Contributor Archives: Alisa Belinkoff Katz

By Alisa Belinkoff Katz   (Speech delivered upon being recognized as a honoree at the Los Angeles Ameinu annual awards dinner on December 10, 2008) My parents were involved in Labor Zionism before I was born and I started going to Habonim Camp when I was ten years old. From the minute I went, I was hooked. And I’m not talking about the political philosophy or the Zionist thinkers or the kibbutz ideology; although I certainly bought into that – and could recite it to you today. Habonim had …

By Jonathan Brown For the internationally acclaimed film-maker Mike Leigh, it was the place that he learned to be a leader. David Baddiel looks back on his time as a chanichimon camp as a vital training ground for a career in comedy. Ditto Sacha Baron Cohen creator of Ali G , Seth Rogen and a host of writers and producers behind some of the biggest names on British television and in Hollywood. For decades, the Habonim movement, with its emphasis on high-minded ideals, collective decision making …