Two rockets fired from Gaza, no injuries reported
Two rockets fired from Gaza landed in open areas in Israel’s Negev Desert.
Two rockets fired from Gaza landed in open areas in Israel’s Negev Desert.
In her junior year, Oakwood senior Katherine Bernstein spent two weeks in Sierra Leone with the North Hollywood school\’s immersion program. Amid carrying buckets of cement for a new school and helping to paint a map of the world in its library, she was struck by a major difference between life in Southern California and the West African nation.
Corinne Kentor may be coming of age in the iPad and Kindle era, but she feels most at home surrounded by books. The more classic the volumes, the better. It\’s \”Candide\” and \”Don Quixote\” that thrill this New Community Jewish High School (NCJHS) senior, who lights up when she discusses the works of Shakespeare or the Brontë sisters.
Milken Community High School senior Leah Gluck is dedicated to raising awareness about genocide, even though it seems so distant and unsolvable.
Disguised as an elderly woman in czarist Russia, Sheridan Pierce took the stage at Brentwood School. As the bright lights touched her face and the character took over her body, Pierce poured her heart into her role, and she realized that she was meant to act. The play was \”Fiddler on the Roof,\” and Pierce, a ninth-grader at the time, was playing Yente the matchmaker. The significance of the role, she said, was her connection with the character on a more personal level. \”Deep in my soul, I\’m already a little old Jewish lady,\” she joked.
Quinn Lohmann closes his eyes and tilts his head slightly. His fingers find their place between the frets of his guitar, and his voice rings out, soft and crystal clear. \”We all got a life to live. We all got a gift to give. …\”
When his late grandmother was first diagnosed with terminal cancer three years ago, Jason Aftalion was moved by the volunteers who visited her at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. \”I was so touched by how they talked to her and spent time with her, so she wouldn\’t be lonely,\” said Aftalion, a Persian-American senior at Milken Community High School.
A long-range Grad rocket fired from the Egypt hit a near a residential area in Eilat.
A Palestinian human rights group in the Gaza Strip condemned the storage of rockets used against Israel in civilian populated areas. The Palestinian Center for Human Rights in a statement posted on its website Tuesday called on the Hamas-controlled government in Gaza to investigate three incidents of homemade rockets exploding in densely populated civilian neighborhoods, causing heavy property damage and injuring six Palestinians, including a baby.