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VOTE: Agenda Chair Kate Orlanski presented the “Timely Grading Proposal” at Town Hall last Friday.

Teachers must grade work within three week or not assign tests and projects, Town Hall votes

By Caroline Kboudi, Ninth Grade
April 15, 2021
PROMINENT: Since November, a painting by David Meytal has been in the geographical center of the school instead of the signed preamble to the Just Community Constitution.

Have you missed it? Just Community Constitution preamble to return to 2nd-floor lobby soon, officials say

By Tali Liebenthal, 9th Grade
April 11, 2021
PREPARING: A pharmacist at Walgreens on Olympic Boulevard in West LA prepared to administer a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine April 4.

Your turn! A student’s guide to being vaccinated in L.A.

By Evan Beller, 10th Grade
April 6, 2021
MORE: One in four residents of Los Angeles suffered from food insecurity during the first months of the Covid-19 pandemic, officials estimate. For low-income families, the percentage was almost half.

Essential workers, essential work: How local food banks learned to protect staff from Covid and still feed the hungry

By Keira Beller, Staff Writer
April 2, 2021
TRANSFER: Rabbi Ari Segal (left) became Head of School in 2012. New Head of School Rabbi David Block (right), who was announced as the next head of school in 2019, says he'll stay in his old office for now and move into Rabbi Segal's next fall.

It’s official: Rabbi Block is Head of School as Rabbi Segal steps aside

By Benjamin Gamson, News Editor
April 1, 2021
BOTH: Rabbi Jonathan Perry of Chabad said it is a struggle to be seen as fully Jewish and fully Black. At top, from left, Town Hall was led by Agenda Chair Kate Orlanski, who interviewed Shalhevet teachers Ms. Valencia Wilson and Mr. Fred Leach, and Mrs. Chava Shervington of the Orthodox organization Kamochah.

Town Hall offers view of what it’s like to be Orthodox Jews who are Black

By Molly Litvak, Editor-in-Chief
March 16, 2021
MASKED: Dr. Eric Vail works in the clinical molecular pathology lab at Cedars-Sinai, wearing PPE to protect himself from Covid-19 samples he is studying.

Just blocks from school, doctors searching for U.K. variant of Covid-19 discovered California’s

By Juliet Wiener, Science Writer
March 10, 2021
Caption: FOUNDER: Dr. Sam Gomberg, z

Dr. Sam Gomberg, former principal and architect of Just Community, has died at age 74

By Talia Davoudian, Staff Writer
March 10, 2021
DESERT: Part of the name for the new Phoenix campus is ‘Nishmat Adin,’ after Rabbi Adin Steinsalt, z”l. The planned school is using a version of Shalhevet's logo.

‘Shalhevet Scottsdale’ plan foresees Phoenix-area students attending LA school via Zoom with next year’s freshmen and sophomores

By Benjamin Gamson, News Editor
March 8, 2021
COUNTRIES: Shalhevet’s debaters represented Israel and Japan at last month’s Yeshiva University Model UN conference, held Feb. 14-15 over Zoom. Dr. Harris took this screen shot of a team meeting just before the conference began.

Moving screens, louder voices and ‘breakout’ committee rooms as debate teams move online

By Gabriella Gomperts and Yael Schechter
March 3, 2021
COVID TRACKS is a biweekly feature keeping readers up to date on cases, vaccinations, variants and other news as it affects Shalhevet, Shalhevet neighborhoods and Los Angeles County.

COVID TRACKS — FEB. 16, 2021

By Juliet Wiener, Staff Writer
February 16, 2021
TREATS: On Monday and Wednesday, the first two days of two grades on campus, there was a free fruit cart on the roof and an ice cream truck in the parking lot.

On-campus school expands to two days a week and two grades a day

By Benjamin Gamson and Molly Litvak
February 14, 2021
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