Sophie Newman, Global Affairs Editor
May 19, 2019
Filed under Opinion
Recently, Microsoft found that our attention spans have decreased by 30% since 2000.
Forty percent of internet users will abandon a website that takes longer than three seconds to load.
We live in a world where everyon...
Lauren Pomerantz, News Editor
May 19, 2019
Filed under Opinion
Our society is increasing its standardized grip on students, preventing us from uncovering our uniqueness and innovative abilities in school. Through its adherence to traditional measures of knowledge and testing, the United States...
Lauren Pomerantz, News Editor
May 19, 2019
Filed under Opinion
I find myself restricted in creativity by the test-oriented nature of our nation’s education system. In the remaining weeks of my final year of high school, I feel my formal education has not prepared me to think, act or wr...
Emma Nulman, Features Editor
March 24, 2019
Filed under Opinion
A scandal involving high profile and affluent actresses and wealthy executives has rocked the news. The persons under investigation either paid or accepted large sums of money to ensure acceptance to some of the nation’s best ...
Sophie H. '19, Contributing Writer
February 20, 2019
Filed under Opinion, Poetry, Student Life
“Congrats,” they tell her, and she smiles because she really is happy.
But she’s also so many other things.
She’s a rainbow of feelings.
She’s red with fear,
green with joy,
orange with excitement,
and blue wi...
Sarah Shane, Student Life Editor
January 14, 2019
Filed under Opinion, Showcase, Uncategorized
Voting, equal pay, freedom of choice. Women have had to fight for every basic right and liberty since the dawn of time. Everything that was just a given for men has been a battle for women.
One of our longest lasting and most vicious ...
Lauren Pomerantz, News Editor
December 16, 2018
Filed under Opinion
We live in a dangerous world. Every choice we make, every person we interact with, and every one of our actions impacts the world around us. In a society where a multitude of people experience trauma, especially gun violence, it is ...
Sophie Newman, Global Affairs Editor
December 16, 2018
Filed under Opinion
Clank, clank, clank. That’s the sound of chains dragging as you shuffle your shackled feet down the hallway, escorted by two police officers. After being subjected to a final humiliating strip search, you’re then walked in...
Emma Nulman, Features Editor
December 13, 2018
Filed under Opinion, Uncategorized
Migrants of “the caravan” became victims of “non-lethal” force when U.S. authorities fired tear gas into the crowd of men, women and children at the San Ysidro border crossing on Sunday, November 25.
The caravan, w...
Ariela Zweiback, Contributing Writer
December 9, 2018
Filed under Opinion
It is Sunday; the weekend is almost over; finals are next week. As I sit down at my desk desperately trying to remember some mathematical formula I learned about three months ago, the concepts seem to have completely dissolved fr...
Ariela Zweiback, Contributing Writer
October 29, 2018
Filed under Opinion
We may have been in our own homes, perhaps our own synagogues, just as those worshipers were as they celebrated a Brit Milah, a new life. I was at home, talking to my parents about what I thought was a big deal, an 18 inning ba...
October 18, 2018
