By Ruby Horowitz When I was in elementary school, Halloween was referred to as the “H word”. Halloween dates back to 2,000 years ago, when the Pagan Celts had a festival to celebrate the dead. On that night, Samhain, the devil was called upon. This brings up a quite controversial debate: should Jews celebrate Halloween?
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First Annual SW Homecoming
By Sara Greenberg Schechter Westchester’s Athletics Committee organized SW’s first ever homecoming this past Sunday, October 7, featuring all of SW’s Fall athletics teams. Many excited students and faculty attended the event to support our school and show off their Schechter “ruach.” “It’s good spirit! We had a lot of people cheering the volleyball team
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Nine New Changes at SW for 2018
By: Maya Rotman Were you wondering what has changed at SW over the summer for the new 2018-2019 academic school year? Check out the following nine highlights to find out! 1. Over the summer, SW worked on some renovations! They took down all the old TV/VCRs that had been mounted in classrooms, so now teachers and
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Coming Together – The School Shooting Epidemic in the United States
Sophia Wolk Yesterday afternoon on February 14th 2018, at least 17 students and adults were mercilessly killed and another 18 injured by a former student of their own high school at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida. According to CNN, this mass shooting was the tenth deadliest mass shooting in modern US history, and,
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A Year in Review
To conclude 2017, eight Schechter Westchester High School students recounted personal miracles that occurred in the past year: “Before I came to Schechter, I wasn’t even thinking about having a Bat Mitzvah. But in 8th Grade, during Bar and Bat Mitzvah season, I really wanted to have a Bat Mitzvah. It was so nice that
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Moriah Concert Band Performance
This morning, November 29th, the Concert Band from Moriah College in Sydney, Australia performed for the Schechter Westchester community. The entire Upper School, students and faculty, listened to an hour-long performance. The songs performed included renditions of “Somewhere Over the Rainbow,” “Bridge Over Troubled Waters,” a Fiddler on the Roof medley as well as Gershwin
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Shavruach 2017
This week November 20th – 22nd, students at Schechter Westchester celebrated Shavruach, or Spirit Week, led by Student Government. Each grade had a pair of generals, who lead their grades during the week. The grades competed for points, which they earned by winning events and doing kindness challenges. Cards were distributed with various acts of
