By Raphaela Gold ‘2021, Editor-in-Chief Over the summer of 2020, I quickly jumped on the train of drastically altering various aspects of my lifestyle due to quarantine fatigue. I woke up at ungodly hours of the morning to watch the sunrise and go running, I went to sleep early, and […]
Entertainment Reviews
The Modern Miracle of Godspell the Musical
By Raphaela Gold ‘21, Editor-in-Chief It was fitting that a large open tent which looked like it might be the host to a religious revival meeting had been set up to house the 1971 musical Godspell, a musical that centers around Jesus delivering parables from the New Testament. The Berkshire […]
Book Review: Death on the Nile
By Julia Dubey ‘23, Staff Writer I recently began reading the series of books written by Agatha Christie, the world-renowned author of nearly eighty murder mystery novels. She is most well-known for Murder on the Orient Express and And Then There were None, but she is also beloved for her […]
TV Show Review: Little Fires Everywhere
By Julia Dubey ‘23, Staff Writer Based on Celeste Ng’s bestselling book, the television series Little Fires Everywhere is a dramatic, captivating, and emotional TV show set in the 1990s. This show is about the struggles of two families of different backgrounds and the feud created between them due to […]
Book Review: Turtles All the Way Down
By Idan Mor ‘21, Opinion Editor The stories that stick with readers are the ones that leave an emotional stamp. A book that you remember isn’t just read— it’s felt. And that is precisely why John Green’s novel Turtles All the Way Down is so powerful. The story follows Aza […]
TV Show Review: How I Met Your Mother
By Neri Frank ‘23, Assistant Layout Editor How I Met Your Mother has everything I look for in a TV show: comedy, romance, and drama. The series revolves around protagonist Ted Mosby’s story about meeting his children’s mother while in his twenties in Manhattan. The tale involves five friends: Ted […]
Book Review: The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
By Anna Dubey ‘21, Editor-in-Chief Heschel Book Club’s latest read is rich with intrigue and suspense. Journalist Stuart Turton’s debut novel The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle will delight mystery aficionados, Black Mirror fans, thrill-seekers, and lovers of riddles alike. In the book, the narrator and protagonist Aiden Bishop has […]
Dose of History: Star Wars
By Alexandra Wenger ‘21, Features Editor Hold on to your hats, geeks. Have you ever heard of an epic space opera franchise by a man named George Lucas? After completing his first full-length film, THX 1138, Lucas had the idea for a space fantasy film. He wanted to make it […]
Best TV shows to Binge-Watch in Self Isolation
By Aaron Epstein ‘21 Now that Heschel has moved to online-learning and health experts are urging people to stay at home, you are probably finding that you have a lot more free time. One way to spend this new free time, especially if it is too rainy or dreary to […]
Fun Activities for Social Distancing
By Sophie Fisher ‘21 and Ruby Kazam ‘23 Hey Heschel students and faculty! Bored in quarantine and feeling as though you have run out of things to do? Don’t worry. We have compiled a list of at-home activities to help you stay occupied and make the most of your spare […]
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