Word: kibbutz
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...tremendously absorbing new book, Crossing the Border, Kim Chernin unfolds the story of a fearless and impetuous young woman who leaves behind her husband and daughter in California and adventures to a border kibbutz in Israel on a dangerous journey for escape and fulfillment. This wild young woman is none other than Chernin herself. The author claims that the harrowing events to 1971 transformed her so completely, that, in the book, Kim Chernin must call herself "dhe." Straddling the border between autobiography and fiction is not Chernin's only manipulation of her intriguing title in this rich and multi-layered...
...site he worked among ancient ruins. In the streets of Jerusalem and on the kibbutz where he lived, he saw signs of a new peace...
Lori E. Smith '93-'94 is Associate Editorial Chair of The Crimson. She spent most of 1991 on a kibbutz in northern Israel. "Cricket Bats and Cudgels," in case you were wondering, comes from Tom Stoppard's play "The Real Thing...
...teenager addicted to politics, I would do my shift as night watchman along the perimeter fence of Kibbutz Hulda, secretly listening to the news on a portable radio. Through the night, I would wander between the transmissions of Jordan, Syria and Egypt. Whenever they referred to Israel, they used the term the Zionist entity. The announcer would say "the so-called government of the so-called state" but would stop short of pronouncing the word Israel, as if it were a four-letter word. The Arab world, primarily the Palestinians, dealt with us as if we were nothing more than...
...survived. After the war they made their way to Israel, where they conceived a son (the colonel), whom they called their "miracle child." Though they doted on him and loved him dearly (as may be imagined), they sent him off at an early age to be raised on a kibbutz -- away from his parents. For the Holocaust, the mother and father felt, had left such a terrible darkness of grief in them, such a residue of adhesive evil, that they feared the communicated memory of it would haunt the child and blight his life. Better he should be a sabra...