Jewish Post, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 March 1972 — Page 14

THE JEWISH POST AND OPINION

Friday, March 31/ 1972

American On A Moshav

By RUTH SELIGMAN enthusiastic and devoted “I didn’t leave the dirt and chicken farmer is not really noise of New York City, the an event worth recording — or air pollution and all that crime then again perhaps it is. Along just to live in another city,” with the chickens, incidentally, said a bookkeeper recently, now he is also raising melons, hothappily settled in a moshav house cucumbers and wheat. I south of Beer she va. raising — find the variety of his crops among other things — chickens, and agricultural activities 1 knew him in the B.I. (Before fascinating. So does he. Israel) days, a native New A mosnav is a small coYorker whose only acquaintance operative small-holders village with rural living had been the which combines private ownerfarms he passed in the summer ship of a family farm with colriding to the hotel resorts in lective ownership of certain the mountains. I would have means of production and serviccworn that his picture of a ing. In other words, although my chicken went no further than bookkeeper is a private farmthe roast stuffed one his wife er who is himself involved faithfully prepared for him in raising his crops and chickens every Friday night. I think she to the best of his ability, his thought that according to Jewish farm is set within a larger colaw you were supposed to serve operative framework. Activities chicken every Sabbath. such as purchasing and use of I REALIZE that in a land heavy farm machinery, storage, which has seen many miracles irrigation, insurance, p e s t - the transition of one city-born control, credit and marketing and bred bookkeeper into an are done co-operatively. It is,

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he explained to me, “a wonderful combination. We have the privacy of our own home but help in buying and selling. Alone I couldn’t have taken on the operation of a farm. Me — with my background or lack of it. But here, in this atmosphere, in this set-up, it has all been very possible. “MORE THAN THAT there’s a friendliness that can’t be described, but is very definitely felt. There’s a feeling that people care, that they’re standing by to help. We sense that we’re part of a larger whole, that our life is entwined with theirs — and it’s a good feeling. “When my wife was ill, neighbors took turns coming in with the food and helping out with the household chores. They took care of the children and even took care of my farm on the days when I had to drive her to the hospital for treatment. She was treated in the out-patient clinic, but it was a day’s business each time — between the time it took to get there, the waiting, the treatment itself and then the trip back “It’s true that with this desire to get away from the city, we could have gone to a kibbutz. Some of our friends have.” The kibbutz is a collective settlement which, as an entity, is responsible not only for production and providing for all community services but also for filling private needs. Members eat in communal dining-rooms and in most kibbutzim, children sleep in separate children’s houses. “THE KIBBUTZ actually really appealed to me,” said my bookkeeper. “Seemed to be an almost perfect way of life. It doesn’t, however, appeal to my wife who likes her own house, her own garden, her own kitchen, the kids eating with us. every meal, sleeping in our house. She was ready for a change — a new country, a new language, a new way of life but she also wanted her privacy and individualism. So for us the moshav is a wonderful solution. “The children have taken to moshav living with an enthusiasm that I’m not sure they would have had if we’d settled in town. I mean — isn’t it every city kid’s dream to have a tree-house of his own, some chickens to care for and the thrill of eating melons from his own garden?” His three youngest children go to elementary school in the moshav while the oldest travels by bus — with the other children of his age — to a regional secondary school in the area. “Even though they’re busy with a variety of extra-curricular activities, we see much more of them than we did back in the States. There’s definitely more of a family life, a sense of togetherness which I was beginning to feel was slipping away from us. All of the children help with chores; all have their own special tasks. I think part of the problem, this generation gap they talk so much about, is simply due to the way we used to live. I just practically never saw my family. I was the breadwinner. I gave. They took. Most of the time I was never home. Now we’re involved in this farming thing together. “MORE THAN THAT the (Continued on Next Page)

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