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COLUMN: Sleepless nights and random tears

COLUMN: Sleepless nights and random tears

By Temma Kirshbaum, Staff Columnist
October 23, 2023

Over the past week, I have found myself struggling to put emotions into words. Trying to find logic in a situation where you cannot...

Let our rabbis spread the light

Let our rabbis spread the light

By Arieh Elad, 9th Grade
June 9, 2023

A not unfamiliar sight during tefillah, prayer, at Shalhevet is the student gazing off into the distance, sometimes mouthing the...

Students say they are using ChatGPT primarily for convenience, but AIs true capabilities tell a different story.

EDITORIAL: ChatGPT – Beware the price of convenience

“Write me a five-paragraph scholarly essay on the American Revolution.” “Summarize Act 3 Scene 2 in Romeo and Juliet.” “Solve...

GREEN: A field at the edges of Auschwitz is surrounded by barbed-wire fencing. The class of 2023 is visiting Israel and Poland this week, and saw Auschwitz on Sunday.

SENIORS IN POLAND: Colors of death

By Jack Metzger, Staff Writer
May 16, 2023

Poland. The beautiful, awful country. A country that has both life and death. Poland, a country of green grounds scattered with...

The Jewish Journals story on the Shalhevet-Buena Park game had consequences that made matters worse.

EDITORIAL: When journalism goes wrong

“Antisemitic Incident Reported at Shalhevet Girls Basketball Game” was the headline attached to an article published by the...

CREATIVITY: For Zoe, wearing thrift-shopped clothes showcases her authentic self.

COLUMN: Whose story is your outfit?

By Zoe Ritz, Staff Columnist
February 22, 2023

Over the last four years, I’ve mastered the art of second-hand shopping. As a fashion lover, learning that clothing production...

CREATIVITY: For Zoe, wearing thrift-shopped clothes showcases her authentic self.

COLUMN: Failure face

By Zoe Ritz, Staff Columnist
December 8, 2022

I am a dancer. I have been dancing for most of my life, for the purpose of expression through my body.   It is something I love...

TALK: Representatives of the C-T Watch security company address a 90-minute Town Hall Sept. 21 in the gym.

EDITORIAL: Disaster drills save lives. We need them here.

  In the last few decades, school shootings have become an incessant problem facing high schools across America....

JOY: “The best feeling of all, though, is watching the Dodgers win while sprinting out of the stadium to beat traffic, hearing “I Love LA.”

MY LIFE IN A SONG: Sound of a stadium

By Olivia Fishman, Arts and Culture Editor
August 4, 2022

There is a certain exhilaration that accompanies my trips to Dodger Stadium, and I have felt the same excitement since I was a...

Senior Josh Weissman says everyone should take computer science.

OPINION: Whoever you are, Shalhevet’s Comp. Sci. classes are for you

By Joshua Weissman , 12th Grade
June 13, 2022

Though history buffs and playwrights often overlook classes in computer science, every Shalhevet student would benefit from a...

Senior Anya Mendelson ponders the college admissions process.

WHAT I KNOW NOW: Absurdity vs. reality

By Anya Mendelson, Staff Columnist
May 24, 2022

I recently learned that absurdity can be met with absurdity. Absurdity is, by its nature, irrational and therefore often meets...

REFLECT: Junior Molly Menashe reacts to Confederate monuments she saw on the Gettysburg battlefield following Dr. Harris’s SAS Civil War trip.

A symbol that can’t be separated from its history

By Molly Menashe, 11th grade
May 11, 2022

“Heritage not hate.” That expression glared at me from a shelved mug in a Gettysburg souvenir shop, in an image that will...

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