Projects

A podcast, a social network, a house, and some tools

Projects

מיזמיםمشاريع

Longer-running work, some of it live and some of it still being built.

Podcast

The Z Word

A podcast about what Zionism is for, and what it must become. I host it from Jerusalem, with Palestinian and Israeli guests.

Social network In development

Discussional

A social network built for useful discussion instead of engagement. A post says what kind of response would help. Replies are recognized for what they actually added. A discussion keeps a living synthesis of what was learned. Your feed is a set of rules you can read, edit, and share. It runs on the AT Protocol, so your identity travels with you.

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A six-storey limestone courtyard building at dusk, with sky gardens, ceramic lattice screens, a rooftop solar canopy over a vegetable garden and a long table, a repair workshop at street level and fruit trees in the courtyard.

Design project Concept

At Home in the Levant

What could the ideal home in this region be? My working answer is the Hosh: a courtyard building of six to eight storeys for twenty to thirty households, where sun, water, food, heat, materials, and information circulate through the architecture. Private homes stay private. Expensive tools are shared. The structure is meant to last a century while everything inside it can change.

It changes with its city, from Jerusalem’s hills to Haifa’s sea air and Hebron’s highland courtyards.

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Also in motion

  • A New Deal for Zion

    Eighteen planks for one shared country, from land in trust to a rail-linked Levant.

  • Zion 6000

    A speculative art series imagining Jerusalem in the Hebrew year 6000.

  • Rambam Siddur 2.0

    A working edition of the prayerbook in Rambam’s order and text, with notes. In planning.

  • Alphabetic Judaism

    The deep grammar of the Hebrew letters and what they mean for how we live.

  • A history of Sepharadi Zionism

    Writing in progress.

  • A poetry collection

    Poems and prayers in English and Hebrew, from the war years and before.

Tools I’ve built

  • Search Sefaria

    A faster, more focused way to search the open library at Sefaria.

  • Miqlat Finder

    Finds the nearest public shelter when the sirens go off.

  • The Sycophant

    A chat interlocutor designed to push back instead of agreeing with you.