by Shoshana Jakobovits, Class of ‘26 If you mention the name “Piccard” in casual conversation in Switzerland, everyone will know the great family of explorers you are referring to. Auguste Piccard, a balloonist, was the first to fly to the stratosphere in 1931. His son, Jacques Piccard, explored the depths and was the first to descend to the bottom of the Mariana Trench, in 1960. His own son, Bertrand Piccard, pursued his grandfather’s legacy by completing the first non-stop

by Yehudit Mazur-Shlomi '27 “Rabbi Chanina said: Everything is in the hands of Heaven, except for fear of Heaven” (Berachot 33b). Another...

by Brooke Pollak '27 As Parshat Nitzavim opens, with Moshe sealing the covenant with the generation about to enter Eretz Yisrael, he says...

by Rabbanit Dr. Tamar Ron Marvin “You can’t control the weather” is a milquetoast idiom in English, as inoffensive small talk of current...