By Hannah Jannol, Editor-in-Chief
• February 28, 2018
Among the five Megillot and the five books of Moses, the story of Esther transcends in complexity and uniqueness. Most women in Chumash and the Scrolls serve as obedient accompaniment to male protagonists....
“The mishnah of Rosh Hashanah says that Tu B’shevat is really a technical day, the day that marks the new year for trees,” Rabbi David Block told about 25 students and faculty on the roof Jan....
By Rachel Lasry, Staff Writer
In this week’s parsha, Parshat Bo, Pharaoh agrees to release the Israelites after God begins the plagues against his nation. God realizes that Pharoah has agreed to this...
By Hannah Jannol, Editor-in-Chief
• January 15, 2018
At a recent Shalhevet Institute event, the moderator said she had never received a good explanation of tzniut, or modesty.
“It was women's job to stop men's impulses -- I haven’t heard anything else,” said Ms. Julie Fax, the mother of sophomore Neima Fax a former senior writer at the Jewish Journal, who grew up attending Orthodox schools in Los Angeles.
Shalhevet welcomed about 260 new siddurim to the school last month. After at least 15 years of using Artscroll prayerbooks, the Judaics Studies faculty decided the new Koren siddur would be a better fit, and bought paperback copies of the Koren Sacks Weekday Siddur, Lobel Edition.
By Clara Sandler, Community editor
• November 20, 2017
Students are opting for extra Torah study this year with three new programs outside of school hours this year: early morning learning with Rabbi Lieberman, a Sunday morning parent- child learning program...
At 7:10 a.m. Sept. 12, there was a new sound heard at Shalhevet -- the music of a Sephardic minyan.
Every school day since then, about seven girls and 15 boys have met in the small Beit Midrash in Room...
By Ilan Bouskila, 12th Grade
Early on in Parshat Lech Lecha, we encounter a very disturbing episode that hits especially hard, given what’s been circulating the news about Harvey...
The Gemara in Masechet Sukkah (Sukkah 28b) explains that the requirement to dwell in the sukkah during Sukkot is to make it a temporary home, which includes performing all activities that are normally...
Yom Kippur is the holiest day of the Jewish year. It is a day for repentance, atonement, forgiveness. But something has always bothered me about that, and today I know why.
Each year, in the weeks leading...
By Sadie Toczek, Lifestyle Editor
• September 28, 2017
Entering my fourth time fasting fully on Yom Kippur, and knowing that I'm always nervous and overwhelmed by it, I've made a list of helpful do’s and dont’s based on experience, advice and my own research...
The beginning of the New Year is an opportunity to wipe the slate clean and start again. Aware of life’s complexities and that no year is ever going to be perfect, Jewish tradition offers us the opportunity to begin anew, with the hope that any negativity from our past will be wiped away, and that we will hopefully avoid all potential negativity in the coming year.
