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New SAT rule hurts Sunday test takers

BY ALEXA FISHMAN, STAFF WRITER In response to a major cheating scandal in New York, students taking the SATs and ACTs this fall will face tighter security procedures, including one that $-1!,($&23(#31-.,#&,-"%($"#3(/-45+*',(4"#( Shalhevet students and others who take the tests on Sunday.

According to college counselor Dr. Steven Mercer, who is also vice president of Counselors Advocating for the Jewish University Experience (CAJUE), Jewish students are at risk because Sunday registration is only permitted via mail.

If the College Board loses their registration, the new policy does not give them enough time to try again.

"Now that there is no standby registration, kids who realize a week before their testing date that the College Board never +"%5#$3/(,!3-#(#31-.,#&,-"%(6"%7,(83(&8'3( to sign up,” Dr. Mercer said in an interContinued on Page 13

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It’s common, but is it depression?

BY COLLEEN BAZAK, FEATRUES EDITOR On any given day, about one third of Shalhevet students regard themselves as

feeling depressed -- or so they say. On two separate days this year, one in fall semester and one in spring, Shalhevet students were asked, “Are you depressed today?”

During the fall poll, 30 percent of students replied yes, and in spring, 36 percent did.

What students describe as a depressed mood during a casual hallway conversation may be an accurate description of how they’re feeling at the moment, but the actual condition of depression has more serious and longer lasting implica-

tions.

Experts agree that the pressure of high school combined with the natural !"#$"%&'( )*+,*&,-"%.( &%/( /&-'0( /#&$&.( of teenage life make a recipe for a really complicated period. Depression -- or something that feels like depression -- is therefore not an unexpected condition for teens. In fact, most teenagers will at some point feel depressed.

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Up on Wilshire, cars, buses and a piano

BY EDEN BRAUNSTEIN, STAFF WRITER

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Amidst the clanging and rumbling of cars rushing down the street, three Shalhevet students began playing piano music, one by one. The piano was an odd looking one, with a large eye drawn on it in chalk, and one of the keys made out of plain wood, rather than the usual

ivory.

Perhaps most unusual, this piano resided outdoors, on the white-marbled plaza of the Variety Building on Wilshire Boulevard just east of Fairfax.

The weather was windy and threatened to rain, but the piano was uncovered and had been out battling the elements for several weeks.

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It belonged to a British artist, Luke Jerram, the creator of an international public art project called "Play Me, I'm Yours.”

On April 26, Yom Ha-Atzmaut, juniors Rachel Friedman and Michael Lennett and senior Leila Miller took an hour off from Color War to be part of Continued on Page 17

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Rabbi Leubitz to head school in Oakland

BY LEILA MILLER, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Judaic Studies principal Rabbi Ari Leubitz is leaving Shalhevet at the end of the school year to be Head of School at Oakland Hebrew Day School in Northern California effective on Aug. 1.

“It’s a hard decision,” Rabbi Leubitz said in a news conference with Boiling Point staff on March 26. “I have a strong connection to the school and to the kids, but it’s time for me to take the next challenge in education.”

93( .&-/( -,( 6"*'/( 83( :&#,-+*'&#'0( /-45+*',( for him to leave because he already has a strong connection to many of the incoming freshmen, whom he met through B’nai DavidJudea’s youth group program.

“The kids coming in now are the kids I’ve had the longest exposure to… which makes this more challenging,” he said. “Before I get emotional I’ll stop.”

Oakland Hebrew Day school, a K-8 Modern Orthodox school in Oakland, is close to Shalhevet’s size with 170 students. Rabbi ;3*8-,<(5#.,(+&$3(,"(=!&'!3>3,(5>3(03&#.(&1"( under then Head of School Rabbi Elchanan Continued on Page 4

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Honors curriculum could replace all APs

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However, AP Calculus teacher Ms. Tamara Gidananian would rather keep the AP math classes. She said that as long as the classes are created based on student capability the material is not too overwhelming.

“I think we shouldn’t get rid of AP classes for math, because math is something that is sequential,” Ms. Gidanian said. “AP Calc prepares students for college, especially if they want to major in math or economics.

“Having AP Calculus in high school is a real help,” she continued. “If students are placed in the right class based on abilities, it’s not too much. But if students are not placed based on their abilities, then it causes a problem.”

For Mr. Danovitch, the only negative about eliminating APs is the challenge of convincing the community.

“The process of educating people is the only downside,” Mr. Danovitch said. “But with time, more and more parents are seeing the value and more college admissions "45+3#.(&#3(&/>"+&,-%1(4"#(-,C@ Meanwhile, before the entire AP curriculum is eliminated, smaller changes will be made to the course offerings.

First, AP Studio Art will be replaced next year by an Honors Art class designed by Art and Performing Arts Department chair Roen Salem (see related story, Page XX).

There may also be a non-AP psychology course offered next year in addition to the AP Psych class. Because of its popularity, AP Psych is the only other class besides for AP Art that has more than one class.

The non-AP psychology class would likely use the same textbook, but AP Psych teacher Mrs. Sunshine would pick and choose the material that she would teach.

“Some students are genuinely interested in Psych but don’t take the class because they don’t want the fast pace,” she said. “It seems like a good option to offer rather than force them to have to take the AP if they want to learn about the material.”

halhevet will begin evaluating its curriculum next year in hopes of eventually eliminating and replacing AP courses according to Acting General Studies Principal Mr. Roy Danovitch.

While only AP Art will be affected next year (see related story, Page XX), the administration plans to conduct a formal re- ally been eliminating AP courses are Cross- but are challenging in other ways, I don’t view of AP classes in order to ultimately roads, Ramaz in New York, and the Scars- know of one college that would hesitate to replace them with an independent honors dale School in Westchester County, NY, accept that student.” curriculum, to be known as “SAS” courses another Just Community school, he said.

Among teachers, the opinion about AP for “Shalhevet Adanced Studies.”

College counselor Dr. Steven Mercer courses seemed to depend on the academic “In three years, I would hope that we was neutral about the change, but said it department. Math teachers seem to like can replace APs with an independent ad- shouldn’t be detrimental for students when APs the best, while others have a more vanced curriculum,” Mr. Danovitch said. they apply to college. complicated view.

“Students would still get the same GPA “I like teaching APs from the point of “It’s neither good nor bad,” Dr. Mercer boost, but it would allow our course offer- said. “On the one hand, there is no question view of the students who take it and the ings to expand and be more unique.” that the APs are important for some selec- subject matter,” said Mrs. Tove Sunshine, These replacement courses would re- tive universities, but it’s not the APs them- who teaches two APs, Euro and Psych.“But quire prerequisites, and therefore would selves that colleges are relying on.”

I don’t like the pace. The schedule makes it only be offered to juniors and seniors, as He said it would be important for the /-45+*',(,"(/"(-%(/3:,!('3&#%-%1C@ APs are now. Mr. Danovitch hopes that the new honors courses to be as serious as APs. Mrs. Sunshine said that if the school change will switch classes from being “lecFG"''313.(H*.,(6&%,(,"(83(+"%5/3%,(,!&,( could prepare replacement, but equally ture-based” and directed towards a test to a student is taking challenging courses,” advanced courses, she would support the more based off of the love of learning.

Dr. Mercer said. “If a high school can show transition from APs to an independent adStudent reaction was mixed. that students took courses that are not APs vanced curriculum.

“I take APs because I want an advanced placement class,” said senior Leah Katz. “I do not care about the AP tests. If the school wants to eliminate AP courses and replace them with something better, that’s good.”

Junior Shayna Gersten disagreed, “I take APs because I want to earn credits on the AP exam so I can al#3&/0(4*'5''(."$3(*%-,.(4"#(+"''313?@( she said. “I don’t think it’s a good idea to replace APs because I personally think it enhances the school to have APs.” However, the College Board allows students students to sign up for an AP exam whether or not they take ,!3("45+-&'(AB(+"*#.3C((D"#(3E&$:'3?( Shalhevet students take AP English Language exam without taking a course by that name.

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BY KATIE FELD, ILLUSTRATIONS EDITOR The month of May has graced us with her presence once again. Wait, scratch that…what I really meant was that the month of May has bashed down the doors, tumbled across the room and fallen abruptly into our laps. I do not recall inviting her in and May deserves nothing near a warm, open-armed welcome.

If I haven’t made myself clear already, allow me to be painfully blunt. I hate May. Filled with AP exams, post-spring-break work loads, and the stress of raising grades before the end of the year, May really doesn’t have many pleasant things to offer.

AP exams are brutal. They take up so much time and absorb so much energy. Many feel pressure to get a perfect score. To junior Natalie Kessler, the AP tests “cause unnecessary stress,” and she believes that “the entire AP system should be eradicated from Shalhevet's curriculum.”

I can’t say I disagree. An entire AP course -.(+3%,3#3/(&#"*%/(,!3(5%&'(AB(3E&$C(N!-.( adds so much pressure to do well on it, because there is a mindset that this test is what we’ve been working towards. Another junior, Briana Marshak, explains why she is stressing out over her AP Psychology exam, confessing: “I know I’m gonna procrastinate but I need to do well. I need a perfect score if I have any shot of getting into my choice college.” She explains her thinking this way: “AP exams are important because most colleges really want their students to have taken AP's in high school and receive good grades on the exams.”

Whether our perception of the exam’s importance bears any truth is almost beside the point. As long as we make these exams into the be-all and end-all of life, they are the prime generator of May student stress.

It’s the perfect storm of perception becoming reality.

Aside from stressing over the AP exams, the month after Pesach seems to be overloaded with homework, tests and quizzes.

Teachers seem to lose their perspective as they realize they aren’t quite where they hoped they would be at this point in the year. Junior Elie Hess expresses a popular student sentiment: “Summer is so close I can almost taste it – the school year just

needs to end already.”

B3#."%&''0?(J(.,#*11'3(,"(5%/(,!3(6-''L power to push through. I’m always so nervous and simultaneously drained. This #3&''0(-.(,!3(5%&'("::"#,*%-,0(,"(#&-.3(1#&/3.( before the end of the year. For these last assignments, every quiz, homework, test and project matters more than ever. The combination of getting through all of the work while scratching for every extra point is enough to drive a student crazy!

But before we lose all perspective, it is worth remembering what else occurs in May, namely the “yoms.” As we sweat the small stuff, the Jewish calendar gives us a reminder of Yom HaShoah, the day we remember the horrors of the Holocaust and the destruction of European Jewry. And Yom HaZikaron, the day we pay our respect to those Israelis who paid the ultimate sac#-5+3(4"#("*#(:3":'3P.(.3+*#-,0C((A%/(5%&''0?( Yom Ha’atzmaut, where we celebrate and #3)3+,(*:"%(,!&,(6!-+!(-.(,#*'0(-$:"#,&%,C(( This May, don’t let the APs take your soul. When you feel yourself slipping into .3'4L&8."#83/(-%.&%-,0("#(0"*(.*//3%'0(5%/( yourself immersed in academic nonsense, take time to give yourself a quick reality check and remind yourself of what is truly important.

Last day of class: June 6 Choir and Band Spring Concert: June 6 and 7 Review Day and last Town Hall: Thursday, June 7 Prom: Thursday, June 7 Finals: June 8 - 13 Graduation: Sunday, June 10, Nessah Synagogue Shalhevet Gala Dinner: Wednesday, June 13, 6:30 p.m. at Luxe Hotel, Brentwood Rock of Ages release: June 15 Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter release: June 22 The Amazing Spiderman release: July 3 Tisha b’Av: July 28 - 29 Freshman BBQ 2012-13: Aug. 23, 6 p.m.

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Schwartz, Ellenhorn win run-offs to lead Agenda Amendments formalize co-chairs for Fairness Committee; Rebecca Mandel and JoJo Fallas defeat four others their talents.

Before the students could vote for Fairness Co-chairs, they had to After a three-week campaign that vote on a last minute constitutionused everything from last minute al amendment raised by Mr. Buckconstitutional amendments to homeley, allowing Fairness to be led by baked cookies, junior Daniel Schwartz two co-chairs instead of a single was elected Agenda Chair and sophochair. That amendment passed more Hannah-Leeba Ellenhorn was with 95 percent support. elected vice chair.

A second set of amendments (((((((M&%-3'(6"%(,!3(5#.,(#"*%/("4(>",concerned whether voters would ing against juniors Erin Sharfman, have to choose how the co-chairs Jacob Ellenhorn, and Rose Bern, but would be chosen. In an election did not receive 50 percent of the votes held May 12, 58 percent favored as mandated by the school’s constitua rule requiring voters to vote tion He went on to face Rose Bern in for an entire “ticket” if two cana run-off, and won with 57 percent of didates were running that way, the vote. whereas 72 percent voted for an Hannah-Leeba defeated sophoamendment allowing voters to more Sarah Soroudi for the position BP PHOTO BY ARIELA FEITELBERG choose any candidates, whether of vice chair, after neither won a ma- ,X&GHEI!D6'4)*!3C?=6J@K!L)A6@)L!L.J4'(!F$='!X6**!V6Q!/W>!X)!BJ$:4%)L!@$!:$J)!C.JJ)'@!)5)'@%!@$B4C%! they were running with someone jority in a three-way race that also in- 6'L!R)=)J!:$J6*!L4*)::6%!6@!F$='!X6**!')N@!Q)6J>!! else or not. cluded Elliot Sassover. Sigal Spitzer including speeches, videos and debates. At Town Hall May The proposal with the larger perdefeated Adam Rokah for Agenda Secretary, while Justin Nemanpour defeated Esther Levy 10, Erin Sharfman compared the Just Community to a bak- centage won, so students could vote for divided tickets in ing project involving the whole school. the election. In the end, Jojo Fallas ran with Jordan Banaffor vice chair of SAC, the Student Activities Committee.

“I follow through on all of my commitments, so to wrap sheha and Rebecca Mandel ran with Talia Topper, but votJojo Fallas and Rebecca Mandel defeated four other juniors up the metaphor there are kosher baked chocolate chip ers chose Jojo and Rebecca. to be next year’s co-chairs of the Fairness Committee.

On May 11th, candidates who chose to make Seniors, who were in the midst of their senior trip to cookies after Town Hall and I strongly encourage everyone videos presented them. Members of the Just Community Poland and Israel, voted via electronic ballot in both the to grab one,” Erin said. primary and run-off elections. Some campaign speeches ` When Town Hall was over, Erin used a spatula to give were also able to ask the students running for Fairness CoChairs questions. recorded in Town Hall were posted online, and though se- out cookies straight from a cookie sheet.

Each ticket, or group of two students running toniors had requested this, it was not clear whether they had Jacob Ellenhorn said he was running “on a platform of success” and said that he was also very organized. gether, had 30 seconds to answer. Teachers and students .*45+-3%,(-%,3#%3,(&++3..(,"(>-36(,!3$C “I believe that the key to success in running the Agenda &'-23(&.23/(O*3.,-"%.(&8"*,(,!3-#(O*&'-5+&,-"%.?(,!3(+!&%13.( But about half the senior class did vote, and Just Community advisor Mr. Christopher Buckley counted the returns Committee is organization,” Jacob said, “and I promise I ,!30(:'&%(,"(-$:'3$3%,?(&%/(,!3(+"%5/3%,-&'-,0(,!30($*.,( as they came in during the night. Results were announced will never come into this room with a topic that I came up maintain while keeping the committee’s verdicts private.

Candidates for Agenda Vice Chair also answered as early as 3 am in some races, and later in the morning for with right at the doorstep.”

Current Agenda vice chair Rose Bern said she was best two questions about their plans to get other Shalhevet stuothers.

N!3(5%&'(>",3(4"#(A13%/&(G!&-#(6&.(&%%"*%+3/(N!*#./&0( O*&'-53/?( !&>-%1( .3#>3/( "%( ,!3( A13%/&( G"$$-,,33( 4"#( dents to speak more during a usually quiet town hall, and the ways to make it engaging. $"#%-%1(H*.,(834"#3(N"6%(9&''?(&%/(%36("45+3#.(,""2(,!3-#( three years.

A week later, on May 24th, the students running :'&+3.(4"#(,!3(5#.,(,-$3(,!&,(/&0C((M&%-3'(=+!6&#,<(.,""/(&,( “I want to ensure that our Just Community always thrives,” Rose said. “That’s why I’ve stuck by Agenda for the last for Agenda Chair participated in a debate. Each candidate the lectern. made an opening statement, then asked two other candi“I want to change Town Hall for the better,” said Daniel three years.”

