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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...

TEEN: Dalya Zeno, second from right, attended a Catholic, all-girls private high school after immigrating from Syria in 2011.

Looking at refugees through a wider lens in ‘Dalya’s Other Country’

By Jacob Joseph Lefkowitz Brooks, Community Editor October 29, 2018

In 2018, it seems people only are urged to help to others who are in extreme conditions. The word “refugee” evokes images of desperately malnourished children, or parents with all their possessions...

STAR: Mac Miller established a loyal fan base that included Shalhevet students, who stayed with him from his early mixtape days through his transition to darker themes. Miller died last week at the age of 26.

Beloved by many, Jewish rapper will be remembered

By Jacob Joseph Lefkowitz Brooks, Community Editor September 20, 2018

This story won a Best of SNO award. “Overdosing is just not cool,” said the rapper Mac Miller in 2016, describing his battle with addiction in his first-person documentary, Stopped Making...

Rachel Chu, right, played by Constance Wu, spends most of the movie trying to gain the approval of her boyfriend’s mother Eleanor, left, played by Michelle Yeoh.

Heartfelt and funny, cultures clash in ‘Crazy Rich Asians’

By Jacob Joseph Lefkowitz Brooks, Community Editor September 13, 2018

This story won a Best of SNO award. Hollywood has seen shake-ups recently of some of its most formulaic film genres when the element of race is introduced. Following in the footsteps of Get Out...

ART: The exhibit displays various paintings and artifacts pertaining to the history of the Jewish people.

Skirball’s ‘Visions and Values’ exhibit is a journey through all of Jewry across all of time

By Abby Blumofe, Staff Writer May 17, 2018

It should not have been surprising to find each room opening onto another at an exhibit that promised to cover the span of all of Jewish history, culture and religion. And yet it was, because each room...

RENOVATION: Risers, a carpet and a new piano were added to the music room over the past year. The choir practices there twice a week, and singers report they can see and hear better.

Music room finally sounds like one

By Nicholas Fields, Arts & Culture Editor May 14, 2018

After three years in the new building, classroom 308 -- the Jonny and Brigitte Schoen Music Room -- has finally been reconstituted into a proper practice venue for the Choirhawks, while still...

SPAR: Adam Ritz, Shana Lunzer and Donna Grunfeld in ‘‘Primal Instincts’ in the Wildfire Theatre last month.

Modern-day issues, captivating scenes in Drama’s ‘The 10 Plagues’

By Aidel Townsley, Opinion Editor April 30, 2018

An adolescent frog recites a sonnet about wanting to sing to wild frogs, away from her pet shop tank. The idea of the exodus as a tale of escape from different kinds of “enslavement” – and the...

TOGETHER: Students and faculty sang and danced to Matisyahu’s ‘One Day’ in a Koolulam- style performance as part of the Yom Ha’Atzmaut celebration on April 19.

Gathered on the roof, students become a giant choir to celebrate Israeli Independence Day

By Jacob Joseph Lefkowitz Brooks, Features Editor April 22, 2018

In under an hour on a sunny Yom Ha'atzmaut morning, choir teacher Mrs. Joelle Keene was able to turn an unorganized gathering of 140 students into a full-on musical group. It was an effort to celebrate...

LEARN: Steve Green as Reb Saunders, right, studies Tractate Yevamot with Sam Mandel as Reuven Malter in 'The Chosen.'  Both actors received coaching from Judaic Studies teacher Rabbi Daniel Bouskila.

Rabbi Bouskila’s journey comes together on stage in ‘The Chosen.’

By Hannah Jannol, Editor-in-Chief March 24, 2018

When Judaic Studies teacher Rabbi Daniel Bouskila was 12 years old, he aspired to be an actor. With a father in the entertainment industry as a wardrobe specialist, Rabbi Bouskila easily found an agent...

REVIEW: With cast and plot, ‘Black Panther’ leaps over Hollywood barriers

REVIEW: With cast and plot, ‘Black Panther’ leaps over Hollywood barriers

By Jacob Joseph Lefkowitz Brooks, Features Editor March 5, 2018

The world has seen many superhero movies. Black Panther is much more. The 18th movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe -- a series of movies based on Marvel comic book characters --- director Ryan Coogler’s...

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