By Alexandra Wenger ‘21, Features Editor Imagine you’re a New York City resident in 1918. Life is pretty stressful to say the least. WWI is raging. In addition, the extremely contagious 1918 influenza pandemic is plaguing the world. So what do you do to destress? If you guessed, “Go to […]
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Big Bakery-Style Peanut Butter Chunk Cookies
By Alexandra Wenger ‘21, Features Editor I am going to begin this school year with a recipe that will surely exclude at least a small fraction of the Heschel population: peanut butter cookies. I found it this summer on my favorite baking blog, Sally’s Baking Addiction, and it has been […]
Spanish Flu Vs. COVID-19
By Anna Khorets ‘22, Online Editor Even though COVID-19 has impacted all of our lives, it is by far not the worst pandemic to hit the world. The 1918 flu pandemic, also known as the Spanish Flu, killed and infected significantly more people than COVID-19 has so far. Similarities Differences […]
We Are the Weather Convinced Me to Become a Vegan (Almost)
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 […]
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 […]
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