Adam Rokah sang two songs he wrote, Jus- dates various questions, including whether being on the after being sworn in at the last meeting of the year June 1.

“It’s too serious, and there are too many amendments. I tin Nemapour reached out to individual members of the debate team helps run Town Hall and ways to draw the school, and Talia Topper and Rebecca Mandel, running for average student into town hall discussion. want to focus more on current events.”

The campaign for Agenda Chair had been lively, Fairness co-chairs, brought out a dictionary to showcase

BY ALEXA FISHMAN, STAFF WRITER

Shalhevet students strengthen bond with the Muslim youth group

BY REBECCA ELSPAS, STAFF WRITER As a group of about 15 Shalhevet students entered the large blue building with white columns, a smiling young woman with a head covering introduced herself as Nuor.

At the top of a set of stairs, Nuor and the group waited outside a classroom where the teacher, too, was wearing a head covering. Nuor explained that it was a religion class, not surprising since they were at the Islamic Center of Southern California.

In 10 minutes, the Shalhevet students would join with about 30 Muslim students from the Muslim Youth Group, or MYG, for an interfaith picnic at nearby Shadow Park a few blocks away.

The occasion was the second annual picnic where Shalhevet students joined the Islamic Center’s regular Sunday youth group meeting to eat pizza and popsicles while playing ice-breaker games and chatting.

“We sometimes get this idea that Muslims are all like this one group and that they all hate Jews, and that they all are this certain thing,” said junior Rachel Kenner. “So I think that going to this group of kids who are basically our age, and seeing that people are like us, and that there’s as much variety in this group as there is in our group, was very valuable.”

Though the discussions stayed away from controversial topics, it was still obvious that the Muslim students had different views from one another, she said.

“In our group we had all sorts of grades and levels of religion and all sorts of views,” Rachel said. “And I think it was the same with this group. There’d be no way to say that this group was all the same, just as there’d be no way to say that everyone in Shalhevet was the same.”

MYG is pretty much the NCSY for Muslims, and its events revolve around learning about Islamic culture.

Most of the MYG students had attended class before together before the picnic. Then the mixed group played

“two truths and a lie” before heading to the park.

At Shadow Park, kosher pizza from Nagilla arrived as a swarm of people got into lines to get pizza, soda, and ice cream. There were about 30 Muslim students there.

It was the second year in a row the two groups have met, and the second meeting at the Islamic Center, located on North Vermont Avenue in Koreatown.

“I personally liked having it at the center because I thought it was an exciting experience for Shalhevet kids to visit a mosque, and I thought it BP PHOTO BY ARIELA FEITELBERG would be easier transportation wise,” said senior FY[!F\]FX3I![J(6'4K)J%!G.$J!3?6@4*6+!*)R@+!6'L!#)4*6!V4**)J! Leila Miller, the group’s co-founder along with Nuor Shatila. “People told me after this last event B*6'')L!@?)!4'@)JR64@?!B4C'4C!@$()@?)J!R$J!@?)!%)C$'L!Q)6J!4'!6!

J$=>!H6:)%!4'C*.L)L!^F=$!@J.@?%!6'L!6!*4)>_ that the next one should be at Shalhevet so more kids from our side come, and it'll also be interest“My family, starting in Palestine, had suffered many ing for the Muslim kids to visit a Jewish school.” bad things there, but they still managed to be okay,” said Already many of the two groups’ members have Waffa, though the discussion didn’t go into much more become Facebook friends, and Rachel Kenner discovered detail. a common interest – poetry – with the Islamic Center’s After about an hour of socializing, learning about Mona Ghannoum Islam, eating, and smiling, the teenagers left the interfaith “I personally gained an insight on ideas in Judaism, picnic. Many exchanged names and promised to add them politics, and even things like music and TV shows,” said to their Facebook accounts when they got home.

I"%&C(FJ(6&.(5%/-%1(,!&,(",!3#(:3":'3(63#3(-%,3#3.,3/(-%( “My favorite part of this interfaith picnic is getting to the same things as I am.” meet the Jews from Shalhevet,” Farzama said. “They are Rachel said she and Mona communicate via text message super friendly! I love when MYG has activities like this, about once a week. which is probably why I have been a member for almost “We both enjoy spoken-word poetry so we talk about three years now.” that a lot,” said Rachel. “We’ll tell each other to check out Shalhevet sophomore Benny Balasz said he had found the this poem on Youtube or whatever and look at different day very meaningful. poems and tell each other how awesome they are.”

“It’s so inspiring to have the chance to learn about Other students shared information on where their their lives, and I even forgot about religion entirely when I families were from. The Muslim group’s Farzana Waseeq talked to them,” said Benny. mentioned that her family originated in Afghanistan, A.(,!3(K36-.!(>-.-,"#.(6&'23/(8&+2(,"(,!3(J.#&3'-()&1L while +"'"#3/(8*-'/-%1?(,!30(.&-/(,!3-#(5%&'(aluda, or goodbye, in Waffa Abu-Ahjar and Mona said they were from Palestine. Arabic.

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Debate team wins 18 at Penn in spite of time issue

BY ROSE BERN, OPINION EDITOR Though it didn’t win Best Delegation at Penn Model Congress this year, Shalhevet’s debate team came home with 18 individual awards and felt triumphant after the fourday annual conference at the University of Pennsylvania.

Competing with 40 schools from around the country, Firehawk debaters placed second overall in the number and type of awards by any team and had winners in all four grades, ninth through 12th – in spite of the fact that instead of missing a third of debate sessions for Shabbat as in years past, glitches in conference scheduling caused it this year to miss half.

FJ,( -.( &( :3#43+,( #3)3+,-"%( "4( ,!3( =!&'!3vet debate team’s skill and prowess that we missed nearly 50 percent of the conference, but still [placed] second,” said senior Jus-

on in advance. Missing sessions mean less time to debate.

“You don’t get as much exposure to the judges,” said junior Erin Sharfman.

“You don’t have as much time to prove how great of a debater you are.”

Delegates also receive a “bill book” containing the other bills to be debated in their committee.

With their bill books in hand, Shalhevet debaters could sift through the bills and prepare speeches for or against them, speeches which were also part of the competition. During the day and late into the night, they could be seen lying around outside their hotel rooms, studying, preparing speeches and asking the team captains and Mr. Buckley for help. Also there to help were chaperones Rabbi Ari Schwarzberg, Student Activities Director Raizie Weissman, and alumna Ariella Benji ’11.

Committee sessions lasted from two to three hours, with long breaks in between. Delegates also attended soBP PHOTO BY LEONA FALLAS called full sessions, DEZ&FEI!-.%@4'!ZJ6'L@T36JR!6'L!-$`$!U6**6%!BJ)B6J)!@?)4J!6J(.:)'@%!R$J!@?)!3.BJ):)! when groups of ,$.J@!6@!P)''!V,>!!Z$@?!=)J)!6=6JL)L!(65)*%> committees came together in “Congress” to debate se"Committee session was great in Penn for excellence in committee, and the most lected bills. awards in special programs such as Su- Model Congress, and we even debated in The conference took place March 21 the brand new Hunstman Building at the preme Court, winning three of those. through April 1. In years past, delegates “I was proud of our team’s success,” Wharton Business School," Jordan said. missed about one third of committee sesDavid Rokah said. “Even though due to sions. complications…we lost more debate time “Considering the fact that more than than usual, we compensated with a strong half the conference was on Shabbat, and showing from our younger debaters.” considering that we came in second place, He was referring to a gavel won by it is still shocking,” said junior Daniel freshman Sigal Spitzer, only the second Schwartz, who won a golden gavel, the gavel ever won by a freshman in Shalhehighest award, for excellence in full sesvet’s debate history. sion.

V[\E![G!FXE!YEZI Mr. Buckley sent an E-mail to the entire And although many debaters were initeam, saying, “You guys are amazing…The U$J! 6! C$:B*)@)! *4%@! $R! 3?6*?)5)@O%! tially worried about the restricted amount odds stacked against us were astounding.” =4'')J%+! ($! @$! ====>%?6*?)5)A@$4*T of committee time they had, they came in Junior Jordan Banafsheha said he really 4'(B$4'@>C$: second overall for the conference. Shalheenjoyed the trip. vet also won the most number of “gavels”

During the day and late into the night, they could be seen lying around outside their hotel rooms, studying, preparing speeches and asking the team captains and Mr. Buckley for help. tin Brandt-Sarif, who was co-captain of the team along with senior David Rokah.

It was not clear why the timing had been changed. Traditionally, committee sessions on Friday night would start two hours before Shabbat began, allowing Shalhevet delegates to go for a little bit.

But this year, one committee session started Friday night, two committee sessions took place during Shabbat, and a fourth one started an hour before Shabbat was over. This kept Shalhevet debaters from going to half of their committee sessions. There were other sessions on Thursday, Friday morning and afternoon and Sunday morning, which they did attend.

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After years of maintaining a lab in the Annex building, where the ceiling dripped when it rained, the Science Department moved its lab into the basement of the main school building, across from the gym room, and resumed experiments in March.

“We were hoping to get it up faster than we did,” said new Science Department chair Dr. Jay Smallwood. “The one in the Annex was pretty much damaged beyond repair.”

The move began in early February and is expected to continue through the summer, Dr. Smallwood said, al,!"*1!(,!3(5#.,('&8.(63#3(+"%/*+,3/(80(=3&%(Q&%1&,&#&%P.( Physiology classes in late March. The lab as everything it needs to function except for certain pieces of equipment, including balances, a spectrometer, and gas hook-ups for Bunsen Burners, Dr. Smallwood said.

Because the newly relocated lab is merely the same lab transported into the main building, costs were low. Facilities Manager Jose Flores and his crew did most of the moving.

“All of the equipment we have right now is the same we have had for years,” said Dr. Smallwood, “Our facilities guys have taken most of the materials like the benches from the old lab and installed them downstairs. Currently we have been doing all of this within the department’s budget.”

But Dr. Smallwood has big plans for the lab’s future.

“Beginning next year the lab will be the center of the experience,” he said.“Over the summer we will be installing gas into the outlets for the Bunsen Burners,” said Dr. Smallwood, “We also need to transfer the hood from the other building. We are waiting for the summer to get all that stuff done.”

Meanwhile, the new lab has been busy. Mr. Kangataran’s classes have dissected specimens of frog, fetal pig, .!33:P.(!3&#,?(+"6(!3&#,?(.+"#:-"%(&%/(/"15.!C “For a school this good to not have a lab is kind of an oxymoron,” Mr. Kangataran said. “It is the fastest way to take in meaningful information long term, and to foster creative thinking. I am surprised that the students are so strong in science in light of the fact that they have never been near a lab.”

He recalled that seniors Yonah Nimmer and Eitan Spitzer were exploring the cow’s heart and decided to turn

Continued from page 1 Weinbach before teaching at Milken for a year, and became head of Judaic Studies when Rabbi Weinbach resigned in April 2010.

“One of the tests of true leadership is to empower the people who are left behind

and to create a good transition team,” he said. “This place needs to be solid when I leave.”

In an e-mail to the Shalhevet community May 24, Head of School Rabbi Ari Segal said Judaic Studies would now be led by

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Mr. Noam Weissman, assisted by incoming curriculum director Mr. Jason Ablin who will help with mentoring, curriculum and technology integration.

During his time at Shalhevet, Rabbi Leubitz took a leadership position during the closing of the middle and elementary schools and is credited with having strengthened the Judaic studies program R( .:3+-5+&''0( +#3&,-%1( ,!3( FGAK=@( !"%"#.( track – with Mr. Weissman and fellow Judaic studies teacher Mr. Jason Feld.

“Rabbi Leubitz has been an anchor of the Judaic program and a critical member of the leadership team over the last few years,” wrote Rabbi Ari Segal in an e-mail to parents March 26 announcing the news.

“His presence has provided an essential element of calm continuity through a dif5+*',(:3#-"/(-%(,!3(.+!""'P.(!-.,"#0C “He spends countless hours on scheduling, discipline, curriculum development, budgeting and student growth. None of what we have accomplished thus far would have been possible without his partnership.”

Oakland Hebrew Day School’s search committee also picked up on these accomplishments, particularly his innovation in the Judaic Studies curriculum.

“I know he’s popular there,” said Mr. J.B. Leibovitch, the treasurer on Oakland Hebrew Day School’s board of directors, who was involved in the school’s search

process. “He did a good job of keeping things together in that leadership position and what we’ve seen and heard is that he’s been very effective in mentoring people.”

Mr. Leibovitch said that the school sees Rabbi Leubitz as someone who can be “a very good ambassador of the school with a wider community.”

Rabbi Leubitz said that he’d most miss Shalhevet’s students, many of whom he’s developed close relationships with.

“I love the kids here -- I love to teach,” Rabbio Leubitz said. “I’ve built strong relationships with the kids. People who I have taught appreciate my honesty and [ability to go] back and forth to come to a resolution.”

Asked what he was particularly proud of, he said, “My job is to hold students accountable. I’ve done a very good job balancing their need for space and [maintaining] decorum.”

Students said they would miss his warmth and accessibility.

“Whenever I am bored I count on having a meaningful conversation with him in !-.( "45+3?@( .&-/( .":!"$"#3( K3%%0( M#&<-%C( “Who will I talk to?”

Freshman Amir Schmelz said, “I loved his study sessions that he held at his house -- they were always so much fun.”

Junior Shirel Davidson had a slightly different concern: “Who will catch me in my short skirts?”

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All sophomores and juniors competed. Winners an artery inside-out. To their were Hannah-Leeba Ellenhorn, 1st Place; Kalil surprise, they found signs of coronary artery disease: a blockage Eden, 2nd Place; Adam Wannon, Michael caused by plaque, which causes Lenett and Jenny Drazin, Honorable Mention. Judges were heart attacks.

Dr. Smallwood and Mr. Buckley. No prizes were given.

"They were digging around there,” Mr. Kangataran said.

“Because they were looking, A chance for students to research a scienthey found blocked parts of the tific idea and then present their findings in a coronary vessel. It was entirely community forum. Assignment details varied. Some through their own explorations." classes received handouts with guidelines while others “Labs are different from classrooms,” he added. “Kids learned just heard from their teachers. in the classroom. In the lab they see what they have learned in action.”

Beit Midrash and the Media Center.

Mr. Kanagataran hopes that the lab will become a crucial part of the science curriculu Thursday May 24, lunchtime through af“I would love to sit down ter school. Judging was done throughout with the rest of the department &%/( 51*#3( "*,( &( >3#0( 4"+*.3/( the day. curriculum where the students “What sets science apart from other from the 11th grade on are doing laboratory-based work,” said subjects is that it is essentially a methMr. Kangataran. odology, It is a way of learning about and Students are pleased with the exploring the unknown..., and frankly it is about time that change.

“It is about time that we can Shalhevet displayed the work of its excellent science stu5%&''0(.33(.+-3%+3(-%(&+,-"%?@(.&-/( dents.” -- Mr. Chris Buckley, Chemistry teacher junior Jenny Hay. FJ(&$(3E+-,3/(,!&,(J(6-''(5%&'ly get to have a science class like “We are not going to do a huge renovation,” said Dr. the ones in the movies, where the kids get to explode things,” said sophomore Francis Smallwood. “Rather we will work within the system we have. We can still do a whole lot.”

Shor.

Because of a limited budget, he added, donations are Junior AP Chemistry student Natalie Kessler said better welcome. late than never.

“We are looking for any parents, scientists and doctors “I am sad that i was not able to use while I was in AP Chem this year because it was still being built, but i am ex- among the community, and we will take any kind of equipcited for the future students who will get to use it,” said ment that people are looking to donate,” Dr. Smallwood said. “If people have things, we would be more than happy Natalie.

Dr. Smallwood said more substantial upgrades to the to look at them and see if they meet our needs.” lab’s capabilities would wait for a new building, just beginning to be talked about by school administration.

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More than a month after the drinking fountain nearest S&88-( =31&'P.( "45+3( 6&.( .!*,( /"6%( -%( &( :"..-8'3( 6"#$( scare, no report has arrived from Arrowhead, the company that services them and that was sent samples of whatever was in the water.

And although the fountain was treated and its water quickly pronounced safe, no one knows what the little crit,3#.(63#3(,!&,(63#3(5#.,(.33%(80(&(:&-#("4(.":!"$"#3.(-%(,!3( shallow puddle around the spout.

