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In the News (Sat 28 Nov 09)

  
 Untitled Document
Hashomer Hatzair emphasizes the importance of the relationship between Israel and the Diaspora and must use this relationship as a means for each to grow.
Hashomer Hatzair believes the state of Israel must be a society based politically on a social democracy and thusly must provide social justice for all it's citizens.
Hashomer Hatzair reaffirms Socialism as one of it's ideological pillars and believes that each of its members must build and maintain an active socialist lifestyle based on the concepts of sharing, equality and the forwarding of the greater good for all.
www.hashomerhatzaircanada.com /who/ideology.html   (1064 words)

  
 The Jewish Agency For Israel: In the News
As the Hashomer Hatzair youth movement celebrates its 90th anniversary this year, the group's Argentine branch hosted a party of 700 people at the Tzavta Jewish community center recently to celebrate the leftist Zionist movement's 75 years in Argentina.
Founded in 1913 in Vienna, Hashomer Hatzair - its name is Hebrew for "the young watchman"- fused its Zionism with a socialist ideology that placed it on the left end of the Zionist spectrum.
Nowadays, Hashomer is one of 10 ideological Jewish youth movements functioning in Argentina.
www.jafi.org.il /papers/2003/nov/nov10jta.htm   (876 words)

  
 The History of Hashomer Hatzair and The Kibbutz Artzi Federation
Hashomer Hatzair, the initial Zionist youth movement, was founded in Eastern Europe on the eve of the First World War.
Hashomer Hatzair was active in leading resistance in the ghettoes, the forests and the concentration camps.
As the war ended and the remnants of European Jewry were freed from the death camps, members of Hashomer Hatzair were among the first to organize the "illegal" flight of the survivors across the borders of Europe and to take part in the illegal immigration to Palestine, whose gates had been barred by the British.
www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/Society_&_Culture/artzi.html   (1387 words)

  
 ISRAEL & PALESTINE: The occupation is killing us all - NI 348 - You can't shake hands with a suicide bomber   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Hashomer Hatzair (the Young Guard — a mainstay of Left Zionism) was on its way to protest the establishment of the Elon Moreh settlement and to oppose the social cancer of messianic Zionism embodied in Gush Emunim (‘Block of the Faithful’).
Socialist-Zionists (such as Hashomer Hatzair) played a key part in that movement, and were inspired by a vision of a utopian Socialist society for Palestine.
From its earliest days, Hashomer Hatzair recognized that the national movements of the returning Jews and the awakening Arabs in Palestine were on collision course.
www.newint.org /issue348/suicide.htm   (1554 words)

  
 Welcome to Hashomer Hatzair US
Hashomer Hatzair is a youth movement, based on the principles of Progressive Zionism, Social Justice, Progressive Judaism and self-actualization, and committed to peace and equality.
 Hashomer Hatzair believes firmly in social justice and community responsibility, and facilitates lasting and powerful group and individual friendships.
The history of Hashomer Hatzair in North America began in 1923 with the arrival from Europe of Jewish immigrants - members of the youth movement in their countries of origin.
www.hashomerhatzair.org   (186 words)

  
 Chapter 2: Zellig Harris, Avukah, and Hashomer Hatzir
Hashomer Hatzair, but couldn't join because it was split between Stalinists and Trotskyites and I very strongly disagreed with both of them on Marxism-Leninism" (31 Mar. 1995).
Whatever ideological differences existed between the branches of Hashomer Hatzair, its various members and associates worked to increase working-class participation in the organization itself, to encourage emigration to its affiliated kibbutzim in Israel (notably Kibbutz Artzi), and to promulgate communist ideals for Israeli kibbutzim.
Hashomer Hatzair was particularly active in Europe, where anti-Semitism was well entrenched and menacing.
cognet.mit.edu /library/books/chomsky/chomsky/2/17.html   (711 words)

  
 Rose Carson: The Left Wing Zionists and the Fourth International (May 1943)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Hashomer Hatzair, the extreme left wing of the Zionist movement, which was, until the present catastrophic period, the hope of Jewish socialist militants, has failed, together with the rest of Zionism, to understand and develop a real programme for the solution of the Jewish problem.
Two claims are repeatedly made by Hashomer Hatzair, one they are Marxists, and two: they fully concur with anyone who says that the ultimate solution to the Jewish question lies in the Socialist society.
Hashomer Hatzair claims to conduct a genuine struggle against bourgeois Zionism and presents its programme as a Marxist alternative Hashomer Hatzair criticises the Fourth International for its “unreal approach”, to the Jewish problem and for its lack of a “constructive attitude”.
www.marxists.org /history/etol/newspape/win/vol05/no11/carson.htm   (3158 words)

