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CLICK: Guests stroll through theWildfire Theater admiring student photography. The new club raised approximately $250 for ELEM, an Israeli organization that aids homeless teens.

With lights twinkling, photo club holds first show

By Sadie Toczek, Staff Writer
June 28, 2016
Shalhevet’s Photography Club held its first-ever exhibition and auction last month in the Wildfire Theater, displaying members’ favorite works in soft lighting against a black backdrop.
INSPIRED: Senior Avivah Paskowitz, right, hopes to become a school art teacher like Roen Salem.

For AP Art student, hours of work devoted to seeing

By Sadie Toczeck, Staff Writer
May 16, 2016
On a canvas is a girl in a vivid blue shirt holding a glass of water. She looks through the glass, the water magnifying her face. “Baby, I’d Call That Half Full”—the title-- is senior Avivah Paskowitz’s favorite of her many paintings.
COMEDY: Senior Mati Davis and freshman Hannah Merritt practice the humorous Caught With His Trance Down, which debuted April 13.

No music, but spring Drama offers a humorous look at the past

By Abby Blumofe, Staff Writer
April 19, 2016

Shalhevet Drama’s spring performance last week was unexpected in many ways.  The troupe performed the 1897 comedy Caught...

There are 65 pieces of student art work up against the walls.

In Shalhevet’s lobby, a Guggenheim of the West

By Hannah Jannol, Arts & Culture Editor
April 14, 2016

Shalhevet has an East Coast twin. Not SAR, Frisch Academy, or other leading Modern Orthodox high schools in New York, but rather...

In five one-acts, Drama program explores teen identity as it affirms its own

By Hannah Jannol, Staff Writer
January 24, 2016
An 18-year-old stares intently at a letter from his parent’s dream college, UC Berkeley. An ultra-orthodox mother tells her ambitious daughter she cannot go to college at all.
GOLDEN: Tourists and other spectators recorded the Choirhawks flashmob In a park overlooking the north end of the Golden Gate bridge Dec. 4 in the middle of their Bay Area Chanukah performance tour.

In first-ever trip, choir spreads Jewish a capella to Bay Area

By Lucy Fried, Staff Writer
December 29, 2015
On the morning of Thursday, Dec. 3, the Choirhawks performed at Town Hall wearing loose sweatpants, hats, and casual T-shirts, in clear violation of the school dress code.
GRACEFUL: Promotional photo from the Moscow Ballets Dance With Us program features young dancers like freshman Adira Waldman (not pictured.)

Ninth-grade ballerina twirls into four-minute role in Moscow Ballet’s ‘The Nutcracker’

By Hannah Jannol, Staff Writer
December 21, 2015
Going to sleep at midnight on a regular basis is not a rare event for most Shalhevet students, but try doing so after four rigorous hours of jazz, tap and ballet. This is no rarity for freshman Adira Waldman, who will perform in The Moscow Ballet’s The Nutcracker at the Wiltern Theater on Dec. 20 and 21.
DEVISING: Ezra Fax, Eitan Schramm and Tania Bohbot work with Ms. Chase to produce two of the five one-act plays.

Drama prepares for one-acts in new theater

By Rose Lipner and Sadie Toczeck
November 18, 2015
In some ways, this fall brings a re-birth to Shalhevet’s drama department.
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