New Community Jewish High School 2010 graduate Shayna Turk was named Young Entrepreneur of the Year by The National Federation of Independent Business Young Entrepreneur Foundation, with a scholarship sponsored by VISA.
When comic book artist Neal Adams was 10 years old, he swore he would never get involved in anything related to the Holocaust.
Those of us who think that having schools put laptops in front of our students will prepare them for future changes in our society are sadly mistaken.
One lemonade stand set up to raise a few dollars for the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School district has grown into a community-wide effort, backed by local businesses ranging from the growing Menchie’s Frozen Yogurt chain to Huckleberry Café and Bakery on Wilshire. With an Aug. 15 deadline to collect money for the Save Our Schools campaign, kids, parents, and community members are putting their all into raising funds to bring back teachers, aids, and programs cut for the 2010-11 school year.
Jewish sociologist Barry Glassner has been named president of Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Ore.
New Jersey has given final approval to open the state’s first Hebrew-language charter school.
In a bow to the growing diversity of America\’s religious landscape, the Claremont School of Theology, a Christian institution with long ties to the Methodist Church, will add clerical training for Muslims and Jews to its curriculum this fall, to become, in a sense, the first truly multi-faith American seminary.
With continuing awe, we present another year’s sampling of outstanding high school seniors. This year’s graduating class includes activists, performers and social entrepreneurs, some of whom have raised thousands of dollars for causes locally and across the globe. They’ve started citywide efforts to make our world more inhabitable and our citizens more literate, even as they received academic honors and overcame their own challenges.
Jessica Kianmahd had a lot on her plate a year ago, between volunteering as a Big Sister, involvement in her high school’s social activist group and various musical pursuits.
Larissa Shebroe’s military jacket is decked out with colorful patches, braided ropes, shiny pins, ribbons and dangling medals. The decorated battalion commander of the Van Nuys High School Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps (JROTC) Wolf Pack is ranked second in Los Angeles, from among more than 4,000 cadets, earning her the prestigious title of All City Deputy Colonel for the Los Angeles Unified School District.
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