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Then in 1988 she paired up with David Mandel, who had once lived on an Israeli kibbutz and shared her longing for the collective lifestyle. That same year the two attended a slide show by Kathryn McCamant and Charles Durrett. The Berkeley, Calif., architects are the principal American evangelists for cohousing--a type of intentional community in which buildings are designed to encourage social contact while preserving private space. "You have the choice between privacy and community," Durrett says. "It's a 21st century housing solution." Instant converts Scott, Mandel and a few dozen like-minded families set about designing...
...shoebox, with an entry hole in front. So far, Alon and his colleagues in Operation Kestrel have put up 40 boxes in Jerusalem and 50 in Haifa. "The kestrels are dependent on people," says Alon, who started bird watching as a 13-year-old growing up on a kibbutz near Nazareth, and oversees 16 other conservation programs. "We had eight pairs breeding in our boxes last year. We can't say yet that we've saved them from extinction, but we can say the population is increasing rather than decreasing." A tiny camera inside one of the Jerusalem boxes shoots...
...going to say, it sounds like you've had a hard life: a suburban kid from Jersey. Who hurt you? Did Carson hurt you? Did Cavett say something mean? What happened to you, boy? Look, there's a kibbutz I know. Honestly. You'll get your head straight. Come on out there, knock down some halvah. You'll have yourself a time...
...Shahak would be on the left flank of the Labor Party,? says TIME Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa Beyer. ?Israel?s generals tend to be more left-wing than its politicians. That could be because they know the horror of war, but it could also reflect the dominance of the kibbutz movement in the upper echelons of the Israeli military.? Despite his popularity, the general?s dovish positions on a Palestinian state and on swopping land for peace with Syria aren?t likely to eat into Netanyahu?s support base...
...Gospels contain no fewer than 45 references to boats and fishing as they relate to Jesus. In 1986, two members of a Galilean kibbutz came across the remains of a 26-ft.-long wooden dory, buried in the mud near Kinneret on the Sea of Galilee, that has been carbon-dated to the 1st century. Almost certainly, this was the kind of vessel used by Peter, James, John and the other fisherfolk whom Jesus recruited as his first disciples...