FEAtures
Where I Stand in the Crowd: Reflections on Jewish Identity
By Moriah Schranz In the Winter edition of the 2025 Solomon Journal, I wrote about my experience as the only Jew at my public school and living far from the country’s most vibrant centers of Jewish life. As I continued my junior year of high school and began…
What Punk Taught Me About Being Jewish
By Sara Lim Peering at the stage through cigarette smoke, purple-tinted by the overhead lights, I glimpse a figure stepping forward. Clutching a cloth garment, whose angular geometric patterns I immediately recognize, the figure proudly announces, “This scarf means a lot to me, to us,” and ties the…
My Qur’an Chevrutah
By Avi Friedman Recent events have not exactly made Jews enthusiastic about interfaith dialogue. If anything, they have made many of us more suspicious of engagement and less interested in being told that our deepest disagreements can be smoothed over by “holding space” for the other side and…