“They were black and they were moving,” said sopho$"#3(=+",,0(=-'>3#?(6!"(5#.,(#3:"#,3/(,!3$(&4,3#(!3&#-%1(!-.( friend Justin Nemanpour scream in the hallway that there were “hairs “ in the fountain. “I could tell they weren’t hairs because they were moving,” Scotty said. “I was quite disgusted when I saw them.”

After hearing from Scotty, Physics teacher and technology director Mr. Yossie Frankel immediately shut the fountain off so students would not be able to use it, posting a sign that said “Fountain not working.”

“After putting on my glasses I could see that on the edge of the water fountain there were little swimmy things,” Mr. Frankel said.

Mr. Frankel then checked the school’s other fountains, and also the sinks.

“I went to the other fountain and pulled a sample,” said Mr. Frankel, “Nothing. I did the same with the bathrooms – nothing. The kitchen sinks -- nothing.”

He said he then called the Health Department and was eventually transferred to its drinking water program.

“An inspector … advised me to disconnect the water 4"*%,&-%(-%(O*3.,-"%(4#"$(,!3(.0.,3$?()*.!(&%/(8'3&+!(,!3( fountain, then check to see if the infestation was gone,” said Mr. Frankel.

Some students were still drinking water from the foun,&-%( !"63>3#?( 83+&*.3( ,!30( !&/( *.3/( -,( ,"( 5''( ,!3-#( 6&,3#( bottles earlier.

A few hours later, worms were still visible, though bleached white and not moving.

The Boiling Point obtained a sample with a medicine dropper supplied by Biology and Physiology teacher Mr. Sean Kangataran, who then set it up on a slide under the microscope in the new Science Lab in the basement.

FN!-.(-.(/35%-,3'0(&(6"#$?@(.&-/(I#C(Q&%1&,&#&%(6!-'3( adjusting the lens. “I am not sure if they are parasitic or just waterborne.”

Photo Editor Emilie Benyowitz was able to get a picture through the microscope. A comparison of that photo to other worm photos online seemed closest in appearance to a nematode – which turns out to be a worm that’s very common, and usually harmless, in drinking water.

“I have a sample of the live worms,” said Mr. Frankel, FT*#(:'&%(-.(,"(!&>3(,!3(6"#$.(-/3%,-53/(80(I#C(Q&%1&,&ran. If he can’t identify them we will make arrangements with the Water Program.”

But according to Facilities Director Mr. Eli Schiff, a sample of the worms was never sent. Rather, a sample of water taken after the fountain had been cleaned out.

“We have not heard back from them yet,” Mr. Schiff said May 14. “We shut down the fountain, and it will remain off until Arrowhead comes to test it.”

T%(I&0(UV?(I#C(=+!-44(.&-/(,!&,(A##"6!3&/(!&/(%",-53/( him that the fountains were safe to use as there no trace of worms in the water they collected.

The World Health Organization says there are thousands of types of “free-living” nematodes, many of them as yet unnamed and uncategorized.

“The presence of free-living nematodes in drinking water does not necessarily indicate a direct health threat,” states the WHO on its web page titled “Free-living nematodes in drinking-water.” “It has largely been regarded by water suppliers as an ‘aesthetic’ problem, either directly or through their association with discoloured water.”

Some nematodes can cause health problems, however.

Among these are pinworms and roundworms. Asked whether ingestion of the infected water could be harmful Mr. Frankel said, “We do not know until the Health Department tells us.”

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FT%(,!3(",!3#(.-/3("4(,!3(5',3#(,!&,(433/.(-%,"(,!3(6&,3#CCC water can stand. There was an infestation on that part of the 5',3#C(N!30(+"*'/(%",(13,(8&+2(,!#"*1!(,!3(5',3#(83+&*.3(-,( 5',3#.("%(&($-+#"%('3>3'?@(I#C(D#&%23'(.&-/C(FN!-.(,!"*1!,( !&.(833%(+"%5#$3/(80(,!3(93&',!(M3:&#,$3%,C@ Regardless of what these worms were, some students are still refusing to drink from the fountain.

“I choose to bring my own water because I don’t want to take chances with my health,” said Freshman Segal Spitzer.

“I don’t want to die,” said sophomore Francis Shor, However, there was no indication that either Frances or anyone else would die or even be made sick by the worms.

Nearly two months after the creatures were discovered, no one has reported unexplained stomach ailments, and the worms have long since been removed.

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This year, everyone knew the score: White 6165, Blue 6120 ies Rabbi Leubitz and Acting General Studies Principal Roy Danovich – which took place on the Sport Court, and a watermelon over-under-toss, with one person from each team #&+-%1(,"(5%-.!(&%(3%,-#3(6&,3#$3'"%C((( Both teams took a quick lunch break in order to let the Sport Court dry from an early morning drizzle. After lunch, they competed in a massive dodgeball game as well as boys basketball and soccer and girls volleyball and soccer. Meanwhile, smaller groups competed in Fear-Factor in the Media Center and Trivia -- with questions by Mr. Buckley, Dr. Yoss, Mr. Feld and Mrs. Keene -- in Room 34.

Junior Natalie Kessler of the White Team said her favorite part of the day was Fear Factor.

"It was fun to compete against the other team and eat chocolate out of a diaper," said Natalie.

To conclude the day, students proceeded to the Beit Midrash for Mincha, followed by amusing skits, more cheers, competitive dvar Torahs, a teacher impersonation contest and presentations of team art murals representing Israeli cities.

Even though the students were divided between Blue and White, some thought the day had brought the school together. Freshman Clare Hartman said that her favorite part of Color War was “the unity we all had together as a school even though we were split in two teams.”

But this year's Color War may be remembered most for its breakout, which involved rumors being spread about random drug testing starting at school (see related story, page 7). Several days of confusion and apprehension were resolved when SAC revealed that it had just been a prank to take people's minds off the possibility that Color War would coincide with Yom Ha’Atzmaut.

Students liked the change.

“Having the color war score mentioned made me realize that even though my team lost the actual color war, we won some individual things which made me feel really good,” said junior and Blue Team member Emilie Benyowitz.

In honor of Yom Haatzmaut the next day, the entire high school was split between the colors Blue for Yerushalayim and White for Tel Aviv – a change from past years, when team colors were blue and red.

BP PHOTO EMILIE BENYOWITZ Yonah and SAC co-chair YX<FE!U[\!FE#!&9<9I!G6@6*4)!b)%%*)J!6'L!D6''Q!34*A)J%@)4'!BJ)B6J)L!@$!)6@!B4)!L.J4'(!,$*$J!Y6J!&BJ4*!/7> Raquel Garshofsky, along with Student Activities advisors RaiBY SIGAL SPITZER, STAFF WRITER zie Weissman and Ruthie Skaist, had picked Nathan Rossi and Rachel Lester as the captains After a solemn Mincha in the Beit Midrash in observance of the Blue Team along with junior Leora Nimmer, and seof Yom HaZikaron, a raucous, spirited Color War broke out niors Ari Feuer and Deanna Grunfeld as the captains of the on April 25. Usually just the winner is announced, but for White Team, along with junior Arianna Feder. ,!3( 5#.,( ,-$3( -%( =!&'!3>3,( !-.,"#0?( ,!3( .+"#3( "4( G"'"#( Z&#( After breakout, the teams met separately during seventh was announced too. period to learn team cheers.

Competing in different sports and races as well as skits, On Thursday, students came to davening dressed in trivia and banner designs, White ended up winning with white or blue, and after breakfast, the White Team proceed6,165 points, while Blue earned 6,120. ed to the Media Center while the Blue Team went to the Beit “I wanted the closing ceremony to be as suspenseful Midrash to divide up for the various competitions. as possible," said SAC co-chair Yonah Nimmer, one of the Activities included a tug-of-war between the White day’s planners. "My goal was to have everyone on the edge and Blue Teams – and also between Head of Judaic Studof their seats dying to hear the winner."

More Quill and Scroll awards for the Boiling Point

BY RACHEL LESTER, MANAGING EDITOR For the sixth year in a row, The Boiling Point has won multiple honors in the annual Quill and Scroll International Writing and Photography Contest. Out of the 3,039 entries – 43 from Shalhevet – in 12 different categories, three Boiling Point stories won awards.

“We submitted a lot of stories that I think were award-worthy and I’m surprised we didn’t get more,” said Editor-in-Chief Leila Miller. “But I’m really happy that new people who have never won anything before won this year. It’s always encouraging to everyone when people win awards.”

Leila, a senior, won for her front-page preview of Shalhevet Drama’s production of Pride and Prejudice earlier this year. Titled “Drama holds up an unexpected mirror,” the story compared the characters in the play

to Modern Orthodox teenagers, and was one of 37 winning stories out of 384 entries in the Feature category. It’s Leila’s second award in this category, and her third total.

Sophomore Sarah Soroudi, Torah Editor, won for her report on Shalhevet’s kaparot ceremony. The article, “Ancient ritual for ‘transferring’ sins debuts on the Sport Court,” was one of 36 winners in the News Story catego#0?(6!3#3(UUX(63#3(.*8$-,,3/C(N!3(&6&#/(-.(=&#&!P.(5#.,C Junior Rose Bern, who has been Opinion Editor for two semesters, won for her unsigned editorial “When the work isn’t yours.” This piece about plagiarism and other forms of cheating was among 27 winners chosen from 301 entries in the Editorial category.

The editorial began: It creeps into all classrooms and plagues students everywhere. It’s socially accepted and practiced in smaller and larger doses. The phenomenon is cheating. Don’t

gasp, because whether it’s copying a friend’s homework or cheating on an exam, this exists in all schools, including ours.

“It’s a major shock,” Rose said about winning an &6&#/(4"#(,!3(5#.,(,-$3C(FN!&,(6&.(:#"8&8'0("%3("4(,!3( hardest editorials I’ve ever had to write, and I’m proud of the Boiling Point for its other awards.”

Shalhevet competed against the top student newspapers across the nation and in English-speaking schools &#"*%/(,!3(6"#'/C(=+!""'.(&#3('-$-,3/(,"(5>3(3%,#-3.(:3#( category.

The Quill and Scroll contest is judged by the American Society of News Editors (ASNE), which most recently also awarded The Boiling Point an International First Place Award for the 2010-11 school year. All awardwinning stories can be read online at www.shalhevetboilingpoint.com.

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abbi Segal was out of town at the In a new twist to Color War breaktime and not involved, but in his weekout, the Student Activities Committee ly e-mail to the Shalhevet community spread a fake story among the student he praised the Boiling Point’s coverage. body saying that random drug testing “The Boiling Point ran a story that was about to begin at school. quoted administrators who promised THE BOILING POINT picked up on the drug testing,” Rabbi Segal wrote from .,"#0?( 13,,-%1( +"%5#$&,-"%( 4#"$( &/Argentina, where he was completing ministrators and publishing a story his MBA studies. “The reportage was April 25 that turned out to be false. A absolutely right—all quotes were scrutense day ended in laughter when Colpulously honest. The next day, the BP or War broke out at the end of Mincha, ran a story that it was all just a ruse. and people realized the drug testing That was right, too.” story had been a ruse to make it more But after he returned, on May 1 he unexpected. told editors to either remove certain The next day, Rabbi Ari Segal sent sections or take the story off the website an e-mail to the school mailing list in until a new version could be drafted. case anyone was confused.

The Boiling Point removed the story “To be clear, we are NOT implefrom the website that day, adding the menting such a policy, nor would I current version May 16. ever implement such a culture-chang“I thought the article was written in -%1( :"'-+0( 6-,!"*,( 5#.,( /-.+*..-%1( -,( haste and with far too much emotion with the school community — parents, for it to be objective,” Rabbi Segal wrote students and teachers,” the head of May 16 in answer to questions. “I asked school wrote. … to have it temporarily removed Meanwhile, the chain of events led while emotions were running high and to a dispute between THE BOILING POINT suggested a far more objective story to and school administrators, who felt the be written at that point. Just good journews coverage had been unfair, while nalism in my mind– particularly for a the news staff felt censored when told Jewish school with Jewish values.” to remove paragraphs or a complete Editor-in-chief Leila Miller said she .,"#0(4#"$(-,.(638.-,3(4"#(,!3(5#.,(,-$3C wished Rabbi Segal had suggested the =AG( $3$83#( ;3"#&( Y-$$3#( 5#.,( changes, instead of mandating them. leaked the false story to BP Commmu“We would have taken the suggesnity Editor Jacob Ellenhorn on Montion well,” Leila said. ”I think there day, April 23. SAC Faculty Advisor were problems with that story. We did Raizie Weissman said SAC was telling what we could with what we had and as many people as possible, to divert I was concerned about it at the time. talk from the likelihood that Color War J,( /35%-,3'0( %33/3/( ,"( 83( +!&%13/?( would be on Yom Haatzmaut coming but if he had suggested it, that would up later in the week. !&>3(833%(5%3(,""?(&%/(63(6"*'/(!&>3( But instead of spreading the rumor, changed it.”

Jacob began investigating, and Judaic Along the way, there were hurt feelStudies Principal Rabbi Ari Leubitz ings and some embarrassment among and school counselor Rachel Hecht the paper’s staff. Jacob Ellenhorn said 8",!(+"%5#$3/(;3"#&P.(.,"#0C the incident would hurt the Boiling “There will be drug testing taking Point’s credibility. place,” said Mrs. Hecht in an inter“We work so hard and they destroy view. Answering questions, she also our reputability,” Jacob said the day it gave some details about how students happened. “They took something they who tested positive would be treated. should be very proud of and they made Rabbi Leubitz said the supposed a fool out of us.” He said it was tantachange in policy had been “mandated BP PHOTO EMILIE BENYOWITZ mount to bullying. from outside the school” but declined F]H![U!Y&\I!Z*.)!@)6:!C$TC6B@64'!#)$J6!G4::)J!B.**)L!$'!6!J$B)!L.J4'(!C$:B)@4@4$'!$'!@?)!3B$J@!,$.J@!

SAC members said they had not ex&BJ4*!/7>!<@!=6%!6!L6Q!R$J!R.'!6'L!(6:)%+!A.@!@?)J)!=)J)!6*%$!RJ6Q)L!R))*4'(%> to say who was mandating it. pected the story to be published in the “I suspect there will be a test some Boiling Point. time in the future,” Rabbi Leubitz said. the story until after Wednesday’s Shacharit, saying that “We never expected an article to Both Rabbi Leubitz and Mrs. Hecht knew about the he’d been getting “push-back” and needed “to get all [his] be written,” said Raquel Garshofsky. “We just wanted to ruse. ducks in a row.” He did not tell them the story was false. spread the drug story rumor to everyone.”

The editors agreed, even though all interviews had been Asked April 26 why he had gone along with the ruse, n Wednesday morning, April 25, the false story “on the record” – that is, the people interviewed knew that Rabbi Leubitz said, “We were just trying to get the students was published on this website under the headline, “Shal- they would be quoted and did not ask to be anonymous. to kind of talk about this, and it was supposed to be fun — hevet to begin random drug testing.” It quoted Mrs. Hecht They also debated the question of whether it was right to and to try to make them believe that it was happening to withhold information that could affect their readers, be- break out Color War. as saying testing would include both students and staff.

“The intent was to play a trick on the student body, Links were posted and shared on Facebook, and accord- cause if the testing had been done the next morning, stunothing particular against the Boiling Point,” he said. ing to Google Analytics, 212 people viewed the website dents would have wanted a heads-up the night before.

Rabbi Leubitz said later that he was expected the paper kBoiling Point faculty advisor Mrs. Joelle Keene said that day, the highest one-day total the website has had.

Then Wednesday afternoon, at the end of a special all- ,"(/3'&0(,!3(.,"#0((*%,-'(!3(.:3+-5+&''0(.&-/(-,(6&.(&'#-1!,(,"( editors had followed usual procedure by checking with Rabbi Leubitz and Mrs. Hecht. school Mincha honoring Yom HaZikaron, Rabbi Leubitz “We check everything we pubannounced the supposed drug testing to the student body lish with the administration — and began to play a video about urine collection. that’s how we make sure our readSuddenly the video was interrupted by SAC co-chairs ers can trust us and can use the Yonah Nimmer and Raquel Garshofsky shouting into the Boiling Point to distinguish facts camera, ”Color War breakout!” from rumors,” Mrs. Keene said.

