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How Many Troubled Kids Can A School Take In Before It Is A Troubled School?

Harkham Hillel Hebrew Academy is the only Orthodox elementary school in Los Angeles who admits troubled kids. Other yeshivos don’t want the aggravation. So let’s say you let in a hyper-active kid who creates a lot of tsures (trouble). What … Continue reading

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Rabbis At An Exhibition

In a 1996 lecture on Exodus 20, Dennis Prager says: There was a great hesitation to use art for anything but worshipping God [in the Jewish tradition]. The rabbis didn’t sit down, generally speaking, and paint. We didn’t have Hillel … Continue reading

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Tuition At Milken Community High School Reaches $30,000 A Year

That’s $2,000 a year more than Harvard Westlake charges. Milken has two Orthodox teachers and about six students from Orthodox homes (as well as a few traditional Sephardic kids) who tend to become less Orthodox the more time they spend … Continue reading

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Like Father, Like Son

Many of the contentious issues Morey Levovitz had at Harkham Hillel Hebrew Academy his late father Abe had at Maimonides School in Brookline, MA. Abe had a much more successful reign, however. Abe ran Maimonides for decades. Morey got pushed … Continue reading

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Hillel Bylaws Up For Vote

I hear Harkham Hillel’s religious dean Rabbi Boruch Sufrin, Morey Levovitz and current puppet president Fallas are being targeted by current and former employees for work related harrassment issues. For the upcoming vote on the bylaws board and executive board … Continue reading

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