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Shalhevet news online: When we know it, you'll know it

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GETTING READY: Maintenance chief Jose Flores applied new paint to a hallway in the Annex.

Permits are late, but Larry Gill says that won’t delay construction of new campus

By Alexa Fishman, Features Editor June 5, 2013

As the school year ends, Shalhevet hasn’t yet closed the sale of its building because the buyer has yet to obtain all needed permits to construct an apartment complex on the site. School board president...

EDUCATION: Junior  Tamar Willis, who leads Shalhevets chapter of Girls Learn International, believes world awareness of womens problems can help solve them.

New club screens film on problems facing world’s women

By By Kalil Eden, Editor-in-Chief, and Max Helfand, Staff Writer June 3, 2013

About 30 students, parents and friends gathered in the Beit Midrash May 19 for a screening of Half the Sky, a documentary about problems faced by women in various places around the world. Arranged by...

ENERGY: Yosef says theres no contradiction between being religious and being cool.

The Journey of Yosef Nemanpour

By Adam Rokah, Staff Writer June 2, 2013

It is Taanit Esther, and many students are exhausted from dehydration. Every movement made by those fasting is slow and lethargic. Junior Yosef Nemanpour seems out of place on this drowsy day, striding...

$50,000 grant will make Judaic curriculum accessible from iPads and nationally

$50,000 grant will make Judaic curriculum accessible from iPads and nationally

By Sarah Soroudi, Community Editor May 31, 2013

Shalhevet’s four-year-old Judaic Studies curriculum, a systematic way to teach students not only the content of Jewish law but how it applies to modern life and how it is arrived at, was awarded a first-ever...

Paint confusion sabotages senior prank

Paint confusion sabotages senior prank

By Tamar Willis, Outside News Editor May 31, 2013

The class of 2013 stayed up all night May 20 transforming the school into what they called “death row” -- a hodgepodge of horror themes involving classrooms and hallways. But while past senior...

GUIDANCE: Aviva Walls, currently Associate Director of College Guidance/Associate Dean of Academic Advisement at New  Community Jewish High School in West Hills, will take over as Director of College Counseling and Academic Advisement next fall.

Mr. Feld will take over tech and iPad program; Aviva Walls of NewJew replaces Dr. Mercer

May 25, 2013

By Eric Bazak, Staff Writer With two key administrators leaving Shalhevet next year, Judaic Studies teacher Mr. Jason Feld will assume Jason Ablin’s job as Coordinator of Educational Technology and...

NEW FOCUS: Mr. Jason Feld, who spearheaded the new program, said it would better address the causes of stress and anxiety.

Aviva Walls named new college counselor; Mr. Feld takes Mr. Ablin’s post

May 14, 2013

The following e-mail was sent to Shalhevet students, faculty, parents and staff Tuesday afternoon, May 14.  Dear Members of the Shalhevet Community, In our ongoing effort to continually improve...

New Leadership at the Boiling Point

May 10, 2013

Earlier this week, Co-Editors in Chief Collen Bazak and Jacob Ellenhorn resigned  and Opinion Editor Kalil Eden has assumed their position.   During the transition, all stories have been subject to...

LOOKING BEYOND: Dr. Mercer hopes students learned that success in high school doesn’t hinge on getting into well-known colleges. He will not be returning next year.

Dr. Steven Mercer, who broadened college options, will expand his consulting practice

By Sarah Sorudi, Community Editor May 9, 2013

Dr. Steven Mercer, who has served as Director of College Counseling since January of 2008, has decided to leave Shalhevet to work full time at his own private college counseling practice. “I already...

Dr. Mercer to leave Shalhevet

April 17, 2013

The following e-mail was sent to Shalhevet students, faculty, parents and staff Wednesday afternoon, April 17. Dear Members of the Shalhevet Community, After more than 5 years at Shalhevet High...

JUDGE: CSPA Crown chairman C. Bruce Watterson said the Boiling Point gave readers unique angles on stories.

Newspaper contest adds category for print-online ‘hybrids,’ and Boiling Point wins a Gold Crown

By Eric Bazak, Staff Writer April 15, 2013

Just before Passover, the Boiling Point was awarded the Columbia Scholastic Press Association’s Gold Crown award for print-and-online “hybrid” publications -- an honor only eight newspapers across...

Mr. Ablin will leave to become new General Studies Principal at Hillel Hebrew Academy

Mr. Ablin will leave to become new General Studies Principal at Hillel Hebrew Academy

March 4, 2013

By Jacob Ellenhorn, Co-Editor-in-Chief A  letter was sent this evening to parents at Harkham Hillel Hebrew Academy, announcing that Mr. Jason Ablin would leave Shalhevet to become their school's new...

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