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Israelis seen at a Shavuot celebration in Kibbutz Ga'ash on June 8, 2019. (Photo/JTA-Flash90)
Posted inNews

On the kibbutz, Shavuot is a time for remembering the movement’s glory days

by Hillel Kutler and JTA June 3, 2022June 3, 2022

KIBBUTZ GINEGAR, Israel — As the song “Golden Youth” by kibbutz folk band Gevatron played in an outdoor alcove beneath this farm village’s community center on Wednesday afternoon, choreographer Tamar […]

A young woman visits her grandmother at Kibbutz Barkai, April 26, 2020. (Photo/JTA-Guy Prives-Getty Images)
Posted inNews

After a year in lockdown, young Israelis give kibbutz movement a second look

by Linda Gradstein and JTA March 18, 2021March 18, 2021
The Haifa Municipal Band playing in the 1933 Bikurim parade. (Photo/ GPO via Wikipedia)
Posted inShavuot

When Haifa was party central at Shavuot

Rachel NeimanISRAEL21c logo by Rachel Neiman and ISRAEL21c May 27, 2020
From the cover of "Growing up Below Sea Level: A Kibbutz Childhood" by Rachel Biale
Posted inBooks

Rachel Biale’s new memoir looks at growing up on a kibbutz in Israel’s early days

by Jonathan Kirsch April 21, 2020May 11, 2020
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Posted inHolidays

Why some Israelis celebrate Shavuot with flowers in their hair

Rachel Neiman by Rachel Neiman May 17, 2018May 17, 2018
Eilon Bdil at Kibbutz Elifaz, a kibbutz that is getting into the medical marijuana game (Photo/JTA-Andrew Tobin)
Posted inNews

Can marijuana save the kibbutz movement?

Andrew Tobin by Andrew Tobin August 15, 2017August 15, 2017

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