Shalhevet Dean of Students Rabbi Ari Schwarzberg thinks that it will be especially difficult to connect to God during the High Holidays this year. “There is a certain mood and certain energy that happens in shul, where if you walk in and you are not prepared, you can go from a five to a 10 pretty quickly,” said Rabbi Schwarzberg.   This year, no one will be going to shul -- at least...

Summer is ending. School, in its strange configuration, is revving up. And even in this pandemic year, Jews everywhere are getting ready for Rosh Hashanah, and trying to think about the year that’s passed and the year to come. Even though there are fewer distractions, and perhaps more anxiety, than in other years, even this year -- maybe especially this year -- it’s a hard transition. Enter...

When Town Hall convenes tomorrow morning, it will be the second time this year. But the first time wasn’t last Tuesday. It was the Tuesday before. This fall, for the first time in school history, Town Hall has been scheduled to take place every other week instead of weekly. Until now, since the school’s founding in 1993, Town Hall had been a weekly event. But over the summer, Agenda Committee...

When Nathan Benyowitz saw pictures of an arson attack burning the Chabad Jewish Center serving the University of Delaware, he realized he had a platform to take a stand against hate.  Nathan, who graduated from Shalhevet in 2017,  is now a senior at the university in Newark, Del., where he plays Division 1 tennis for the Blue Hens.  Although the fire is under investigation and...