Archive - A Pisgah Site

The Best of 2024-Part 2

A Selection from A Pisgah Site, 2024

Jan 12 •

The Wildfires and The Antisemitism

Urgency is in the eye of the beholder.

Jan 9 •

Ehud Neor's "call to action"

Israeli Jews have a job to do. So do those of us in the Diaspora.

Published on Out of Babel • Jan 8

The Best of 2024-Part 1

A Selection from A Pisgah Site, 2024

Jan 7 •

December 2024

Hannukah This Time Around

We were learning the night before Hannukah from Rabbi Kook about Israel’s relationship with the nations.

Dec 31, 2024 •

It's Always A Sophie's Choice for Israel

The worst is this: retired security “experts” demanding to be heard over the other panel members on the endless Israeli talk shows on TV, berating and…

Dec 23, 2024 •

The Only Voice That Matters

One of my favorite writers on Substack, Ed Rettig over at Anan Sahadei has just written a surprising piece where he makes the argument that the outcome…

Dec 10, 2024 •

Running with Elijah

I mentioned in my previous post, “A Jew in Full,” the unsettling, snoring reality in which I found myself during the year that I studied in the Overseas…

Dec 1, 2024 •

November 2024

The Making of a Sandak

I had been a Sandak before (Sandak, Godfather, the one who holds the baby in his lap during the circumcision), at a Sephardic circumcision ceremony.

Nov 7, 2024 •

A Comment That Demands to be a Post

This post is based on a comment to my previous post.

Nov 7, 2024 •

I'm Pay-Walling the Archive

Fine tuning the marketing.

Nov 7, 2024 •

Lysistrata Revealed.

Nov 1, 2024 •

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