UPDATED Nov. 24 -- At a meeting that lasted less than an hour, school officials decided Sunday to cancel yesterday’s scheduled reopening of on-campus Judaic Studies classes because of a sudden steep spike in local cases of Covid-19. The decision, made by administration and the school’s Medical Task Force, was a last-minute reversal after 10 days of emails about returning to school, and the...

Competing this year over Zoom, Shalhevet’s debaters won three honorable mentions at the two-day Princeton Model Congress conference last Friday and Saturday, in spite of missing the entire second day due to Shabbat.  Senior Samson Taxon, senior Rena Harkahm, and sophomore Keira Beller won honorable mentions in their respective committees -- Samson in Small Business and Entrepreneurship, Rena...

Does character matter in a leader?  At a Town Hall on Oct. 13, a majority of students said they thought that a candidate’s policies should outweigh his or her character when deciding who to vote for in a presidential election. But many thought character and leadership should go hand-in-hand, and others thought that character was a main factor.  And some thought that character did...

Just a few months after some George Floyd demonstrations turned violent last June, stores and businesses in Shalhevet neighborhoods boarded up their stores Nov. 2 in preparation for the possibility of post-election day unrest.  In Pico-Robertson, restaurants and pharmacies took precautions, while in Beverly Hills it was mostly stores and jewelers.  Rouha Sadighi, the owner of the Rooster...