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		<title>Trucker fined $305 for smoking in his truck</title>
		<link>http://thentherewaslight.com/868_trucker-fined-305-smoking-truck/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 02:13:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mikecg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Canada]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nanny state]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are you kidding me? Does this cop have nothing more important to do, like oh I don&#8217;t know, stopping drivers who are actually a threat? Doesn&#8217;t the government have more important issues to legislate on? This is almost as bad as when the bureaucrat came to my house a few weeks ago and told me [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sukkos at the TTC?</title>
		<link>http://thentherewaslight.com/863_sukkos-ttc/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 18:04:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mikecg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Jewish]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Looks like the Toronto Transit Commission&#8217;s built a sukkah at Finch station! It&#8217;s too bad they messed up the roof&#8230;

Chag Sameach everyone!
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		<title>Egyptian filmmaker pulls out of TIFF &#8211; The world is backwards</title>
		<link>http://thentherewaslight.com/858_egyptian-film-pulled-tiff-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 16:46:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mikecg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Canada]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[So now, the latest show of solidarity with the &#8216;Toronto Declaration&#8217; is that an Egyptian filmmaker has pulled his film from the festival in protest of Tel Aviv&#8217;s inclusion.
If the world made sense, the sequence of events would have been that 2 weeks ago, Tel Aviv filmmakers upon hearing that an Egyptian was showing a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jerry Seinfeld, Lisa Kudrow, back Israel at TIFF&#8230; who cares?</title>
		<link>http://thentherewaslight.com/855_jerry-seinfeld-lisa-kudrow-tiff/</link>
		<comments>http://thentherewaslight.com/855_jerry-seinfeld-lisa-kudrow-tiff/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 00:23:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mikecg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Canada]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A group of celebrities have issued their own letter defending Israel&#8217;s inclusion in the TIFF&#8217;s city spotlight. As the Jerusalem Post reports:
Natalie Portman, Sacha Baron Cohen, Lisa Kudrow and Jerry Seinfeld were among dozens of film professionals who issued a statement this week defending the Toronto Film Festival&#8217;s decision to spotlight Tel Aviv. 
My gut [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Blogging Stopped, but the Swastikas Didn&#8217;t</title>
		<link>http://thentherewaslight.com/851_swastikas-didnt-stop/</link>
		<comments>http://thentherewaslight.com/851_swastikas-didnt-stop/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 01:34:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mikecg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[anti-semitism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[swastika]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
Of course, nothing&#8217;s changed since I stopped blogging, and the constant barage of swastika graffiti hasn&#8217;t lost any momentum. Two synagogues were recently defaced in Seattle. Not to mention the swastikas recently found in Ukraine.
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		<title>Something nice happened today&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://thentherewaslight.com/847_nice-happened-today/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 01:16:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mikecg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Jewish]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chessed]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[And it gave me one of those warm and fuzzy feelings inside&#8230;
I was going to shul for the evening prayer service to say the mourner&#8217;s kaddish. On some nights, there is a lady who sits outside the entrance with a cup and asks any who passes by for tzedaka &#8211; charity money. She&#8217;s probably in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m back&#8230; I hope!</title>
		<link>http://thentherewaslight.com/845_im-back-i-hopee/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 00:44:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mikecg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[So yes, it&#8217;s been a few months since I&#8217;ve really written anything, and to any regular readers, I&#8217;m sorry! My father was a huge driving force of the blog &#8211; we used to talk about politics and life every night, and the discussions formed the basis for many of my posts. Once my father passed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>England Jewish School&#8217;s admission policies discriminatory: Court of Appeal</title>
		<link>http://thentherewaslight.com/843_england-jewish-schools-admission-policies-discriminatory-court-appeal/</link>
		<comments>http://thentherewaslight.com/843_england-jewish-schools-admission-policies-discriminatory-court-appeal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:02:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mikecg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[britain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jewish]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[English publicly funded faith-based schools are allowed to give admissions precedence to members of its own faith. But the English Court or Appeal just ruled that London&#8217;s Jews&#8217; Free School admissions policy is discriminatory because they refused admission to a student whose mother converted through a non-Orthodox  Jewish rabbinate. Apparently, Jews who run a Jewish [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UK Telegraph exposes how MPs use taxpayer money for home renovations and laundry</title>
		<link>http://thentherewaslight.com/841_uk-telegraph-exposes-mps-taxpayer-money-home-renovations-laundry/</link>
		<comments>http://thentherewaslight.com/841_uk-telegraph-exposes-mps-taxpayer-money-home-renovations-laundry/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 13:07:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mikecg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Telegraph is doing a thorough investigation into officially released documents  from the British government that leave a paper trail of MP expenses. Highlights of commendable spending include ironing Prime Minister Gordon Brown&#8217;s shirts, paying for his Sky satellite subscription (£38/month), and Former Labour Minister&#8217;s Elliot Morley&#8217;s £16,000 mortgage (which was already payed off!)
I don&#8217;t have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Poland Commemorates Concentration Camp Victims</title>
		<link>http://thentherewaslight.com/838_poland-commemorates-concentration-camp-victims/</link>
		<comments>http://thentherewaslight.com/838_poland-commemorates-concentration-camp-victims/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 04:12:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mikecg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Holocaust]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poland]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[And for today&#8217;s irony: As the world&#8217;s favourite holocaust denier gets re-elected to power, the perpetrators of the holocaust are commemorating the victims of the crime they apparently never committed:
June 14th has been proclaimed by Polish Parliament as the day commemorating the victims of Nazi Concentration Camps. 
It was first celebrated in 2006 on the [...]]]></description>
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