Word: kibbutzim
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Leave-takers spend their time working on kibbutzim, clerking in law offices, backpacking through Southeast Asia, picking apples in the French countryside, and studying at other schools. The most popular time to leave Harvard, according to statistics recently published by OCS, is after the sophomore year, and most students prefer two semesters away from Cambridge...
...promise to be a "light to the nations" has dimmed. The recurrent theme is that a nation born of ideals has, in its attempt to survive and flourish, lost its grip on the destiny that made it special; that Israel has become just another nation, flawed and fallible. In kibbutzim and Tel Aviv apartments, army posts and Jerusalem cafes, Israelis echo what one of their best-known novelists, Amos Oz, plaintively asked in his book In the Land of Israel: "What will become of us? What can be done...
...Religious-minded and often untrained, the newly arrived Sephardic immigrants (including 260,000 from Morocco, 120,000 from Iraq and 50,000 from Yemen between 1948 and 1958) found that their new home had been built on the principles of secular Zionism. Israel's schools, its bureaucracy, its kibbutzim had all been set in place by Europeans...
...program initially attempted to employ the volunteers in a variety of settings and occupations, primarily on kibbutzim, but last year the increased number of participants suggested a greater need for central organization and efficiency. Consequently, the volunteers this year will all spend their month at Army reserve bases through out Israel Each volunteer saves the Israeli government about $600, because each visitor frees up a reservist for other work or active duty...
...says, it has degenerated into the interpretation of the meaning of the interpretations, "until finally all that is left is to polish the artifacts in their cases." Not so for Israelis who have the legacy of Zionism. Now that too is becoming a "museum piece." The kibbutzim--the fertile land where desert once was--and the passionate spirit which has characterized the Israeli existence are all creatures of "this new, nonreligious Judaism." Over time, Zionism has lost its creative spirit. It is time for a new experiment and new creations. The only way to assure perpetual creativity is continual debate...