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Dear readers, Contents

My name is Gabriel
Freund and I am delighted
2. From Top to Bottom:
to introduce myself as the
new editor of C.A.L.L. The Many Faces of
After 13 faithful years at Israel’s Intentional
the helm, Anton Marks Communities
has temporarily departed
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our shores for the US, where he is guiding a new
generation of young educators seeking to revitalise and
6. Communal Living, an
actualise the ideals of the kibbutz. We wish him the
best of luck in this worthiest of endeavours! Alternative to Real Estate
Status Quo
I grew up in Perth, Western Australia where I first
encountered the idea of collective living in the stories Laura Weissmuller
of the kibbutz told wistfully and longingly at weekly
meetings of the youth movement Habonim Dror. Six
9. Back to Bruderhof:
years ago I moved to Israel to participate in the
building of a network of urban kibbutzim. Today I live Platte Clove Community
in downtown Haifa, and am a member of Kvutzat Yoreh. Close up

I am very excited to be bringing you this next edition Anton Marks
of the Communities At Large Letter. In these pages
you will find articles that cover topics that cross the 12. Could Co-Living be
gamut from traditional intentional communities, to
the Next Big Trend?
startup co-ops, to a long dead commune given new life
by an eccentric artist. Deanna Ting

Truly, the global yearning for community is as strong as
ever. The contents of this edition are testament to the 17. An Urban Renewal of
vitality of the communal ideal, as people young and old
the Pioneering Dream
from the four corners of the globe are seeking and
finding ways to bind their lives together. Rapha Tamir

With the 21st century well underway, we have
unprecedented tools at our disposal that open up 20. Communal Living,
fascinating new opportunities for building intentional
the 21st Century Way
communities. In this edition we’ve focused on the wide
range of responses cropping up all over to the
Tom Vanderblit
alienation of mass consumer culture and the loneliness
of advanced capitalism

As violent acts of hatred continue to rock the
foundations of our world, it is perhaps more important
than ever to remind ourselves and each other that we
are stronger, and life is better, together.

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