Word: pardailhan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some say that they are Protestants without knowing it. They have been labeled practically everything from Quakers to Quixotes. The leader of Pardailhan once described his group as being "closely united by the same religion," but none of the members will say what...
...people of the Pardailhan kibbutz are celebrating New Year's this week, though the 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...
...been looking for. After becoming a Jew himself, he returned to the eleventh arrondissement of Paris and began talking it up. He and his friends took to meeting on Sundays, wrote 2,000 letters to local authorities in farmed-out, underpopulated areas in France. Finally they settled on Pardailhan, near Nimes, and 89 of them pooled their funds ($40,000) and took up residence last spring...
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