  
 Hot Button Issues
Hashomer Hatzair began as a Zionist youth and scouting organization in Galicia in 1913 (Margalit, 1969).
Hashomer Hatzair members were strongly committed to the Kibbutz movement and by 1927 the organization had created its own network of Kibbutzim.
Hashomer Hatzair made a particular effort to seek out left-wing Arab political figures for discussions and efforts were made to conduct common political and trade union organizing.
www.vopj.org /issues15.htm   (3384 words)

  
 Canadian Jewish News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The secular Zionist youth group, Hashomer Hatzair, is launching its second Toronto “ken” (branch) this Sunday, Apr. 27.
Unbeknownst to Enchin, Hashomer Hatzair had submitted a grant application last year to UJA Federation of Greater Toronto for funding to open a downtown branch.
Hashomer Hatzair is part of an international youth movement established in eastern Europe in 1913.
www.cjnews.com /viewarticle.asp?id=291   (441 words)

  
 Photo Archives Query Results
Group portrait of members of the Bialystok Hashomer Hatzair Zionist youth movement at a going away party for their leader, Meir Orkin, before his departure for Palestine.
A group of teenage girls who are members of the Hashomer Hatzair Zionist youth movement, pose on a park bench in Piotrkow Trybunalski.
Group portrait of girls in the Hashomer Hatzair Zionist youth movement in Ciechanow.
www.ushmm.org /uia-cgi/uia_query/photos?hr=null&query=dc550o6969   (738 words)

  
 The Kibbutz Artzi Federation
The Kibbutz Artzi is a federation comprising 85 kibbutzim founded by the Hashomer Hatzair youth movement.
Hashomer Hatzair forthwith adopted a Zionist ideology and stressed the need for the Jewish people to normalize their lives by changing their economic structure (as merchants) and to become workers and farmers, who would settle in the Land of Israel and work the land as "chalutzim" (pioneers).
In 1927, the kibbutzim of Hashomer Hatzair, until then individual and separate settlements, decided to join together for greater mutual aid and to provide a focus for the world organization.
www.kibbutz.org.il /eng/kbaeng.htm   (1377 words)

  
 Commentary Magazine - On the Horizon: Rumblings on the Pastoral Left   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
...Hashomer Hatzair is the American branch of a world-wide youth organization which recruits young Jews for pioneering and collective living in Palestinian agricultural communes...
...She spoke with sincerity and emotion, and in the flowery and sentimental style that is the bane of Hashomer Hatzair writing, and which I am sure has been no help in its efforts at a clear and consistent political line...
...She spoke in an earlier, bucolic Hashomer Hatzair tradition, expressing dislike of the cityShomrin neither smoke nor drink, and the girl members use no cosmetics and pay a determined lack of attention to their appearance...
www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V6I6P83-1.htm   (2315 words)

  
 Letter Translation
Hashomer Hatzair (The Young Guard) began in Vienna in 1913 when two zionist groups merged.
Hashomer (The guard) originated in Galicia, and had its roots in zionism and scouting.
The merger gave birth to Hashomer Hatzair, incorporating Zionism, scouting, Socialist ideas, self education, and the independence of youth.
darkwing.uoregon.edu /~rkimble/Mirweb/Translations.html   (719 words)

  
 Brest Lit(owsk) , Belarus [pages 481-482]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Still later Hashomer Hatzair united with the Halutz (pioneer) movement on an autonomous basis to conduct Hachshara (agricultural training) in an organized manner for the group of the “First Aliyah ”; which is now in kibbutz Ein Hachovesh, and kibbutz Hanativ (in the Negev).
The members of Hashomer Hatzair participated in all the Zionist activities in the city and excelled at collecting donations for the Keren Kayemet.
Hashomer Hatzair was formed as a scouting movement – in the beginning it was non – political.
www.jewishgen.org /yizkor/Brest2/bre481.html   (1906 words)

  
 Kremenets, Ukraine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Gradually, Hashomer Hatzair became transformed from a scouting movement to a movement which had more idealistic, national, and humanistic content.
Unlike other youth organizations, Hashomer Hatzair included youth from a very young age; [children] already eight years old were drawn to intensive activities, and thus were somehow distanced from the influence of family and the non-Jewish school.
With the capture of the city by the Russians in 1939, the end of Hashomer Hatzair movement arrived, and it ceased to exist.
www.jewishgen.org /Yizkor/kremenets/kre127.html   (1912 words)

  
 Photo Archives Query Results
Members of the Hashomer Hatzair Zionist youth movement work in the fields of a farm in Sadovo, Bulgaria.
Amnon Klukowski, a member of the Hashomer Hatzair Zionist collective, rides the only horse on their farm in Zarki.
Chagit Elster, a member of the Hashomer Hatzair Zionist collective, rides the only horse on their farm in Zarki.
www.ushmm.org /uia-cgi/uia_query/photos?hr=null&query=kw110156   (1709 words)

