By Jacob Ellenhorn, Co-Editor-in-Chief Walking through Shalhevet during lunch period you are bound to see the same thing at each table: two or three kids eating school lunch, another with some sandwich or cold pizza, and then that one kid with the boring salad they made that morning. That boring salad often includes some roughly chopped green, the occasional onion or tomato,...

The sartorial transition from summer to fall is always a hard one, and especially this year.  With color palettes shifting from neons and pastels to rich burgundys and regal purples, wardrobes will be doing a complete 180. Thankfully, in Los Angeles we can ease into the new fall trends—and into school—by exchanging our summer sundresses for lightweight chiffon skirts,...

Everyone looks forward to those summer days spent lazing around the pool and hanging out with friends that replace the hectic days of the school year.  But let’s face it, after a week of nothing to do, summer’s allure of freedom can quickly fade into boredom. Luckily there are a million of things to do in Los Angeles. A quintessential L.A. thing to do is take a bike...

Of every 27 Ashkenazi Jews, who make up about one half of the Shalhevet community, one is a carrier of the Tay-Sachs gene. If two carriers have a child,...