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UNITE: Lord Rabbi Jonathan Sacks tells students to start focusing on the positives in Jewish life.  He spoke at an L.A. synagogue and school on Feb. 20.

A chosen people, but chosen for what? Rabbi Sacks answers

By Anna Gordon, Staff Writer March 6, 2014

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...

SPARKS:  Sophomore Micah Gill, founder and editor of Nitzotzei Torah, hands out copies to juniors Jillian Einalhori and Shana Chriki Feb. 21.

Hand-delivered, ‘Nitzotzei’ offers a weekly look at the parsha produced by students

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...

FRESH: Sophomores Jacob Dauer and Eric Bazak cook waffles during breakfast.

For ‘Bo’s Bar’ and ‘Will’s Waffles,’ road to expansion follows halachic path

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...

MODERN: SAR High School in Riverdale, New York (above), has decided to allow girls to wear tefillin and tallit at Shacharit in an all-girls tefilah group. Two girls so far are doing so.

Modern Orthodox high school in New York decides girls can wrap tefillin

By Noah Rothman, Staff Writer January 16, 2014

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,...

INSPIRING: Rabbi Meir Soloveitchik engaged students with smiles Dec. 12.

Rabbi Meir Soloveitchik emphasizes Begin’s legacy of nationalism in Beit Midrash talk

By Eric Bazak, Staff Writer January 13, 2014

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...

Ethics on the table at JSPA gathering

Ethics on the table at JSPA gathering

November 21, 2013

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...

Boys lead Mishmar on their own

Boys lead Mishmar on their own

By Eric Bazak, Staff Writer November 19, 2013

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...

BOYS: Freshmen Zev Kent, Ezra Fax and Isaac Goor put on their tefillin at Shacharit.

Mother and daughter who sparked tefillin debate respond to Rabbi Segal’s decision

By Noah Rothman, Staff Writer November 17, 2013

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...

Some variety in how Modern Orthodox schools see tefillin issue

Some variety in how Modern Orthodox schools see tefillin issue

By Noah Rothman, Torah Editor November 16, 2013

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...

CONTROVERSY: Freshman Zev Kent expresses opinion at Town Hall Oct. 31.

Girls will not wear tefillin at Shalhevet, Rabbi Segal decides

By Noah Rothman, Staff Writer November 16, 2013

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...

Complete text of Rabbi Segal’s decision regarding girls wearing tefillin at Shalhevet

November 16, 2013

Dear Shalhevet Community:The debate and discussion generated surrounding the issue of a woman putting on tefillin at Shalhevet...

EVIDENCE: Junior Mati Hurwitz opened the debate with things he learned in Judaic Studies classes.

Lively Town Hall debate explores whether girls should be allowed to wear tefillin at school

By Noah Rothman, Staff Writer November 16, 2013

Should Shalhevet allow women to wrap tefillin and wear tallit during Shacharit? This question began floating around Shalhevet on Oct. 25, when Rabbi Ari Segal, Head of School, put it into his weekly...

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