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		<title>Does it Matter if Authenticity is Authentic?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Does it Matter if Authenticity is Authentic? Sh&#8217;ma: A Journal of Jewish Ideas, December 2011, p 9-10. “Authentic? Get Real” read a recent New York Times headline (in the Fashion &#38; Style section). The article highlighted the obsession with authenticity in our popular culture (one example cited Katie Couric claiming, “I think I love to be my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.noampianko.com/2011/12/does-it-matter-if-authenticity-is-authentic/</link>
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		<title>Bainbridge Island Talk-Peoplehood at a Crossroads</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Although it was the proverbial dark and stormy night, more than 60 people were recently welcomed by congregation president Jessica Dubey toCongregation Kol Shalom's first Current Jewish Issues Forum on Bainbridge Island.
The speaker was Noam Pianko, chair of the University of Washington's Samuel and Althea Stroum Jewish studies program. He invited his audience to "rethink the American Jewish-Israel relationship."]]></description>
		<link>http://www.noampianko.com/2011/12/bainbridge-island-talk-peoplehood-at-a-crossroads/</link>
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		<title>Jewish Review of Books Review</title>
		<description><![CDATA["Myers and Pianko are learned historians and deeply committed Jews who write with their people's best interests at heart and deserve our careful attention. Both of the have written books that make major contributions to our knowledge yet leave important questions hanging."]]></description>
		<link>http://www.noampianko.com/2011/07/jewish-review-of-books-review/</link>
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		<title>The Big Jewcy: Rabbi Rachel Nussbaum &#8211; Jewish Engagement Through Empowerment by Hayley Goldstein &#124; Jewcy.com</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Big Jewcy: Rabbi Rachel Nussbaum &#8211; Jewish Engagement Through Empowerment by Hayley Goldstein &#124; Jewcy.com.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.noampianko.com/2011/06/the-big-jewcy-rabbi-rachel-nussbaum-jewish-engagement-through-empowerment-by-hayley-goldstein-jewcy-com/</link>
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		<title>American Jewish Archives Book Review</title>
		<description><![CDATA["[The book] is a timely and ambitious attempt to unearth approaches to Zionism that sought to embrace the concept of Jewish nationhood outside of the purely statist model." —American Jewish Archives Journal (2010, vol 62, No 2)]]></description>
		<link>http://www.noampianko.com/2011/03/american-jewish-archives-book-review/</link>
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		<title>Post-Ethnic, But Not Post-Peoplehood</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently, I have been interested in the resurgent popularity of the term “Jewish peoplehood” as a new buzzword for evaluating Jewish identity. To get a better sense of the trend, I have had Google send me a daily alert with a link to every new Web reference to the term. The alerts I’ve received in the past year indicate a highly ambiguous term referenced in a broad range of contexts. However, most references can be linked to three broad assumptions: concerns about eroding Jewish boundaries, support for the state of Israel, and affirmation of a shared basis of Jewish identity across diverse practices, geographies, and worldviews.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.noampianko.com/2011/03/post-ethnic-but-not-post-peoplehood/</link>
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		<title>Reconstructionist Rabbinical College</title>
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		<link>http://www.noampianko.com/2011/02/reconstructionist-rabbinical-college/</link>
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		<title>Wexner Heritage Phoenix</title>
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		<link>http://www.noampianko.com/2011/02/wexner-heritage-phoenix/</link>
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		<title>Haverford Conversation about Kaplan, Peoplehood, and Post-Ethnicity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to Ken Koltun-Fromm for inviting me to join his class via Skype to discuss my work and trends in modern Jewish thought. ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.noampianko.com/2011/02/haverford-conversation-about-kaplan-peoplehood-and-post-ethnicity/</link>
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		<title>New Hans Kohn Article in Leo Beack Journal</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Did Kohn Believe in the “Kohn Dichotomy”? Reconsidering Kohn&#8217;s Journey from The Political Idea of Judaism to the Idea of Nationalism Leo Beack Institute Yearbook (2010) 55(1): 295-311 The recent reprinting of Hans Kohn&#8217;s classic 1944 study The Idea of Nationalism: A Study in Its Origins and Background (2005) reflects renewed interest among scholars of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.noampianko.com/2011/01/new-hans-kohn-article-published/</link>
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