Mrs. Hecht, who’d been informed about the plan by Student reaction was mixed but =AG?(.&-/($&%0(.,*/3%,.(+&$3(,"(!3#("45+3(&%/(.!3(/-/%P,( -- Rachel Hecht, school counselor mostly accepting of the breakout deny the rumor because she didn’t want to ruin Color War. ruse.

“It was an incredibly uncomfortable day,” Mrs. Hecht Junior Adir Hassid was one of said. “I had mixed feelings about it [the rumor]. It led to some incredibly productive conversations with students. publish. After Shacharit Wednesday, Editor-in-Chief Leila many who had read the Boiling Point story and believed it.

Miller, Web Editor Jordan Banafsheha, and Jacob went to “I was appalled,” Adir said. ”They took our trust and No way do I or the school take drug testing lightly.”

“The intention was to do something bold and they did S&88-(;3*8-,<P.("45+3(&%/(&.23/(-4(!3(!&/(&%0,!-%1(,"(&//( then threw it away.”

Senior Deanna Grunfeld, the White Team captain, was it,” she said. “Because drug abuse is taken very seriously to the story. He said he didn’t. =-,,-%1(-%(S&88-(;3*8-,<P.("45+3(6-,!(;3-'&(&%/(K"#/&%?( also surprised that the drug testing story was not true. But that’s why SAC knew it would have the shock value they were looking for. Both myself and the school take drug Jacob pressed the “publish” button on the website’s control she thought it was a good way to announce Color War. page. Rabbi Leubitz says he did not realize that was hap“I think that’s the point of Color War breakout — to testing very seriously.” take it too far,” Deanna said. “When I planned Color War She said that after she was approached by Jacob about pening.

“When they asked me if I had more to add, I did tell in eighth grade, kids were crying. But that’s what made it the rumor, she realized that a story would be written and them I had nothing to add at that time,” Rabbi Leubitz so great, and people remembered it. asked Rabbi Leubitz to prevent it from being published. wrote in an e-mail to The Boiling Point May 10. ”However, “Each year, kids always complain how lame the color I did not imagine that was permission for them to push the war break outs are… so they have to take it too far to make here was some confusion as to whether THE BOILING POINT was given the green light to publish the story or not. button right there and then without verifying they were sure that we all like it.”

Everyone agrees that on the afternoon before Color War publishing.”

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BY JACOB ELSPAS, STAFF WRITER When the Class of 2012 left for Poland and Israel last month, more than $5,000 of the money they’d raised so every senior could go had been brought in by parent Deborah Joffe, mother Major donors: $60,000 of senior Ariella and sophomore Talya Joffe, who started sellMishloach Manot drive: $6,000 ing used books last fall from a table in the Copy Room on the Shalhevet Amazon book sales: $5,200 teachers’ hallway.

Seniors were busy raising money throughout the year, with Student store sales: $3,226 projects ranging from selling donuts in the hallways and pizza Price paid by parents: $5,200 per student, unless &4,3#(.+!""'(,"(5%/-%1('&#13(/"%&,-"%.(4#"$(13%3#"*.(/"%"#.C(( reduced by scholarships Fresh fruit vendors in the foyer at lunchtime were especially Fruit man, pizza, donuts, etc.: $2,600 popular.

According to interviews with Development Director Aaron Total trip cost: $182,000 Keigher and other administrators, in all about $22,100 of the who departed May 15 and will return June 5. The group was met total $182,000 budget was raised by in-school fundraising projin Israel by former Judaic Studies teacher Rabbi Ofer Sabo, and Juects. Another $60,000 came from major donors..

Parents of seniors paid about $5,200 each, and except for one daic Studies Principal Rabbi Ari Leubitz joined them there as well.

Mrs. Joffe said anybody can donate books by putting them eistudent with a family obligation, every senior was able to go.

For the second year in a row, the Student Store donated all of its ther in the bin in front of the reception desk in the foyer or in a proceeds to the trip. The store earned $3,226, according to junior 8"E("%(,!3()""#("4(,!3(+":0(#""$(80(,!3(8""2+&.3.C(N!3(8""2+&.3.( hold books that have been inventoried and put up for sale. Mrs. Jacob Ellenhorn, who manages it.

A mishloach manot drive netted $12,000, half of which went to Joffe has a careful system.

The books all have a minimum price of $1.18, she said, partly the senior trip. The Purim baskets were assembled by the Shalhe."( ,!30( +&%( $&23( &( :#"5,( &%/( :&#,'0( ,"( *.3( %*$83#.( ,!&,( #3'&,3( vet Parents circle.

The book drive was new this year. A few years ago, Mrs. Joffe to Judaism, using the numbers 18 and 54 – multiples of the nurealized how much her own four children’s textbooks were cost- meric value of Hebrew letters that spell “chai,” or life. Shalhevet’s ing and started buying used books on line. It went so well that Amazon page has more than 530 books currently listed online, she set up a site called “Shalhevet Books” on Amazon.com to sell Mrs. Joffe said, and most of them currently have the lowest online whatever people would donate, and money started pouring in. An price, making them more likely to be bought. She plans to run the site for another four years until he youngest son graduates, and average week brings in about $100 for about 25 books.

“In just about seven months, I had donated $5,095 to the Po- hopes by then there will be somebody else who will take the job.

FJ(!&>3(,"($&23(,#-:.(,"(,!3(:".,("45+3(."("4,3%(,!&,(,!30(2%"6( land Israel trip… and all of that money was earned just through people giving away books that they didn’t use anymore,” Mrs. me by name,” Mrs. Joffe said. “It’s a lot of work, but in the end, it goes to the Poland-Israel scholarship fund, and that is a very Joffe told The Boiling Point.

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When you hear the word ‘Haredi’...

What’s the difference between Haredim and other Jews? Trick question: we’re all the same.

G*('$)6,%)8?'#('#$'")('*"+)66)"'()'!"3'1"'1"(#5 Haredi sentiment in the Modern Orthodox and non-Orthodox worlds.

This sentiment is most likely derived from the famous – and true – stories of Haredi men spitting at girls they consider to be immodestly dressed or expressing anger at people who drive through their neighborhoods on Shabbat. To some Jews, Haredi becomes synonymous with malevolence, a sect that they don’t want to be+)6,'(%,'A21"B,('3,!"#(#)"').'122'H,8$I'' But this stops now. The idea that we can generalize an entire group of people is ludicrous, especially when the collective Jewish people have so suffered at the hands of those who excessively stereotyped.

More than dangerous, it’s simply wrong. We are the people who can fully understand that not all fruit in one tree will become sour. Within the Haredi sect, there are Jews who use repugnant means to express censure, and there are also Haredi who denounce these people. Extensive Boiling Point interviews with Haredim in Los Angeles found a diversity of opinion, but most were strongly against what took place in Bet Shemesh earlier this year.

Compounding the problem, stories about the kindness and philanthropy of Haredi Jews typically aren’t published because the media don’t believe those stories will spark interest. What

does spark excitement is a story about a group of Haredi Jews that have thrown stones or spit on little girls. And thus the stereotype is born.

When Jews start to stereotype other Jews, they also forget transgressions that have been committed by their own. Within our Modern Orthodox community we’ve had our share – but Bernie Madoff shouldn’t be allowed to represent all Modern Orthodox Jews. No one wants to be trapped under a blanket of lies.

Haredim that you meet are no different than any other Orthodox Jew—they have some different customs and might observe laws in Judaism differently, but when it comes down to core principles, these we share. Often people can overlook that, wrongly citing anomalies as examples of insurmountable differences.

So now, we have a responsibility placed on us.

It’s time to break this stereotype. Step one? Just go out and meet Haredim—confronting stereotypes head-on is the only way to eradicate them.

We can disagree with particular actions, and we should say so, sometimes strongly. We can also highlight our differences in philosophy, and explore them without of feeling superior.

And at the same time, we should watch our own behavior, and be sure that our actions are a credit to Modern Orthodoxy, to Judaism and to humanity -- and not something that will spark a stereotype a whole generation might have to work to overcome.

Bittersweet end for AP Art should be sweet beginning for something better The closure of the AP Studio Art marks a bittersweet moment for students interested in arts.

Although students are no longer able to take an AP art class, and are therefore unable to receive college credit, a new honors art class is being offered next year.

AP Art, designed by the College Board and taught by Art and Performing Arts Department chair Roen Salem, forced students to explore one area of concentration and create 36 pieces based on it. Honors Art – designed by Roen herself -will permit students to pursue a less focused and rigid art schedule, one that explores numerous artistic media and expands their artistic knowledge.

So we say it’s about time Shalhevet’s moved away from AP art and welcomed the honors class. But the removal of the AP art class leaves the school with a daunting question: Should it pursue a gradual removal process of all AP classes and replace them with something else?

Perhaps the International Baccalaureate program?

Or more honors classes?

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Some may argue that with the eradication of AP’s, students won’t be able to receive college credit in a class. However, all a student needs a 3 or higher on an AP exam to receive credit – he or she doesn’t actually have to take the class.

Today’s college admissions standards dictate that anyone hoping to go to a top school take whatever APs are offered. Only by removing them from our curriculum can Shalhevet get us out of this trap. Hopefully, the educational road ahead for Shalhevet will be slow and bumpy, but with an end result that pleases both the students and the faculty. Because AP’s don’t promote knowledge, they simply promote stress.

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BY ROSE BERN" OPINION EDITOR It’s the middle of May, and in just a few short days, our Science Fair project is due.

The seniors have just completed all their AP exams and are putting the !"#$%#"&'()*+%,$')"'(%,#-'$,"#)-' projects, while trying to mentally prepare for the Poland-Israel trip.

Juniors have also recently taken their APs, and most have the SATs or SAT Subject Tests in early June, on top ).'(/0#+122/'3#.!+*2('4*"#)-5/,1-'61(%' classes, Judaic projects and mounds of homework. Then we have the sophomores, just dealing with the normalcies of stress in high $+%))2'7'#"+2*3#"&'!"12$' coming up in less than a month.

And all of these people 6*$('$)6,%)8'!"3'(%,'(#6,' and inspiration to complete a Science Fair project.

The Science Fair, something new this year started by new department chair Dr. Jay Smallwood, seems like a good idea. Why not get science out of the textbooks and into our kitchens or living rooms? Why not make it more hands-on, creative and individual?

Well, lots of reasons. First of all, timing. A science project should be conducted with adequate time – perhaps most of the school year – to construct something meaningful. We did not have that this year.

And don’t make it due in May. In the end, most students created their projects the night before they were due, and the results were not particularly original or deep.

Secondly, the Science Fair lacked organization. Projects were competing against one another before judges but there were no uniform instructions; instead, all teachers distributed different guidelines. Winners were announced, but there were no prizes or awards.

But most importantly, the entire enterprise should be voluntary, not mandatory. Kids who want to pursue science should have opportunities that will foster their talents, the same way Shalhevet offers the One-Acts for budding playwrights, sports teams for athletes and Model Congress for passionate debaters. But none of those multi-hour, huge-commitment enrichment activities is mandatory. Students are allowed to choose which parts of their education they want to nurture and develop. That’s part of why they love it here.

Many students, especially 10th grade Chemistry students (I experienced this once), have enough trouble 8#(%'(%,'$+#,"(#!+'+)*-$,$'(%1('1-,'-,9*#-,3:'.)-+#"&'(%,6' to create a project external to that science course is unlikely to spark a lost passion. More likely, it will just steal their sleep, and also take time away from the co-curriculars that help them rejuvenate from homework, the long school day, and other struggles -- including science class.

Some may view the Science Fair as a creative, fun and educational way to raise their grade. But that doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be optional. The beauty of our student body is its diversity. There should be something for everybody, but no one can do everything. ;(<$'3,!"#(,2/'&-,1('(%,'=+#,"+,'>1#-'81$'133,3?'1"3'#(@$'12$)'")-mal for a new project to have rough edges. But even if it’s executed differently next year and the quality of projects improves, students should not have this burden on them unless they want it. It should be viewed as an extra enrichment program, optional for science-oriented students. For the rest of us, already under a gargantuan amount of stress, making the Science Fair mandatory is no different from saying that I, despite being vertically challenged, should be required to compete on a basketball team.

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In the end, most students created their projects the night before they were due, and the results were not particularly original or deep.

BY HANNAH!LEEBA ELLENHORN" LIFESTYLES EDITOR As I sit in my usual seat in chemistry class my mind always drifts to the same thought, “When will covalent and ionic bonds ever be relevant out there in the real world?”

Well lucky for me, the Shalhevet Science Department has mandated participation in the science fair for us all. This will give everyone the +%1"+,'()'!&*-,')*('4*$('%)8'(%,'&)AA2,3/&))B'8,'2,1-"'#"')*-'$+#ence classes actually matters in the world.

I believe that every student should be more than happy to participate in the science fair. Shalhevet is one of the few high schools that gives its students the opportunity to do something useful with their science education: research a topic we are curious about and then, *$#"&'(%,'$+#,"(#!+'6,(%)3?'0-,01-,'()'&#C,')*-'+*-#)$#(/'1')",5(8)' punch.

Not only does the science fair make sense to those of us who are +*-#)*$'1"3'81"('()'!&*-,')*('%)8'()'A-#"&'(,D(A))B'+)"+,0($'()'2#.,?' but it also gives so-called kinesthetic learners -- those who learn by moving and doing -- a chance to shine. There are many different types of learners at Shalhevet. There are the visual learners, auditory learners and the kinesthetic learners. All of you kinesthetic learners out there, listen up! If the regular “take notes and spit back information” thing just doesn’t seem to work for you, the science fair will give you the opportunity to do something that is not only creative and fun but might possibly improve your science grade. Did I just put “fun” and “improve your science grade” in the same sentence? I think I did! In the past, there was hardly any way to boost your science grade other than tests, and now that we are given the opportunity, we should not pass it by!

Let’s be honest. Since Dr. Smallwood’s arrival, the science program at Shalhevet is actually worthy of being called a “program.” Dr. Smallwood moved the science lab and is in the process of revamping the science curriculum. Dr. Smallwood seems intent on improving the science program and the Science Fair is certainly part of his long-term plan. That’s a good thing, fellow Shalhevetites. Shalhevet is in the process of joining other top-notch private schools who have done this long ago.

I can understand why some feel the science fair is just an extra assignment during the most hectic time of the school year. People may even say that the reason most high schools don’t engage in science fairs is because they are juvenile and do BP PHOTOS BY EMILIE not help us with our education at all.

BENYOWITZ And what about time? There isn’t nearly enough time to complete a science experiment. Right?

To all you naysayers, I say stop whining. I urge you all to participate and do so with gusto. The science fair isn’t just some extra non-sensical project -- it will provide you with an opportunity that few other high schools can: to learn through experimentation.

Also, as high schoolers it is our duty to choose a science fair project that is not juvenile, a project that will require the $+#,"(#!+'B")82edge that we have gained through our career at Shalhevet. Unless you are searching for the cure to cancer, the amount of time given to us to complete the science fair is more than enough to do something meaningful and interesting.

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

“I don’t listen to non-Jewish music,” said Sarah, a sophomore with nine siblings, while she worked on Purim decorations with other students after school in early March. !"#$%&'()*$&+#,-%.&/%-$&,#%&0&$123(43&)5*2.&/&+#,-%&622*&*(72&/-8& missing out.”

Daniel Pomerand, a junior at Yeshiva Gedolah, an all-boys Haredi high school on West Olympic Boulevard, spends 15 hours a day in school – eight studying Judaic subjects.

“Everything we do has an effect on our lives,” Daniel said. “We feel that by going to a movie, that’s a distraction you have that takes away from Jewish life and helping other people and your learning.” &!9&:#5,'&'()*&30,&20$(*:&;2&(,<52,32+=>&$0(+&?03@2*=&0& senior at Bnos Esther, a small Chasidic school on Formosa Drive. “It’s hard [to keep the religion] if you’re going to allow certain things into your life, as strong as you think you’ll be. When you have the chinuch* and the teachings of what my school offers, that’s what helps you become a strong person -- strong to support your husband in learn-

ing, strong to raise your children like that.”

Haredi translates as “he who is fearful of the word of God,” and not all of those in Los Angeles whom others might call Haredi use that term for themselves, partly because of dislike of labels and also because some associate the term with religious extremists in Israel.

