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...
Jews were not chosen because they are superior to other nations, but rather because God wanted to show the world the dignity of difference, Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks said during a visit to Los Angeles...
By Sigal Spitzer, Opinion Editor
• February 26, 2014
Every Friday during breakfast, students hustle to the front door of the school and surround sophomore Micah Gill, who is handing out cream-colored sheets of paper. It’s the weekly installment of Nitzotzei...
Both Will’s Waffle Works and Bo’s Barista Bar recently resolved issues regarding Jewish Law, which arose in the process of enlarging their businesses and provided hands-on experience with halacha.
Bo’s...
SAR High School in Riverdale, New York, is now allowing girls to wrap tefillin during Shacharit, apparently becoming the first Modern Orthodox high school in the U.S. to do so.
Rabbi Tully Harcsztark,...
Rabbi Meir Soloveitchik, one of today’s most prominent American Modern Orthodox rabbis, came to Shalhevet last month with the objective not of talking about his own life, but of Menachem Begin’s.
In...
By Anna Gordon, Staff Writer
Any journalist will tell you that exposing the wrongdoings of others is part of the job. Yet the Torah specifically commands us not to speak lashon hara (evil speech) about...
On Thursdays, if the Beit Midrash is packed with boys sitting around a table and learning a Gemara, assume Mishmar is in session. A long established if somewhat off-and-on school tradition, the afterschool...
Q: What do you and your daughter think of Rabbi Segal’s decision, which would have encouraged your daughter to use tefillin at home but not allowed it at Shalhevet?
A: I think that a lot of thoughts...
Out of six other Modern Orthodox high schools contacted by The Boiling Point, only one has ever allowed women to wrap tefillin at school, and that was 20 years ago. A second wouldn’t say because it...
Three weeks after his initial email raising the question to the Shalhevet community, Rabbi Segal announced Nov. 14 that he would not let female students wrap tefillin and wear tallit at Shacharit, but...
