By Sophie Katz, Outside News Editor
• June 1, 2024
After 21 years of leading the Boiling Point, directing the Choirhawks, and teaching classes, Mrs. Joelle Keene is leaving Shalhevet to continue and expand her work at the Jewish Scholastic Press Association,...
By Sonya Katzin, Arts and Culture Editor
• May 15, 2024
As the lights dimmed and the audience quieted, a hunched and elderly man emerged from the corner of the room, accompanied by a nurse. Slowly, they made their way to the center of the stage, where the man...
By Sonya Katzin, Arts & Culture Editor
• February 20, 2024
Flashing lights. Multicolored balloons. Cheerleaders dancing along to a catchy song. A fluffy blue mascot. A stiffly starched man reveling in it all. And what is the crowd cheering?
“Oxy-Con-tin!”
This...
By Sonya Katzin, Arts & Culture Editor
• February 1, 2024
Ms. Emily Chase, who founded and developed the Shalhevet drama department while encouraging students to write and direct their own plays, has left for Crossroads School for Arts and Sciences in Santa Monica...
By Sonya Katzin, Arts & Culture Editor
• August 24, 2023
Ms. Emily Chase, who founded and developed the drama department while encouraging students to write and direct their own plays, announced this morning that she will be leaving for Crossroads School for...
An in-class play about piano, death and teenage emotions took center stage at a theater in San Diego earlier this year when senior Tehilla Fishman’s class playwriting assignment was produced there after...
Walking into the Shalhevet theater, I was impressed to see a beautiful cartoonish set painted in vibrant primary colors. As the classic Charlie Brown piano music played, Shalhevet’s six-person cast erupted...
In a dimly lit auditorium scattered with people, the Shalhevet Choirhawks used music to paint a picture of Israel in the months just before it was formally established.
The performance – their first...
By Olivia Fishman, Arts and Culture Editor
• November 19, 2022
When students walked into Shalhevet last August, they didn’t expect to be greeted with vibrant, oversized but lifelike, graffiti-sprayed street art.
But during the last two weeks of summer break,...
By Joshua Gamson, Community Editor
• October 31, 2022
It looked like a regular Shalhevet art show, with some paintings displayed on easels in the front of the Beit Midrash, while many others lined the room’s north-wall bookshelf. But this time the artworks...
By Elliot Serure, Senior Columnist
• September 4, 2022
I still don’t know whether I felt terror or awe at that moment.
While perusing the internet, I found myself on the website of an AI – artificial intelligence – art generator. The...
By Olivia Fishman, Arts and Culture Editor
• August 4, 2022
There is a certain exhilaration that accompanies my trips to Dodger Stadium, and I have felt the same excitement since I was a child. Section 4, Row J, is my home away from home, and I have experienced...