Shalhevet High School
in Los Angeles, United StatesCategory: Attraction
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Jean and Jerry Friedman Shalhevet High School is a co-educational, college-preparatory, Modern Orthodox Jewish high school in Los Angeles, California. Boys and girls follow the same Judaic curriculum, including Talmud, in mixed classes, which is unusual for Orthodox Jewish high schools, and a full program of visual arts, music, drama, and athletics is offered in addition to the dual curriculum of secular and Judaic studies. Co-founded in 1992 by Jean and Jerry Friedman, Ed. D., and Steve Bailey, Ph.D., the school's founding headmaster, Shalhevet developed a modified version of the Kohlberg-Gilligan "Just Community" template.Shalhevet has about 223 students in grades 9 -12 as of 2014-15 and is led by Head of School Rabbi Ari Segal. Mr. Noam Weissman, formerly principal, with Shalhevet teacher Rabbi David Stein, of the 2013 Mayberg Family Foundation grant for their original Judaic Studies curriculum. Other headmasters were Nathan O. Reynolds, who had served as General Studies principal on two previous occasions;and Rabbi Elchanan Weinbach, whose tenure lasted two years following Dr. Friedman's retirement in spring 2008. Mr. Daniel Weslow is currently principal of General Studies. A lower school that had opened in 2000 was closed at the end of the 2009-10 school year.
