Has living in Israel always been the essence of Zionism? Is there Zionism in a permanent Diaspora?
Discuss...
Tuesday, January 24, 2006
Wednesday, January 18, 2006
So you want to post a blog on Hagshamania do you?
We here at Hagshamania are thrilled with the responses that have been coming in. As you all know, its your participation that makes Hagshamania an effective element of the Second Stage of the Hagshama process. It is because of this that we have decided to open maingpage blogging opportunities to any and all who wish to participate. To be added to the team, please respond to this post with your blogspot name. If you don't have one already, don't get one. Just remain silent and hope that an angel will come to you, determine how you feel and what you think, and then relay those feelings and ideas to the rest of the movement. We in turn will discuss these feelings and ideas with the angel and hope that the angel explains our side of the story to you as accurately as possible.
P.S. Important dates coming up!
Soon- Bogrim Seminar
April- Poland Trip
June- Construction seminar
JulAug- Hagshamosh 2006
Sept- Geshem Hapoel begins!
P.S. Important dates coming up!
Soon- Bogrim Seminar
April- Poland Trip
June- Construction seminar
JulAug- Hagshamosh 2006
Sept- Geshem Hapoel begins!
Friday, January 13, 2006
Geshem Hapoel: HHNA 4-year program
The few days following Mifgash provided some of us with the time to process a bunch of the sometimes scattered and always lofty questions that had been churned up during the week. Some of these include: How should we, as HHNA Bogrim, continue to live our lives? What tools do we need to accomplish our goals? What are the obstacles that stand in our way? As for the first question, we believe that this one is the most intuitive. Having myself come home to Brooklyn and plopping right back into a world of chaos and confusion, I long for the days of the not so distant past, when I could confide in my fellow shomer/et, find support and strength, and feel empowered in whatever decision I made. In my kvutza I have a thinktank, shrink, and swat team all wrapped in one. In my kvutza I am a very special person with something very special to offer. Why not just keep this good thing going? I want to take it with me wherever I go: missons to mars, missions to the grocery store (What kind of lettuce do I get? I just don't know!), missions to university, and so on.
It is the lattermost mission that I would like to discuss further. For all of us late industrial capitalists, it can be tough weighing out the piorities that seem to be so clearly placed before us. One of these is an emphasis on higher education, not merely for the practical reality that I will be worth more in the free market, but that I will develop into some kind of mature uber-citizen of the world order. I believe that this is true. Not that higher education, in the form it takes today, is some kind of transcendental good, but that in order to have power in todays society, it is necessary. I believe that in order to do good in the world, one must meet the world on its own terms and proceed to guide it from there. That is why we have invented a 4-year program for HHNA Bogrim to serve the movement (us) most effectively.
Year one: Kvutza life in Israel. It is during this year that the kvutza will have its first period of growth, living and working among the Israeli movement while learning from and contributing to the growing organism that is Hashomer Hatzair.
Year two and three: Kvutza life in Cambridge, Mass., USA. It is during this year that the kvutza will continue to grow, interact with society, found a ken in the city, run programs for the interested public, and enroll, as a kvutza, in Harvard business school. During these two years, the kvutza will not only be taking classes together and supporting eachother academically, they will be active members of the academic community. The communa will be the ideal setting for hosting discussions, lectures, seminars, and parties, serving as a social and idealogical nexus for all who are interested. "A socialist commune going to business school??? What???" Yes. And that's not all. Our members will have the strength of vision, support of their chaverim, and support of the entire hashomer community to be the best students they can possibly be. We will lead the class, offer more new ideas and more real human backbone than has ever strolled through those burly gates.
Year four: Kvutza life in Israel. It is during this time that the kvutza, well matured from their years of dynamic learning and interaction, will come back to Israel to spread the seeds of knowledge. Everything that we learned, experienced, decided about life and what is important for Israel and the world, will come right back to the hashomer ken. We consider ourselves the enablers, the team that will give hashomer the tools to reaquire, in new techtonic forms, internal social relationships and the the means of production. This means that we are giving the future generations of the movement the tools that they need to make their dreams come true. One cannot defeat a dragon without a sword, nor a giant without a slingshot. We are the slingshot makers. The battle will not be fought on friendly soil.
It is at the end of the 4-year program that the kvutza will convene and decide what the next four years will look like. PhD in robotics? political science? Or maybe just found a kibbutz, or go our separate ways. In any event we will have contributed more during these four years than we could have individually over a lifetime.
Please offer your, um, comments.
It is the lattermost mission that I would like to discuss further. For all of us late industrial capitalists, it can be tough weighing out the piorities that seem to be so clearly placed before us. One of these is an emphasis on higher education, not merely for the practical reality that I will be worth more in the free market, but that I will develop into some kind of mature uber-citizen of the world order. I believe that this is true. Not that higher education, in the form it takes today, is some kind of transcendental good, but that in order to have power in todays society, it is necessary. I believe that in order to do good in the world, one must meet the world on its own terms and proceed to guide it from there. That is why we have invented a 4-year program for HHNA Bogrim to serve the movement (us) most effectively.
Year one: Kvutza life in Israel. It is during this year that the kvutza will have its first period of growth, living and working among the Israeli movement while learning from and contributing to the growing organism that is Hashomer Hatzair.
Year two and three: Kvutza life in Cambridge, Mass., USA. It is during this year that the kvutza will continue to grow, interact with society, found a ken in the city, run programs for the interested public, and enroll, as a kvutza, in Harvard business school. During these two years, the kvutza will not only be taking classes together and supporting eachother academically, they will be active members of the academic community. The communa will be the ideal setting for hosting discussions, lectures, seminars, and parties, serving as a social and idealogical nexus for all who are interested. "A socialist commune going to business school??? What???" Yes. And that's not all. Our members will have the strength of vision, support of their chaverim, and support of the entire hashomer community to be the best students they can possibly be. We will lead the class, offer more new ideas and more real human backbone than has ever strolled through those burly gates.
Year four: Kvutza life in Israel. It is during this time that the kvutza, well matured from their years of dynamic learning and interaction, will come back to Israel to spread the seeds of knowledge. Everything that we learned, experienced, decided about life and what is important for Israel and the world, will come right back to the hashomer ken. We consider ourselves the enablers, the team that will give hashomer the tools to reaquire, in new techtonic forms, internal social relationships and the the means of production. This means that we are giving the future generations of the movement the tools that they need to make their dreams come true. One cannot defeat a dragon without a sword, nor a giant without a slingshot. We are the slingshot makers. The battle will not be fought on friendly soil.
It is at the end of the 4-year program that the kvutza will convene and decide what the next four years will look like. PhD in robotics? political science? Or maybe just found a kibbutz, or go our separate ways. In any event we will have contributed more during these four years than we could have individually over a lifetime.
Please offer your, um, comments.
Sunday, January 08, 2006
And....begin
As I sit in Dave's house in Od Hasharon I can only think to myself "What can't socialism give me?" and the answer is...the bliss of a comfortable life in the suburbs! God I love high speed internet its so awesome. I guess right now the way to post a blog is to click the "respond" link or whatever at the bottom of the message. I hope that this can be a forum for constructive yet extremely entertaining brainstorming and cultural regalia. So go for it, let the world know what you think. Maybe someone will listen. Maybe someone will care. Maybe, just maybe, you are a genius.
C v'E
-The S Man
C v'E
-The S Man
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