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David Leach is an award-winning magazine editor, nonfiction author and writing teacher. He lived in Israel and the Czech Republic and is now the Chair of the Department of Writing at the University of Victoria. He has written about adventure travel, the arts, digital culture, and the communal movement for Canadian and international publications. His first book, Fatal Tide: When the Race of a Lifetime Goes Wrong), is a true-life misadventure about the lure and dangers of extreme sports. His second book, a tragicomic travel memoir about the kibbutz movement and dreams of peace in the Middle East called Chasing Utopia: The Future of the Kibbutz in a Divided Israel will be published by ECW Press in Fall 2016.

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	Chasing Utopia: The Future of the Kibbutz in a Divided Israel 3.80 avg rating — 69 ratings — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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The taxman cometh

Here's an interesting short news item about potential changes to Israel's tax system aimed at privatized kibbutzes. In short, the proposal will restrict "collective" tax rates to those few kibbutzim who have maintained their communal economies (what are known as kibbutz shitufi) and/or have no greater than a 25% differential between the best and worst paid members. For the majority of kibbutzim wh Read more of this blog post »

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In the Slender Margin: The Intimate Strangeness of Dying

by Eve Joseph

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“My only advantage as a reporter is that I am so physically small, so temperamentally unobtrustive, and so neurotically inarticulate that people tend to forget that my presence runs counter to their best interests. And it always does. That is one last thing to remember: writers are always selling somebody out.”
― Joan Didion

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