The film "Israeli Boy: Life On A Kibbutz" (1973) explores the daily life of a young boy living in a kibbutz in Israel. It highlights the communal lifestyle, where children are raised collectively ...

Shaar Haamakim, the Israeli kibbutz where Sanders lived for several months in 1963, was driven by communist ideology and celebrated May Day. SHAAR HAAMAKIM, Israel (JTA) — Every morning, Bernie ...

Last week, I listened with tears and great sadness to the eulogies for Oded Lifshitz, who was buried at Kibbutz Nir Oz, the kibbutz which he helped to found many years ago on the edge of the Gaza ...

The kibbutz began as a bold, earthy dream, carved into Ottoman Palestine’s soil by Jewish socialists who saw labor as a path to a just society. In the early 20th century, founders like Aaron ...

Can a ghost town return to life? Late last month I went to this little kibbutz, just over a mile from the Gaza Strip, to find out. It could be impossible for life to come back to a place so ...

(JTA) – The families surround long tables covered by white tablecloths. Festive decorations line the walls, and the kitchen is free of chametz, the leavened foods forbidden on Passover.

Diving to the floor as rockets landed close by, Sofie Berzon MacKie shielded the bodies of her three children with her own. Shrapnel whistled over her head, burying itself in the wall behind.

The investigation of the battle at Kibbutz Nahal Oz, which was presented to the families of the hostages, the bereaved families, and senior security officials, pointed to serious failures in the ...

In a meaningful display of solidarity, the Greek Embassy in Israel chose Kibbutz Be'eri, one of the communities hardest hit by the October 7 Hamas attacks, as the locale to celebrate Greece's ...