Agoura High student earns second journalism award





Shiran Teitelbaum, Agoura High School’s senior class president and editor of the school paper, The Charger, recently earned her second journalism award. Shiran, the daughter of Sheldon and Lilith Teitelbaum of Agoura Hills, won a third-place award for best student columnist in the 2004 Los Angeles Times Student Journalism Awards.


Her winning column, selected from 69 entries, was titled "Massey Attack" and concerned the mobile display of a bombed Israeli bus by the www.endworldterror.com organization. This bus, in which 17 Jewish, Moslem and Christian riders, most of them children, perished, visited Agoura Hills recently.


Shiran attended the awards ceremony at the Harry Chandler Auditorium in the Times Mirror Building along with her parents and her journalism advisor and mentor, Lorelei Hollister. Her father, Sheldon, is a senior writer for the Jerusalem Report, described as Israel and Jewry’s leading newsmagazine.


Previously, Shiran had won a Ventura County Star award for student columnists. She will be attending Mount Allison University in New Brunswick, Canada on an academic scholarship.



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