Word: kibbutzim
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...average Germans -trade unionists, students, professors, churchmen. Most successful part of the program is a sort of penance corps organized by Lothar Kreyssig, a prominent layman of the German Evangelical Church, who has sent two teams of volunteer German youths to work in the harsh surroundings of Israeli kibbutzim (collective farms). Financed entirely by Germans, Dr. Kreyssig's Aktion Suhnezeichen (roughly, Operation Penitence) asks nothing of Israel but the right to work without pay on Israeli projects. Says a spokesman of the organization: "Only by sharing the life of the Jewish people and helping overcome the feeling against...
...Best-remembered achievement: a pistol-packing cowpuncher from Texas, Bart McMenomey, was one of several U.S. experts who helped raise cattle production from 4,500 head in 1954 to 70,000 today. McMenomey so impressed Israeli cowboys that they learned to play the banjo, labeled the huts on their kibbutzim (collective farms) in Galilee "Saloon," "Sheriff" and "Jail...
...star performer strode onto the makeshift, wood-planked stage. Master Cellist Pablo Casals, a sprightly 84, brought concertgoers leaping from their rough-hewn seats in a rising ovation. The aging artist beamed. "Where did all those people come from?" he asked. They came from Haifa to the north, from kibbutzim in the shadow of Mount Carmel, from army headquarters in Tel Aviv-and they came chiefly to hear Pablo Casals...
...Berliners, who give $4,250 a month for operational expenses, including an allowance of 50? a day for the volunteers. More money will soon be needed for a number of ambitious projects, including a Jewish community center in Lyon, a youth center in Rotterdam and work in three Israeli kibbutzim. And plans were being polished in Berlin last week to send twelve young men (average age: 20) to rebuild into a youth center the sacristy of England's famed Luftwaffe-blasted Coventry Cathedral...
...wind howls cold in their unheated rooms and the food in the larder is plain. The week before, there had been a Christmas tree for the children and toys around it, and some sober merrymaking. In fact, there was more Christmas at Pardailhan than in all the other kibbutzim in the world combined. Pardailhan is not in Israel but in Southern France, and its members are not Jews...