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Shalhevet news online: When we know it, you'll know it

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Finding your Purim costume

By Hannah-Leeba Ellenhorn, Lifestyle Editor March 6, 2012

Dressing up for Purim is known as the most entertaining part of the joyous holiday. Many students find their costumes by searching the web or looking in catalogs. Whichever method you prefer, it’s time...

Live Blog of The Oscars

Live Blog of The Oscars

February 26, 2012

Lifestyle editor, Hannah-Leeba covered the Oscars LIVE on the evening of February 26th 2012. 8:38 pm: And thats a wrap guys! Goodnight! 8:36 pm: A Silent Film thats black and white filmed in the...

QUIZ: How organized are you?

By Hannah-Leeba Ellenhorn, LifeStyles Editor January 31, 2012

Springtime is just around the corner and everyone knows that means it’s time for some spring cleaning!  Spring cleaning can be a hassle, but it doesn’t have to be. If you’re organized all year around...

Live Blog of the SAG Awards

By Hannah-Leeba Ellenhorn January 29, 2012

Life Style Editor, Hannah-Leeba covered the SAG Awards on Sunday, January 29th. 7:00 pm: Have a good night everyone! 6:59 pm: And the show ends with a wave from Brad Pitt. Goodbye, Brad! 6:57...

13th Grade: In Israel, lessons for life and a sustainable world

By Jaclyn Kellner, BP Emeritus December 23, 2011

Sometimes I feel like everything on the farm revolves around food, but really everything revolves around everything. On the farm, where I’m in a semester-long Masa program called Eco Israel, a semester-long...

Marijuana can be a slippery slope

By Rachel Lester, Managing Editor December 23, 2011

Nobody sets out to be addicted. In fact, most people who do “soft drugs” like marijuana and hookah do so thinking that they’ll never get addicted. But even Amy Winehouse, who died in July from...

Home Cooking: You can understand crepes

By Jacob Ellenhorn, Arts & Entertainment Editor November 7, 2011

Crepes are misunderstood. It could be because they’re French and people often think that anything French is immediately pretentious and difficult to make.  But here is where you’re wrong.  You see,...

Burgers Bar is latest Israeli import on Pico

By Jacob Ellenhorn, Arts & Entertainment Editor November 7, 2011

New kosher restaurants on Pico’s Kosher Row are just popping up.  The latest is a popular Israeli restaurant adapted to America, called Burgers Bar. Granted the name of the restaurant is not perfect...

Off the beaten path, luxurious hipster minimalism

By Jacob Ellenhorn, Arts & Entertainment Editor November 7, 2011

If you are lucky enough to visit Jerusalem, let me suggest that you stay at the Mamilla Hotel.  Straddling the neighborhood between the Old City and the bustling downtown center of Jerusalem, the Mamilla...

What we’re wearing: Sleep decides when ‘comfy’ becomes ‘lazy’

By Talia Rotenberg, Staff Columnist November 7, 2011

As Shalhevet students, do we care about how we look? We all want to feel comfortable, but have we blurred the line between comfy-and-cute and lazy-and-baggy? When it’s time to get dressed in the morning,...

Quiz Yourself: Are you a super studier or a total study copout?

By Hannah-Leeba Ellenhorn, Features Editor November 7, 2011

You’re working on your English essay when all of a sudden you remember that there is a box of Zours in your kitchen practically waiting for you. You are half way through the essay so you...   Continue...

As readers and as writers, students brave the blogosphere

As readers and as writers, students brave the blogosphere

By Leila Miller, Editor-in-Chief October 31, 2011

Blogging,” like “Tweeting,” “Facebooking,” and “Googling,” is a web phenomenon so popular that it’s turned a noun into a verb -- a verb that describes condensed news and opinion that in...

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