"I couldn’t follow how his points coalesced," says my source. "So I fell asleep. But he did say that his grandparents employed Terrell Owens and helped pay his way through college. Rabbi Weil upheld Moses as the epitome of the selfless Jew who dedicated himself to his people even though he didn’t get what he wanted. Noah Feldman trashed his people when he didn’t get what he wanted."
YULA (Yeshiva University of Los Angeles) boys high school has a new principal for secular studies – Dr. David Palmer, formerly principal of Shalhevet. Dr. Palmer is YULA’s second principal in three years.
Shalhevet Talmud teacher Rabbi David Rue (head of the Los Angeles Beit Din) has some of the more caustic evaluations of Shalhevet students. According to his testing, they retain less Jewish learning that public school students going to NCSY (National Council of Synagogue Youth). About half of Shalhevet graduates move on to community college.
