Blood drive mobilizes students for Shalit

Jeremy Lowe, Community Editor
April 5, 2009

During most school years, members of the Shalhevet community give blood because they want to help save lives. This year their motivation to donate was two-fold: to save lives and to show solidarity with kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit. With Shalit nearing 1,000 days in captivity in the hands of... Read more »

The Little Soldier

Elana Eden, Editor-in-Chief
June 15, 2009

  “How wonderful it is that no one need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world!” –Anne Frank, 1942 Last year, I read about a Sudanese folk tale which teaches that God created man with something in him that allows him to commit evil. This thing is intangible, ineffable,... Read more »

Sudden loss of an old friend, Beatrice Levavi

Rebecca Asch, Features Editor
September 3, 2009

About 300 people dressed in dark formal clothes sat out on former headmaster Dr. Jerry Friedman’s tennis court on the cool summer evening of August 5 to share their memories of former director of admissions Mrs. Beatrice Levavi, who passed away suddenly on July 26 from pancreatic cancer. The crowd... Read more »

Gilad Shalit

October 8, 2009

Kalil I. Eden, 9th grade Hamal stuffs the empty space in the cartridge with nails, to inflict as much pain and death as possible, then seals it and lights another cigarette. Whoa, deja vu. Hamal did this last year, but was caught later by the IDF. Unfortunately, Hamal was one of the thousand chosen to... Read more »

Releasing murderers to go home to their families creates the possibility that more lives will be lost, but that possibility exists for Israel every day anyway

October 9, 2009

By: Rose Bern Gilad Shalit sits inside a desolate prison cell and thinks about his situation.  He’s a soldier who has been held hostage in an enemy land for the past three years because his country has not agreed to a prison swap. He knows his life is as important any other person’s and... Read more »