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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From Summer Camp to Science Labs: What TLS Students Did This Past Summer
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
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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Borders of Empathy
By Olivia Goldman 2,401.5 miles. If you were born in Westchester, New York, then that number has determined the quality of your life. If you had been born 2,401.5 miles south, then there is a 63% chance that your childhood would have been immensely affected by gang violence, and a mere 4% chance that America’s
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Lev Ve’Nefesh 2.0; Reimagining the senior experience under unique circumstances
By Natalie Rosen The senior Lev Ve’Nefesh, or “heart and soul”, trip is one of the most meaningful and exciting events that students look forward to each year as a conclusion to their high school careers. In the past, the trip ran for two months at the end of January until the end of March,
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‘Czech’ America off your travel list: Jewish students from Prague visit TLS
By: Abby Kass During the week before February break, the TLS student population grew in size. TLS students might have wondered who the unfamiliar faces they were spotting in the hallway were. Those were students from the Lauder School in Prague, who visited TLS to learn about an American high school and Jewish community. However,
