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Iss, Feigele, iss! 1
The kibbutz dining room used to be the place where things happened. Apart from three meals
a day being served there, it was the place where kibbutz meetings were convened, films and plays shown,
weddings celebrated and parties held.
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The entrance Cacti are planted in strategic positions, to better prick passers-by. The question might be asked, whether this is the right place for plants with an appetite for human flesh. 2 |
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The lobby The postoffice boxes, a bulletin board and a statue as food for thought. |
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The interior That's Elka getting things ready. At the centre, the computers - you get a really warm feeling of being at home when you check out your food. |
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Since the 1st May 2004 an outside firm is running our dining room and kitchen. Many of the kibbutz members are somewhat bemused, asking themselves how an outsider can make a profit where we could not break even. He couldn't. In October 2005 the dining-room has finally been closed down. | |
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1) The war cry of all yiddishe mammes: Eat, my little bird, eat! Sometimes
with huge success, as in the case of Rabin's and Barak's minister of finance, Beige Shohat, Beige being a corruption
of Feigele - birdie.2) They've been mostly removed since (Winter '99) |
It still performs some of these functions: Breakfast and
supper have been discontinued, lunch, cafeteria-style, we pay for, Bar-Mitzvas and weddings are
being performed and on feast days we congregate for dinner. Apart from that, it's a dark and gloomy place
after 2 pm, locked and sometimes broken into.