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RUNWAY: Freshman Rena Harkham modeled a white dress at the Fashion Clubs third annual Tzniut Can Be Cute show in the gym Feb. 18.  Student models waiting their turns stood behind the wood-and-metal mechitza.

Student show reflected feminism through modest fashion

By Hannah Jannol, Editor-in-Chief February 23, 2018
This year’s fashion show had two major stars: modest clothing and a feminist theme. These two highlights may seem contradictory: asking women to cover up is viewed in many feminist circles to be anti-woman, and a fashion show might not seem like the place to showcase feminist values.
SHARING: Students at Seattle Hebrew Academy heard the Choirhawks Chanukah songs Dec. 14. The next day the group sang at Northwest Yeshiva High School, where Mr. Jason Feld is head of school.

From schools to market, Choirhawks share a capella in Seattle

By Rebecca Cohen, Staff Writer February 12, 2018

Twenty-five teenagers are wandering around the famous Pike Place Market in Seattle, indistinguishable from the rest of the crowd that is chatting, laughing and admiring the produce. At one moment, a few...

ANGLE: The Vinz is made up of several different quadrate blocks of different materials, interspersed by grated metal sails and pink walls.

TWO BOILING POINTS OF VIEW: The VINZ: Groundbreaking or grotesque?

By Jacob Joseph Lefkowitz Brooks, Arts & Culture Editor January 31, 2018

  Innovative: The VINZ takes brave architectural steps Frank Gehry, the world-renowned architect and visionary famous for Walt Disney Concert Hall downtown and the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao,...

SHARE: Senior and AP Art student Sydney Gross, standing at easel, is the first student ever invited to teach Roen Salems 10th-grade Composition & Design classes.

Senior AP Art student helps teach Comp and Design class, inspiring sophomores

By Jacob Joseph Lefkowitz Brooks, Arts and Culture Editor January 13, 2018
Before Sydney Gross starts drawing a face for her class, she asks the students what they have the most trouble with in art.
UPDATE: A multi-level stage and choreographed fight scenes are some of the ways Shalhevet Theater hopes to modernize Sophocles 2500-year-old play, Antigone.  Donna Grunfeld, at center in white shirt, rehearsing her role as Antigone with Daniel Medovoy, Amin Lari, Shana Lunzer and Albert Gordon in the Wildfire Theatre.

With ‘Antigone,’ theater department hopes to make Ancient Greece seem modern

By Hannah Poltorak, Staff Writer January 3, 2018

Written in 430 B.C.E. by Sophocles, the Greek tragedy Antigone might be expected to be outdated. But Shalhevet’s theater department believes that it will prove relevant to its audience, with complex...

VIDEO: Choirhawk’s flash mob in Pike Place Market in Seattle

December 17, 2017

Choirhawks flash mob “All of Me” by John Legend in Seattle’s Pike Place Market this morning on the final day of their 2017 Chanukah performance tour.

Color: The Massacre in the Main Temple, by Jean Charlot, 1922. Charlot was one of many artists who Anita Brenner inspired to create powerful Mexican art.

At the Skirball, a writer’s tale is told in art

By Jacob Joseph Lefkowitz Brooks, Arts and Culture Editor November 1, 2017

Walls of the Skirball Cultural Center are lined with works by 35 of the most important and famous artists in post-revolutionary Mexico. But what holds them together is the life of an unknown yet pivotal...

FRIENDSHIP: The Comedy Central show just premiered its fourth season. The show usually follows Abbi and Ilanas New York City antics, this episode shows how the iconic duo met. ​

REVIEW: Sliding doors, sliding stereotypes in Season 4 premiere of ‘Broad City’

By Hannah Jannol, Editor-in-Chief September 18, 2017

It’s nothing new in Hollywood for Jews or Jewish culture to be the object of comedy, as in bar mitzvahs or men wearing peyot used as a demeaning punchline. But in the first episode of Season Four of...

SING: Natalie Dahan sold out her first show at AMPLYFi on Melrose.

Through difficult times, music has accompanied Natalie Dahan

September 5, 2017
It’s impossible to find the right words to say. All I can do right now is tell myself I’ll be okay.  “Impossible” is a song that alumna Natalie Dahan wrote to help her overcome the rough patches in her life through the musical career she has embarked upon -- not that it’s her real career though.
Strands of Jewish culture wind together at The Braid

Strands of Jewish culture wind together at The Braid

April 25, 2017

By Tobey Lee, Staff Writer Located in a small business park in Santa Monica, the Braid is an art gallery that contains just eight works of art on topics of Jewish culture, virtues and life. As you might...

In ‘I Am Not Your Negro,’ words of James Baldwin describe the past to illuminate the present

In ‘I Am Not Your Negro,’ words of James Baldwin describe the past to illuminate the present

By Jacob Joseph Lefkowitz Brooks, Arts and Culture Editor April 13, 2017
I Am Not Your Negro is a documentary film focusing on the views of acclaimed writer James Baldwin, 1924 - 1987, using his treatise, unfinished at his death, titled Remember This House. The book was aimed at explaining the struggles of black Americans using the lives of three of his friends, Martin Luther King, Malcom X and Medgar Evers, three major civil rights activist who were assassinated.
IN CHARACTER: Sophomore Donna Grunfeld and junior Noah Mermelstein look to the sky for answers to their marital problems in Almost, Maine.

Feeling distant and close in ‘Almost, Maine’

By Nomi Willis, Staff Writer December 8, 2016
Enveloped in an awkward silence, Amin Lari and Neima Fax sit in character on a wooden bench together. Their stage characters, Pete and Ginette, have just exchanged their first “I love you”s, and Pete begins to describe people's’ relationships to one another using a snowball as a model of the earth. When sitting next to someone, you can say you are either the closest or the farthest from them, depending on which way around the snowball you measure.
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