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CLOSE:   Starbucks and Coffee Bean are frequented by Shalhevet students throughout the day. Above, juniors Celine Basiratmand (center) and Maital Hiller drank coffee during breakfast Feb 15.

Citing Student Handbook, Fairness rules admin cannot enforce school rules at Starbucks if student has not checked in to school

By Jacob Joseph Lefkowitz Brooks, Community Editor
February 21, 2019

In the first public Fairness case of the year, a ruling based on a technicality raised but did not clearly answer the question...

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...

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...

Beth Tfiloh in Baltimore is one of the schools whose schedules were examined by Shalhevet's Educational Leadership Team.

Team of administrators worked on new schedule for three years

By Alec Fields, Co-Editor-in-Chief
July 22, 2016

Shalhevet's revamped schedule was developed by what Principal Reb Noam Weissman called the "educational leadership team," a group...

PLAYING: Young Haredi boys grow their payot long and their tzitzit out.

HAREDI: Behind the label is a world apart

By Leila Miller, Editor-in-Chief
June 14, 2012

Many girls at Bais Yaakov – an all-girls Haredi high school in West Hollywood – don’t know who Brad Pitt or Justin Bieber...

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