Word: kibbutz
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...adopted country, competing internationally throughout the 1970s and ’80s. The Crimson, an energetic outfit that Brand tailored together from the nation’s best recruits, has taken to his unorthodox approach to coaching. Brand is a man who frowns on formality.He grew up on a kibbutz, where neighbors casually address each other by their given names. His fencers call him “Peter.”“That’s the way I insist that they call me,” Brand says. “That?...
...don’t really think about God), but for the sense of community, of home away from home. I go because when I say the blessing over the challah and eat the chicken soup, I feel connected, not to the divine, but to my Jewish peers. When I kibbutz with friends I haven’t seen all week and when I—like so many others—scan the dining room for a future spouse, I feel special—not as an individual, but as part of something greater than myself...
...variety of muffins. Industrial strength coffee tops off most late-night meals as customers pull up seats at the round table in the center of the room. Those seeking a sweet end to the night debate local politics with the engagingly quarrelsome senior citizens who show up early to kibbutz before the warm doughnuts have a chance to cool off. Now that?...
Jordan: Yeah, I was in a kibbutz in Israel this summer near a dairy farm and there were baby calves who had this oral fixation and who would suck on your finger for a long time because they longed for their mothers...
...withdrew during Ben-Eliezer's reign. He welcomed warm remarks about his election from Arafat, who's utterly demonized by most Israelis now. Though he's married to a Bible teacher, he risked alienating religious voters by admitting that he doesn't believe in God. Born on a kibbutz, 57-year-old Mitzna was a military golden boy, wounded in Israel's 1967 and 1973 wars. But during the controversial 1982 Lebanon War, Mitzna wrote to his chiefs demanding the dismissal of then-Defense Minister Sharon. As commander in the West Bank, he left his job two years into...