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Rachel Biale

Rachel Biale grew up on Kibbutz Kfar Ruppin, in the Beit She’an Valley. She is the author of Women and Jewish Law (Schocken) and several children’s books. She is currently at work on a historical novel, as well as a collection of stories about her kibbutz childhood.

History of a Passé Future

Rachel Biale

At their inception, the children’s house and collective education were to shape a new kind of emotionally healthy person unfettered by the crippling bonds of the traditional or bourgeois Jewish family. Over the last two decades or so, a cultural backlash has set in among some of those raised in children’s houses.