“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of...
This year at Shalhevet, we celebrated the various yoms -- the holiday days -- of the Omer appropriately.
On Yom Hashoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, juniors and seniors broke into small tour groups...
The seven weeks between Pesach and Shavuot, known as the period of the Omer, are filled with additional halachot (laws). We put ourselves into mourning as we commemorate the losses of many Jews over the...
In Parshas Balak, we see Bilaam initially team up with Balak in order to oppose Bnei Yisrael and curse them. Bnei Yisrael became a threat after they demolished the Emori at the end of Parshas Chukas, causing...
According to Judaic Studies teacher Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz, all the kosher restaurants on Pico Boulevard have been invited to apply for the new Tav HaYosher,* or ethical seal, proving that they treat...
By Rebecca Mandel, Arts & Entertainment Editor
• April 18, 2012
In other Modern Orthodox schools, there is a lack of consensus on the interpretation of kol isha. But in every case, the policy has been arrived at deliberately and with halachic support.
SAR High School...
By Rebecca Mandel, Arts & Entertainment Editor
• April 18, 2012
The Megillah reading was over, and in the Bet Midrash a party and talent show were in full swing.
Suddenly the room was quiet, as a girl in a lace dress Purim costume bared her soul to students, faculty,...
By Ari Feuer, Deputy Editor-In-Chief
• March 17, 2012
Britain's chief rabbi, Lord Jonathan Sacks, addressed about 320 students and faculty of local Jewish schools at Harkham Hebrew Academy Feb. 23 and said Modern Orthodoxy needed to become stronger to exert...
It was Tuesday, Feb. 21, and Rabbi Ari Schwarzberg was telling a room full of seniors and faculty that their spring coursework had been created with the intention of “giving the knowledge and...
It was Tuesday, Feb. 21, and Rabbi Ari Schwarzberg was telling a room full of seniors and faculty that their spring coursework had been created with the intention of “giving the knowledge and information...
In a packed Beit Midrash, three prominent area rabbis shared their views Dec. 2 on a variety of topics, disagreeing on whether women should carry the Torah scrolls and how many days of yom tov to keep...
As the aroma of chulent fills the Shalhevet hallways each Friday afternoon, around 20 students and staff gather to eat, talk, sing zemirot and pound the table in this year’s louder-than-ever version...
