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NEXT ACT: Ms. Chase has been both an actor and director around Los Angeles, and an original play she directed, titled Eight Nights, won two 2021 Ovation Awards.
Emily Chase, who led drama department for 31 years, has left for Crossroads
By Sonya Katzin, Arts & Culture Editor • February 1, 2024
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VOTE: Except for just minutes before voting,  there were no active campaigns for Just Community representatives last October.  Above, 10th-graders watched a candidates video.
EDITORIAL: Elections – We can do better
By The Boiling Point Editorial Board January 30, 2024
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BOOKSHELVES: Sets of Shas, Mishneh Torah and commentaries on Tanach are among the many sefarim purchased to fill the Beit Midrash shelves.
A home for study, in carved wood and stained glass
By Mira Schulman, Features Editor • January 16, 2024
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CRISIS: Matthew Broderick, above, as Richard Sackler in the Netflix series Painkiller, which follows several storylines relating to the roots of the opioid epidemic. (Netflix)
Netflix’s TV series ‘Painkiller’ tells at least two cautionary tales
By Sonya Katzin, Arts & Culture Editor • February 20, 2024

Flashing lights. Multicolored balloons. Cheerleaders dancing along to a catchy song. A fluffy blue mascot. A stiffly starched man reveling in it all. And what is the crowd...

REDO: Above, then-Agenda Chair Keira Beller led a debate last March about whether to create a framed, parchment display of the 2020 Constitution rewrite.
Town Hall passes revised proposal to make and display new Constitution, on parchment and framed
By Jojo Eisen, 10th grade • February 17, 2024

The Agenda Committee’s new rule requiring submitted proposals to be more detailed prompted a student to rewrite an old proposal, adding in specifics...

TORAH: Nitzotzei Torah masterminds Etan Lerner and Ariel Mazar study peirushim (commentaries) for their publication’s divrei Torah (words of Torah).
Revived bi-monthly ‘Nitzotzei’ lets students send up sparks of Torah
By Arieh Elad, Torah Editor • February 11, 2024

Inspired by the Shalhevet Torah magazine Orot Shalhevet, written mostly by faculty and alumni writers, sophomores Etan Lerner and Ariel Mazar wanted a...

RETURN: Mr. Ross was in high spirits after several weeks of being sidelined with a broken collarbone. “The first day back was great,” he said shortly afterward.
Mr. Ross returns to school after two-month recovery from scooter accident
By Bella Graber, 9th Grade • February 2, 2024

While English teacher Mr. Dylan Ross was scootering down National Boulevard near Midvale Avenue on Oct. 7,  he lost his balance and fell off his scooter,...

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NEXT ACT: Ms. Chase has been both an actor and director around Los Angeles, and an original play she directed, titled Eight Nights, won two 2021 Ovation Awards.
Emily Chase, who led drama department for 31 years, has left for Crossroads
By Sonya Katzin, Arts & Culture Editor • February 1, 2024

Ms. Emily Chase, who founded and developed the Shalhevet drama department while encouraging students...

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BOOKSHELVES: Sets of Shas, Mishneh Torah and commentaries on Tanach are among the many sefarim purchased to fill the Beit Midrash shelves.
A home for study, in carved wood and stained glass
By Mira Schulman, Features Editor • January 16, 2024
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Shabbat Candlelighting Times

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WAR: IDF soldiers maneuvering in Gaza last month.
What Jewish law says about war
By Etan Lerner, Co-Video Editor • January 12, 2024
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JUBILATED: In the Wildfire Theater – doubling as Shalhevet locker room – Firehawk players drench Coach Ryan Coleman in water to celebrate their tournament victory.
Champions again: Boys and girls basketball teams conquer Glouberman for second straight year
By Etan Lerner, Co-Video and Podcast Editor • December 12, 2023

As Shalhevet students and fans crowded into the “Hawk’s Nest” for the final Glouberman games on Nov. 4, the Firehawks boys basketball team defeated the Ramaz Rams 59-58 through a last-second shot in the championship game, having defeated the RASG Warriors 44-35 in the semifinals. Earlier in the evening, the Shalhevet girls team defeated the Frisch Cougars 56-50 in the championship...

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