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...
Chuckles spread among the 11th and 12th grade students in the Beit Midrash Thursday as Richard Joel, the President of Yeshiva University, imitated former President George Bush’s Texas accent, recalling...
By Leila Miller, Editor-in-Chief
• December 22, 2011
Their voices rolling with a North African lilt, students in the two-month old Sephardic minyan sing to a different melody than Shalhevet’s two Ashkenazic minyans.
For the first time since about 2001,...
To give or not to give? This question has been around for generations and has haunted me every time December rolls around. Should we give and receive presents on Hanukkah? Isn’t it just a response to...
In a packed Beit Midrash, three prominent rabbis in the community answered questions Wednesday afternoon on a variety of topics such as women carrying the Torah, how many days of Yom Tov to keep, and...
A chicken for your sins?
The pre-Yom Kippur ritual of kaparot involves waving a chicken above one's head three times while reciting Hebrew words saying you are transferring your sins to it. It is...
For the first time since 2001, a minyan following Sephardic practice met Thursday, Nov., 3, using the lunch room across from the cafeteria.
Divided by a mechitza taken from the Beit Midrash, 26 boys...
It’s Thursday, Sept. 22, and Reb’ Noam Weissman, two seniors and eight freshman are shteiging away – that is, learning with an eye toward spiritual growth – in the Beit Midrash, deep in study...
By Rachel Lester, Managing Editor
• November 3, 2011
At least in mixed minyans, nine other Modern Orthodox high schools hand the Torah scrolls to either nobody or just the boys
It’s no secret that the topic of women carrying the Torah has been in heated...
By Rachel Lester, Managing Editor
• November 3, 2011
‘All those who are impure, even niddot, arepermitted to hold a Torah scroll and to read from it, for the words of Torah are not susceptible totum’ah (impurity). This is provided that his hands are...
On a sunny Friday afternoon, sophomore Yarden Harel was standing on the Sport Court holding a chicken upside-down, moving it in circles over his head, and reading what seemed to be an incantation:
“Zeh...
With Rosh Hashanah and Simchat Torah, we marked the beginning of both the new year and the start of the Torah once again. In the very beginning of Bereshit we see wine has a special role to play – starting...
