09 March 2012
By KAYLA LEVY Although some critical online reviews of the youth hostel in New Olreans where the senior class will be staying on their Journey have created a bit of apprehension among some students and their families, first-hand accounts appear to show a different picture. Unease with the choice of lodging has been caused by [...]
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29 February 2012
Many people have a fascination with athletics. Over 110 million people watched this year’s Super Bowl. That is over one-third of the entire American population. There were over 700 million estimated viewers of the 2010 World Cup Soccer Championship game, and an estimated 26 billion total viewers of the games (an audience of roughly 400 [...]
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29 February 2012
By BEN OREPER When I first read Jonathan Safran Foer’s Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, I was utterly captivated. The writing style and story itself are outdone only by the ridiculous rate at which Foer’s mind seems to pump out pure unadulterated philosophical bricks, page after page. So when I heard that Hollywood was adapting [...]
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29 February 2012
By PAUL ROGERS, San Jose Mercury News SAN JOSE, Calif. — California’s sea otters have struggled for years with diseases, parasites and even the occasional collision with boats. But now the fuzzy coastal mascots are increasingly facing another threat: shark attacks. For reasons still a mystery to scientists, the number of sea otters killed by [...]
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29 February 2012
Member states disagree on right course of action By Hannah Allen, McClatchy Newspapers CAIRO — The Arab League’s sharp internal divisions over how hard to push for regime change in Syria are hampering its ability to lead negotiations toward resolving the crisis, analysts said Monday. The United Nations is looking to the Arab League to [...]
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08 February 2012
“What can I say,” said the resident of Babba Amr, a neighborhood in Homs, Syria. “I think they are going to kill all of us, all of the civilian people here… They don’t care. Children, little kids, women, old men, boys, girls, they kill everyone.” “What will happen if you don’t get help very soon?” the reporter speaking [...]
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08 February 2012
By KAYLA LEVY Knesset held a five hour session of discussing and voting on changes to the Knesset By-Laws, the set of rules outlining the foundation of the JCHS student government, on Friday, January 13. Knesset gathered in the auditorium at 10 a.m. the day after finals ended, to vote on the proposed By-Laws. The [...]
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07 February 2012
By MICAH FENNER Warren Hellman, the local financier and philanthropist who gave generously to many causes including JCHS, died December 18, in San Francisco, he was 77. Hellman, who came to embrace his Judaism late in life, made serious contributions to the Jewish community. He contributed heavily to the Jewish Community Endowment fund and served [...]
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07 February 2012
By RENEE MACDONALD Earlier this school year the media was abuzz with news about the NBA lockout and the battle between the players and owners. But what about the JCHS basketball teams? This is Gretchen Keisel’s first year as head coach of the girls varsity basketball team. Keisel was the assistant coach for several years [...]
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07 February 2012
By BEN FEINER JCHS received a notice of corrective action this part November for having areas of the theater blocked with props and decorations during the fall musical “Anything Goes,” The Observer has learned. According to the citation issued during a surprise inspector by the San Francisco Bureau of Fire Prevention, the issue needing correction [...]
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Fears About New Orleans Hostel Unfounded
E-Va'ad Takes on the Dark Side of “Green” at JCHS
The Unifying Power of Sports
The Hidden Life of Merav Rozenblum
What Ever Happened to NET Classroom
Students to Lunch Tables: Let Us Eat!!
Q&A with Israeli Journalist Bradley Burston
JCHS' New Technology Initiative Off to Bumpy Start, Offers Promise
Future of Mid-East Uncertain, All Eyes on Egypt
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