QUIZ: How organized are you?

Hannah-Leeba Ellenhorn, LifeStyles Editor
January 31, 2012

Springtime is just around the corner and everyone knows that means it’s time for some spring cleaning!  Spring cleaning can be a hassle, but it doesn’t have to be. If you’re organized all year around it’s easy to maintain. So — are you a messy person or are you as neat as Martha Stewart?... Read more »

Live Blog of the SAG Awards

Hannah-Leeba Ellenhorn
January 29, 2012

Life Style Editor, Hannah-Leeba covered the SAG Awards on Sunday, January 29th. 7:00 pm: Have a good night everyone! 6:59 pm: And the show ends with a wave from Brad Pitt. Goodbye, Brad! 6:57 pm: The cast of The Help. I couldn’t be happier about the choice! 6:56 pm: DRUMROLL please… The... Read more »

13th Grade: In Israel, lessons for life and a sustainable world

Jaclyn Kellner, BP Emeritus
December 23, 2011

Sometimes I feel like everything on the farm revolves around food, but really everything revolves around everything. On the farm, where I’m in a semester-long Masa program called Eco Israel, a semester-long Masa program in Israel, study agriculture both in the classroom and hands-on in the field where... Read more »

Marijuana can be a slippery slope

Rachel Lester, Managing Editor
December 23, 2011

Nobody sets out to be addicted. In fact, most people who do “soft drugs” like marijuana and hookah do so thinking that they’ll never get addicted. But even Amy Winehouse, who died in July from a drug and alcohol overdose, started off smoking marijuana as a teenager (www.tinyurl.com/AmyWinehouseBP).... Read more »

Home Cooking: You can understand crepes

Jacob Ellenhorn, Arts & Entertainment Editor
November 7, 2011

Crepes are misunderstood. It could be because they’re French and people often think that anything French is immediately pretentious and difficult to make.  But here is where you’re wrong.  You see, crepes are also known as palyczinto in Hungarian, blinchik in Russian and blintzes in Yiddish. ... Read more »

Burgers Bar is latest Israeli import on Pico

Jacob Ellenhorn, Arts & Entertainment Editor
November 7, 2011

New kosher restaurants on Pico’s Kosher Row are just popping up.  The latest is a popular Israeli restaurant adapted to America, called Burgers Bar. Granted the name of the restaurant is not perfect but then again what in life is?  In my opinion, only Audrey Hepburn is sheer perfection – but that’s... Read more »

Off the beaten path, luxurious hipster minimalism

Jacob Ellenhorn, Arts & Entertainment Editor
November 7, 2011

If you are lucky enough to visit Jerusalem, let me suggest that you stay at the Mamilla Hotel.  Straddling the neighborhood between the Old City and the bustling downtown center of Jerusalem, the Mamilla Hotel can only be described as luxurious hipster minimalism. If you prefer the more dreadfully generic... Read more »

What we’re wearing: Sleep decides when ‘comfy’ becomes ‘lazy’

Talia Rotenberg, Staff Columnist
November 7, 2011

As Shalhevet students, do we care about how we look? We all want to feel comfortable, but have we blurred the line between comfy-and-cute and lazy-and-baggy? When it’s time to get dressed in the morning, it would seem that that most girls are choosing their outfit without much thought. “I get dressed... Read more »

As readers and as writers, students brave the blogosphere

Leila Miller, Editor-in-Chief
October 31, 2011

Blogging,” like “Tweeting,” “Facebooking,” and “Googling,” is a web phenomenon so popular that it’s turned a noun into a verb — a verb that describes condensed news and opinion that in turn form communities based on common interests online. But what exactly is a blog? Named... Read more »

Live-Blog of the Emmys

September 19, 2011

BP Features Editor Hannah-Leeba Ellenhorn posted updates from the Emmys Sept. 18.   8:00 p.m. Good Night y’all! See you at the Next Award Show!! 7:56 p.m. And the Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series goes to.. But of course, MODERN FAMILY! YES. 7:47 p.m. The Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama... Read more »