Finding your Purim costume

Hannah-Leeba Ellenhorn, Lifestyle Editor
March 6, 2012

Dressing up for Purim is known as the most entertaining part of the joyous holiday. Many students find their costumes by searching the web or looking in catalogs. Whichever method you prefer, it’s time to stop turning back the hands of time. The 50’s and 60’s were great decades, but how many times... Read more »

Revamping the schedule, new ‘mini-mesters’ prepare seniors for Jewish life after high school

By Sarah Soroudi, Torah Editor
March 16, 2012

It was Tuesday, Feb. 21, and Rabbi Ari Schwarzberg was telling a room full of seniors and faculty that their spring coursework had been created with the intention of “giving the knowledge and information for later on in your life, regardless of if you are religious or not at this moment.” At... Read more »

Facebook Fairness ‘trial’ alleges student abuse of social networking site during school hours

By Rebecca Elspas, Staff Writer
March 16, 2012

To block Facebook or not to block Facebook — that was the question in a first-ever public Fairness trial during Town Hall Feb 24. Calling the popular social networking device a “threat” and a “menace,” Acting General Studies Principal Mr. Roy Danovitch filed a complaint with the Fairness... Read more »

LA Times reports anti-Kony crusader Jason Russell was arrested for extremely lewd conduct and was hospitalized

March 16, 2012

Modern Orthodoxy should be a bridge between secularists and Haredim, Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks says

Ari Feuer, Deputy Editor-In-Chief
March 17, 2012

Britain’s chief rabbi, Lord Jonathan Sacks, addressed about 320 students and faculty of local Jewish schools at Harkham Hebrew Academy Feb. 23 and said Modern Orthodoxy needed to become stronger to exert its natural influence in the Jewish world. Answering a question from the audience about religious... Read more »

YUNMUN team questions conference formula that keeps its team small

Alexa Fishman, Staff Writer
March 20, 2012

For the first time in 10 years, Shalhevet’s debate team returned from the Yeshiva University Model United Nations (YUNMUN) in Stamford, Conn., last month without any awards. Math and science teacher Mr. Christopher Buckley, who coaches the team, offered many reasons for the defeat, which contrasted... Read more »

Fairness Committee votes 6-5 not to block Facebook

Leila Miller, Editor-in-chief
March 21, 2012

According to Fairness co-chair David Fletcher, Acting General Studies Principal Mr. Roy Danovitch lost the Fairness case he brought against the entire school advocating the banning of Facebook usage in school by a vote of 6-5. David Fletcher declined to comment further, saying that Fairness would officially... Read more »