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Dear Readers,
CONTENTS
Welcome to the Spring 2004 issue of C.A.L.L.
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This issue is jam-packed with features on topics which are vital to the From the Secretary's Desk
functioning and sustainability of all intentional
communities: Settling disputes, decision-making 4
and relationship-building. New Book, Our Hearts Invented
a Place: Can Kibbutzim Survive
in Todays Israel? by Mort &
Settling Disputes : Brenner
The Institute of Arbitration and Mediation in the
Kibbutz Movement was established fourteen 5
years ago. Since then they have received 2,300 Video, Visions of Utopia by
Geoph Kozeny
requests, opened 1,150 files for arbitration or
mediation and almost 100% have culminated in 6
a mediation agreement or an arbitration ruling. The Amish Colonies, USA
Read all about it inside this issue.
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Settling Disputes in the Kibbutz
Decision-making :
Jesse Barton from the Bruderhof introduces this 9
topic with a lovely piece on decision-making in community. “We have Decision-Making, New Meadow
obligated ourselves to a much more serious level of decision-making”, Run Bruderhof, USA
says Jesse, “one that not only affects us individually, but in a very
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important way affects the lives of those around us”. Decision-Making, Bill Metcalf
In addition, Bill Metcalf offers us an exclusive sneak preview of his new
book, with an extract describing the different methods of decision- 12
making. Niederkaufungen, Germany

Relationship-Building : 13
Kaleidoscope by Joel Dorkam
Yoel Dorkam includes in ‘Kaleidoscope’ an article by Geoph Kozeny
(Geoph’s video, ‘Visions of Utopia’, is also reviewed on page 5) in which 18
he reveals the secrets to ‘sustainable community and sustainable Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Fellowship
relationships’.
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Kibbutz Shorts
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Elsewhere this issue, there are profiles of two co-housing projects in 21
Sweden, and we ask: Are the Amish Colonies Intentional Communities? Seli Hoo, Australia

Finally, inside the envelope together with this issue of C.A.L.L., you 22
Co-Housing Sweden,
should have found a questionnaire which we have compiled for the Kollektivhus-Nu
purpose of hearing feedback from you, the reader. We ask of only a few
minutes of your time to let us know what you think and we promise to 24
consider all of your suggestions. You can send the questionnaire back to Co-Housing Sweden,
us by snail mail, or you can download it from our website at: Sockenstugan
http://www.communa.org.il/questionnaire.doc
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and email it to me at the address below. The Kibbutz Movement today

Enjoy,

Anton Marks
Kvutsat Yovel
PO Box 3791
Migdal Ha’Emek
Israel
anton@kvutsatyovel.com