But there is a community centered in the La Brea neighborhood that insulates itself from the secular world, engaging in shidduchim* -- arranged marriages – avoiding going to the

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From Beit Shemesh, a spark that !"#$%!&'('%)**!+),-'.+!

Last fall, an insular community that does its best to separate itself from the outside world was thrust into the spotlight after Haredi men were accused of having spat at, and otherwise harassed, a Modern Orthodox secondgrader for the way she was dressed on her way to school.

The girl’s family said that far from being a one-time occurrence, it was part of a pattern, and the men involved did not deny it.

While many members of the Haredi community in Los Angeles said they don’t consider those involved to be part of their community, others tried to explain what they did.

Elchonon Cohen, 22, went to Toras Emes elementary school on La Brea Avenue before going on to study at ye$@(H0$&(,&L0*0;0$0$&0,+&M072G##+=&N.I.&O2&$0(+&@2&@0+&0& mixed reaction.

“I disagree strongly with what they did but have an understanding of the ideals that they live with,” Elchonon said. “To them and any Haredi, the rules of Torah are not just suggestions. They’re a reality – they’re something that’s serious.”

“A person can get carried away with trying to keep that. In no way should you react in the way that was done ;5%&)23#',(C2&@#G&(81#)%0,%&%@#$2&%@(,'$&0)2.> Daniel Pomerand, a junior at Yeshiva Gedolah High F3@##*&#,&R*:81(3&B#5*2H0)+=&G0$&@#))(42+&;:&%@2&B2(%& Shemesh incident.

“We don’t associate with those people,” said Daniel. “Those people make Haredi people look disgusting, cause chilul Hashem* (desecration of God’s name), and %@2:&8072&12#1*2&K52$%(#,&)2*('(#5$&12#1*2.&/&G#5*+&,#%& spit on anybody or an eight-year-old girl.” ?0;;(&A#2*&B5)$C%:,=&D+530%(#,0*&E()23%#)&0%&B0($&A00kov High School on Beverly Boulevard, said what happened was understandable. !J@2& (,S5$%(32& %#& O0)2+(& I2G$& ($& 5,;20)0;*2=>& ?0;;(& B5)$%C:,&$0(+.&!T@0%&%@2&'#:($@&G#)*+&($&%):(,'&%#&+#&%#& the Jewish world, that’s what the non-Haredi community is doing to the Haredi community.”

He said the spitting incident “was another way to bash the people who make us feel most guilty. You start feeling guilty – ‘Why can’t I live the way I want to live?’”

B5%& ?0;;(& 9H)#@#8& LC01,(7=& +()23%#)& #6& %@2& I2G($@& M20),(,'&DU3@0,'2=&$0(+&@2&+#2$,-%&)23#',(C2&%@#$2&G@#& spat on the girl as Haredi.

movies and listening to secular music, and focusing above all on Torah study. ?0;;(& A#2*& B5)$C%:,=& %@2& D+530%(#,0*& E()23%#)& #6& F0)0@-$& high school -- Bais Yaakov, which is located on Beverly Boulevard and Fuller Avenue, said his school can be described as Haredi, and he explained what being Haredi means to him.

“Haredi means that my religion is such that I won’t fool 0)#5,+&G(%@&(%=>&$0(+&?0;;(&B5)$C%:,.&!9,:%@(,'&%@0%&G#5*+& inconvenience me is irrelevant if that’s what the Torah is teach-

“It’s not the Haredi community, it’s extremists dress(,'&*(72&O0)2+(=>&?0;;(&LC01,(7&$0(+.&!J@2&H0$%&80S#)(%:& of people in Beit Shemesh don’t agree with that group, and now the entire Haredi community is plastered with that.”

“The most painful part is that so many people are working so hard to show the beauty of Judaism to fellow Jews, and in one swoop this makes everyone run to the hills. If you fear God you don’t spit at the girl.”

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ing me to do.”

F@0*@2H2%& I5+0(3& F%5+(2$& %203@2)& ?0;;(& 9)(& F3@G0)C;2)'& said Haredi viewpoints don’t take modern values into account.

“Modern Orthodoxy doesn’t take its cues from inconve,(2,32=>&?0;;(&F3@G0)C;2)'&$0(+.&!/%&2H#*H2$&6)#8&3@0,'(,'& values in the world.”

For example, Haredim still prevent women from studying Gemarah because of tradition, while Modern Orthodoxy takes women’s intellectual, spiritual and religious curiosity into account.

B5%&?0;;(&B5)$%C:,&%@(,7$&%@0%&#5%$(+2&H(2G1#(,%$&0)2&()relevant. !J@2&G(**&#6&%@2&J#)0@&($&G@0%&/&620)=>&?0;;(&B5)$C%:,&$0(+.& “It’s a positive fear. My love [for it] is so great that everything else becomes completely irrelevant.”

His community is also deeply troubled by what it sees as a

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It’s not the Haredi community, it’s extremists dressing like Haredi. The vast majority of people in Beit Shemesh don’t agree with that group, and now the entire Haredi community is plastered with that.

—Rabbi Avrohom Czapnik

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negative perception of the Haredi. December tension over religious extremism in Israel was sparked when members of the Haredi community in Beit Shemesh spat on a Modern Orthodox school girl walking to school because they thought she wasn’t dressed modestly; she was wearing a skirt below the knee and a blouse with mid-length sleeves.

Clashes - sometimes violent - between the Haredi and secular Israeli community followed as the incident gained media attention. Orthodox men walking out of a military ceremony where women were singing, and secular Jews protested against “kosher” buses in Beit Shemesh where women must sit in the back of the bus for modesty reasons.

Also bubbling to the surface were seculars’ lingering resentments over the fact that Haredim don’t have to serve in the Israel Defense Forces, because their $%5+:& #6& J#)0@& ($& #643(0**:& 2K50*& (,& importance.

E0,(2*& )23#',(C2+& %@2& 8($3#,ceptions people have towards Haredim and tried to correct them.

“They think we’re better than other people because we’re more religious,” he said. “We don’t think that at all - the Torah tells us to love every Jew and we love our people.

“Especially after the Beit Shemesh incident, that was a completely isolated event. People think that all Haredi boys don’t talk to girls and won’t say ‘good Shabbos’ to girls.”

He said that Haredi boys are not isolated from the outside world like some may think.

“Me and my friends are into stocks and I read newspapers cover to cover every weekend,” Daniel said. “Everyone has to separate their differences and put them aside and come together because that’s what we need right now.”

Daniel added that he plays basketball for an hour-and-a-half a day.

“We’re not just learning machines,” he said. “We can’t completely shut ourselves from the out$(+2&G#)*+&#)&2*$2&:#5&;23#82&3)0C:.& We play sports, we exercise – we have a lot of fun.”

However, the Haredi still live in an insular community.

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Haredi dating: Rabbis, research, resumes, and a look into the soul Although students at Shalhevet may start dating before girls at Bais Yaakov, they’re probably farther away from marriage. Most girls in the Haredi community expect to begin the shidduchim* – matchmaking – process when they return from a year of seminary after high school. !A#5&)20*(C2&(%-$&H2):&$80)%=&%@2&$:$%28=>&$0(+&M2#)0=& 21, a Bais Yaakov alumna currently going through the shidduch process. “Once you go out for marriage it’s serious– because at the end of the day why are we here?”

“My purpose in life is not to have a career,” she said, though she plans to study nursing at a secular college.

“It’s to raise Haredi children.”

According to numerous conversations with Haredi teens and 20-somethings, the shidduchim process usually begins by giving a resume with family information and references to a matchmaker, or shadchen, who will %@2,&%):&%#&4,+&0&80%3@.&D03@&608(*:&%@2,&G(**&%:1(30**:& research the other for a few weeks, speaking to multiple sources before agreeing that their children should meet.

“When a certain amount of research is done by the 10)2,%& ;26#)2@0,+=& (%& 2*(8(,0%2$& 0& *#%& #6& %@2& +(6435*%(2$& that are out there in the young adult world,” said Elchonon Cohen, 22, who plans on starting the shidduch process soon.

He says he feels no pressure to marry young and that he’ll date a girl for “as long as it takes.” Depending on “her ideas and her wants,” he said, she might work outside the home.

M2#)0& @0$& ;22,& #,& +0%2$& G(%@& 4H2& +(662)2,%& 12#1*2=& (,3*5+(,'& #,2& G@2,& $@2& <2G& %#& N2G& A#)7& %#& 822%& %@2& person. Dates are in public places like restaurants or hotel lobbies.

On a date, she tries to discover the man’s character traits, religious observance and “what kind of house he wants to build.”

“I don’t want a T.V. in the house or non-Jewish music,” said Leora. “The point is to get to see if you’re compatible – to see if you have the same goals, if you want the same lifestyle.

“By the third date you usually know,” she added.

“You’re forced to see into their soul.”

If she doesn’t see a future with a date, she’ll say no through the matchmaker, making the process less con-

frontational. “Most of us are looking for the same thing,” $0(+&?03@2*=&0&$2,(#)&0%&B,#$&D$%@2).&!F#82#,2&G@#&$%0:$& in learning for a few years, and then goes on to be a rabbi or teach Torah. It’s not something we need to be preached to about – it’s more like that’s what our fathers do.”

Hannah, a senior at Bais Yaakov, said she hoped her husband wouldn’t work for a secular company, since she 8('@%&4,+&(%$&$#3(0*&2H2,%$&5,3#86#)%0;*2.

“I would want him to go into some kind of education #)&G#)7&6#)&0&I2G($@&#)'0,(C0%(#,=>&$0(+&O0,,0@.

933#)+(,'&%#&?0;;(&A#2*&B5)$C%:,=&D+530%(#,0*&E()23tor at Bais Yaakov, that school has a shadchen* on salary G@#& <(2$& (,& 6)#8& %@2& D0$%& L#0$%& 0& 62G& %(82$& 0& :20)& (,& order to meet as many alumnae as possible who have returned from seminary and are ready for a match.

But some say the system has drawbacks.

“The shidduch world puts unnecessary pressure on people,” said Leah, 23, a Bais Yaakov alumna studying at Southwestern Law School in Los Angeles.

She cited the resume people turn in, which can include details like whether the boy wears a white or colored shirt during the week. & !/%-$& H2):& (812)$#,0*& 0,+& (%-$& H2):& $512)43(0**:& based,” said Leah. “Some matchmakers have been known %#&%2**&'()*$&(%-**&;2&20$(2)&%#&4,+&0&$@(++53@&(6&:#5&*#$2&PQ& pounds or if you wear a bit more make-up. People want to marry into a more religious family because it seems more prestigious.

“People do all this research, but other things – is this person patient, is he considerate – people forget. It’s very on paper ‘how good does this person look?’”

On the other hand, she thinks the system works well for people who are very insulated.

“College was a weird experience because it was a mixed environment I was never in,” she said. “How am I supposed to understand relationship aspects of how guys and girls work if I’ve never been friends with a guy?”

Perhaps that’s why in the Haredi world, where faith is cited in every decision, the shidduchim system is alive and well.

“Matchmakers are very busy,” said Leora. “It’s all from God.” -- Leila Miller

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HAREDI: Behind the label is a world apart Continued from Page 15 01-$9%,01-9%B-<+.A@ The problem with Coffee Bean, she said, isn’t Coffee Girls are often at school on weekends, coming in on Bean itself so much as the implications of being seen in tor of the Jewish Learning Exchange, which works to bring religious observance and knowledge to non-religious Jews, Sunday for make-up exams or on Saturday nights for so- public – something the Boiling Point encountered when cial programs and movie screenings. There are themed trying to photograph the girls at Bais Yaakov and wasn’t said being Haredi is “living a humble, simple lifestyle.” !"##$%&'"()$*%+,-.)/0%1"2-%"%34%$)%1$.%1,5-6%")+%1$.% Shabbatons, and sometimes Bais Yaakov hires a band to "<<,?-+%0,%#-H"=.-6%!"##$%L=9.0':)%."$+6%01-%(1,0,.%?,=<+% seven children attended Bnos Esther and Yeshiva Gedolah (<":%,)%5,0'-$%N1"##"0A be seen by boys at Shalhevet.

Sarah, a 10th grader, is one of the heads of the Carnival before going to seminary or yeshiva.

“They want that we shouldn’t be out and about and Committee and recalled how the girls once made the hall- -2-9:,)-%.--$);%=.6@%."$+%!"H1-<A%780/.%),0%01"0%?-%1"2-%0,% However, he is reluctant to label himself as Haredi.

78/5% 09:$);% 0,% #-% "% 9-<$;$,=.% >-?6@% 1-% ."$+A% 78% B0% $)0,% ways look like a sukkah. be kept in our rooms.”

“It’s a family,” Sarah said. “I have a home away from the yeshivish* category, the Haredi category. These terms !"H1-<% +-.H9$#-+% L),.% V.01-9% ".% 75,9-% H<,.-+% ")+% home.”

"9-%+$.5$..$2-C%8%+,)/0%B)+%01-5%1-<(D=<A@ tight,” explaining that while Bais Yaakov has girls who are Most of the girls don’t have TV at home, and the from different backgrounds, and it wouldn’t be that un!"##$%E$0'1"*%F+<-9.0-$)6%G$9-H0,9%,D%8)0-9D"$01%FDD"$9.% at the Simon Wiesenthal Center, describes himself as a school has a rule that students can’t go to the movies. In- usual to see a girl who had transferred from YULA, Bnos “modern Haredi,” explaining that he participates in the stead, the school shows Jewish Esther doesn’t have that B<5.%5"+-%#:%01-%&1,D-0'%&1"$5% Most of the girls don’t have a TV at home, kind of diversity. secular world while living an insulated life.

“Lots of [Haredi] people in the U.S. are living in two Heritage Foundation, an Ortho- and the school has a rule that students can’t According to Mrs. ?,9<+.6@%!"##$%F+<-9.0-$)%."$+A%78%?,9*%$)%01-%I,+-9)%J9- +,O%),)P(9,B0%,9;")$'"0$,)A Heyman, who created “The next day you shudder go to the movies. Instead, the school (Bais Bais Yaakov’s honors thodox community, I have a secular education.” !"##$%F+<-9.0-$)%."$+%K"9-+$5%09:%0,%<$2-%$)%".%7+-<$;10- every time you want to say some- Yaakov) shows Jewish films made by the English program, aled isolation” as possible, with a lifestyle focusing on the thing about someone – these are though secular books Chofetz Chaim Heritage Foundation. words and one has to think about centrality of Torah. with Greek mythology, “The Modern Orthodox world takes more risks in al- 01-56@% ."$+% K"))"16% 9-Q-H0$);% Christian content, vile lowing things in,” he said. “Some groups argue that’s silly on a movie she had seen at school the Saturday night be- language, romance or “anti-Torah values” are barred, stufore about the effect of gossip. and toxic to the authenticity of important Jewish values. dents still have ample material to work with.

31-%;$9<.%+,)/0%.,H$"<$'-%?$01%#,:.R%5,.0%?$<<%-)0-9%01-% “What motivates people to be Haredi is the lifestyle. It’s “We’re limited in the kind of books that the girls are alshidduchim process after seminary, one year after high lowed to read because they have to be appropriate for the a world with a lot of passion and emotion.”

Haredi families have created a vibrant community, al- school. They follow a dress code consisting of a mid-calf morals of Bais Yaakov,” she said. Louisa May Alcott, Oscar length skirt and a long-sleeved shirt with a neckline above Wilde and Shakespeare are in the curriculum, but not The beit with different goals than the non-Haredi one.

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Scarlett Letter*, which deals with the aftermath of adultery.

“We would be embarrassed if the school had other exschool come from non-Haredi families.

“Whatever we do, we do through what I call frum-col“We don’t care… as long as she’s here to learn and pectations – Bais Yaakov is a movement,” said Sarah, who ored glasses. We’ll discuss the Torah perspective on issues +,-.)/0%H,5-%?$01%")%";-)+"6@%!"##$%L=9.'0:)%."$+A%7M-% said talking to teenage boys is “a foreign concept.” in a piece of literature.”

7S,%,)-%$)%,=9%H$9H<-%+,-.%01"06@%.1-%."$+A%7M-%"..,H$"0-% are who we are.”

After high school the girls go on to seminary either in School at Bais Yaakov – a tall silver building at 7373 talking with boys with marriage.”

