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CHAT:    D.W. Gregory answered questions during a 45-minute long-distance visit with members of Shalhevet’s Drama Ensemble.

‘Radium Girls’ playwright meets Shalhevet actors via Skype

By Abby Blumofe, Arts and Culture Editor
November 12, 2018

“Plays aren’t written,” said the woman on the TV screen in the Wildfire Theater Oct. 18. “They are crafted.” The...

ART: The exhibit displays various paintings and artifacts pertaining to the history of the Jewish people.

Skirball’s ‘Visions and Values’ exhibit is a journey through all of Jewry across all of time

By Abby Blumofe, Staff Writer
May 17, 2018

It should not have been surprising to find each room opening onto another at an exhibit that promised to cover the span of all...

STUDY:  Attorney Joseph Lipner applied the First Amendment to school newspapers in his talk, titled Freedom of the Press in Religious High Schools, in the Beit Midrash of B’nai David-Judea.

Fourth JSPA conference tackles conflict of interest and criticism of news media

During election season last fall, people were putting up signs and stickers, but Mrs. Kathleen Neumeyer did not. As she explained...

VALUES: Alumni David Lorell, left, and Daniel Steinberg, freshmen at the University of Chicago, say the openness there reminds them of Shalhevet.

Alumni say U Chicago is safe even without ‘safe spaces’

By Abby Blumofe, Staff Writer
January 10, 2017

Last summer, the University of Chicago sent out a letter to incoming freshmen telling them not to expect their professors to warn...

SENIOR SNAPSHOT: For Yonah Feld, America’s great but Israel is home

SENIOR SNAPSHOT: For Yonah Feld, America’s great but Israel is home

By Abby Blumofe, Staff Writer
June 20, 2016
Although Yonah Feld has lived in America nearly his entire life, he doesn’t consider it his home. His home, he says, is Israel.
Caption: PRIVELAGED: Mrs. Skaist said that leading the meditation minyan at Shalhevet was an honor.

Known for personal touch, Ruthie Skaist leaves to pursue painting

By Abby Blumofe, Staff Writer
June 14, 2016
On Yom Hashoah, mixed groups of all grades dispersed to tables spread around the gym and shared their thoughts on memory, connection and the Holocaust. It started with a stack of small pictures and each student choosing one to ponder. There were speeches and discussions, and then, at the end of the assembly, students were asked to stay silent for 5 minutes, while writing answers to questions posed on giant posters on the walls around the room.
COMEDY: Senior Mati Davis and freshman Hannah Merritt practice the humorous Caught With His Trance Down, which debuted April 13.

No music, but spring Drama offers a humorous look at the past

By Abby Blumofe, Staff Writer
April 19, 2016

Shalhevet Drama’s spring performance last week was unexpected in many ways.  The troupe performed the 1897 comedy Caught...

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