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SHIRA: Sophomore Ronnie Seruya, left, says even singing is different at Camp Stone, a “unique environment.”

At summer camp, students find a lab for religious diversity

By Lucy Fried, Co-Editor-in-Chief September 17, 2018

In the sunset hours of Shabbat, campers at Camp Stone in Pennsylvania gather for slow shira, or singing, much like the one on Shalhevet shabbatons. Jewish life there appears similar to school’s, as Camp...

VIDEO TUTORIAL: How to import the school calendar into your personal calendar

By Gilad Spitzer, Web Editor-in-Chief August 29, 2018

Follow the video’s step-by-step instructions to conveniently add all events -- including days off, early dismissals, holidays, etc.--  on the 2018-19 Academic Calendar to your personal calendar....

 INTRICATE:    The Lancut Synagogue in Poland is a 257-year-old shul painted with Hebrew prayers and adorned with complex designs frauht with religious symbolism.   BP photo by Tyler Ekaireb

On writers’ wings, a journey heavy with history

By Hannah Jannol, Editor-in-Chief June 13, 2018

As someone who connects to things through writing — whether my own or someone else’s — I wanted to experience the senior Poland-Israel Experience through the written word. So I borrowed some books...

GETTING HERE: Whats it like to live an hour away from school?

GETTING HERE: What’s it like to live an hour away from school?

By Hannah Jannol, Editor-in-Chief May 13, 2018

 BP Graphic by Zev Kupferman A near majority of Shalhevet students -- 107 out of 250 this year -- live in Beverlywood or Pico-Robertson, an average of about one-and-a-half miles from school. The...

SALE: Within minutes of its posting, Ben-Tsion Oliel perused merchandise on the website of Supreme. He sells everything he buys, at a huge markup,

Clothing company creates student entrepreneurship at the click of a button

By Clara Sandler, Community Editor March 14, 2018
It’s 8 a.m. and a regular Thursday morning for most Shalhevet students, but for Ben-Tsion Oliel, Sam Navon, Josh Weindling, Sam Navon and Asher Dauer, it’s time to get down to business.
DISPERSION: College banners hang outside College Counselor Lisa Gruenbaums office, representing the diversity in the decisions kids make about where to go to college.

College-bound students weigh how far to fly the coop

By Hannah Jannol, Editor-in-Chief February 19, 2018

Every year, many Shalhevet graduates leave California to pursue college degrees on the East Coast, in the Midwest and other regions hundreds or thousands of miles from home. But some stay local. But...

How to deal with Seasonal Affective Disorder this winter

How to deal with Seasonal Affective Disorder this winter

By Sadie Toczek, Lifestyle Editor February 14, 2018

When the clocks turned back last November, days ended earlier and earlier. Even now, days are shorter, ending around 5 p.m. and making the night feel everlasting. It is not uncommon for this...

You are what you DONT eat

You are what you DON’T eat

By Lucy Fried, Features Editor February 9, 2018

A 21st-century family dinner may feature vastly different plates of food than it did 10 years ago, with two vegetarian parents, a paleo teenage daughter, and a gluten-free son. This is not an uncommon...

HIRSCHONOMICS: Why is it so hard to run a student business at Shalhevet?

HIRSCHONOMICS: Why is it so hard to run a student business at Shalhevet?

By Sam Hirschhorn & Zack Hirschhorn, Staff Columnists November 19, 2017

This year, the major student-run businesses at Shalhevet are bagels, pancakes and the Student Store. Last year, the major student businesses were bagels, pancakes, and the Student Store. Two years...

The class of 2019 hears from the rabbi in the gutted sanctuary of United Orthodox Synagogue.

With hammers and heart, juniors help rebuild Houston on chesed trip

By Lucy Fried, Features Editor November 8, 2017

At midnight Aug. 26, Maya Wadler was the only member of her family awake as rains pounded the streets and water seeped through the floorboards of her Houston home. At 2:30 a.m., her house was two feet...

Doctors in the house

Doctors in the house

By Clara Sandler, Community Editor November 7, 2017

What do stem cell differentiation, females with disabilities in the classroom, the relationship between Jewish and American law and a medieval Greek rabbi’s Talmud commentary have in common? They...

Niche memes are connecting Jews worldwide with humor and some bite

Niche memes are connecting Jews worldwide with humor and some bite

By Hannah Jannol, Editor-in-Chief November 5, 2017

Yaakov Fein, more commonly known by his Instagram meme username @theturntjew, is just one of many Instagram meme page creators who have become popular for posting memes featuring relatable jokes about...

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