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The Rudolf Steiner Fellowship Foundation (also the Fellowship Community, or the Fellowship) was founded in 1966 by a group of young anthroposophists with a goal to care for the elderly. ==History and Community== In the mid-1950s, a group of interested individuals came to Christoph Lindner, a former official physician at the Swiss Consulate in New York City and a member of the Swiss Benevolent Association, to form the Fellowship Committee within the Anthroposophical Society of America. The committee came into being for the needs of some elderly members. This was the initiative that led to the Fellowship Community. After Paul Scharff took the helm, the Fellowship Community was created in 1966 in Spring Valley, New York. Soon after, the Fellowship, having grown, began to support Weleda financially, becoming a shareholder. Dr. Paul Scharff died in 2014 at the of 83, but the Fellowship is still strong. The Fellowship is now a long-term care community. With more than 150 members, children and co-workers, the Fellowship Community is in a rural setting of farm, orchards, and forests only 45 minutes by public transportation to New York City. It has a candle shop, a homeopathic and alternative medical office, now headed by Dr. Gerald Karnow, M.D., a weavery, a woodworking-shop, and a metal-shop. The Community is "A rich, varied cultural-spiritual life is woven into the community with festivals, art programs, lectures and trips. There is much work (play for the child) and social interaction, allowing for growth and human unfolding." The Fellowship Community was founded with the ideas and ideals of the Kibbutz Movement, where every one does everything. Here, everybody does everything. A doctor doesn’t just treat his patients but scrubs toilets, milks cows, too, always something different. This prevents the burnouts thatKibbutz, in Hebrew, means ''group''. A kibbutz is a "voluntary democratic community where people live and work together on a non-competitive basis. Its aim is to generate an economically and socially independent society founded on principles of communal ownership of property, social justice, and equality." 〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.kibbutzprogramcenter.org/about-kibbutz/ )〕 The larger community includes the Green Meadow Waldorf School and the Hungry Hollow Co-op. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rudolf Steiner Fellowship Foundation」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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