by David Leach | Feb 23, 2010 | blog, kibbutz history, self-governing socialism
I’d never heard the term “self-governing socialism” (in contrast to the “state socialism” of China or the former USSR) before, but recently stumbled across a blog devoted to discussing the idea and its implementation. The kibbutz, of...
by David Leach | Feb 23, 2010 | environment, Kibbutz Yavne, solar energy
Here’s a cool video about a solar farm recently installed at Kibbutz Yavne, a religious kibbutz south of Tel Aviv. Many kibbutzim, especially in the Negev Desert region of Israel, have invested in green technologies, such as alternative energy and...
by David Leach | Feb 23, 2010 | Costa Rica, Kibbutz, volunteers, WWOOF
When I visited Kibbutz Shamir last June, I was surprised to learn that the kibbutz no longer takes international volunteers, that it hadn’t for five or six years. The reasons were largely economic: since privatization, much of the work formerly done by...
by David Leach | Feb 18, 2010 | New York Review of Books, Tony Judt
British academic and historian Tony Judt has been an often controversial Jewish critic of Israeli foreign policy, as well as other ideologies on the left and right. In 2008, he was diagnosed with Lou Gehrig’s disease and is now paralyzed from the neck down but...
by David Leach | Feb 15, 2010 | Eidolon Films, ICSA, Keeping the Kibbutz
I got some good news over the weekend when an email arrived with news that my proposal for a talk had been selected by the organizers of the International Communal Studies Association conference, to be held late next June in Israel. My presentation will be titled...
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