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Nobel Prize winner and UCLA professor Dr. Andrea M. Ghez speaks at flex time

Nobel Prize winner and Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Department of Physics and Astronomy Dr. Andrea M. Ghez (Evan ’19, Miles ’24 ) spoke to students and faculty about...

Aboubakr answers questions from his audience of community members during the Q&A portion of the event.

Switching sides: Hussein Aboubakr’s journey from future Jihadist to Israeli educator

Hussein Aboubakr was jailed in Egypt for conspiracy of Israeli spying. As a refugee with "nothing to lose," he came to the United States in 2012 and now works at StandWithUs, an antisemitism-fighting nonprofit.
Ava Fattahi
April 15, 2021

The Harvard-Westlake Jewish Family Association (HWJFA) hosted a Zoom event with guest speaker Hussein Aboubakr, a political refugee from Egypt and an educator at StandWithUs (SWU), a nonprofit Los Angeles-based...

Freelance music journalist speaks out against anti-Semitism in the workplace

Natalie Cosgrove
February 10, 2021

The HW Jewish Association hosted freelance music and culture journalist Eve Barlow on Wednesday. Barlow answered student questions and discussed her experience with anti-Semitism in the music industry...

Author of “Fire and Fury” Michael Wolff speaks at virtual upper school event

Natalie Cosgrove
February 8, 2021

New York Times bestselling author and journalist Michael Wolff spoke in a Q&A webinar event for students planned by History Teacher Peter Sheehy Feb. 8. The event was open to students from all AP...

Q&A with Terry Barnum, Head of Athletics

Jake Liker
March 26, 2017

What does the title of Head of Athletics entail? Succinctly, I am responsible for the athletic programs from 7th through twelfth grade. That includes the coaches. That includes staff. That includes the...

Wide receiver Zac Harleston '17 steps to the line of scrimmage prior to a play. Credit: Aaron Park/Big Red

Q&A with Zac Harleston ’17

Dario Madyoon
November 15, 2016

Q. How did you start playing football? When I was in kindergarten, we brought out a football, and I just loved the game. I begged my mom to let me play flag when I was in first grade, and I have loved...

Casey Crosson competes in a track and field event in a recent meet. Credit: Emily Rahhal/Chronicle.

Q&A with girls’ cross country athlete Casey Crosson ’17

Eli Adler
March 11, 2016

How did you start running? How long have you been running? What distances? I started on the track team in seventh grade, but I didn’t do cross country until eighth grade and didn’t really begin to...

Sinking the shot: Q&A with Sydney Cheong ’14

Aaron Lyons
December 18, 2013

 What are your team and individual goals for this season? Well, our team goal is always to win CIF, and if not win, then get as far as we can. Our coach always says we have three goals, which are to win...

Q&A with Thomas Oser and Henry Schlossberg

Aaron Lyons
October 11, 2012

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