Word: kibbutzim
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...Carlo. On his Brazil trip, Wilson closed deals to build six inns, with local investors putting up most of the capital in return for Holiday Inns' name and know-how. Over the next five years, Holiday Inns will build seven outlets in Israel alone, some of them in kibbutzim...
...crested to a new high: the 750 Jewish families of Charleston, S.C., alone raised a remarkable $250,000 ?nearly $100 per person. Young people?and sometimes their parents?suddenly found themselves on jets to Israel, ready to fight, or at least to take the soldiers' places in the kibbutzim...
...Jews are rubber-stamp leftists. Synagogues are sterile shells. These outspoken, sometimes outrageous statements are not the howls of angry Gentiles or even anti-Semitic Jews. They are the assertions of new voices in a combative array of Jewish magazines and newspapers that are blooming across the U.S. like kibbutzim in the desert. Some 50 publications with a combined press run of 400,000 now heckle Establishment Judaism from California to New York, even in such unlikely places as Norman, Okla., and Albuquerque...
...from connoting abstinence, involves "respect for the sexual partner as an individual, not as a sexual object to be used at convenience." There is also compassionate treatment of the difficult subject of homosexuality and a rather challenging argument for modern versions of the extended family, such as communes and kibbutzim...
Possibly because Israelis consider Syria the neighbor most reluctant about reaching peace, an overwhelming 86% favor the annexation of the Golan Heights, from which Syrian artillery regularly shelled Israeli kibbutzim before the war. And 72% are for keeping Sharm el Sheikh, from which Egyptian gunners in the past turned back ships bound for the Israeli port of Eilat. About the only territory that significant numbers of Israelis are generally prepared to let go is the sandy western Sinai desert. Yet even here, only 18% are willing to give the captured desert back to Egypt, while 29% favor annexation...