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Category Archives: Shalhevet
Keeping The Shalhevet Dream Alive
Here’s an email making its way around the Los Angeles Orthodox community regarding Shalhevet. A source says: “The Ponzi scheme known as Jewish education has begun to collapse under its own weight. Costs have spiraled and even financially successful families … Continue reading
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Tagged cheder, jewish day schools, jewish education, orthodox community, ponzi scheme
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Shalhevet Focuses On Its High School
The community is in shock over this. Employees at the elementary and middle school didn’t know that it was closing down. Here’s the press release: Los Angeles, CA
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Tagged jewish education, jewish school, jewish schools, painful decision, school operations, support and guidance
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The Shalhevet Graduate
A worried Jewish mother emails: I am wondering what is it about the Shalhevet students groomed by Dr. Jerry Friedman. They remind me of cult. Most of them are: – Not Frum. The kippot are off totally. Naked heads even … Continue reading
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Tagged close ties, jerry friedman, jewish girls, jewish place, lawrence kohlberg, naked heads
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Shalhevet Could’ve Had Dr. Gil Perl
Here’s a copy of attorney Marc Rohatiner’s resignation letter from the Shalhevet school board. He protested the way school founder and longtime CEO Jerry Friedman made sure that Gil Perl didn’t get a serious interview at the school. Gil Perl … Continue reading
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Tagged adin steinsaltz, classroom education, jerry friedman, Jewish Journalism, lawrence kohlberg, rabbi adin steinsaltz, rabbi steinsaltz, resignation letter
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Shalhevet Missing $2 Million?
So I received a bunch of interesting documents about Shalhevet. Apparently, in 2004, an accountant was hired to go over the school’s books and halfway through his audit, he was fired by school founder Jerry Friedman. I got sent copies … Continue reading
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Tagged arnall, debt situation, jerry friedman, pledges, Roland Arnall, s books, school board member, school founder, wasc
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Track The Valedictorians
Jeff emails: "the idea is to write a series that tracks the valedictorians of both yula and shalhevet. to be fair you dont use their names just yula 200X or shalhevet 200X. start with 2004 bec those students should be … Continue reading
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Tagged physiological science, placement chemistry, science department chair, shalhevet high school, us peace corps, YULA
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‘Shame On You’
Jane Doe emails: I was trying to google shalhevet school for my son and came up with all this "stuff" on your blog? website? about information about lawsuits etc I worked at shalhevet during the time of those situations you … Continue reading
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Tagged Google, jane doe, orthodox jew, personal policy, rosh hashana, teshuvah
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Rating Religious Education In Jewish Schools
Most(?) Orthodox schools have classes on Sunday. Shalhevet does not have classes on Sunday. That’s something that Jerry Friedman, the founder, never wanted. I don’t expect there’s any enthusiasm for Sunday schooling among the parents who send their children to … Continue reading
Changes At Shalhevet
Here’s a recent email that went out from Shalhevet (Modern Orthodox day school in LA): In our relentless pursuit of Excellence in Education, Shalhevet School is pleased to welcome Rabbi Rodney Feinerman as its new Educational Director beginning with the … Continue reading
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Tagged aleinu, ethical attitudes, feinerman, hebrew academy, progressive model, Shalhevet
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Shalhevet ‘Finally Frum’
"Frum" is Jew-speak for religious. Shalhevet’s new head of school, Rabbi Elchanan Weinbach, is getting good reviews around the Orthodox community for bringing in religious discipline. Shalhevet’s sophomore class is down to just eleven students. Shalhevet needs at least 40 … Continue reading
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Tagged american jews, beverly hills high school, hamilton high school, religious discipline, sophomore class, YULA
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