Dr. Julie Higashi, infectious disease expert and Los Angeles County Tuberculosis Controller, encourages teens to get the new bivalent booster that targets two Omicron variants as well as the original virus...

Members of the Shalhevet community are at low-risk for contracting monkeypox, according to infectious disease expert Dr. Julie Higashi, while polio is a more serious challenge – though only for the unvaccinated. Monkeypox...

Senior Maalon Bohbot is delighted with at least part of  the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), signed into law by President Joe Biden on Aug. 18. Among its provisions is a $369 billion to incentivize the...

It seemed natural for Shalhevet sophomore Arielle Gueorguiev to sign up for a program that would connect her with a teenager in Ukraine. Her mother and father are from there, and she needed community service...

Yes, but perhaps not what you’d think. Science Department Chair Mr. Pavel Lieb – originally Russian himself – said he understands people’s anti-Russian sentiments. But citizens of Russia,...

Purim came to Ukraine yesterday as it did to the entire Jewish world, and was observed at Chabad-Lubavitch of Kyiv with a seudah in a building that has also become both a shelter and a storehouse. The...

With students and teachers divided on the subject, Shalhevet’s administration so far does not plan on implementing an ethnic studies course, as state public schools will soon be required to do, saying...

When dozens of countries committed to greatly reduce methane leaks by 2030, Science Department Chair Mr. Pavel Lieb was pleased. Methane, Mr. Lieb said, is a particularly dangerous greenhouse gas, accounting...

After more than three years with no lockdown drills at Shalhevet, Chief Operating Officer Ms. Sarah Emerson says that school officials are in the midst of planning one for this school year.  “It...

Tomorrow, the Los Angeles City Planning Commission is expected to vote on whether to approve a hotel near the intersection of Pico and Robertson boulevards, which its developer says would serve both...

Watching with the rest of America as the Taliban swiftly took over Afghanistan last month were two members of Los Angeles’s Orthodox Jewish community who are currently on active duty in the U.S. Army. Major...

On May 10, six rockets were fired into Israel from Hamas in Gaza. Two were intercepted by Israel’s Iron Dome air defense system, two fell inside the Gaza Strip, and two landed in open fields. In the...