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  • The Start of Something New: The recently elected student government executive board for 2025

    The Lion's Roar     January 24, 2025     Culture, Features, News

    By Abby Kass The end of the semester brings the end of the era and the start of a new one: the new term of student government! With positions of president, vice president, chief of committees, chief of staff, and chief of communications having just been recently elected, what are some of our Kehillah’s new

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  • Mysterious and Spooky: A review of TLS’s The Addams Family production

    The Lion's Roar     January 17, 2025     Culture, Features, News

    By Abby Kass The Addams Family, put on by TLS’s arts program, had 4 performances between January 11th to January 13th in which they beautifully encapsulated the eerie essence of the storyline. The Addams Family (musical)details the story of Lucas, a normal boy from Ohio planning to marry Wednesday, and his family meeting Wednesday Addams,

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  • Extended Assignment Mornings Explained

    The Lion's Roar     January 13, 2025     Culture, Features, News

    By Abi Wiseman New year, new systems, new rationale. So far this year, students have taken Early Morning Assessments for four mornings. While some teachers do not mind the elongated tests, students tend to be stressed by these exams. So, why the different ranges of opinions? What is the purpose of these longer tests? Early

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  • The Talent of Balance: The way that TLS includes both Judaism and secularism into student life

    The Lion's Roar     January 13, 2025     Culture, Features, News

    By Abby Kass Though TLS is a Jewish school, it is in a community surrounded by schools that follow other religions or are secular. Because of this, TLS tries to incorporate concepts that bring in beliefs from all communities, such as events like interfaith lunches. But, how do TLS community members experience this type of

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  • A Word from the Wise: insight on what it means to be a healthy student

    The Lion's Roar     January 8, 2025     Culture, Features, Print Editions

    By: Abby Kass “Achoo.” You hear it echo down the hall on a grim winter day. Everyone seems to have a cold, and you’re starting to feel under the weather too. Throughout the school year—especially during the winter—students often catch something, whether it’s a common cold or something more serious like the flu. While the

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  • Beyond the Numbers: TLS Students Connect with Homelessness Face-to-Face

    The Lion's Roar     December 9, 2024     Culture, Features, News

    By Leah Raich On an average night in 2023, 4,922 people were sleeping on the streets of Washington, D.C. Each year, the sophomore class at The Leffell School embarks on a Chesed trip to Washington, D.C. to learn about homelessness first-hand. Designed to be a purposeful and impactful experience for the students framed by the

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  • The IDF Experience: Drafted, Fought, Fighting

    The Lion's Roar     December 9, 2024     Culture, Features

    By: Abi Wiseman 6:30 AM, 1,160 alive. October 7, 2023. 12 AM, 1,160 dead. Hostages taken, shots fired, and bombs were exploded. 1,160 dead…and more. We do not know for certain, but. without the help of the IDF, it could have been an even more deadly massacre. War had just begun. Parents in America with

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  • From Summer Camp to Science Labs: What TLS Students Did This Past Summer

    The Lion's Roar     September 18, 2024     Culture, Features, News

    By Dahlia Deener What did you do this summer? Did you go to sleepaway camp like you have for the past ten years? Did you get an internship? Travel? Work? Volunteer? Various TLS students describe what they did over this past summer before school.  The summer is a time for students to unwind from the

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  • Tri-state Transportation: How TLS coordinates the transportation of students to and from school every day

    The Lion's Roar     May 30, 2024     Culture, Features, News

    By Abby Kass Twenty-two. This is the number of school districts that TLS students travel from to get to school every day. Because of this large number of school districts, TLS transportation staff have to work extra hard to ensure that students can be transported to and from school, and they communicate with various districts

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  • Capturing the Moment

    The Lion's Roar     May 30, 2024     Culture, Features

    By Rafi Josselson What is a day at TLS like? Some days are full of joy: a shavruach game or a sports victory. Other times, students demonstrate intellectual curiosity like a chemistry lab or a Socratic seminar. And many days, deep bonds of friendship are forged. To capture these moments, TLS takes pictures and videos

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