I'm Back

Submitted by Shai Gluskin on January 12, 2007 - 00:06.
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Okay gang. I'm back.

I'm back blogging. I'm back from Israel. I'm back.

Check out my piece, connected to this week's parashat Shemot (the beginning of Exodus) at the JRF web site. I connect, "There arose a Pharoah who knew not Joseph" with feelings I had while in Israel about the changes in the kibbutz movement.

I've been workig feverishly on the JRF's web site, which is my job there along with running the publishing operations.

We are trying to take an institutional web site and give it the dynamism of a blog while providing all the information that we did on the old site. It's been a lot of fun and many, many hours.

JRF's web site

Glad to be back.

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All right! A hearty welcome

Submitted by Peter Stephens (not verified) on January 12, 2007 - 08:01.

All right! A hearty welcome back! If you weren't going to post here before Pesach, I was going to return around then to start with the first of last year's Omer posts.

I'm looking forward to finishing your article, but now I'm racing off to school.

All right!!!

Welcome back, Shai! Great to

Submitted by Brant Rosen (not verified) on January 12, 2007 - 08:33.

Welcome back, Shai! Great to have you back in the blogosphere. Would love to see some posts about your Israel experiences. The new JRF site is looking great, btw. Yasher Koach!!

Oh goody! I've missed your

Submitted by Dave (not verified) on January 12, 2007 - 09:07.

Oh goody! I've missed your blogging. I think I even checked the dog blog a couple times to see if you had a pulse.

In reference to your post at

Submitted by Dave (not verified) on January 12, 2007 - 09:21.

In reference to your post at JRF: I'm loyal to the left libertarian tradition myself, and one of my favorite texts in that vein is Martin Buber's Paths in Utopia. I wonder what you think of it? He ends with the example of the kibbutzim, but as I recall one of the main themes throughout the book is that the only really successful communal experiments are those in which the memebers are bound together by a common worldview, which must be spiritual in some regard.

Thanks for the welcoming

Submitted by Shai Gluskin on January 12, 2007 - 10:36.

Thanks for the welcoming comments.

Dave -- regarding Buber's point that the common binding force must have spiritual components -- that resonates with the fact that religious kibbutzim in Israel stay truer to the kibbutz ideal at a higher percentage than secular kibbutzim.

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