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find a place for the infirm. If we can’t do that, then we

are all hypocrites and elitists and this entire enterprise

is a farce.

Lou:

I agree completely. What happened to social justice,

brotherhood and freedom?

Edna:

I feel that if someone talks to him and explains that he

can’t enter the Kitchen or Dining Hall unless he’s spic

and span, he’ll stay away.

Varda:

That flea-bitten coat of his makes me nervous.

Isaac:

Last time I came across him, he told me he was Thane

of Eldar.

Martin:

“So foul and fair a day I have not seen.”

Isaac:

Where’s that from, Hamlet?

All:

Macbeth!

Naftali:

The reality is that we operate on a principle of member-

ship and contribution. If he were a member, of course

we’d make every allowance and try to help him. But he

was sent here as a work volunteer and he’s not working.

How can we survive if we take on every vagrant who

wanders in, regardless of what they contribute? We’re

not a hobo camp.

Ora:

I agree with Naftali. It’s down to economics. We’re

struggling to feed ourselves—we simply can’t afford to

be a charity for the mentally ill at this point. As it is we’re

supporting forty-two city children whose costs are only

half covered. A line has to be drawn somewhere.

Martin:

The children again! Every time we need an excuse not

to do something, it’s back to the children. I’ve said it

a million times and I’ll say it again: we are not doing

these children a favour, they are doing us a favour by

allowing us to raise them, which is a privilege and as far

as I understand, the whole point of our existence.

Isaac:

I feel we’re getting off topic here. We have to come to

some decision about Jeremiah. Is that his real name, by

the way?

Dori

We’re finished drying ourselves with our towels. Gilead comes over and says do you know how to make children? Of course I know. We’re free on Eldar. It’s different in Canada. People aren’t free there. It’s different in the city too. Also on airplanes and boats.

I say I know of course I know. He says do you want to do it?

I say yes. He touches my jinnie with his peenie. Shoshana is smiling. I’m surprised. I don’t see her smiling too often—apart from when she talks to Daddy.

Sex in the Clubhouse

20 May 2002. Seven kibbutz boys aged nine to fourteen were discovered engaged in sodomy and other sexual acts by a concerned adult who forced the door to their clubhouse open after receiving no reply to his knocks. It appears the boys had been meeting regularly in the clubhouse for sex, usually in pairs but sometimes in groups. While kibbutzim generally prefer to handle legal matters internally, police became involved in the case when they were notified by the parents of the nine-year-old. The police are finding it difficult to lay charges as the acts seemed to have been consensual and the boys show no signs of distress.

Online comments:

Don’t believe this article, it’s all a lie. There were developments today and more victims have been identified.

That’s what comes of kibbutz upbringing. They can change its name to Sodom and Gomorrah.

Look in the prisons and tell me if you find a single kibbutz-born criminal.

I know that boy well and he would never do anything like that, he isn’t capable of it.

Don’t you have a life? It’s a great kibbutz, I have many friends there, find something else to do.

I’m in the same grade as the 14-year-old and I want to say that most of us are behind him and forgive him for his mistake in spite of all the sadness and violence. And we hope he comes back to school as soon as possible. And I ask those who know nothing about it to stop commenting.

Stop believing this article, it was non-consensual, and there weren’t seven boys, whoever believes this article is an idiot.

What is this country coming to?

We the kids of 8B support you and want you back. Maybe now you see why I left the kibbutz and returned to God.

In my yeshiva I’m only allowed to get off