When reading the Talmud it is easy to notice that the book opens with daph bet, or page two. But rather than a typographical decision, teachers at Shalhevet and elsewhere believe that there is a deeper meaning that can be gained.

By Sharon Khalil, 11th grade Recently in my Tanach class with Rabbi...

Zev Kupferman Mini-mesters have been an institution at Shalhevet for four years now, designed...

Enter a Shalhevet Judaic studies class at any given moment and you may hear the term “learning lishma”...

Shalhevet welcomed its first-ever Sephardic Torah on Feb. 15, Rosh Chodesh Adar.  After a schoolwide...

Among the five Megillot and the five books of Moses, the story of Esther transcends in complexity and...

“The mishnah of Rosh Hashanah says that Tu B’shevat is really a technical day, the day that marks...

By Rachel Lasry, Staff Writer In this week’s parsha, Parshat Bo, Pharaoh agrees to release the Israelites...

At a recent Shalhevet Institute event, the moderator said she had never received a good explanation of tzniut, or modesty. “It was women's job to stop men's impulses -- I haven’t heard anything else,” said Ms. Julie Fax, the mother of sophomore Neima Fax a former senior writer at the Jewish Journal, who grew up attending Orthodox schools in Los Angeles.

Shalhevet welcomed about 260 new siddurim to the school last month.  After at least 15 years of using Artscroll prayerbooks, the Judaics Studies faculty decided the new Koren siddur would be a better fit, and bought paperback copies of the Koren Sacks Weekday Siddur, Lobel Edition.

Students are opting for extra Torah study this year with three new programs outside of school hours this...

At 7:10 a.m. Sept. 12, there was a new sound heard at Shalhevet -- the music of a Sephardic minyan. Every...