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WOW: Freddy Freeman, played by Jack Dylan Glazer, is amazed by Billy Batson’s transformation from boy to superhero.

‘Shazam’ spins a superhero fantasy into an appreciation of chosen families

By Yishai Thau, Staff Writer May 29, 2019

Kids feel less important than adults. Kids are shorter, not as strong, and not as powerful. If a kid were suddenly given all the size, strength and power of an adult, what would happen?   What...

STARS: Junior Sheyna Schusterman danced her scene in the Wildfire Theater May 9 while being professionally videotaped, a first for Shalhevet dancers. The Dance Club’s teacher is Erica Klein, famous for modern dance choreography on television and social media.

Famous choreographer brings professional experience to new dance club

By Jolie Wineburgh, Staff Writer May 26, 2019

Technicolored lights illuminated the dancers, as one by one each was absorbed in the whirlwind of a new experience. Soon after warming up and practicing, each member of the new Shalhevet dance club got...

FEAT: Adam Ritz, center, had to sync his lines with the pre-recorded projections of other characters, including a recorded version of himself.

Connecting the disconnected in ‘Technical Difficulties’

By Lucy Fried, Co-Editor-in-Chief May 7, 2019

With an overarching title of Technical Difficulties, the seven original plays in this year’s One-acts Festival all explored the way that human relationships are tested or strengthened by games and technology....

MODELS:   The exhibit uses recreations of important objects from GInsburgs life to illustrate the moments that turned Ginsburg into the icon she is now.
 Photo by Robert Wedemeyer

Not just her initials: Skirball exhibit explains why RBG is ‘notorious’

By Jacob Joseph Lefkowitz Brooks, Community Editor March 5, 2019

When considering the achievements of history’s greatest social reformers, it’s easy to say that they were simply destined to achieve greatness and change society. This is true as well for Supreme Court...

INFLUENCE:   Oz’s 40 books, including his memoir A Tale of Love and Darkness, have been translated into 45 languages, the most among any Israeli author. 
 BP Photo by Uzi Varon from amoz-oz.net

Amos Oz, father of Israeli fiction, dies at 79

By Clara Sandler, Co-Editor-in-Chief March 1, 2019

“When I was little, my ambition was to grow up to be a book. Not a writer,” Amos Oz wrote in A Tale of Love and Darkness. “People can be killed like ants. Writers are not hard to kill either....

LIVE BLOG: The Oscars with Nicholas Fields and Jacob Joseph Lefkowitz Brooks

LIVE BLOG: The Oscars with Nicholas Fields and Jacob Joseph Lefkowitz Brooks

February 24, 2019

This page is being updated throughout the Oscars awards ceremony by BP Lifestyles Editor Nicholas and Features Editor Jacob Joseph Lefkowitz Brooks. Click here to read short reviews of the eight movies...

Bohemian Rhapsody

February 24, 2019

The legacy Freddie Mercury, played by Rami Malek, left on the world is illuminated in Bohemian Rhapsody, a film that will make you laugh, cry, sing along and understand the world of Rock and Roll like...

 BP Photo Illustration by Gilad Spitzer

The Eight: Short reviews of the 2019 Best Picture nominees

Below are short reviews of all eight movies nominated in the Best Picture category of this year’s Academy Awards. They were compiled by Acting Arts & Culture Editors Jacob Joseph Lefkowitz Brooks...

Concert breaks new ground for Choirhawks with music written or arranged by students

By Jacob Joseph Lefkowitz Brooks, Community Editor January 14, 2019

Among the 15 songs performed by the Choirhawks at their annual Chanukah concert last month were two that represented milestones for the group: the first written and the first arranged by a student member. The...

INSPIRATION:    Members  of the leading K-pop group BTS addressed the United Nations General Assembly Sept.  24.

South Korean boy band BTS speaks for – and to – a generation

By Adina Ackerman, Staff Writer November 18, 2018

Role models are necessary in the chaos of our everyday lives, a stool we step on to constantly reassure ourselves of success and happiness. But what does it really mean to be a giver or receiver of inspiration...

CHAT:    D.W. Gregory answered questions during a 45-minute long-distance visit with members of Shalhevet’s Drama Ensemble.

‘Radium Girls’ playwright meets Shalhevet actors via Skype

By Abby Blumofe, Arts and Culture Editor November 12, 2018

“Plays aren’t written,” said the woman on the TV screen in the Wildfire Theater Oct. 18. “They are crafted.” The author and playwright Ms. D.W. Gregory, who was addressing Shalhevet’s...

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