Ok this is probably going to sound really lame but I'm trying to remember a Jewish word for a type of commune for teenagers or something like that. It came up years ago in an episode of The Nanny and I cannot for the life of me remember it! Do you have any idea what it might be?
2006-07-31 18:34:43 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
Kibbutz.
I live in the very first one!
2006-08-04 09:43:13 · answer #1 · answered by yotg 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Melvin Gibsonstein told me it was a "Kibbutz!"
It is just like the commune of the 60's, where everyone shared in the chores of the household. Except, sometimes you have to work guard duty!
2006-08-01 01:40:30 · answer #2 · answered by MenifeeManiac 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Kibbutz. It's not a commune for teenagers, though. A kibbutz is a cooperative living arrangement for families. Teenagers sometimes live in their own quarters, near their families.
2006-08-01 01:38:30 · answer #3 · answered by sugarpine25 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Kibbutz
2006-08-01 01:39:02 · answer #4 · answered by michinoku2001 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Kibbutz
2006-08-01 01:38:36 · answer #5 · answered by David T 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It may be "Kibbutz." A kibbutz is a community of people who share gardens and their fruit, who partner in business. etc. It is somewhat like the idea of a commune, although what we, as Americans, picture in our minds is a bunch of hippies living in one house, sharing drugs, sex partners, etc. as well as the house and garden. This is NOT what life is like in a kibbutz.
kib·butz (kÄ-bÊts', -bÅ«ts')
n., pl. kib·but·zim (kÄb'Êt-sÄm', -Å«t-).
A collective farm or settlement in modern Israel.
[Hebrew qibbûsÌ£, gathering, from qibbÄsÌ£, derived stem of qÄbasÌ£, to gather.]
2006-08-01 01:44:16 · answer #6 · answered by Shalom Yerushalayim 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Ask Mel Gibson
2006-08-01 01:38:20 · answer #7 · answered by gnomes31 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Mel Gibson could probably help with you with any jewish words you need to know
2006-08-01 01:38:26 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
kibbutz...it's not a commune of teenagers, it's actually a type of farm in Israel.
2006-08-01 01:39:52 · answer #9 · answered by krissydahs93 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Jewish isn't a language. Hebrew is, however.
2006-08-01 02:11:00 · answer #10 · answered by Nowhere Man 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