From backyard minyans to distanced dinners, Covid Rosh Hashanah will look and feel different
Olivia Fishman and Tehilla Fishman, 10th Grade
September 17, 2020
Shalhevet Dean of Students Rabbi Ari Schwarzberg thinks that it will be especially difficult to connect to God during the High Holidays this year. “There is a certain mood and certain energy that happens in shul, where if you walk in and you are not prepared, you can go from a five to a 10 prett...
For the Shalhevet building, spring vacation ended in summer
Benjamin Gamson and Yael Schechter
September 6, 2020
The Shalhevet campus came back to life this summer as students filled the science lab, theatre, cafeteria and room 216 for a summer enrichment program while a day camp met in the gym and on the third floor. The enrichment program, which consisted of week-long, in-person seminars that began the week of June 29 an...
COVID 2.0: Online classes, after-school “camp” and Zoom shofar-blowing welcome new school year
Benjamin Gamson, News Editor
August 26, 2020
With endless trips, Shabbatons, pep rallies and spontaneous kumzitzes in the hallways, Shalhevet always feels a little like camp. This year, for parts of the day, it actually is. Although academic classes will begin online, Shalhevet is planning optional in-person programs on campus starting next wee...
For COVID-19 nurses on opposite sides of the world, keeping families away is the hardest part
By Juliet Wiener, Staff Writer
June 28, 2020
Shalhevet alumna Sydney Miller ‘13 is a nurse at the NYU Langone Hospital in New York. Typically, she finds enjoyment in sitting next to an anxious patient and comforting him or her through conversation. However, due to COVID-19, she now mainly communicates with patients on the screen of an iPad, or ...
A blue-and-white parade of cars celebrates Israel Independence Day in the age of Covid
May 7, 2020
Throughout Pico-Robertson and Beverlywood last Thursday, Shalhevet families, alumni and others stood outside their homes carrying signs and Israeli flags, and waiting to celebrate Yom Haatzmaut, Israel’s Independence Day, in the age of Covid-19. With the usual celebrations banned due to coro...
Just Community election campaign moves online, but not everybody follows
Benjamin Gamson, Staff Writer
May 7, 2020
Seventeen candidates are running in Thursday’s election for Just Community offices, but some campaigned much more than others during the official posting period that ended Wednesday at noon. As of Wednesday night, only six candidates had posted a campaign poster on Schoology, two had...
With memes and TikToks, teens lighten the mood of ‘corona break’
Kate Orlanski, Features Editor
April 29, 2020
Earlier this year, social media seemed like the problem, blamed for causing unnecessary panic over the novel coronavirus and the disease it causes, Covid-19. But now, Generation Z is finding light in the midst of uncertainty by using social media as an outlet to spread laughs and positivity dur...
Who suffers, who perseveres
Rachel Lasry, Staff Writer
April 8, 2020
Many of us in quarantine feel like we are suffering. In many ways, we are. Forced not to see our friends and family, deprived of the outdoors, living in fear for ourselves and our families. These are legitimate problems. And there are less severe problems, but still great losses. Like the plans we made....
Shalhevet to delay decision on reopening in-person school until after Pesach, Rabbi Segal says
Sam Rubanowitz and Jacob Joseph Lefkowitz Brooks
April 2, 2020
Shalhevet officials will defer a decision on whether to reopen on-campus school this year until after Passover, Head of School Rabbi Ari Segal said this week, adding that if things haven't changed by then, "in all likelihood," online-only classes would continue until the end of May. Asked...
California state superintendent says it ‘appears’ public schools will remain closed for the rest of the school year
Sam Rubanowitz, Senior Editor
March 31, 2020
California schools will likely remain closed for the rest of the school year, State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond wrote in a letter to public school superintendents on Tuesday. The letter was obtained by various news sources including the San Francisco Chronicle, The Mercury News,...
Schedule change hopes to restore more normal hustle and bustle to online school day
Alex Rubel, Senior Editor
March 24, 2020
As the school started its second week of online-only learning, administrators announced changes to the schedule that they hoped would restore more of the normal hustle-and-bustle of free periods, club meetings and of course, Town Hall. A virtual Town Hall has been scheduled for today, Tuesday, thoug...
YULA student tests positive for coronavirus after Bnei Akiva shabbaton; Rabbi Segal says spread to Shalhevet ‘inevitable’
Jacob Joseph Lefkowitz Brooks, Editor-in-Chief
March 16, 2020
According to a late Saturday email from Bnei Akiva of Los Angeles, a student at Yeshiva University of LA (YULA) Girls High School has tested positive for coronavirus. Then on Sunday, both Hatzolah of Los Angeles and Shalhevet Head of School Rabbi Ari Segal sent out emails saying the virus, also known...
VIDEO: What are you repenting for on Yom Kippur 5781?
September 23, 2020
From backyard minyans to distanced dinners, Covid Rosh Hashanah will look and feel different
September 17, 2020
Even via Zoom, the shofar signals the season in Elul
September 15, 2020
For now, Zoom Town Hall will be every other week
September 14, 2020
Arson at Chabad near U Delaware gives Div. 1 athlete a platform to oppose hate
September 10, 2020
For the Shalhevet building, spring vacation ended in summer
September 6, 2020