Word: ruralization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Orthodox, Conservative and Reform all worship together under the same roof? There's a Nobel Peace Prize in there somewhere. "Unfortunately, this is newsworthy in the Jewish world," concedes R.D. Eno, publisher of a bimonthly called KFARI, which means "my town" in Hebrew, and subtitled The Jewish Newsmagazine of Rural New England and Quebec...
Northern New England, however, is alive with young Jews, mostly urban emigres, doing interesting things with their lives and their religion. "The pop American Jewishness, the Woody Allen thing, had no underpinnings," explains Ron Wild, a Montpelier resident from Atlanta who heads the annual Conference on Judaism in Rural New England. "It was easy to reject. A lot of people walked away from that." Many college-age Jews in the late '60s and '70s left the cities for the arresting landscapes of Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont in the back-to-the-land movement -- a diaspora from the Diaspora, says...
Christmas in the country is a spooky time for rural Jews. "There's a lot of well-meaning ignorance up here," says Bruce Chalmer, 37, a Jew in Montpelier. "For many people, you're the first Jew they've ever met. They don't realize that experiencing Christmas could be inflicted." Rick Winston adds, "You're surrounded by all of these Wasps and Yankees, and at Christmastime, particularly if you have kids, you start thinking in totally new ways: Yes, I'm Jewish, and I want to talk to other Jews. Are you isolated...
...truth games played in this beguiling dark comedy by British Screenwriter Dennis Potter. As in his TV film The Singing Detective, Potter mixes memory and desire, threat and therapy, a misanthropic wit and the ache of nostalgia for old songs and sweeter dreams. Importing this brand of satire to rural America was a risk for Potter; some of his bleak irony must have been seized by Customs. But the ache of his characters is universal. And in Nicolas Roeg (Performance, Don't Look Now) he has secured a gifted director for whom reality has always been just...
Others fear that the world will become inured to the country's repeated calls for help. Observed a rural-development expert, Khwaja Shamsul Huda: "Bangladesh cries wolf too often. But this year the wolf is really on our doorstep...