Features

Captives of Longing

BY ADELAIDE RUBENSTEIN In one night, I became a “captive of longing” for my homeland. I walked the streets of Princeton on the night of Tisha B’Av, August 3, 2025,

Tanakh

Political Lessons from Tanakh

BY OZZIE HOLLANDER George Washington once observed, “To rectify past blunders is impossible, but we might profit by the experience of them.” Frederick Douglass similarly argued that “We have to…

Arts & Culture

Undoing Reality Through Language

BY SARA LIM “If thought corrupts language, languagecan also corrupt thought.” George Orwell, Politics and the English Language In the beginning, God spoke the universe into existence, establishing a…

Why Hebrew Matters

BY BENNY MARMOR – מאת בני מארמער זאת המהדורה הראשונה של כתב העת סולומון שתכלול מאמר בעברית. קידמנו את היוזמה הזאת מתוך אמונה רבה בחשיבותה של השפה העברית לעם היהודי…

Poetry

Little Bird – ציפורה קטנה

BY RITA SETTON – מאת רבקה סתהון Let your wings fly freeFly, flyAway, little bird,You, who has never knownThe cold of a cage, justThe warmth of a nest andThe love…

The Hero Tree – עץ הגיבור

BY HANNAH KATZ – מאת חנה אריאל כ”ץ There is a tree that stands alone atop a mountain.A heroic tree, yet a weak one.Once, the tree had many leaves,But on…