When B’nai David-Judea Congregation on Pico Boulevard appointed its first-ever kehilla intern last fall, the congregation received her with open arms.
Alissa Thomas-Newborn, a fourth-year student in...
The Boiling Point interviewed Rabbi Avi Shafran, Director of Public Affairs and spokesman for Agudath Israel of America, to learn why some factions of Orthodox Judaism do not support women holding clergy...
Rabbi Jason Weiner joined the Shalhevet teaching staff at the beginning of the second quarter, signaling the most recent shift in the Shalhevet community caused by Mr. Christopher Buckley’s resignation...
The biggest minyan at school this year isn’t the Main Minyan or the Explanatory Minyan or even the popular Hashkama minyan, which starts before school and gives participants a free period before breakfast...
It’s 9:00 am at Shalhevet and juniors and seniors who’ve grabbed breakfast from the JCC kitchen are trickling in one by one to Berch B for the Advanced Gemara Shiur, or AGS.
The mood is cheerful...
By Anna Gordon, Staff Writer
No one had to be there, and there were no grades. Everyone on the program wanted to learn.
There were 20 students on the Dr. Beth Sammuels Drisha Summer High School program,...
On the day before Erev Rosh Hashanah, junior Noah Rothman was invited downstairs to the JCC's Early Childhood Center to blow the shofar for the preschoolers there. Rosh Hashanah begins Wednesday night, Sept. 24, and school will resume Monday morning, Sept. 29.
From its earliest days, the state of Israel has operated with the spirit of Jewish ethics in mind. But what about Jewish law? Is halacha even appropriate to defend military actions? Can Jewish law...
It was a Thursday afternoon, and six Shalhevet students traveled to Las Vegas to protest a Jewish wedding.
Israel Meir Kin of Las Vegas was getting married, for a second time. But this time, he was...
UPDATED: The following article appeared in the March print paper in an abridged form. The final three questions below did not appear in the print edition.
Rabbi David Bigman, Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivat...
At the close of a Town Hall devoted to davening behavior and food cleanup issues, Head of School Rabbi Ari Segal turned the running of Mincha over to students instead of the Judaic Studies staff Feb. 6...