  
 Shanah Tovah   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Hashomer Hatzair is a liberal and open-minded movement that believes that each person should live their own life in the way they choose while respecting the wishes of others.
Members of Hashomer Hatzair have always been pioneers of building an "other Israel" and were active in striving for peace and coexistence.
Target Population: Shanah Tovah, the incredible year-program of Hashomer Hatzair, was built especially for high school graduates and college students, who are interested in having a meaningful year in Israel.
www.wzo.org.il /en/programs/view.asp?id=14   (346 words)

  
 Iraq assault triggers anti-Semitic backlash in France | csmonitor.com
But Levy, a longtime member of the leftist Jewish group Hashomer Hatzair, which supports the Palestinian cause, arrived at the demonstration just as a boy from Hashomer, this one wearing a kippah, or skullcap, was assaulted.
The week after the attack a collection of antiwar groups met at the offices of Hashomer Hatzair.
Hashomer Hatzair, he says, "used to have talks with people from Arab neighborhoods to interact, exchange our point of views.
www.csmonitor.com /2003/0404/p07s02-woeu.htm   (868 words)

  
 William Gorman: Four Recent Books on Palestine (March 1947)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Hashomer Hatzair dabbles with schematic constitutional guarantees precisely because it does not and cannot provide a program of struggle around which could be rallied the broad Jewish and Arab masses.
For while the Hashomer Hatzair has a vague, condescending attitude of conciliation toward the Arabs, its practical conciliatory efforts are directed toward the Jewish bourgeoisie and their imperialist masters.
Hashomer Hatzair with somewhat larger social vision suggests that the United Nations should do the same for the Palestinian masses.
www.marxists.org /history/etol/newspape/ni/vol13/no03/gorman.htm   (4474 words)

  
 Tobka Beatus
She was a dedicated member of Hashomer Hatzair since her childhood, and two years before the war she lived in Kibbutz Hachshara, in order to immigrate to Eretz Israel.
She fell in battle, as one of the heroes of the Jewish people and her memory will never be forgotten for eternity".
Her spirit did not break down and she continued, in spite of the desperate conditions to lead educational activities among the youth of Plock.
www.zchor.org /beatus.htm   (436 words)

  
 The Agenda
The Hashomer Hatzair youth movement is celebrating its 90
Public events will be held for movement members and graduates of all ages in Israel and abroad during the year.
Hashomer Hatzair is the oldest youth movement in the Diaspora that deals with Jewish-Zionist education as well as settlement, security, culture, education, and society in Israel.
www.jafi.org.il /agenda/2001/english/wk4-11/9.asp   (291 words)

  
 Chapter 2: Zellig Harris, Avukah, and Hashomer Hatzir
As far as I recall, among the Zionist youth groups it was only Hashomer Hatzair that could seriously be described as involved in all of this, and in the U.S., at least, it was almost completely either Stalinist or Trotskyist.
I don't recall anyone in Hashomer Hatzair who was outside that framework.
In 1947, at the age of nineteen, he began to date Carol Doris Schatz, whom he had first met when they were both young children.
cognet.mit.edu /Books/chomsky/2   (726 words)

  
 Summary of Paper by M. Billig
Hashomer Hatzair as a radical Zionist scout­ing movement in Eastern Europe between 1913 and 1919, a little known episode in the rich his­tory of Freud’s impact upon this century.
Hashomer Hatzair settled in agriculturally based collectives known as kibbutzim, the educational leader­ship of the movement argued that psychoana­lytically informed education was the key to raising children free of bourgeois neuroses.
They established strong ties with European analysts, translated and published psychoana­lytic texts, insisted that educators be analysed or, at least, psychoanalytically informed, and built a complex educational system founded on their particular understanding of Freudian insights.
www.ijpa.org /libanjuly00.htm   (239 words)

  
 The Youth Zionist Movement Akiba
At that time the youth movement Hashomer Hatzair presented more challenges for the Jewish youth and attracted many of the Akiba members into its ranks.
In 1918 most of the Akiba members in Krakow joined the Hashomer Hatzair movement maintaining the name Akiba for their group.
A group of the Hashomer Hatzair did not agree with the limited struggle in the remote forests.
www.angelfire.com /my/heritage/ghetto_bochnia/appendix/akiba.htm   (7807 words)

  
 Progressive Informal Education Interpreted by the Founders of Kibbutz Education in Eretz Israel
As a youth, Golan belonged to the central committee of the left-wing Zionist movement Hashomer Hatzair.
In 1920, he emigrated to Palestine and joined the pioneers of Hasmomer Hatzair in founding the Kibbutz Artzi, whose purpose was to establish new collective settlements.
The three founders, especially Golan of Hashomer Hatzair, helped to combine the informal tools of the youth movements with the life in the schools.
www.cedu.niu.edu /blackwell/dror01.htm   (2843 words)

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