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Sophomores enjoying enjoying cool air, chill atmosphere at B’nai David-Judea

By Maayan Waldman, Arts & Culture Editor September 16, 2014

Instead of a miserable “Heat Wave Week,” the sophomores, relocated to Bnai David-Judea Congregation, enjoyed working air-conditioning, off-campus lunch privileges, 25-minute passing periods, and less...

COOL: Freshman classes will meet at Young Israel of Century City this week. Sophomores will be at Bnai David-Judea.  Both synagogues are air-conditioned; the JCC is not.

What you need to know for Heat Wave Week

By Eric Bazak, Features Editor September 15, 2014

So let me guess. You are a Shalhevet student and still extremely confused about which of your several co-curriculars and sports have been canceled due to the school splitting and which activities you are...

Heat wave next week will send school to neighborhood synagogues

By Eric Bazak, Features Editor September 12, 2014

Some schools have snow days, but starting Monday, Shalhevet will have a "Heat Wave Week." Head of School Rabbi Segal announced Thursday afternoon that because there is no air-conditioning in the nine...

HOMEWARD: Jake Benyowitz, Nathan Benyowitz and Will Bernstein cross Olympic Boulevard on their way to the old student parking lot, across the street from the building on Fairfax

JCC Survival Guide

September 11, 2014

By Rose Lipner, Community Editor At the end of last year, you walked out of the homey Shalhevet building on Fairfax. After a summer of sun and relaxation, you will enter the bright green and orange hallways...

Letter from Rabbi Segal outlining special procedures for heat wave

September 11, 2014

This is the text of an e-mail sent by Rabbi Head of School Rabbi Ari Segal after school today outlining procedures to cope with a heat wave expected next week with temperatures in the high 90s.  The JCC,...

ROBBERY: Alumna Annie Asch ‘14 appears on KTLA news after robbers broke into her home July 22. She hid in her closet and was afraid to come out even after police arrived.  Suspects escaped despite a police perimeter.

Alumna safe after LAPD takes 25 minutes to arrive at home invasion robbery in Beverlywood

By Eric Bazak, Features Editor September 10, 2014

It took around 25 minutes for police to arrive at alumna Annelise Asch’s house on Tuesday afternoon, July 22. Annie spent those minutes locked in her closet, as two robbers broke into her home and attempted...

SOLO: New Judaic Studies teacher Noey Jacobson hopes to take his singing career beyond the Maccabeats.

Wait – my Tanakh teacher is a singing astronaut?

By Maayan Waldman, Arts & Culture Editor September 10, 2014

A member of the Maccabeats -- the famous Yeshiva University singing group -- is working part-time at Shalhevet this year while he creates his own solo music album in Los Angeles. Noah Jacobson -- known...

SPACE: The now usable basement of the new building is bigger than expected, meaning more space available upstairs.

Foundation in place on Fairfax for new building

By Noah Rothman, Torah Editor September 9, 2014

Shalhevet High School’s new building is growing—from the basement up. Trucks have been digging, workers building, and the foundational beams are rising. “Right now we are right on time – right...

HOMEWARD: Jake Benyowitz, Nathan Benyowitz and Will Bernstein cross Olympic Boulevard on their way to the old student parking lot, across the street from the building on Fairfax

2014-15 Shalhevet school year opens at the JCC

By Alexa Fishman, Editor-in-Chief September 2, 2014

School opened officially at the Westside Jewish Community Center today, with 186 students arriving in cars and on foot for the start of what promises to be a very unusual year. With construction...

TOO SOON: Morah Michal Davis, left, grieving  at her husbands coffin with their children July 13.

Morah Michal’s husband Jay Davis, z”l, remembered for genius and humility

By Mati Hurwitz, Summer Editor-in-Chief July 15, 2014

Absolute silence was all that could be heard at Mount Sinai Simi Valley cemetery last Sunday, as over 300 people commemorated the sudden passing of Mr. Jay Davis, z”l, husband of Hebrew teacher Morah...

PASSION: Danielle Lowes music video Breathing Love was one of this years Drama one-acts.  She says music is a way around shyness.

SENIOR SNAPSHOT: Danielle Lowe, Troubador

By Alec Fields, Staff Writer June 18, 2014

One of the one-acts at last month’s Drama production, #disCONNECTED, was an original music video starring senior Danielle Lowe.  Not everyone realized it, but the song, “Breathing Love,” was also...

INSPIRED: Kaili Finn looks forward to a year of personal growth in Israel.

SENIOR SNAPSHOT: Kaili Finn, Talmida

By Rose Lipner, Arts and Culture Editor June 18, 2014

Hanging around the Shalhevet hallways, phone in hand, clad in Uggs and an American Apparel skirt, is Kaili Finn, whose love for Judaic Studies has set her trajectory to study Torah in Jerusalem next year,...

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