Israel or in the United States, after which many attend !"##$% L=9.'0:)% -H1,-+% Maalot, a Jewish educational center in Los Angeles that Beverly Boulevard – starts the girls. at 8:05 a.m. and goes until gives college credit. Smaller groups go to Touro or Stern We don’t associate with those people.

“We cater only to cer- College, Jewish institutions for higher education, to earn 4:30 p.m., with Judaic Stud0"$)%0:(-%,D%(-,(<-6@%!"##$% secular degrees. ies classes taking up half the Those people make Haredi people look L=9.'0:)%."$+6%7")+%(-,(<-% day. There are many student Few Bais Yaakov alumni attend secular colleges. disgusting, cause chilul Hashem*, and who don’t behave outside committees, including a “It totally happens but is not common,” said Hannah, they make people question religious of school the way it’s ex- a Bais Yaakov senior who has taken three APs and thinks Lashon Hara committee and people. I would not spit on anybody… pected to behave inside of she’ll go to Maalot after seminary. “Sometimes it’s the a group of 10 girls known as school don’t belong in the women who want to support a family.” the “chessed drivers,” who — Daniel Pomerand, junior at Yeshiva movement. If you think ,9;")$'-%H1-..-+%-2-)0.A Mrs. Heyman said she had two Bais Yaakov graduates Gedolah High School talking to a boy is some- who were accepted to Harvard but opted to attend Stern.

Colorful posters in the thing you do, Shalhevet is hallways proclaiming “Don’t “It has nothing to do with intellect or being prepared the place to go.” forget a lashon hara free diet” -- it has to do with your value system,” Mrs. Heyman said.

Whatever their similarities, schools within the Haredi “If you can be in an environment that’s compatible with remind girls not to be hurtful, and every student is paired up with a “little sister” from an elementary or middle H,55=)$0:%"<.,%1"2-%01-$9%+$DD-9-)H-.A%!"H1-<%D9,5%L),.% your value system, then you’re going to do it.” school in the beginning of the year. The students also put Esther described Bais Yaakov as an “in-the-middle com“The goal is to really achieve an intelligent Jewish on a song and dance festival, called “Halleli,” every two munity school.” mother,” said Mrs. Heyman. “It’s not so you can be the “The way we conduct ourselves is basically the same president of the United States, it’s so you can be a good years, which as many as 500 women attend.

“Bais Yaakov is very based on chessed*” – deeds of lov- 01$);6%T#=0U%L"$.%E""*,2%?$<<%<,,*%"0%=.%".%-O09-5-6@%!"H1-<% mother and raise children.” ingkindness – said Mrs. Sylvia Heyman, a longtime Eng- said. !"##$%L=9.'0:)%."$+%9-;"9+<-..%,D%?1-01-9%01-:%+-H$+-% She said girls from Bnos Esther aren’t allowed to bring to attend a secular college, it’s important that the girls have lish teacher at Bais Yaakov, adding that the school also has their phones to school or go to Coffee Bean, for example, a mentor – usually a rabbi – to help them decide their fua puppy adoption program.

“It’s also based on developing the creative side of a stu- while girls from Bais Yaakov do. ture education.

“It’s that extra sensitivity, if you want to call it that,” dent,” Mrs. Heyman said. “Bais Yaakov stresses that if a 7&,<<-;-%$.%<$*-%"%1,.($0"<6@%1-%."$+A%7S,%,)-%<,,*.%D,9person is not so bright intellectually, you have to develop !"H1-<%."$+A ward to going there. They don’t consider themselves a better person because they were there. Torah education is something you live for. It’s your life, it’s your oxygen.

Secular education – it’s a means to do things.”

Leah, an alumna of Bais Yaakov now studying at Southwestern Law School in Los Angeles, says her career path isn’t typical of Bais Yaakov graduates, and calls herself a “modern Haredi.”

“Putting 25 hours a day into law school is not conducive to looking for guys and that sort of thing,” she said.

But she added that the Haredi community is coming around to the idea of women having professional careers.

“If you want to support entire households while husbands learn they need to be more than secretaries and teachers,” Leah said.

F0% B9.0% W-"1% "00-)+-+% )=9.$);% .H1,,<% #-H"=.-% “that’s what frum girls do,” but then she decided to pursue a different career.

“This is my dream and I wanted to do it, so I dropped out of nursing school,” Leah said. “My really religious friends said, ‘Good for you but how are you going to get married?’”

W-"1%."$+%.1-%09$-.%0,%B)+%0$5-%D,9%+"0$);%#-0?--)% 1-9%.0=+$-.%#=0%$0/.%+$DBH=<0A “I’m 23 and I feel double the pressure because half of my high school class is married,” she said.

For many, however, the Haredi lifestyle is liberating.

“When you look at it, the answer to anything seems no, but really when you experience it it’s more,” said !"H1-<6% "% .-)$,9% "0% L),.% V.01-96% ?1,% B9.0% 1-"9+% ,D% Facebook “a while ago” and says she’s not interested in keeping up with pop culture.

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BY KALIL EDEN! OUTSIDE NEWS EDITOR After controversy surrounding Santa Monica College’s proposed “tiered tuition” plan, which would raise the price of popular classes, the California Attorney General’s ,DBH-%,($)-+%01"0%01-%(9,(,."<6%$D%-)"H0-+6%?,=<+%-O(,.-% the school to lawsuit.

Originally scheduled to take effect for Summer and Fall XYZX%.-5-.0-9.6%01-%0=$0$,)%(<")%1".%#--)%$)+-B)$0-<:%(,.0poned since the Attorney General’s statement, Former Shalhevet students at SMC say the price hike wouldn’t have bothered them in any case, because the school is still so much less expensive than Jewish day school. But they worried for their peers from less advantaged backgrounds.

“It defeats the purpose of ‘education for all,’ because if you come from a poor family or are living on government funding, it could be hard or impossible to pay a grand for one class at SMC,” said Shalhevet alumnus Sam Joffe ‘10, older brother of sophomore Talya and senior Ariella Joffe.

Sam said the tuition hike would affect mostly courses needed to transfer to four-year colleges, and make those classes cost about $1,000 each instead of $200. He said students were also worried about staff cuts and a cancellation of next year’s Winter Session mini-semester in January, which would put staff out of work for six to seven weeks and cancel hundreds of short-term, intensive classes.

“The majority of students are not happy with the [proposed] two-tier system, and everyone is hoping for the new tax incentives to pass,” Sam said -- referring to the fall ballot initiative that would raise taxes to help close Califor)$"/.%#=+;-0%+-BH$0%?$01,=0%5"*$);%D=901-9%H=0.A SMC’S Board of Trustees proposed the plan in early April, after California cut $800 million, or 12 percent of its budget. The proposal would have separated high-demand H<"..-.6%5"):%,D%01-5%9-[=$9-+6%D9,5%01-%9-5"$)+-96%(,0-)tially raising the current $36 dollars per unit to $180 and

creating two price tiers. Students would pay more for popular classes, typically those needed to transfer to four-year schools like UCLA, while paying the same price for less (,(=<"9% -<-H0$2-.AFHH,9+$);% 0,% 01-% JDBH-/.% .0"0-5-)06% "% tiered tuition system would violate the California Code of Education. “We look forward to them [California Attorney \-)-9"<% JDBH-U% .1"9$);% 01-$9% <-;"<% ")"<:.$.% ?$01% 01-% &,<lege,” SMC spokesman Bruce Smith said in a press statement. “We also look forward to continuing the dialogue ?$01%01-%&1")H-<<,9/.%JDBH-%,)%?":.%H,55=)$0:%H,<<-;-.% can increase student access at a time of devastating state budget cuts.”

NI&/.%0=$0$,)%(<")%?,=<+%1"2-%#--)%01-%B9.0%,D%$0.%*$)+% in Community Colleges throughout the country. Opponents say tiered tuition effectively gives priority to wealth$-9%.0=+-)0.6%")+%01=.%(9$2"0$'-.%(=#<$H%-+=H"0$,)A%%% However, after $10 million in budget cuts and locking 200,000 students out of the system, SMC President Chui Tsang said a tiered system may be the best option.

“We have a lot of other students who are locked out of the system, and we need to allow them an opportunity to go forward so that they don’t lag behind,” President Tsang said. “Many of the students have an opportunity to get a seat in the college, they’re the lucky ones. The unlucky ones... cannot get a seat in the system right now.”

For Shalhevet juniors looking at SMC to bypass their senior years, tuition increases and budget cuts are one more thing to consider. Current students say they noticed there were not enough classes to meet demands, and the competition that resulted.

“I think everyone has issues enrolling in a class,” said Ariella Benji, Shalhevet almuna and SMC student. “There are so many people who need a class and who want to get a good teacher and sometimes you don’t get the teacher you want.”

“But,” She continued, “if you are willing to talk to counselors and be creative, there are always options, which is

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731$.%1"((-).%"0%<-".0%,)H-%"%:-"96%.,%5:%,9;")$'"tion is trying to convince the College Board to start online registration for Jewish kids, too," Dr. Mercer said.

The changes are in response to cheating last year at B2-%S".."=%&,=)0:%1$;1%.H1,,<.%$)%W,);%8.<")+6%S-?% E,9*A%F5,);%01,.-%"HH=.-+%?-9-%"<=5)$%,D%S,901%N1,9-% K-#9-?% FH"+-5:% ")+% K$;1% NH1,,<% $)% \9-"0% S-H*6% "% Modern Orthodox high school.

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something I really like about SMC.” J01-9.%01,=;10%B)")H$"<%H,).$+-9"0$,).%?-9-%5$),9%D,9% those willing to pay for a Jewish private school.

“It’s kind of irrelevent in my eyes because I’m coming from Shalhevet,” said junior Adir Hassid, who plans to attend SMC next year. “I’m paying almost 30 grand, so whatever the SMC tuition will be like- even if it’s raised a bit- won’t even come close to what I’m paying right now.”

“The majority of the students there, I wouldn’t say are the richest,” Adir continued. “A lot of them are on there own trying to pay their own tuition and I’m sure it’s annoying for them to go from paying $36 per unit to 180 bucks.”

Adir said he had noticed results of the budget cuts on campus.

“I noticed that sometimes when I go to the counseling services they are jammed, there’s a shortage of counselors and teachers.”

The tiered tuition plan also led to demonstrations and .,5-% H,)Q$H0% ,)% H"5(=.A% J)%F(9$<% ]6% 01-% NI&% L,"9+% ,D% Trustees convened to discuss the proposal and was met with a student protest.

Participants shouted ‘Shame on you!’ and pulled the B9-%"<"956%")+%01-)%"00-5(0-+%0,%-)0-9%01-%5--0$);%9,,5A% After some time, SMC campus police used pepper spray.

In the indoor hallway, approximately 30 people were affected, most of them students.

“They could have handled it better,” said Sam Joffe, “rather than pepper spraying students and beating them with night sticks. But the students were rallying in a childlike manner. They where throwing toilet paper around and (=<<$);%B9-%"<"95.A@% As damaging as budget cuts were looking earlier this year, things are looking worse for California schools as \,2-9),9%L9,?)%")),=)H-+%01-%.0"0-/.%,2-9"<<%+-BH$0%1"+% 9-"H1-+%^Z_%#$<<$,)A%S,%"++$0$,)"<%H=0.%0,%01-%H,55=)$0:% colleges have been proposed so far.

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In response, the College Board is seeking to be more sure of the test takers’ identity. Perhaps most dramatically, students will have to upload a photo when they register. Proctors will compare the students to their photos, to make sure that the student taking the test is the student who signed up.

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Up on Wilshire, cars, buses and a piano recital to the Rain” by Adelle and Michael played “Asturias” by Albeniz.

The response was gradual. It started with an elderly woman who was walking by the piano and stopped talking on her phone for a minute to hear the music. As the songs progressed, more people began taking pauses from their fast-paced day to appreciate the talent of the students.

One listener was Voz, a food truck employee who is often stationed outside the $.00& *4!<+& 7=20523"B& 1#2<#& .0-*& #.))+3-& $*& be across the street from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, or LACMA. "I will miss it [the piano] so much,” Voz said. “It helps my day go by faster".

Since the weather was bad that day, he hadn't seen others come to play.

“When the sun is out, there's usually a crowd,” he said.

Adi, a man talking on his phone, stopped $*&!0,&C.<#+0&D/2+5,.3&)0.(23"&E.0623"&23& $#+&>2/&7(&F*1./5&G0.6+%&H#2-&1.-&#2-&!/-$& time seeing someone play on the piano, and he remarked about how special this opportunity was.

Notes continued to drift into the air, interrupting the noise of the busy street. As $#+& -$=5+3$-& !32-#+5& )0.(23"B& .3& +05+/0(& man named Michael took off his bike helmet and sat down at the bench. He began to play an original piece, gently pressing on BP PHOTO BY GOLDIE FEILDS each key, and when he was he spoke about how much he loves taking a break from his PIANO: Junior Rachel Friedman plays on one of the pianos placed throughout the world, this one at the Variety Building. routine to play for a moment.

"My girlfriend tells me to come here and Continued from Page 1 2008, it was estimated that after three weeks more than play," Michael joked, adding more seriously, "A lot of talent Jerram’s experiment.

140,000 people had listened or performed to a music pro- has come to this piano.”

The artist installed painted pianos all around the world duced by his pianos.

Michael, Voz, Adi, and others all said how much they'd in order to give what he called "invisible communities" – The Los Angeles project started April 12 and the small miss the pianos distributed across Los Angeles. On May groups of people who see each other every day but never group of Shalhevet students, supervised by music teacher 4, they began to be collected from locations ranging from interact – an opportunity to bond over something loud. Mrs. Keene, on what was almost its last day. Although the downtown and East Los Angeles to the Santa Monica Pier.

Music. weather was dreadful, the students took turns either ca- By May 8, all the pianos had disappeared completely. >35&-*&$#+&?*=/3+(&7+".3%&>4$+/&$#+&!/-$&@A&)2.3*-&1+/+& ressing each key into a slow melody, or pounding on the spread across Birmingham in Jerram’s native Enland in keys the create a joyful symphony. Leila played “Set Fire

Students showcase poetic abilities

BY SHARONA SEDIGHM! "#TH GRADE On the night of the Poetry Rodeo on March 14, students arrived excited yet nervous to perform their own poetry with professional poety Ellyn Maybe's band. With over 30 people attending the Cafe in the Beit Midrahs, 12 performers came up, sharing works of sadness and loneliness to happiness and humor.

"My poems just come to me in the moment,” said sophomore Natalie Dahan. “Writing poems are a good way to let everything out, like to get over a !"#$%&'(&)*+,-&./+&.01.(-&1/2$$+3&4/*,&/+.0&$#23"-& BP PHOTO BY SHARONA SEDIGHM that happened to me, because if it’s fake, to me, it’s EXPRESSION: Mrs. Frankel recites poetry accomponied by the Ellyn Maybe Band in the Beit Midrash March 14. pointless."

The English Department organized the Poetry Steinberg, and his friends started to perform along-side After a few more poems, the stage was then open to the Rodeo to give students an outlet for creative writaudience to share their poetry. Senior Leah Katz, wrote a ing. Students attended a poetry workshop during lunch with her, and the Ellen Maybe Band was created.

Maybe opened up the Poetry Rodeo with her poem, monologue from the point of view of a child who felt shut .35& !4$#& )+/2*5& .& 4+1& 1++6-& 7+4*/+& $#+& +8+3$& 1#+/+& .& professional poet known on stage as Ellyn Maybe, helped "Picasso,” which was inspired by the paintings in the Los out from life. She brought tears into the audience's eyes, them come up with ideas, gave them tips on how to hook Angeles County Art Museum. In it, she talks about the im- and captivated their attention into the story she created. portance of being herself and never changing for anyone.

Senior Yonah Nimmer presented a short poem he had the audience and played some of her work. written about the event, bringing laughter to the "She’s a true inspiration to me,” said Mrs. Frankel, crowd as he described the Rodeo through his eyes. who used to attend open mic nights where Maybe An exerpt from “What She Doesn't Know Won't Hurt Me” "I wasn't nervous at all when performing,” said would perform, and arranged the poet to come support

by Rachel Leah Kenner 9*3.#%&:;&<.,+&=)&12$#&,(&)*+,&23&!4$++3&,23=$+-%: the Poetry Rodeo.

