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SMOKE: In Santa Rosa, in Northern California, 2,834 homes burned in devastating October fires. Schools were closed for three weeks, students fell behind in their APs, and college plans were changed. Above, a hopeful sign in downtown Santa Rosa.

College applications and SATs take a back seat for disaster victims

By Lucy Fried, Features Editor • October 31, 2017

For 12th-grade students, the impending college or gap year experience can consume one’s mind, and becomes the theme of every conversation. But for students affected by recent natural disasters, the...

NEW: The Storm, of Katz Yeshiva High School in Boca Raton, Fla., is one of four new boys teams playing in the Glouberman tournament this year. Shalhevets teams say they are in a rebuilding season after high-scoring players graduated last year, but Coach Ryan Coleman thinks they have a chance to do well, especially with the new girls Coach Jeff Remer. The tournament runs Wednesday, Nov. 8 through Sunday, Nov. 14.

PREVIEW: Glouberman tournament adding three more teams and one more day

By Tobey Lee, Sports Editor • October 30, 2017

The third annual Steve Glouberman Tournament is coming up and now has a third day of basketball, which could affect all of Shalhevet. The reason for an additional day is that there are now 12 boys teams...

VIDEO: Students Help in Houston October 2017

October 30, 2017

Mr. Ronald Parker, 65, lost his home for the third time during Hurrican Harvey. So did Rabbi Barry Gelman of United Orthodox Synagogue. They and others, along with the Houston Food Bank received five days...

EYE: Hurricane Irma lingered off Floridas southeast coast longer than expected, confounding predictions that it would head up the east coast and devastate Miami. Instead, it moved west over Cuba and then turned north, heading up the states west coast.

Florida teens say Hurricane Irma was ‘like buckets of water being thrown at our window’

By Kate Orlanski, Staff Writer • October 26, 2017
Sitting alone in hot, dark houses with boarded up windows, amidst whirring generators, crackling radios and flickering battery powered lamps, thousands of Floridians waited restlessly for the historic Hurricane Irma to strike.  
PEP TALK: Volleyball coach Ms. Marla Weiss offers pointers to her players during a game against Ambassador High School in the gym Oct. 17.

New coach brings schemes, positions and long hours to volleyball team

By Nicholas Fields, Staff Writer • October 25, 2017
New girls volleyball coach Mrs. Marla Weiss has changed pretty much everything about Shalhevet’s volleyball team.  
UNITY: Members of the NFL Jacksonville Jaguars locked arms as one player knelt during the National Anthem before their game against the Baltimore Ravens Sept. 24.

COLUMN: To kneel or not to kneel: that is not the question

By Clara Sandler, Community Editor • October 22, 2017
Around the NFL, players are kneeling during the National Anthem to protest our president and racial discrimination around the United States. Players and owners are uniting to stand up for what they believe, and I support them.
CHEMICALS: Freshmen in Dr. Basheers biology classes began their lab by adding murky, brown artificial vomit to test tubes. Soon, they added other substances to form a solution that would turn the liquid other colors, depending on whether it was a carb, protein, or lipid.

Whodunnit? Biology class analyzes ‘artificial vomit’ to solve murder mystery

By Molly Litvak, Staff Writer • October 19, 2017
Holding the test tube as far away as possible, freshman Evy Rosenkranz crossed the classroom hoping that the chunky, brown and smelly mixture wouldn't spill.
SUCCESS: The 2016 film class won an award for its film Lost Angeles, about poverty in LA.

Class documentary on housing crisis selected for national film festival

By Hannah Jannol, Editor-in-Chief • October 16, 2017
Lost Angeles: A city without a home, the 14-minute documentary produced by  Ms. Michelle Crincoli's and Mr. William Reusch's film and government classes of 2015-16, has been selected to be shown at the All American High School Film Festival this month in New York City.
Slumbering in the sukkah?

Slumbering in the sukkah?

By Alex Rubel, Staff Writer • October 11, 2017

The Gemara in Masechet Sukkah (Sukkah 28b) explains that the requirement to dwell in the sukkah during Sukkot is to make it a temporary home, which includes performing all activities that are normally...

LIGHT: College counselor Lisa Gruenbaum offers advice in her airy new office on the third floor, behind the stairwell where the Student Activities office used to be.

On the move: New titles, offices for administrators

By Tobey Lee, Sports Editor • October 10, 2017
Over the summer, there were 10 office changes, two title changes and a whole lot of switching suites and floors among the people who run Shalhevet’s various departments.  So here is a rundown, organized by floor, of who’s where and who’s what.
Hard conversations are easier if you go in prepared

Hard conversations are easier if you go in prepared

By Aidel Townsley, Opinion Editor • October 9, 2017

Everyone has those moments when they are completely stumped for words.  You know them – those times when you need to express yourself and simply fumble, or say what you do not mean to say, or freeze,...

VIDEO: Sukkot 5778

By Gilad Spitzer, Deputy Web Editor and Evan Rubel, Staff Writer • October 9, 2017
"We take our lives and we put them in the sukkah.  We play cards, we socialize, we have meals in the sukkah, and it truly reminds us of what was going on in the Biblical times...."
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