60 percent of seniors will head to Israel, most to yeshiva, seminary
Clara Sandler, Staff Writer
June 15, 2016
More than 60 percent of the 2016 graduating class will spend next year in Israel, continuing a steady upward trend, according to principal and boys’ Israel adviser Reb Noam Weissman.
Girl leading Kiddush was a mistake, school says
Alec Fields, Torah Editor
May 10, 2016
A Shabbat eve mistake by students and staff led to a girl’s saying Kiddush on last fall’s Princeton Model Congress trip, causing the administration to clarify how their highly lauded Lahav Talmud curriculum should be applied to daily halachic life. As reported in a story reported in print edition...
Purim marks first women’s Megillah reading at school in six years
May 1, 2016
By Clara Sandler, Staff Writer Women have been playing an important role in the story of Purim since Vashti and Queen Esther, so it seemed fitting when 45 women gathered to hear an all-female reading of Megillat Esther on Purim morning, March 24, organized by Judaic Studies teacher Mrs. Atara Segal. Held...
Scholar says ‘kol isha’ rules should never have existed
Eric Bazak, Editor-in-Chief
April 24, 2016
Talmud professor Dr. Aharon Amit was not allowed to attend his daughter’s third birthday party. Worried that female teachers would sing “Happy Birthday”, the Haredi ethos of his community barred his presence, citing the halachic principle known as kol b’isha erva. Tran...
Across nation, various ways to spiritualize davening
Alec Fields, Torah Editor
February 25, 2016
It might have been unusual to open a student-led discussion about davening options at Shalhevet’s Just Community meetings last fall, but the wide range of choices that came out of it is not unusual at all in Modern Orthodox high schools.
Taller, kosher mechitzot bring Israeli artistry to school
Jacob Perelman, Staff Writer
February 16, 2016
New mechitzot for the building were finally completed Dec. 15, with laser-cut metal panels in a pomegranate design across the top to make them both halachically permissible and artistic.
Project Simcha brightens students’ days one poster at a time
Zev Frankel, Staff Writer
February 9, 2016
"Wow these are adorable! "called out junior Sarah Yadagari, spotting some new flyers hanging in the second-floor hallway opposite the lockers Nov. 11.
RCA decision on women brings Lahav to real life
Zev Kent, Sports Editor
February 5, 2016
Just days after the Rabbinical Council of America passed a new Policy Concerning Women Rabbis, Shalhevet’s Lahav Talmud curriculum was put to the test as 11th grade students gave their own halachic opinions regarding women in rabbinic positions. On Oct. 30, the RCA announced that women would not ...
TRANSITION: Former student holds onto religion while changing from female to male
Hannah Jannol, Staff Writer
January 28, 2016
Imagine waking up every morning and putting on clothes of the opposite sex. Imagine putting on a dress, or a suit and tie, and then going to work or school and being called a name of the wrong gender, and then being referred to with the wrong pronouns. Then imagine realizing you’re just in the wrong body for the gender you know you are. This is how transgender Shalhevet alumnus Benjamin Kenner explains being transgender.
For transgender, halacha ventures into unknown — or does it?
January 27, 2016
Modern Orthodoxy has been considering the topic of gay and lesbian Jews for a while, but transgender Jews present a challenge which is just beginning to be explored.
School upholds promise as two girls daven off campus
Alec Fields, Torah Editor
November 29, 2015
Three days a week before school, freshman Noa Kligfeld prays and puts on tefillin at the morning minyan in Pilch Hall of Temple Beth Am. Most days her friend Hannah Friedman, also a freshman, goes with her.
School gathers to celebrate newly completed Torah
Nicole Soussana, Staff Writer
November 21, 2015
Shalhevet celebrated its first-ever Hachnasat Sefer Torah Oct. 29, with lively dancing and singing in the gym to welcome a newly completed scroll donated by the family of freshman Eytan and junior Zev Kent.
For COVID-19 nurses on opposite sides of the world, keeping families away is the hardest part
June 28, 2020
George Floyd protests, both peaceful and violent, reach Shalhevet neighborhoods
June 4, 2020
AIPAC cancels 2021 national policy conference
June 4, 2020
June 3, 2020
In annual spring One-Acts, pandemic reshapes the platform — and some of the plots
May 28, 2020
Students feel heard as school reshapes academic policies for COVID
May 22, 2020