Sophie Newman, Global Affairs Editor
January 17, 2019
Filed under Opinion, Showcase
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...
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
Emma Nulman, Features Editor
October 12, 2018
Filed under Opinion
The school days go by so quickly. As students, we are shuffled in and out of classes every hour and hopefully can focus for a few minutes, long enough to hear a few pearls of wisdom the teacher desperately wants us to hear. O...
By Ariela Zweiback, Contributing Writer
October 11, 2018
Filed under Opinion, Showcase
We have approached yet another divide so sharp and cold it reminds me of the splitting Arctic ice caps. A lot has happened recently in our American political arena. For one, we have a new Supreme Court Justice, Brett Kavanaugh....
Sarah Shane, Opinion Editor
June 14, 2018
Filed under Opinion
It was dark, but that wasn’t why she couldn’t see. Her head was throbbing and heavy, her blood stained the furniture around her. She lifted her phone in front of her face, took a quick picture, and texted it to her friend. It...
Ariel Esmailzadeh, Opinion Editor
June 14, 2018
Filed under Opinion, Showcase
I wanted to ask my peers (teenagers in Jewish private school) how they perceive God, and the impacts God has on their daily lives. What does God mean to them? Do they have a relationship with God?
Studying at de Toledo High School, an organi...
