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beverly hills high school
Benjamin Heller: Cancer diagnosis throws outstanding student a curveball
Budgets grow, tempers shrink as Beverly Hills Metro fight continues
Half a decade and $10 million into a turf war with the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA), nerves are beginning to fray in Beverly Hills.
The Raging Jews of Comedy
Memo to the building maintenance staff at Beverly Hills High School: Pay the air conditioning bill.
The Mensch List: She has tzedakah in the bag
Maya Steinberg, 17, never imagined that Purses for Peace, the bat mitzvah project she started when she was 12, would be so successful.
Joel Pressman, cantor and performing arts teacher, dies at 63
Joel Pressman, a cantor and longtime performing arts teacher at Beverly Hills High School, died on Nov. 18. He was 63.
Unafraid of death, cantor offers a philosophical love fest
On a brilliantly sunny Sunday in late September, Joel Pressman, an esteemed cantor and a venerated former performing arts teacher at Beverly Hills High School, wearing a black T-shirt that proclaimed “I’m not dead yet,” walked slowly with a cane into Will Rogers Memorial Park in Beverly Hills.