It’s official: Kate Upton isn’t going to Jake Davidson’s prom

By Ryan Torok
Published on April 24, 2013

Moving and Shaking

By Ryan Torok
Published on April 24, 2013

Leaders from Los Angeles’ Jewish and Israel communities came together to celebrate Yom HaZikaron, Israel’s Memorial Day for its fallen soldiers and victims of terror, on April 14 at Stephen S. Wise Temple in Bel Air.

Milken honors educators

By Ryan Torok
Published on December 5, 2012

“We are planting seeds — not me, but all of us.” With those words of hope offered to her fellow teachers, Lidia Turner, a seventh- and eighth-grade Hebrew teacher at the David Saperstein Middle School of Milken Community High School, accepted the Milken Family Foundation’s 2012 Jewish Educator Award during an assembly at her school on Sept. 21.

Beating Tim Cook, CNN to the punch: recent Milken School grad uncovers Apple’s secrets

By Jonah Lowenfeld
Published on June 18, 2012

Hoop, there it is! Milken’s robotics team scores big

By Jonah Lowenfeld
Published on May 2, 2012

When “Sir Lancebot,” the motorized basketball-playing robot built by the Milken Community High School’s robotics team, made its debut appearance at a regional competition in San Diego in early March, the results were not encouraging.

As Milken School prepares for independence, four administrators plan to depart

By Jonah Lowenfeld
Published on April 4, 2012

One year after the plan was first announced, the boards of Milken Community High School and Stephen S. Wise Temple have finalized the terms of the agreement that will sever the ties between the 750-student middle and high school and the large Reform synagogue that established it more than 20 years ago.

Anti-Semitic flags found near Milken campus

By Ryan Torok
Published on March 2, 2012

A Milken Community High School official reported the discovery of anti-Semitic renderings of the Israel flag in front of and near its middle school campus on March 1.

Beyond labels, raising autistic son yields treasure

By Ryan E. Smith
Published on February 1, 2012

Jews and people with autism have a lot in common, if you ask Ezra Fields-Meyer. As an autistic young man, he knows he has a good memory and likes to repeat things. As a Jew, he’s noticed similar qualities, which he pointed out during his bar mitzvah speech a few years ago.

Ablin to leave Milken Community High School

By Jonah Lowenfeld
Published on September 9, 2011

NASA is her dream

Published on June 8, 2011

When Barbara Schloss joined the robotics team at Milken Community High School as a sophomore, she knew she had found her passion. “It’s so fun,” said Schloss, whose father and grandfather, both of whom work in the aeronautics industry, encouraged her interest in math and science from a young age.

Milken school, Stephen S. Wise Temple severing ties

By Jonah Lowenfeld
Published on March 25, 2011

Milken Community High School and Stephen S. Wise Temple are severing ties, both institutions announced on Friday, March 25.

Ten-hut! Milken takes on tackle football

By Jonah Lowenfeld
Published on March 1, 2011

Call it the Milken Community High School of Hard Knocks. Thanks to an organizing effort started by two very committed mothers, along with support from school administration and student enthusiasm, Milken is set to become the first local Jewish day school to field a tackle football team — and only the fourth Jewish day school in the country to do so.

The seminar of a lifetime

By Chelsea and Hayley Golub
Published on May 1, 2008

Who knew that 20 teenagers from Los Angeles could help make a difference in the world?

Briefs: Seeds of Peace extends past Summer; BBYO offers cash incentive for summer camps

Published on February 28, 2008

Education briefs.

L.A.‘s Jewish high schools are all over the map

By Julie G Fax
Published on February 28, 2008

In the early 1980s, when Dina and her husband Michael were applying to Los Angeles Jewish high schools, there was only one choice -- YULA (then known as Yeshiva University of Los Angeles). The Los Angeles Jewish community has expanded and matured since then, and its high school scene now offers nuanced choices with differences in overall philosophy, academic approach, religious level and social atmosphere.Because of that range, a steadily growing number of families with teens are opting for Jewish immersion.

