Rose Bern, Community Editor
November 6, 2012
Red, white and blue streamers lined the ceilings of the Beit Midrash and "Hail to the Chief” blasted through speakers as Town Hall was transformed for a mock presidential debate last Thursday, featuring students playing the roles of everyone from candidates to Secret Service agents.
Seniors Daniel Schwartz and Jacob Ellenhorn, dressed in blue suits and striped ties, played...
Daniel Steinberg, Staff Writer
November 5, 2012
From the mismatched chairs and miscellaneous props strewn across the floor to the dazed ninth-grader waltzing in 20 minutes late, the Wildfire Theater did not appear ready for a play on Thursday, Oct., 11, after school.
But it was only a rehearsal – in fact, the very first line rehearsal of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night,* and there was still plenty of time until the scheduled...
Colleen Bazak, Co-Editor-in-Chief
November 1, 2012
As Anti-American riots spread to over 20 countries in the Middle East and Africa and American flags were burned outside American embassies, at least some Muslim teens in Los Angeles disapproved and were anxious about negative generalizations about Muslims that would result from the chaos.
Some of the uprisings were in reaction to a Youtube video called Innocence of Mus...
October 19, 2012
After several years of not having a Sephardic Rabbi, Shalhevet last week welcomed Rabbi Aharon Assaraf, new leader and go-to guy for the Sephardic minyan...
Colleen Bazak, Co-Editor-in-Chief, and Rose Bern, Community Editor
September 28, 2012
As the Space Shuttle Endeavour glided by the south side of the Shalhevet campus last Friday, about a third of the student body was watching from the parking lot, where they had rushed to see the spectacle during lunch.
The Boeing 747 carrying the shuttle on its back passed by Shalhevet’s campus at 11:54 a.m.. It flew around the Los Angeles area, including Malibu, South...
Mati Hurwitz, Torah Editor
September 9, 2012
Why was only one Shalhevet student -- the author of this article -- at the Daf Yomi Siyum Hashas, held at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion downtown Aug. 1?
Three thousand other L.A. Orthodox Jews were there – including students or rabbis from YULA High School, Maimonides Academy, Beth Jacob Congregation and Young Israel of Century City -- all celebrating the completion by...
By Jacob Ellenhorn and
Colleen Bazak, Co-Editors-in-Chief
September 8, 2012
Shalhevet has signed the initial contracts with Alliance Residential for the southern half of the school property, Rabbi Segal said, and is embarking on what will likely be a multi-year process of either refurbishing what’s left or creating a new building from scratch.
“The sale will allow us to pay off accumulated debt, retire our existing (onerous) mortgage and be i...
September 7, 2012
After a summer of random violence in the U.S. and elsewhere, Shalhevet is getting ready to hold its first-ever lockdown drills this semester, in hopes of making students better prepared and less likely to panic in case of emergency.
Facilities Director Mr. Eli Schiff said the administration had been planning such drills already, but that shootings this summer at the Century...
Colleen Bazak, Co-Editor-In-Chief
September 7, 2012
A new rotating block schedule, with six longer classes a day instead of eight shorter ones, has added more excitement and confusion than usual to the first week of school.
Classes now meet six times in two weeks instead of four times every week, and each class meets for one hour instead of 47 minutes. Lunch is just one minute shorter at 46 minutes, and school is out at 4:20...
Jacob Ellenhorn, Co-Editor-in-Chief
September 1, 2012
By Jacob Ellenhorn, Co-Editor-in-Chief
Shalhevet has found a buyer for the southern half of the school property, officials say, and is embarking on what will likely be a multi-year process of either refurbishing what’s left or creating a new building from scratch.
According to Head of School Rabbi Ari Segal, negotiations are complete to sell everything from the receptio...
September 1, 2012
In the village of Anloga, Ghana, where I stayed for three weeks this summer, when someone dies people gather in the streets and they dance. Some wear red an...
August 4, 2012
By Hannah-Leeba Ellenhorn, Arts Editor
I became a Fanilow on July 4, 2012. I know what you’re going to say. How can I possibly be a Barry Manilow fan? My response: ”Tame thy tongues!” The July 4th concert at the Hollywood Bowl was chock full of L.A.’s finest mixed nuts and everyone, regardless of age, just loved Barry.
My mom, who for years has immer...
