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Before anything else, Lotan is a community

How nice it is to sit brothers and sisters together!

Lotan is an integrated, holistic community- we are a business, an education center, a community of individuals, a worship community, a community of action, and more…

We strive to express our way in our home, and our home in our way. And so, we express our commitment to our home and community through cooperative action, discussion and education of ourselves in work, education, health and day-to-day life together, as well as in community outreach projects.

"For Martin Buber the collective commune based on mutual responsibility between its members, a strong striving for an egalitarian economic ethic, and the conscious commitment to create Jewish community, made it a potential framework for the achievement of dialogue, of the "I-Thou" relationship within a contemporary Jewish setting. Buber asserted in his "Paths to Utopia" that the kibbutz was an experiment that had not yet failed, i.e. the kibbutz had not succeeded in realizing its utopian aims, but it was still, in spite of the exigencies of every day life, concerned with striving towards this goal. More recently, another kibbutz member, Muki Tsur, has put it succinctly: "The kibbutz is not an ideal society, but it is a society built on ideals.
" From Michael Livni (Lotan member), " Reform Kibbutz and Religious Pioneering"

Kibbutz Lotan was founded by graduates of the Reform Youth movements of America and Israel in 1983. Currently (1/2002) we number 75 adults from 9 different countries, average age 35, and 54 children. In addition, we are joined by 20-40 young people who come for a variety of long-term volunteering and educational programs.

The kibbutz is affiliated with the Israel Movement for Progressive Judaism, The Collective Stream of the Kibbutz Movement and to the "Green Kibbutz" group.

Lotan Community Links

• Lotan Vision Statement
• Community & Introspection: The Dynamics of Outreach
• I-thou: Interpersonal relations in a community
• Gender Equality
• Reform Zionism: Twenty Years: An Educator's Perspective
• Children and Education on Lotan
• Kibbutz Lotan 2009 Project List
• Absorption
• Volunteering at Kibbutz Lotan
• Work Coordination - Exercising Communication Daily

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