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on  shlichut  for  the  BBYO.  We  left            In  my  years  in  the  movement,  I  learned
               Machanayim for Kfar Hanassi in 1987, and           numerous  skills  that  helped  me  all  through
               in 1989, we moved to Katsrin. Up until our         my  life,  especially  from  the  Madrichim
               retirement, Menachem and I were both full-         Course,  Hachsharat  Noar  and  Hachshara.
               time  teachers.  We  founded,  produced  and       Once, at the end of a wonderful international
               directed the Jacob’s  Ladder Festival  for 43      Jacob’s  Ladder  Festival,  a  visitor  from
               years, and Covid permitting will continue to       abroad came over to ask me how I learned to
               do so.                                             organise a festival so successfully.

                                                                  I  smiled  and  said,  I  am  a  graduate  of
                                                                  Habonim.

                                                                  Big  thanks  to  Barry  Coleman,  Stan

                                                                  Tannen, Gill  Bentov, Shelley Yavetz and
                                                                  George Yigal Levine who helped me with

                                                                  some of the memories.










                        Menachem and Yehudit





















                 1962 Leeds/Bradford Habonim Harewood weekend camp. From left: Raymond Coleman, Viv (Layton) Davies,
                  Mike Arbel (Abels), Yehudit (Clynes) Vinegrad, Estelle (Miller) Lewis, Norma (Chellone) Jacobs, Suzanne

                              Simons, Sylvia Pucatsch.  The photographs from Leeds in this article are by David A.Young
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