By Rachel Lasry, Staff Writer
• September 26, 2019
While Rosh HaShanah is mainly known as the Jewish new year, its true origin is often overlooked, which is the commemoration of Creation, and essentially the birthday of Adam and Chava. A short period after...
Soaked from knee to toe, 40 people stood outside a shiva home on Poinsettia Place Aug. 23 to take a stand against get refusal.
Inside, a man who has refused to give his wife a valid get, or religious...
Shalhevet has never had an official uniform, but girls at Shalhevet have a sort of pseudo-uniform, one made up of a pencil skirt and a sweatshirt. It complies with the school dress code and is an easy...
By Clara Sandler, Co-Editor-in-Chief
• June 12, 2019
The morning I flew to Israel, I woke up at 6:20 am even though my alarm was not supposed to go off until 7:15. The anticipation boiled through me as I finally was going to the country I had heard and learned...
From the start of the school year all the way until the end, every weekday at 7.a.m., three students met with Rabbi Abraham Lieberman to explore a piece of Gemara they might otherwise never have learned.
The...
Freshman Victory Fuchs sat anxiously in her seat as she waited to be called up to the stage in front of the whole school last month for the Purim Talent Show.
She’s been studying singing for five...
Walt Disney once said, “Our greatest natural resource is the minds of children.” But perhaps you are thinking that at your Passover Seder, the younger children are somewhat of a nuisance -- the...
On a typical Shabbat morning in a typical synagogue in Los Angeles, dozens of small children are chatting and giggling, playing with toys and drinking apple juice. They stop to sing a teenage-led Shacharit,...
By Joshua H. Glettner, 10th grade
Imagine you have a perfect system for completing all your work and always studying exactly enough to succeed. But what if you fail a test, and the system seems not...
In a sense, we are evaluating the potential of the tree on this first day of its new year, while reflecting on its previous year, and can likewise be evaluating our own past and potential improvement in the future.
For most Shalhevet students, belief in God is a given, and after they’ve been here for a while, they are likely to believe in God even more.
That’s what an anonymous paper poll of 104 students,...
By Clara Sandler, Co-Editor-In-Chief
• October 24, 2018
For most people who learn how to chant from a Torah scroll, it’s a skill to use for their bar or bat mitzvah -- something they either will never do it again or do only when that same parsha comes around...
