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...confidence-building measures the Shamir government claims to favor," says Hillel Bardin, 53, a veteran of the American civil rights movement. He was jailed for two weeks last year after trying to arrange a dialogue with Palestinians while on reserve army duty in the West Bank town of Ramallah. "You'd think the authorities would be delighted...
Given their meager influence on Israeli public opinion, which is moving furiously rightward, these interlocutors are strengthened by such criticism. At one meeting in Bardin's Jerusalem home, Jad Isaac, a Palestinian biology professor imprisoned after urging West Bank Arabs to plant vegetable gardens to achieve agricultural self-sufficiency, put it simply: "Even if all we do is talk, it is good...
Died. Shlomo Bardin, 77, founder and executive director of the Brandeis Institute, which for 35 years has run a summer retreat near Los Angeles where college-age Jewish youths are taught Hebrew culture and religion; of kidney disease; in Westlake, Calif. Born in the Ukraine, Bardin emigrated in 1919 to Palestine, where he founded a technical high school. At his death he had completed plans for a Jewish prep school on the Brandeis Institute grounds...
...Santa Susana Mountains, the Brandeis Institute has become an internationally famous retreat (TIME, July 5, 1971) where young secular Jews' learn the Jewish heritage of their forefathers. From its beginnings, Brandeis has had some generous friends; one was Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, who helped back Founder Shlomo Bardin when the institute began three decades ago. The newest benefactor is not Jewish at all but a Protestant. He is Actor James Arness, longtime star of Gunsmoke, whose 950-acre ranch is adjacent to Brandeis' grounds. Arness has given Brandeis the entire ranch-$2 million worth of land, corrals...
...used to worship God from high places: the Jews built their Temple on ancient Jerusalem's highest hill, the medieval Christians had their Mont St. Michel. Shlomo Bardin, director of California's Brandeis Institute (TIME, July 5), thinks it is time religion returned to the mountains, as many communes and ecology-minded young people have already done. Bardin is building the House of the Book, the temple of the institute's new Jewish prep school, on one of California's Santa Susana hills. In big cities, he suggests, churches might emulate restaurants and cocktail lounges...