Milken students win first high school X PRIZE

By Julie G Fax
Published on November 1, 2007

Milken Community High School students joined the space race this week when two seniors won the first-ever X PRIZE competition for high schoolers. On Sunday, Michael Hakimi and Talia Nour-Omid took home the first Pete Conrad Spirit of Innovation Award for their concept of developing bio-monitoring sunglasses to keep space travelers healthy during civilian spaceflight.

Class Notes: Rockies, Ramah,  Shalhevet, Conejo Book-A-Thon

By Julie G Fax
Published on November 1, 2007

Community briefs.

Class Notes: Book burning inspires book fair; Shalhevet scribes score; Rocket scientists among us

By Julie G Fax
Published on June 7, 2007

Education briefs.

Walking Through The Echoes of History

By Daniel Ulman
Published on April 5, 2007

It was 5 a.m. and there we were, 39 tired teenagers trudging up Masada's historic snake path.

The Road to Mississippi

By Sophia Kamran
Published on May 4, 2006

Driving through the deserted streets of New Orleans, we peered through the windows of our charter bus and watched as we drove past miles of destroyed homes. As we approached our destination, Waveland, Miss., the houses became increasingly tattered and decayed; on some lots, only kitchen floors remained. As we approached the shore and our worksite came into view, the entire bus was silenced by the broad stretches of land where only the scattered debris of homes remained.

Milken Dress Code

By Keren Engelberg
Published on September 30, 2004

The Tuesday after Labor Day found many kids returning to school from summer vacation. While those at Beverly High showed up in summer tan-revealing tanks and short shorts, at Milken Community High School, neither tank top, nor short shorts, nor T-shirt could be seen.

Milken has implemented a stricter dress code this year, and just three weeks in, it has demonstrated its intention to enforce it. Call it a throwback to the 1950s, with teachers doing double-duty as fashion police, going as far as putting rulers to girls' skirts to ensure hems aren't too short.

Milken Dances Into Bid for Nationals

By Carin Davis
Published on February 26, 2004

Jews can dance a mean hora, but when it comes to hip-hop, they aren't known to hold their own -- until now. The Milken Community High School Dance Team swept the open regional Dance Team Competition in Las Vegas and earned a bid to the 2004 National Dance Team Competition of the High School.

When the Milken team qualified to compete in just one category at last year's nationals, they were the first private Jewish school to earn such an honor. By sweeping last month's regionals in the hip-hop, lyrical, medium dance, jazz and officers categories, Milken enters this year's nationals as one of the teams to beat.

Milken High Learns From Video Scandal

By Julie G Fax
Published on November 6, 2003

Milken Community High School is facing a series of complex issues and emotions following the administration's discovery a few weeks ago that three students had filmed sexually explicit videos and then shared them with other students.

The three students, two boys and a girl in 10th and 11th grades, were expelled.

Your Letters

Published on July 24, 2003

Your Letters

Power of the Past

By Jane Ulman
Published on August 9, 2001

My son Zack, 17, is celebrating Shabbat dinner tonight at the Bohema Restaurant in Krakow, Poland.

In fact, not only is he celebrating Shabbat, but he and his group -- 15 students from Milken Community High School in Los Angeles and 140 students from Tichon Chadash High School in Tel Aviv, plus teachers and parent chaperones (including my husband, Larry) -- are practically doubling Krakow's Jewish population, estimated at 200. It is a population that, at its height in the late 1930s, numbered more than 60,000.

A Hi-Tech Jewish High

By Tom Tugend
Published on October 14, 1999

The Milken Community High School celebrated the completion of its campus construction Sunday, putting the final touches on the nation's largest non-Orthodox Jewish high school -- and its most high-tech -- bar none.

A Solid Foundation

By Beverly Gray
Published on September 10, 1998

Milken High seems like a real campus at last. And so a celebration is in order.

On Jews and Judaism

By Ari L. Goldman
Published on July 10, 1997

Ann Terrick, the rabbi's secretary, said that her boss wasn't taking calls but that she would dial him anyway. It's been a little more than two months since Rabbi Isaiah Zeldin, 77, was felled by a mild heart attack, but his voice booms through the receiver as he picks up the phone. He sounds as robust as he did 30 years ago, when he went to the mountain and built one of the country's landmark temples, Stephen S. Wise.