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Camphill Correspondence (may we suggest a slightly shorter name: "Camphill Courier"?),
treats us on its cover page to a recently discovered painting by Hermann Gross "the
Annunciation" and right under it a somewhat coarse, but very effective citation by Wendell
Berry, and we sign off with a very thoughtful piece about what Harriett Sherwood chose to
call "Israel's Utopian Dream"

Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand; it is the privilege of human
beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy.
Wendell Berry
Where now for Israel’s utopian dream?
The Guardian
By Harriet Sherwood

Today, of the 273 kibbutzim in Israel, only about 60 still operate on a truly communal basis, in which
all members are paid the same basic sum whatever their work, with services provided by the
collective. Most of the rest have introduced reforms in response to what the Kibbutz movement calls
"a severe socio-economic crisis [that] threatened the future of numerous kibbutzim – they owed huge

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