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EMILY L. HAUSER - IN MY HEAD August 12, 2013 In which the Anabaptists get Israeli culture. emilylhauser So I have in my pos­ses­sion the most recent nation­al edi­tion an Amish news­pa­per — the Amish news­pa­per, really: The Bud­get. It serves both the Amish and Men­non­ite com­mu­ni­ties, and it’s not like any print pub­li­ca­tion you’ve ever seen before. As the Amish make very lit­tle use of tech­nol­o­gy, The Bud­get serves as a pri­ma­ry form of social com­mu­ni­ca­tion between the far-flung Amish dis­tricts. The nation­al edi­tion “includes let­ters from scribes around the globe and through­out the Unit­ed States. It con­sists of 3 – 4 sec­tions of the Amish and Men­non­ite newslet­ters, show­ers, obit­u­ar­ies, memo­ri­ams, clas­si­fied ad pages and other advertising.” Page after page (44 pages, in four sec­tions) of reports about indi­vid­ual com­mu­ni­ties: The weath­er, the crops, who vis­it­ed whom, who had a baby, how an 11 year old broke his leg (on the tram­po­line), and who’s been sick and needs a hand. There’s a “Show­ers” sec­tion (quo­ta­tion marks in the orig­i­nal) devot­ed to ask­ing folks to show­er cer­tain com­mu­ni­ty mem­bers with cards and let­ters, whether because that bro­ken leg will make the sum­mer very long for the boy in ques­tion, or because a new baby is a time of cel­e­bra­tion, or because the news from Mayo was bad and so-and-so’s fam­i­ly could real­ly use the sup­port at such a dif­fi­cult time. Ads for bug­gies, horse auc­tions, and var­i­ous health reme­dies, not to men­tion the Amish Wed­ding Plan­ner. It’s a beau­ti­ful slice of com­mu­ni­ty life that I think tells me more about what those com­mu­ni­ties mean to their mem­bers than near­ly any­thing I could find about Men­non­ites or Amish writ­ten from the out­side, and as we picked the paper up this week­end at the front desk of our hotel at Amish Acres (a hotel not fre­quent­ed by Amish or Men­non­ites), I can only imag­ine its pub­lish­ers and writ­ers (I have the impres­sion that the duty of writ­ing in to The Bud­get every week gets shared around with­in the indi­vid­ual dis­tricts, but I’m not sure) are com­fort­able with the notion of strangers such as myself see­ing their news. I feel lucky to have stum­bled upon The Bud­get. And here’s the part that made my fam­i­ly and me laugh out loud: There’s a report from Jerusalem, filed by one Kevin Byers, who’s serv­ing there with Chris­t­ian Aid Min­istries, an inter­na­tion­al Amish/Mennonite/Anabaptist aid orga­ni­za­tion. Sand­wiched between a brief and strik­ing­ly accu­rate analy­sis of the newly-renewed Israeli-Palestinian peace process and a men­tion of vis­i­tors to the Jerusalem com­mu­ni­ty, the report tells us this: There are many dif­fer­ences of cul­ture between the Unit­ed States and Israel. One of those that is glar­ing­ly obvi­ous and quite shock­ing to a West­ern­er vis­it­ing Israel for the first time is the lack of cus­tomer ser­vice. In Amer­i­ca most suc­cess­ful busi­ness­es oper­ate from this premise: The cus­tomer comes first. Here the cus­tomer can get the feel­ing that he doesn’t mat­ter, or that the cashier con­sid­ers it a both­er to serve him, or that he is doing some­thing wrong if he buys too much of one item. Besides that you will like­ly find your­self fight­ing to stay in “your” place in the check­out line because oth­ers will sim­ply push towards the counter and leave you won­der­ing what’s wrong with these peo­ple! These are not blan­ket state­ments but only too true in many cases. Recent­ly some friends of our were called rub­bish by the shop­keep­er because they didn’t want to buy any­thing! So much for pro­mot­ing your busi­ness! My favorite part is the excla­ma­tion point after “people.” EMILY L. HAUSER - IN MY HEAD August 12, 2013 In which the Anabaptists get Israeli culture. emilylhauser So I have in my pos­ses­sion the most recent nation­al edi­tion an Amish news­pa­per — the Amish news­pa­per, really: The Bud­get. It serves both the Amish and Men­non­ite com­mu­ni­ties, and it’s not like any print pub­li­ca­tion you’ve ever seen before. As the Amish make very lit­tle use of tech­nol­o­gy, The Bud­get serves as a pri­ma­ry form of social com­mu­ni­ca­tion between the far-flung Amish dis­tricts. The nation­al edi­tion “includes let­ters from scribes around the globe and through­out the Unit­ed States. It con­sists of 3 – 4 sec­tions of the Amish and Men­non­ite newslet­ters, show­ers, obit­u­ar­ies, memo­ri­ams, clas­si­fied ad pages and other advertising.” Page after page (44 pages, in four sec­tions) of reports about indi­vid­ual com­mu­ni­ties: The weath­er, the crops, who vis­it­ed whom, who had a baby, how an 11 year old broke his leg (on the tram­po­line), and who’s been sick and needs a hand. There’s a “Show­ers” sec­tion (quo­ta­tion marks in the orig­i­nal) devot­ed to ask­ing folks to show­er cer­tain com­mu­ni­ty mem­bers with cards and let­ters, whether because that bro­ken leg will make the sum­mer very long for the boy in ques­tion, or because a new baby is a time of cel­e­bra­tion, or because the news from Mayo was bad and so-and-so’s fam­i­ly could real­ly use the sup­port at such a dif­fi­cult time. Ads for bug­gies, horse auc­tions, and var­i­ous health reme­dies, not to men­tion the Amish Wed­ding Plan­ner. It’s a beau­ti­ful slice of com­mu­ni­ty life that I think tells me more about what those com­mu­ni­ties mean to their mem­bers than near­ly any­thing I could find about Men­non­ites or Amish writ­ten from the out­side, and as we picked the paper up this week­end at the front desk of our hotel at Amish Acres (a hotel not fre­quent­ed by Amish or Men­non­ites), I can only imag­ine its pub­lish­ers and writ­ers (I have the impres­sion that the duty of writ­ing in to The Bud­get every week gets shared around with­in the indi­vid­ual dis­tricts, but I’m not sure) are com­fort­able with the notion of strangers such as myself see­ing their news. I feel lucky to have stum­bled upon The Bud­get. And here’s the part that made my fam­i­ly and me laugh out loud: There’s a report from Jerusalem, filed by one Kevin Byers, who’s serv­ing there with Chris­t­ian Aid Min­istries, an inter­na­tion­al Amish/Mennonite/Anabaptist aid orga­ni­za­tion. Sand­wiched between a brief and strik­ing­ly accu­rate analy­sis of the newly-renewed Israeli-Palestinian peace process and a men­tion of vis­i­tors to the Jerusalem com­mu­ni­ty, the report tells us this: There are many dif­fer­ences of cul­ture between the Unit­ed States and Israel. One of those that is glar­ing­ly obvi­ous and quite shock­ing to a West­ern­er vis­it­ing Israel for the first time is the lack of cus­tomer ser­vice. In Amer­i­ca most suc­cess­ful busi­ness­es oper­ate from this premise: The cus­tomer comes first. Here the cus­tomer can get the feel­ing that he doesn’t mat­ter, or that the cashier con­sid­ers it a both­er to serve him, or that he is doing some­thing wrong if he buys too much of one item. Besides that you will like­ly find your­self fight­ing to stay in “your” place in the check­out line because oth­ers will sim­ply push towards the counter and leave you won­der­ing what’s wrong with these peo­ple! These are not blan­ket state­ments but only too true in many cases. Recent­ly some friends of our were called rub­bish by the shop­keep­er because they didn’t want to buy any­thing! So much for pro­mot­ing your busi­ness! My favorite part is the excla­ma­tion point after “people.” emilylhauser2013-08-12T21:22:55Z

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