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Beyond courtesy: Titles raise conundrum for schools and synagogues nationwide

Beyond courtesy: Titles raise conundrum for schools and synagogues nationwide

By Clara Sandler, Community Editor September 12, 2017

When Judaic Studies teacher Ilana Wilner arrived at Shalhevet in fall 2015, it wasn’t clear what she was going to be called. She did not want to be called Morah, or teacher, because that’s what...

Weekly Parsha: From Israel to ninth grade, new titles, new beginnings

September 8, 2017

By Hannah Poltorak, 9th Grade In this week’s Parsha, Ki Tavo, Moshe instructs the Jewish people that once they enter the land of Israel, they are to bring the “first” ripe fruit, or bikkurim, to...

PRESSURE: From left, Rabbi Ari Schwarzberg, Noa Segal, Ilan Bouskila and Yakir Kanefsky are all offspring of rabbis.  Their experiences have been partly the same and partly different.

When you’re the child of a rabbi, who are you?

By Hannah Jannol, Editor-in-Chief September 7, 2017

The already difficult pressures of being a teenager can be even greater when you have to meet the expectations not only of your parents, but of a whole community. Junior Yakir Kanefsky felt this especially...

EARLY: Rabbi Abraham Lieberman held a daily Talmud shiur this year that met at 7 a.m.

Rabbi Abraham Lieberman arrives with experience and ‘gravitas’

By Clara Sandler, Community Editor September 1, 2017
Rabbi Abraham Lieberman loves dark chocolate. He believes he has tasted every available kosher, dark chocolate brand, and enjoys them all, but his favorite is Taza Chocolate, a brand based in Somerville, Mass.
EXPERIENCE: Rabbi Abraham Lieberman has led YULA Girls High School since 2008.

Rabbi Abraham Lieberman, outgoing head of YULA Girls High School, joining Shalhevet faculty next fall

June 17, 2017

Rabbi Abraham Lieberman, who has been the head of YULA Girls High School since 2008, is set to join the Judaic faculty as a full-time as a teacher next fall, Rabbi Segal announced in an email to the Shalhevet...

CHARISMA: Rabbi Segal called Rabba Ramie Smith a rising star in Jewish education.

Ramie Smith, rabba at Hebrew Institute of Riverdale in NY, will join faculty next fall

By Alec Fields, Co-Editor-in-Chief June 16, 2017

Yeshivat Maharat graduate Ramie Smith, who is known as Rabba Smith in her current position at the Hebrew Institute of Riverdale in New York, will be joining the Judaic Studies faculty next fall, Head of...

Torahteinu: Shavuot, which starts May 30 this year, celebrates the Israelites receiving of the Torah on Mt. Sinai.

Shavuot, Ruth and Ms. Rodri

By Nicole Klausner, Ninth Grade May 30, 2017
What does Ruth have to do with Shavuot? We saw part of the answer when 'kindertransport' survivor Michelle Rodri spoke in on Yom Hashoah.
CELEBRATE: Shalhevets senior class joined thousands of Jews gathered at the bottom of Rachov Yafo in front of City Hall in Jerusalem to celebrate Yom Yerushalayim on May 24 at the end of their Poland-Israel Experience.

Moshiach now?

By Eliezer Lasry, 11th Grade May 29, 2017
Fifty years ago, many Jews around the world saw the retaking of Jerusalem by the forces of the State of Israel as a symbol of the coming of Mashiach and the start of the Messianic Era. But the Torah is ambiguous in its depiction of the Messianic Era, and therefore no one is sure of what it will look like. How can we even know if or when Mashiach is here? What does a Messianic Age actually entail?
FLAT: Matzah being mass-produced at the Streits factory in New York.  Passover starts Monday night.  Chag Sameach from the Boiling Point!

Matzah: Crunchy, dry and transforming

April 7, 2017

By Eliezer Lasry, 11th Grade To most Jewish adults, matzah symbolizes the redemption of the Jews from slavery in Egypt. To most Jews a few thousand years ago, matzah was also an indicator that the time...

CENTER: Rabbi Kalman Topp of Beth Jacob Congregation said his synagogue has begun discussions about hiring a woman as community scholar.

Beth Jacob stance prevents break over women clergy after OU says no

By Alec Fields, Co-Editor-in-Chief March 28, 2017
For two weeks last month, Los Angeles Modern Orthodoxy held its breath as a statement from New York threatened to sew disunity in its rapidly growing, multi-faceted and yet tightly knit community.
Sparks don’t quite fly as leaders of two branches of Modern Orthodoxy face off  at Shalhevet Institute

Sparks don’t quite fly as leaders of two branches of Modern Orthodoxy face off at Shalhevet Institute

By Zev Kent, Senior Editor January 7, 2017

Despite its title, “Disagreement Without Division” turned out to have very little disagreement. Rabbi Jeremy Weider and Rabbi Asher Lopatin came to speak at a Shalhevet Institute event Dec. 22, and...

Chanukah, 8 days above nature.

Chanukah, 8 days above nature.

By Nicole Soussana, Torah Editor December 22, 2016

The number seven holds great significance in Judaism. It surrounds us all the time, in the days of the week, the days of creation, and the menorah in the Beit Hamikdash of which there are replicas in synagogues...

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