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...
When Mexikosher closed three years ago, it was a dagger into the taco-loving heart of LA Jews who longed for a kosher Mexican spot. Now, Lenny’s Casita, which opened in 2020, is greater than Mexikosher...
When Dean of Students Rabbi Ari Schwarzberg asked whether they could perform at the school Chanukah party, members of the school’s new band hadn’t given it a name yet and had only recently received...
By Olivia Fishman, Arts & Culture Editor
• February 4, 2022
The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures displays and discusses artists of many races, religions, ethnicities, and causes, and their respective roles in the world of cinema. But Jews – who many consider...
By Olivia Fishman, Arts & Culture Editor
• January 4, 2022
Fried chicken sandwiches are trending, and the kosher world is part of the trend. Melrose Bite, recently rebranded from a dairy-and-vegan restaurant to a fried chicken and wings spot, just might satisfy...
Boom. A bullet knocks a man dead, another falls, then another. They lost the game – a simple childhood game of red light-green light, with a ghoulish twist of reality.
Although Netflix’s new TV...
My mom told me that wearing headphones on a hike was likely not a great idea, nor was hiking alone for that matter. But our family trip to Yosemite coincided with a personal musical renaissance I was having...
UPDATE DEC. 29: Roen Salem, who taught art and AP studio art from the school's founding in 1995 until retiring in October for health reasons, has passed away, Head of School Rabbi Block announced this...