"They were awesome!” said Maybe. “It was all so Maybe created an unordinary band that combines And the sun has set touching, beautiful, and very inspirational." poetry with music. While she reads her works the band So I ride into the night For writers who want to get more into poetry, plays to match her tone and wording, which helps to Maybe suggests to "just write,” explaining that writAnd make a prayer to the radio and a wish bring more emotion into the piece. ers don't have to be talented to write poetry and that On a street lamp Maybe told students at the event that she was alstudents should “allow their emotions to come out Because the sky is already dark ways, and still is, nervous when she read her poems. on paper.”

She would always write the word "maybe" next to her And I shall not go riding with her name when signing up to perform. Her cousin, Harlan

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Versatility, and a little music

BY HANNAH!LEEBA ELLENHORN" LIFESTYLES EDITOR !"#$%&"'()*'+*#,$#-./0*1'$,'()*'$#2&2/.3'+3.41'./5'.' song – yes a song – this year’s Festival of One-Acts, titled Don’t Look Down! was brilliant and full of surprises. In ways familiar and new, the students of Shalhevet Drama showed their versatility and talent.

The fact that the festival was scheduled during the Omer proved to be controversial. Junior Danny Silberstein had been asked by drama teacher Ms. Emily Chase to create original music for the plays this year. At the time, no one realized that the performances were scheduled during the Omer – the communal mourning period between Pesach and Shavuot when live music is generally not allowed.

But after much discussion and recognition that the festival’s dates could not be changed, the show was allowed to go on. In an e-mail that went out to the entire Shalhevet community, Judaic Studies Principal Rabbi Ari Leubitz offered viewpoints that would allow for the community 6$'.66*/57'./5'8.//491'-%120'0$/6#2:%6*5'12&/2(0./634' without upstaging the actors in the performance. ;33'()*'+3.41'<*#*'<#266*/7'52#*06*57'+#$5%0*5'./5' acted by students with the help of Ms. Chase. Students also received help from professionals Ms. Chase hired.

They were Mickey Birnbaum, a playwriting instructor; Leila Crawford, production stage manager; Leigh Allen, lights; Jeff Rack, sets; and Richard Miro, a combat and dialect expert.

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ie Boom” was the funniest play of the night. Written by senior Deborah Lelah and directed by Leona Fallas, it concerns a princess, played lovably by Rose Bern, who is pampered by no-good gentleman callers on a daily basis. One day her servant, played by sophomore =0$664'=23)*#7'$+*/1'6"*'5$$#',$#'(#16'.'+#2/0*7'+3.4*5':4' senior Adam Sharabi, and then a pirate, played by senior David Fletcher. ';1'6"*'6<$'-*/'(&"6',$#'6"*'+#2/0*1191'3$)*7'6"*4' */&.&*'2/'.':*.%62,%334'0"$#*$&#.+"*5'0$-20'(&"67'./5' %362-.6*34'(/5'$%6'6".6'6"*1*'1**-2/&'+$3.#'$++$126*1' have a lot more in common than they thought. David and Adam’s comedic timing and attention to detail made this play a hit.

Juniors Katie Feld and Esther Levy wrote “Where You Invest Your Love You Invest Your Life,” which was probably the source of the festival’s title, Don’t Look Down!

Directed by Ms. Chase, this play tackled deeper and darker themes.

Violet, acted by Rachel Friedman, and Mia, acted by junior Leah Glouberman, are best friends who have just been killed in a fatal car accident. While they are in limbo after death, Joe, played by Rachel Kenner, leads them to >.1":.0?1'6".6'1"$<'6"*2#',#2*/51"2+'.06%.334'-.5*'6"*-' hold each other back from many great opportunities. In :$6"'>.1":.0?17'@%/2$#'A#2.//.'B.#1".?'+3.4*5'./'.5%36' offering the teens opportunities they had passed up. At the end of the play, the two girls go their separate ways.

Leah and Rachel’s performance was a tear-jerker.

A#2.//.'(33*5'"*#'#$3*1'<26"'6"*'+#$+*#'-2C'$,'+$21*'./5' rigidity. Rachel Kenner was able to emphasize her acting skills while adding a little bit of humor to perhaps the saddest play of the evening.

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ou Only Live Once” told a story of four teens who are in somewhat of a love “square” – that is, four people instead of three. Written by drama veteran and senior Leona Fallas and directed by junior Rose Bern, this was play was perhaps the most relatable to any high school student. Rachel Friedman played Jane, torn between her overly clingy boyfriend Matthew and an adventurous rebel, Nick.

Jane’s best friend Raquel was played by sophomore Eden Braunstein, who memorably embodied the classic “always there for you” best friend. Matthew was played by freshman David Lorell, who was perfectly casted as this nervous and tenacious character. Senior Adam Sharabi performed his role as Nick with just the right balance of rebellion and romance.

During the blackouts for scene changes in this play, Danny made his debut on an acoustic guitar, strumming .'&*/63*'#*,#.2/'<"23*'6.++2/&'#"46"-1'<26"'"21'(/&*#1'$/' the instrument’s wooden face.

Rabbi Leubitz said the calm of the music was one reason it was permitted. The law prohibiting people from listening to music during the Omer originates from Magen Avraham’s rules against dancing, he explained ni his e-mail.

“Some rule that it stands to reason that this derivation .++32*1'1+*02(0.334'6$'@$4'$#'5./0*'2/5%02/&'-%1207'./5' /$6'6$'13$<'./5'#*>*062)*'-%1207D'E.::2'F*%:26G'<#$6*H'' He said that all music used in the One-Acts festival, which later included the song “We Are Young” by the

indie-pop band Fun – sung by the entire cast at the end of 6"*'+3.4'I'<.1'1%,(02*/634'#*>*062)*'./5'/$/J0*3*:#.6$#4' to qualify.

Those who worried about the Omer anyway, his letter continued, could attend a special performance at 6 pm on K$-'L..6G-.%67';+#23'MN7'62-*5'6$'*/5':*,$#*'1%/5$</' so it could be part of the celebration of Israeli Independence Day. D=*0#*6'F2,*D'<.1'./$6"*#'(#16H'L*#*'6"*'O/*J;06' festival presented the audience with an original song –

CREDIT PAIRS: Left, David Fletcher played against type in “There!s More Than Meets the Eye“ and it took Leona Fal!"#$#%&'"("&)*(%"%+',!*%)-%&")&'%-./%0)%(,1')2%3&-))4%3,!5*(%".6%7-#*%8*(.%9!-)%:.6%;(,*.6#',9%,.%<=,*%8-->/?%

CHOREOGRAPHED: David Fletcher and Adam Sharabi were rivals in Deborah Lelah!s “Pie Boom.“ written by Danny and sung by him in a duet with Leah Glouberman. Adorned with the back-and-forth smirks between the two singers, the duet was sung beautifully, its lyrics reaching to describe teenage angst -- This is my struggle, this is my pain, this is what keeps me from going insane, just sit back and play the game -- in a way that was playful and teasing and brought both singers and the audience to giggle.

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OOM!” written by Rachel Kenner and directed by senior Leah Katz, brought the audience into a play that elicited mystery. Four people have hidden in a bunker for an unknown period of time to avoid some un1+*02(*5'P5$$-D'<"$1*'/.6%#*'21'%/?/$</H'=$+"$-$#*' Maya Ben Shushan and David Lorell acted as two young teens in love amidst a world of complete uncertainty.

Sophomore Maya Rosenman memorably played an adventurous punk ready to start her life and leave the bunker. Brianna Marshak was the superior and most knowledgable agent, also the least popular in the bunker because of her overprotective personality. By the end of the play, the reason for her overprotectiveness is revealed to be her love and devotion to her three friends in the bunker.

Maya Ben Shushan and David Lorell’s chemistry on stage seemed very authentic. Brianna managed to maneuver from being the typical annoying control freak to a caring adviser with ease.

The last play of the evening was Rose Bern’s “There’s More Than Meets the Eye.” Directed by junior Naomi

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Abehsera, the acting in this play shone most brightly. Leona Fallas played Sophia, a girl in love with the wrong guy for the wrong reasons. Celia, her younger sister played by freshman Shoshi Reich, knows that Sophia does not belong with the horrid Daniel, played by David Fletcher.

Celia tries to convince her sister that the nicest and truest guy is her best friend Paul, played by Scotty Silver. After having him over one night without her parents’ permission, Celia realizes that Daniel is a no-good, conniving, brute of a man. The play ends off with Paul sitting with Sophia but we are left unsure of the future that they might share.

Leona Fallas did a marvelous job at her role as a big sister who turns from head-over-heals in love to gagme-with-a-spoon. Scotty Silver’s role as the best friend seemed to come naturally to him, and Shoshi Reich seemed made for her part.

But the most surprising performance might have been David Fletcher’s. Menacing, clueless and rude, “Daniel” was so abhorrent that it was hard to see why Sophia could stand him at all, and anyone who knows David knows this role was no typecasting. In fact, on the last night when seniors were being acknowledged for their (/.3'+*#,$#-./0*'.1'"2&"'10"$$3*#17'B1H'Q".1*'1.25'26'".5' taken a while for him to gradually be able to learn to be rude because he is too nice.

That’s acting, and in one way or another, all of the performers had reached beyond their day-to-day high 10"$$3'1*3)*1H''R/'(/52/&'.'<.4'6$'+*#-26'32)*'-%12077' perhaps the administration did too.

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In what may or may not be a sign of things to come, AP Studio Art will not be offered as of next year and will be replaced by an honors art class designed for Shalhevet by Art teacher Roen Salem. !"#$%&'()#&%**)+($#(,-)(,.%/0)1&(2%"&')(#%.(.$**(3)(13*)(,%(4#ish it next year, but no new students will enter the class. Instead, current sophomores who want to continue in art will be offered the new four-day-per-week honors class, which Roen feels will be more 3)#)42$1*5 Roen said the popular AP course is more narrowly focused than what she hopes to present in the honors class, which will include '2"*6,"&)7(2)&18$2'7(4)*+(,&$6'(1#+()9)#(').$#:(;(#%#)(%<(.-$2-(1&)( possible within the AP curriculum.

Under guidelines set by the College Board, she explained, AP Art requires students to choose a “concentration,” a visual subject or theme which they explore through particular media and styles.

“When you take AP art, you need to work towards your concentration,” said Roen, who is also chair of the Art and Performing Arts department. “This way we can extend our knowledge.

We also can do group projects in an honors art class, and in AP Art you cannot do that.”

Student reaction was favorable.

“I like the idea of an honors class because it gives people a way to experiment with different art forms,” junior and AP art student Neda Kerendian said.

“Not everyone wants to paint. It’s better to have more of a variety, and AP art limits that.”

The art change is apparBP PHOTO BY ARIELA FEITELBERG NEW JOURNEY: Art and Performing Arts Department chair Roen Salem has designed a new honors art class that will include sculpture, ently one of several planned in the AP curricuilum next !"#$%&!'()*"+,)-#&.')$/,)"0"/)'"1&/2)&/)$,,&-&3/)-3).$&/-&/24 year. (See related story, Page 2.) =#(1++$,$%#7(#)>,(0)1&(1(4&',/ ever non-AP psychology course will be offered, depending on student interest. Because of its popularity, AP Psych is the only other besides Art that currently has more than one section.

Acting General Studies Principal Mr. Roy Danovitch said that next year, the administration plans to conduct a formal review of all AP classes and may eventually replace them with independent honors courses, to be known as “SAS” courses for “Shalhevet Advanced Studies.”

“In three years, I would hope that we can replace APs with an inBY JACOB ELLENHORN! COMMUNITY EDITOR that ‘70s vibe. If you pay close attendependent advanced curriculum,” Mr. Danovitch said in an interview. tion, Barnabas walks by a local movie “Students would still get the same GPA boost, but it would allow our I can’t think of a better era for a vampire to return house that’s playing Deliverance. I course offerings to expand and be more unique.” to than the early 1970’s. That and a whole lot more loved watching the juxtaposition of the These replacement courses would require prerequisites, he said, happen in Tim Burton’s kooky and visually spectacular &)4#)+7(6&%6)&('6)1C$#:(9186$&)(.-%( and therefore would only be offered to juniors and seniors, just as APs 4*87(B1&C(D-1+%.'5E(( is in culture shock during the decade are. Mr. Danovitch hopes that the change will switch classes from beJohnny Depp lends us his wacky persona and delivknown for drop-out weed-smoking hiping lecture-based and directed towards a test to being based on the ers a campy performance in his portrayal of Barnabas pies, lava lamps and avocado green. love of learning.

Collins, an entombed vampire who is freed from his Unfortunately all the fun is sucked ?%)#('1$+(@A(',"+)#,'(.%"*+(3)(')*)2,)+(<%&(,-)(-%#%&'(1&,(2*1''7( grave after 192 years. dry by a stagnant plot. In the beginwhich will meet four times a week, as AP Art is. And though stuAs back stories go, the Barnabas clan immigrates #$#:7(B1&C(D-1+%.'E('))8)+(1'(,-%":-( dents will have to be approved based on art they submit to Roen, there from 18th Century England to Maine, where they earn it would be the gothic exploration of won’t be any particular prerequisites. ,-)$&(<%&,"#)($#(,-)(4'-$#:(3"'$#)''5((F(0%"#:(G1&#a mysterious young woman calling “You need to be passionate about art to be in the class,” Roen said.

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a blunder, because Angelique is a witch, something Barnabas did not know until it was too late. The result is that Angelica curses everybody, Josette jumps off a cliff, and Barnabas is turned into a vampire and then promptly buried alive by Angelique for 192 years.

The fun is all about revisiting the early ‘70s. The 4*8(-1'()9)&0,-$#:(,-1,(+)21+)(2%#,&$3",)+(,%(J%6( Culture, including a soundtrack that is sheer genius. I added several of the songs to my playlist, among them "Nights in White Satin" by The Moody Blues, Karen Carpenter’s “I’m On Top of the World” and the entire Greatest Hits by Barry White, just so that I could own

lins’ Estate. When I realized that Tim Burton was ignoring the supernaturalmystery-slash-coming-of-age story, I looked forward to getting to know the kooky and spooky Collins descendants. Once again I was disappointed.

The instant Johnny Depp appears as Barnabas, even the beautiful Michelle Pfeiffer – who plays matriarch Elizabeth Collins – fades into the background. The ensemble cast including Helena Bonham Carter, Chloe Moretz, Gulliver McGrath and Eva Green, somehow become guest stars on the Barnabas Show.

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of ABC's 1966-71 TV vampire daytime soap. Without 1(+%"3,7(B1&C(D-1+%.'E($'(1(*%,(8%&)(<"#(,-1#(1**(%<( ,-)(K.$*$:-,E(8%9$)'(2%83$#)+5((=,(1<<)2,$%#1,)*0(6%C)'( fun at the decade that taste forgot. Aside from the fact that the plot was threadbare, and the jokes few and far between, I recommend seeing it. Think of it this way: a Tim Burton can never be terrible because even when it’s bad, it’s never that bad.

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Completely ignore your friend, because he or she should notice that you are studying.

Ask your friend to test you on your work.

Put your notes to rest and chat with your friend. It’s a lot more interesting than what you are supposed to be studying.

You’re in the middle of telling a funny yet somewhat complicated story to a group of friends when another one of your friends tunes in midstory. You’re friend wants you to repeat your story, so you…

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When you have an idea about where and when to hang out, you should usually stick with it -- don’t allow your friends to constantly remake the plans.

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You’re in the middle of your homework and you get a phone call from your friend who doesn’t go to school with you.

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Oh my gosh! You cannot miss out on this potentially life-changing phone call. It’s only 9 p.m. and there is more than enough time to do your homework later.

Answer the phone and let your friend know that you have homework and that you will call back as soon as you are done. The conversation ends there.

It’s your friend’s birthday this weekend and you have a huge history test on Monday. Your friend has planned a birthday outing all day on Sunday.

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You’re not going to miss out on this event but you also need to do well on this test.

You let your friend know that you will be coming but you’ll have to leave a little early.

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Your friend only has a birthday once a year and you’re not going to let a silly History test get in the way. You’re not only going to spend the day with your best bud, but you plan a whole weekend sleepover together.

It’s the last day of school and you want to spend *(,&/+$*&.31&5=&$866,+&3*&*(,&<,32(%&C5A,D,+:& 158+&=+),-.&A3-*$&*5&$9,-.&*(,&/+$*&.31&5=&$86mer at Six Flags.

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ideas, you should reciprocate.

