
What do you think is a reasonable amount of time to learn each weekday?
a) less than 1hour
b) between 1 and 2 hours
c) more than 2 hours
What keeps you from learning [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.beyondbt.com/2010/02/24/how-much-should-a-person-learn-each-day/</link>
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		<title>Mind Your Step</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Looking on the bright side, I’m fortunate to have made through nearly half a century of life without breaking a bone.  I’m fortunate to be in good enough physical condition to hold my own on the racquetball court, even if don’t usually win.  I’m fortunate that it wasn’t my left ankle, so I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.beyondbt.com/2010/02/23/mind-your-step/</link>
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		<title>They Don’t Make Anti Semites Like They Used To</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Rabbi Benzion Shaffier
“In the third year of his reign, he made a party for all of his officers and servants, the rulers of Paras and Madai, the Partamim and rulers in front of him.” – Esther 1:2
The Megillah opens with a description of Achashverosh’s vast empire, “He ruled over one hundred and twenty seven [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.beyondbt.com/2010/02/22/they-don%e2%80%99t-make-anti-semites-like-they-used-to/</link>
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		<title>We’ve Got It Backwards</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Mommy, I can&#8217;t read this.
It&#8217;s all upside down!
Mommy, it&#8217;s the truth -
Why do you have that frown?&#8221;
&#8220;b&#8217;s and d&#8217;s aren&#8217;t easy.
For me, they are hard.
M&#8217;s and W&#8217;s -
I can&#8217;t tell them apart.&#8221;
&#8220;Tatte, I can&#8217;t daven,
Like others in shul.
I don&#8217;t want to go.
I look like a fool.&#8221;
&#8220;Kids laugh at me.
It&#8217;s because I&#8217;m so slow.&#8221;
Years have passed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.beyondbt.com/2010/02/18/we%e2%80%99ve-got-it-backwards/</link>
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