Archive - Esther’s Substack

Let me admit – thank you.

About Y D H – to thank, to admit.

Jul 7 •

June 2025

Iranian trees in the heart of Tel Aviv

about Farsi and Hebrew

Jun 23 •

May 2025

a drink, a war.

May 7 •

March 2025

something we do not do.

Mar 31 •

February 2025

Feb 19 •

January 2025

Shalom, Shalem,

to make peace, to make whole, to come to terms

Jan 27 •

Not a word about Hebrew today, but a very Hebrew kind of story.

A postcard arrived just before Christmas in handwriting I could not decipher.

Jan 10 •

November 2024

two ways to refuse the military service

Nov 14, 2024 •

October 2024

about rain, and its teachings

Some of my readers are British, as I am writing in the UK with the much-appreciated support of the Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies at the…

Oct 7, 2024 •

August 2024

you are garbage - and that is a compliment

about Isabel, Zebulon and manure

Aug 12, 2024 •

May 2024

Soon we will become a song

Every decade or so Israel goes through a major war.

May 23, 2024 •

April 2024

One little goat

A story of revenge and its futility

Apr 9, 2024 •

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