Believe it or not, friends want friends with a backbone. When it comes to fun, don’t just try to please your friends. You, yes you, have to enjoy yourself as well. And when you need to study, it’s okay to insist. A healthy friendship is one where all participants are happy.

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During this time of the year, everyone is stressed out due to the overwhelming amount of '"-23&45&%*/%/6&1#(0/6&748/&(#!&'*006&9"-*&'"-2& are all so time-consuming. But just because you are smothered with work in school doesn’t mean that you need to ditch your buds.

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Everyone looks forward to those summer days spent lazing around the pool and hanging out with friends that replace the hectic days of the school year. But let’s face it, after a week of nothing to do, summer’s allure of freedom can quickly fade into boredom.

Luckily there are a million of things to do in Los Angeles.

A quintessential L.A. thing to do is take a bike ride along the 27-mile stretch known as the Santa Monica Bike Path. Unless you are a serious athlete, pedaling for 27 consecutive miles is an impossibility. But the trek from the chaotic scene that is Venice Beach up to tawny Malibu is doable and enjoyable.

Why not use some of your summer days to learn how to cook? Knowing your way around the kitchen is not only fun but will pay off when you head to college. Whether you’re a total newbie or already preparing meals for your family, a cooking class is a fun way to learn something new.

Places like The New School of Cooking in Culver City and Sur La Table at the Grove offer classes to beginners and teach you a lot about techniques and tools of the kitchen.

Maybe this summer you can start liking stuff that your parents normally have to bribe you to try. A great thing to try this summer is heading to a museum with your parents.

Plan a whole Sunday to bond with Mom and Dad. Show off the skills you picked up in cooking class to whip up a Sunday brunch, and then follow up with a trip to LACMA. Who knows, you might just become a fan of German expressionism.

If cookie-cutter summer blockbusters are not your thing, visit The Silent Movie Theater on Fairfax and Melrose. Don’t be fooled by its name --The Silent Movie The3*,+&$2(,.80,$&,20,2*)2&/06$&*(3*&)-208.,$&280*&203$$)2$&305-4& with weird, cool, and un-silent movies. Opened in 1942 by John Hampton with the hope that his personal silent movie collection would bring joy to families trying to survive

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BY TALIA ROTENBERG! STAFF COLUMNIST Fashion repeats itself. But is this actually an issue?

How annoyed were you when you invested in that pair of neon pink shoes at the end of summer 2009, only to discover that biker boots were the hot new shoe that coming fall? Luckily, the neon trend, like many past trends, has come back for an encore.

Everyone should get excited because it is time to dust off those neon kicks and take them for a spin. This spring, neon is very on trend and totally easy to incorporate into your wardrobe.

Whether you choose neon pumps or tennis shoes, shoes are the easiest way to make a statement and be in on this trend.

Accessories are a fun way to incorporate the neon trend in a more subtle way with pieces like light weight scarves or chunky 80's themed jewelry.

If you’d like to dress more daringly usTHEN AND ing neon, you can try NOW: Neon color blocking – a trend colors are that's been popping back in style.

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the World War II years, The Silent Movie Theatre is still one of L.A.’s most unusual treasures and occasionally features a good oldfashioned night of silent classics.

Another iconic LA excursion is a hike in Runyon Canyon.

Located just north of Sunset on Fuller Avenue, Runyon Canyon is where Hollywood celebrities work out and show off their perfectly sculpted physiques. On a recent trek, Jane Lynch (she was actually wearing a track suit) was hiking with her dog – Runyon Canyon is an off-leash dog park as well. Plan on going early in the day or at dusk because the heat can be unbearable during the summer months.

Is shopping your thing? If so, head downtown to Chinatown for some fun. There’s a lot to take in, from roasted Peking ducks hanging in the windows to countless stores selling herbs galore. If gawking gets tiresome, then try some shopping! Twenty dol03+$&23-&<81&158&3&28*,&58*/*&25690,*,& with accessories, or alternatively, tons of manicure accoutrements. Whether the things you bought will last you through the week is another story.

G-&158+&A31&*5&H()-3*5A-&158F00&/-.&*(,&I,-F$&H,-tral Jail, where OJ Simpson spent some time, and Olvera Street, the oldest part of Downtown Los Angeles. Anyone who’s been to Shalhevet for over six months knows that another key destination in downtown is the very futuristiclooking Disney Hall. Take 10 minutes of your day to ad-

that are complementary to one other. Combining a bunch of neon colors in the wrong way can look a bit obnoxious, so pair them wisely. Another great way to color block is by using pastels. Pairing mint green and bubble pink, for example, is not only super fresh and girly, but it goes with the newly warm weather.

If you’re not especially daring and using contrasting colors scares you a bit, you can mix a few different hues of one color.

Oranges and tangerines, my personal favorite colors, are bright and fresh and work well on most skin tones.

If solid bright and pastel colors are too girly or simple for you, futuristic and African tribal prints can have the same effect. African tribal is yet another style that has been popular over the years, with a major stint back in 2005. Pair your print with a bright or pastel solid, or try print blocking – mixing contrasting yet complementary patterns.

It seems that each season a new decade from the 1900s is being highlighted. Since winter 2011-12 I’ve been noticing a lot of pieces inspired by the !"#$%&'()$&*+,-.&)$&.,/-)*,01&23++1)-4&5-& into spring, so keep your midi-skirts and drop-waist dresses for a few months longer before storing them in your closet ‘til the trend revives again. If you haven’t yet invested yet, try a pleated midi-skirt in a pastel or bold print.

Just like frosting on a cake, I'd like to think that 322,$$5+),$&637,&3-&58*/*%&'()$&$9+)-4:&6,*300)2& accessories are coming back from their short twoyear hiatus. Back in fall 2010, metallic dresses and handbags were all the rage. However, this spring, the metallic trend seems a bit more subdued and can be worn as a neutral to tie an 58*/*&*54,*(,+%&;&6,*300)2&<,0*&5+&93)+&5=&$(5,$&23-& <+)-4&>8$*&*(,&+)4(*&3658-*&5=&$()-,&*5&3-1&58*/*% The moral of the story is this: keep your clothes!

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Museums and stargazing spots are just two of the venues awaiting your vacation exploration.

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THEN AND NOW: Maxidresses are a trend that has revived. Naomi Abesera sports a Hello Kitty Maxi Dress

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That has included several Shalhevet students over the years, one of whom was willing to talk about the experience – anonymously – with the Boiling Point.

“The big difference between depression and being sad is that depression is not something that can be controlled as easily,” the student said. “People ask me why can’t I just think happy thoughts, but I can’t just turn it off.

“When I am in a depressive phase, tired and lethargic is the best way to describe it. I don’t want to get out of bed and I don’t feel the motivation. I just feel like ‘What’s the point?’”

Shalhevet school counselor Rachel Hecht said it generally takes a mental health professional -- a counselor, psychologist or psychiatrist -- to determine whether or not a teen is clinically depressed.

“The word ‘depression’ seems to be thrown around a lot amongst teenagers, and that concerns me,” Mrs. Hecht said. “Don’t self-diagnose. Always talk to a trsuted adult -- don’t try to do it alone.”

Clinicians carefully assess teenagers on a case-by-case !"#$#%!&'"(#&%$)%$#%*$+,'(-)%).%#&/"0")&%'-$1$'"-%*&/0&##$.1% from normal teenage behavior.

“Sometimes you see a student and they’re just struggling and having a hard time and really just need to work through that,” Mrs. Hecht said.

“If something is interfering with your daily routine and interfering with your life,” Mrs. Hecht said, “if you are feeling exhausted, you have a lack of appetite and an inability to sleep, then I know I really need to assess the student further.”

Mrs. Hecht said day-to-day situations can often lead students to feeling depressed, but sometimes the depression is something more.

Situational depression is a less severe form of depression that usually is shorter lasting, and occurs when teens experience emotional volatility as a result of something that’s new. With time, the person adapts to the new situation, “the blues” dissipate and the teenager resumes normal routines.

But clinical depression is different.

Junior Erin Sharfman volunteers at Teenline, where she answers phone calls, emails, and text messages from teenagers who are depressed.

“The most common feeling that people express is hopelessness,” Erin said. “They think that things won’t get better. They feel alone in the process, and they think that ev-

eryone around them is happy, and no one knows what they are going through.”

Common signs of depression include anxiety, antisocial behavior and substance abuse, according to www. surgeongeneral.gov.

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But if depression is diagnosed, the patient may be prescribed anti-depressants.

9#("--:% )7&% ,0#)% tried are Prozac, Celexa, Zoloft, Paxil and Lexapro, (www.nimh. nih.gov) known as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, or SSRIs. These medicines are believed to increase the levels of serotonin, a neuro-transmitter which controls many things including mood. It can take a while to adjust and readjust dosages to achieve the desired effect. (www.mayoclinic.com) Since 2007, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has warned that SSRIs can increase the risk of suicidal thinking $1% /&./-&% "8&#% ;<% ).% =>6% 8&1&0"--:% *(0$18% )7&% ,0#)% .1&% ).% two months of taking them. But even without medication, "%*&/0&##&*%)&&1%$#%,5&%)$3&#%3.0&%-$?&-:%)7"1%"1:%.)7&0% teenager to commit suicide, according to healingfromdepression.com.

And according to the American Psychological Association, suicide is the third leading cause of death for people aged 15 to 24 in the U.S. The National Institute of Mental Health says psychotherapy, or “talk therapy,” can also be effective. The NIMH writes that a combination of medication and psychotherapy may be the best way to treat teen depression, while psychotherapy alone may treat mild to moderate depression.

But no two cases of depression are alike, and no two teens are either.

“Walking outside of my house helps,” the anonymous Shalhevet student said. “I also like really loud music, but that’s just me. Its different for everybody.”

Coping and living with depression can be challenging not only for the patient, but also for his or her family and friends. Some teens may feel ashamed to admit that they have been diagnosed with depression and try to isolate themselves from their peers.

But according to mayoclinic.org, isolation is the worst thing for one who has been diagnosed with depression.

The anonymous student with clinical depression agreed, saying that being around friends is good even if it doesn’t change anything.

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“Even if I am not feeling better because of what a friend is saying, it is still really nice to have someone there,” the student said. “Just being a friend helps. You can’t necessar$-:%,@%3:%+&&-$18#AB AP psychology teacher Mrs. Tove Sunshine said teens who are depressed should avoid seclusion and instead hang out with upbeat people who will make them feel good about themselves.

But a friendship with someone who is depressed is not easy.

“Being friends with a depressed person can be very stressful and frustrating,” said another Shalhevet student who wished to be anonymous.

“It’s like everything revolves around the depression,” that student said. “Sometimes I wish they’d just snap out of it. It’s hard to just hang out and be carefree in the limited amount of free time we have.”

HOW TO TELL: Oftentimes, depression symptoms in younger children include sadness, irritability, hopelessness and worry.

In adolescents and teens, symptoms include anxiety, anger and avoidance of social interaction.

The syptoms of depression vary in children, teens, and adults.

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Shalhevet students were asked this question in the second “When people are young teenagers week of January and again during the first week of May. in high school the brain is really in the process of developing itself. The weak part of brain, until later teen years or adult years, is the connection between emotions and the part of the brain that help you gain control of emotions. So it’s hard sometimes to know how to handle it.”

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“So far, the system is working out well,” she added.

For some of the Shalhevet students who answered ‘yes’ “The teachers are really in tune with their students.” to whether they felt depressed on a given day, being lisC7&1% #)(*&1)#% '.1,*&% $1% D0#A% E&'7)6% #7&% /0.3$#&#% tened to just might solve their problem. )7&3%)7")%'.1,*&1)$"-$):%F$--%1.)%!&%!0.?&1%(1-&##%)7&:%"0&% “When anybody listens to you, it releases the stress that going to hurt themselves or someone else, she said, and builds up,” sophomore Maya Ben-Shushan, who answered students can chat about whatever it is that is bothering ‘yes’ to the poll, said. “If people listen and care, school and them, not necessarily just about depression. life will be more uplifting.”

“The high school experience isn’t just classes, it isn’t just the social aspect, it isn’t just family,” Mrs. Hecht said. “It’s everything intertwined.

“Often we’ll talk about it all. Sometimes students will come in with one issue and go on to talk about everything.”

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That is a normal reaction, according to Dr. Fiona Chalom, a professor of psychology at Pepperdine University and mother of freshman Moriah Chalom.

“Friends of depressed people feel frustrated when their efforts to make things better are futile,” said Dr. Chalom.

“Furthermore, friends of depressed teens are also at higher risk of depression themselves.”

Families are also at risk when a teen is depressed. Esti K., who preferred not to use her real name, learned this when her son was diagnosed with clinical depression at 15.

Mrs. K said living with depression becomes the new normal, and parents and siblings should work to make sure the diagnosis does not take over.

“Moms and dads will tend to feel guilty, as though they somehow caused depression to surface in their teen, while siblings may tend to feel neglected because all the parents’ energy is focused on getting their child well,” said Mrs. K. Rachel Hecht suggests that a depressed friend may need diversion and company. At Shalhevet, it is sometimes the friends of a depressed student who will recommend that she meet with them. Shalhevet teachers also refer students.

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As soon as I entered, I noticed its bright and cheerful design. The walls are green with rainbow tiles, and the light brown wood tables complement the décor.

But after that, my visit was uneven. When my family .+%,5&%"00$5&*%.1%"%0&'&1)%K(1*":%&5&1$186%)7&%0&#)"(0"1)% was quite crowded, so we moved the one empty table to the other side of the restaurant next to the serving counter. With only eight tables in a narrow aisle, it would have !&&1%7"0*&0%).%,)%"%!$88&0%80.(/A% Once we were seated, a waitress approached us immediately. We ordered a few appetizers, all under $10, hoping that they would come quickly since we were all hungry. But the appetizers arrived 20 minutes later, and overall were either cold or dry.

The potato leek soup was cold and very spicy, the chicken soup was too salty, and the bantange, a potato dish F$)7%!&&+%"1*%&886%F"#%"-#.%5&0:%'.-*A%%L7&%.1-:%G"5.0+(-% appetizer was the Moroccan cigars. There were four half-

sized cigars, so the appetizer may have worked for two.

The platter was empty before I could even grab one.

Things got mostly worse after that. While we were waiting for our main courses, I overheard the staff discussing the fact that they were running out of the brisket special. It was 6:25 on a Sunday evening, and they were already running out of the day’s special – not a good sign.

Approximately 40 minutes after we ordered, our main courses came. I dug into my nicely sized schnitzel sandwich on pretzel challah. The bread was delicious, but the schnitzel was a bit tough. The sandwich was also really hard to eat, because the bread was too small for )7&%#'71$)M&-A%N.0)(1")&-:6%3:%+0$&#%F&0&%5&0:%G"5.0+(-%O% crispy and golden brown – and to me, fries are the most important part of a meal.

Meanwhile, the waitress brought my siblings the wrong orders. Both of their hamburgers were brought on the wrong buns with condiments, though they requested plain burgers. Once the orders were corrected, both my sister and brother enjoyed their hamburgers – except for a few extremely pink pieces my sister pushed to the side of her plate.

My parents both ordered brisket plates and genuinely enjoyed them. The brisket was shredded, and either spicy or sweet and tangy. According to my mom, the best part of her meal was the roasted vegetables that came as her side dish. I agreed, because my mouth was watering just looking at the colorful array on her plate. I snuck a

bite when she wasn’t looking. %2+)&0%P%,1$#7&*%3:%#"1*F$'76%P%F&1)%.5&0%).%'7&'?%)7&% cleanliness level of the bathrooms, since as I’ve previously mentioned, my mom says the cleanliness of the !")70..3#%0&G&')#%)7&%'-&"1-$1&##%.+%)7&%?$)'7&1A%%L7&% bathroom was very clean and decorated just like the rest of the restaurant.

After paying quickly because my dad had to catch a plane, we left “Got Kosher?” My dad was in a huge hurry, because dinner had taken way too long. Thankfully, he !"0&-:%3"*&%7$#%G$87)A% Some of the food was scrumptious and the restaurant is pleasant, so it might be worth another try in the future; after all, it’s still pretty new. But for now, if you’re in a rush or have a big family, “Got Kosher?” may not be the place for you.

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TOUGH !D": Freshman Simcha Halpert redirects MTA"s point guard at Sarachek.

Sarachek YULA game ends in heartbreak

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