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FAREWELL: School founder Dr. Jerry Friedman spoke at graduation in the new building took place in the gym June 5.  Percentage of graduates going to Israel for gap year has been rising.

60 percent of seniors will head to Israel, most to yeshiva, seminary

By Clara Sandler, Staff Writer June 15, 2016
More than 60 percent of the 2016 graduating class will spend next year in Israel, continuing a steady upward trend, according to principal and boys’ Israel adviser Reb Noam Weissman.
ADJUSTMENT: Rabbi David Stein, teaching his 11th-grade Gemara class, is co-author with Reb Weissman of Shalhevets acclaimed Lahav Talmud curriculum. “Maybe we need to spend more time paying attention to halacha l’maaseh,” he said.

Girl leading Kiddush was a mistake, school says

By Alec Fields, Torah Editor May 10, 2016

A Shabbat eve mistake by students and staff led to a girl’s saying Kiddush on last fall’s Princeton Model Congress trip, causing the administration to clarify how their highly lauded Lahav Talmud...

HISTORY: From top, freshman Abby Blumofe and alumna Sara Smith 04 read from Megillat Esther.

Purim marks first women’s Megillah reading at school in six years

May 1, 2016

By Clara Sandler, Staff Writer Women have been playing an important role in the story of Purim since Vashti and Queen Esther, so it seemed fitting when 45 women gathered to hear an all-female reading...

OPEN: Dr. Amit served coffee to students in an open sided tent on the rooftop turf during his two-week residency in February.

Scholar says ‘kol isha’ rules should never have existed

By Eric Bazak, Editor-in-Chief April 24, 2016

Talmud professor Dr. Aharon Amit was not allowed to attend his daughter’s third birthday party. Worried that female teachers would sing “Happy Birthday”, the Haredi ethos of his community...

SIMILIARITIES: Students at the Rae Kuskner Yeshiva High School in New Jersey all pray together in one minyan.

Across nation, various ways to spiritualize davening

By Alec Fields, Torah Editor February 25, 2016
It might have been unusual to open a student-led discussion about davening options at Shalhevet’s Just Community meetings last fall, but the wide range of choices that came out of it is not unusual at all in Modern Orthodox high schools.
SYMBOLIC: Metal panels in a pomegranate pattern bring the mechitzot to the proper halachic height.

Taller, kosher mechitzot bring Israeli artistry to school

By Jacob Perelman, Staff Writer February 16, 2016
New mechitzot for the building were finally completed Dec. 15, with laser-cut metal panels in a pomegranate design across the top to make them both halachically permissible and artistic.
HAPPY: A column on the second floor displayed a message from Project Simcha in December.

Project Simcha brightens students’ days one poster at a time

By Zev Frankel, Staff Writer February 9, 2016
"Wow these are adorable! "called out junior Sarah Yadagari, spotting some new flyers hanging in the second-floor hallway opposite the lockers Nov. 11.
Screenshot of the LaHav logo

RCA decision on women brings Lahav to real life

By Zev Kent, Sports Editor February 5, 2016

Just days after the Rabbinical Council of America passed a new Policy Concerning Women Rabbis, Shalhevet’s Lahav Talmud curriculum was put to the test as 11th grade students gave their own halachic opinions...

TRANSITION: Former student holds onto religion while changing from female to male

TRANSITION: Former student holds onto religion while changing from female to male

By Hannah Jannol, Staff Writer January 28, 2016
Imagine waking up every morning and putting on clothes of the opposite sex. Imagine putting on a dress, or a suit and tie, and then going to work or school and being called a name of the wrong gender, and then being referred to with the wrong pronouns. Then imagine realizing you’re just in the wrong body for the gender you know you are. This is how transgender Shalhevet alumnus Benjamin Kenner explains being transgender.

For transgender, halacha ventures into unknown — or does it?

January 27, 2016
Modern Orthodoxy has been considering the topic of gay and lesbian Jews for a while, but transgender Jews present a challenge which is just beginning to be explored.
Off-CAMPUS:The egalitarian minyan of Temple Beth Am, above, is the only off-campus venue which students may skip school to attend so far. But Rabbi Segal said he would consider other alternatives.

School upholds promise as two girls daven off campus

By Alec Fields, Torah Editor November 29, 2015
Three days a week before school, freshman Noa Kligfeld prays and puts on tefillin at the morning minyan in Pilch Hall of Temple Beth Am. Most days her friend Hannah Friedman, also a freshman, goes with her.
DANCE: Students celebrate with new Torah donated by Stacey Kent (center) and family after watching scribe Ronnie Siegar pen the last three words.

School gathers to celebrate newly completed Torah

By Nicole Soussana, Staff Writer November 21, 2015
Shalhevet celebrated its first-ever Hachnasat Sefer Torah Oct. 29, with lively dancing and singing in the gym to welcome a newly completed scroll donated by the family of freshman Eytan and junior Zev Kent.
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