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		<title>February 4: Facebook Shows Its Face</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:37:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lawrence Bush</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Facebook was launched  from a Harvard dormitory room by Mark Zuckerberg, then 19 years old, and three classmates on this date in 2004. By summer they had an investor, Peter Thiel, the co-founder of Paypal, and an office in Palo Alto, California. Eight years later the company prepared an Initial Public Offering, was valued at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>February 3: Ezer Weizman Quits the Knesset</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lawrence Bush</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ezer Weizman, who headed Israel&#8217;s air force from 1958 to 1966 and led its surprise attack against Egypt in the Six Day War, resigned from the Knesset on this date in 1992,  warning that the Israeli government under Yitzhak Shamir was leading the country toward war. The nephew of Israel&#8217;s founding President Chaim Weizman and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>February 2: The Beatles and . . . Helen Shapiro</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 02:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lawrence Bush</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Beatles began their first British tour on this date in 1963 as the opening act for Helen Shapiro. Shapiro had her first hit single in 1961 at age 14, and had been voted Britain&#8217;s &#8220;Top Female Singer&#8221; by the time the Beatles emerged. During the tour, the Beatles had their first hit single (&#8220;Love [...]]]></description>
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		<title>February 1: Bagel Bakers Lock-Out</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 02:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lawrence Bush</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 350-or-so members of Local 338 of the Bagel Bakers union were locked out by their employers on this date in 1967. The manufacturers were demanding a 40 percent decrease in wages to compensate for competition from newly automated bakeries, which had machines that could produce 300 dozen bagels in the time that two union [...]]]></description>
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		<title>People of the Book 101: Allen Ginsberg</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:43:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Allen Ginsberg was elected to the National Institute of Arts and Letters in February, 1973 — and made his last public appearance as a special guest at the NYU Poetry Slam on February 20, 1997. We honor this pioneering poet and activist with this 1st of February remembrance. by Jules Chametzky            Drawing by Marty Carey [...]]]></description>
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		<title>January 31: Sofya Yanovskaya and Marxist Mathematics</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 02:05:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lawrence Bush</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A mathematician and avid communist in the Soviet Union, Sofya Yanovskaya  was born in Bessarabia on this date in 1896. She became a Bolshevik during the Russian revolution and served as an officer in the Communist Party until 1924. Most of her career was spent at the Moscow State University as a scholar of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>January 30: Directing Andy Griffith</title>
		<link>http://jewishcurrents.org/january-30-directing-andy-griffith-8924</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 01:53:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lawrence Bush</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Aaron Ruben, who produced (and sometimes wrote and directed) The Andy Griffith Show for its first five seasons, died at 95 in Beverly Hills on this date in 2010. Ruben wrote radio shows for Dinah Shore, George Burns and Gracie Allen, Milton Berle, and Fred Allen, before breaking into television. Among the hit shows he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>January 29: Barnett Newman and His &#8220;Zips&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://jewishcurrents.org/january-28-barnett-newman-and-his-zips-8905</link>
		<comments>http://jewishcurrents.org/january-28-barnett-newman-and-his-zips-8905#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 02:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lawrence Bush</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Abstract Expressionism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jewish painters]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[An abstract  painter and lifelong anarchist who specialized in intense color-field paintings, Barnett Newman was born in New York on this date in 1905. His best-known works are large canvases painted in flat yet vibrant colors with long lines — he called them &#8220;zips&#8221; — crossing the canvases and defining their space. Some of his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Footprints: &#8220;Pro-Israel, Non-Zionist&#8221; — and Arguing with the Left</title>
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		<comments>http://jewishcurrents.org/footprints-pro-israel-non-zionist-%e2%80%94-and-arguing-with-the-left-8928#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 14:43:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lawrence Bush</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Imperialism]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Itzhak Korn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Louis Harap]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mattiyahu Peled]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Morris Schappes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Morton Stavis]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the very first day I came to the Jewish Currents office as the newly hired assistant editor in 1978, the veteran editor Morris U. Schappes handed me a pamphlet reprint of Louis Harap’s 1975 series, The Zionist Movement Revisited [PDF]. Jewish Currents magazine, Schappes explained, was not Zionist because it did not view Israel [...]]]></description>
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		<title>January 28: Look, Up in the Sky!</title>
		<link>http://jewishcurrents.org/january-28-look-up-in-the-sky-8910</link>
		<comments>http://jewishcurrents.org/january-28-look-up-in-the-sky-8910#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 02:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lawrence Bush</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Comic books]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Jerry Siegel, who collaborated with his high school chum Joe Shuster to create Superman, the world&#8217;s best-known comic book character, died on this date in 1996. He was the son of Lithuanian immigrants; his father, a sign painter, died of a heart attack brought on by a robbery of his store when Siegel was in [...]]]></description>
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