It’s been three-and-a-half years since I was screaming and crying at LAX’s Tom Bradley International Terminal. I threw the most outrageous tantrum ever—and I had no shame. I probably looked and sounded like a spoiled little brat. I remember going through security (though I tried to resist), and a TSA employee said to my face: “Who do you think you are, Lindsay Lohan?”...

As the aroma of chulent fills the Shalhevet hallways each Friday afternoon, around 20 students and staff gather to eat, talk, sing zemirot and pound the table in this year’s louder-than-ever version of pre-Shabbat ruach, or spirit. In the conference room nearest the foyer, the raucous group lunch -- more commonly referred to by its English-language initials, “PSR”--...

Here are the winners: Gavels for Best Delegate in Committee: Sarah Soroudi, sophomore, Foreign Relations Justin Brandt-Sarif, Senior, Judiciary Daniel Schwartz, junior, Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Jacob Ellenhorn, junior, Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Honorable mention in committee; Sigal Spitzer, freshman, Appropriations Ariella Joffe, senior, Foreign...

At least in mixed minyans, nine other Modern Orthodox high schools hand the Torah scrolls to either nobody or just the boys It’s no secret that the topic of women carrying the Torah has been in heated discussion since the beginning of the school year. But Shalhevet students might be the only ones who care. A Boiling Point survey of nine other Modern Orthodox or Ortho...