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The Boiling Point

2023-2024 Boiling Point Staff

Tali Liebenthal
Co-Editor-In-Chief and Opinion Editor

Tali Liebenthal

Tali Liebenthal, 12th grade, joined the Boiling Point as a staff writer during the second semester of freshman year. She served as Community Editor in sophomore year and became Co-Editor-in-Chief in her...

Joshua Gamson
Co-Editor-In-Chief and Sports Editor

Joshua Gamson

Joshua Gamson, 12th grade, joined The Boiling Point in the first semester of his freshman year as a staff writer. He served as the Torah Editor in 10th grade and Community Editor in 11th. He has covered...

Ezra Helfand
Executive Editor and Magazine Editor-in-Chief

Ezra Helfand

Ezra Helfand, 12th grade, joined the Boiling Point during his freshman year, working on layout and graphic design. In his sophomore year, he became the Graphics Editor, as a junior, he became the Chief...

Benjamin Kolieb
Web Editor in Chief

Benjamin Kolieb

Benjamin Kolieb, 10th grade, joined the Boiling Point at the beginning of his freshman year, working on developing a new Boiling Point app, and as Chief Web Editor in the Spring Semester, he oversaw the...

Martzi Hirsch
Community Editor

Martzi Hirsch

Martzi Hirsch, 10th grade, joined the Boiling Point at the end of the first semester during his freshman year. At the end of that year he became Sports Editor, and then went on to becoming Community Editor...

Sophie Katz
Outside News Editor

Sophie Katz

Sophie Katz, 10th grade, joined the Boiling Point as a staff writer her freshman year, and became Outside News Editor the first semester of her sophomore year. Sophie won a New York Times high school letter-writing...

Arieh Elad
Torah Editor

Arieh Elad

Arieh Elad, 10th grade, joined the Boiling Point as a staff writer in 9th grade. He is now serving as Torah Editor and enjoys incorporating everyday occurrences into his Torah-inspired writing. In addition...

Mira Schulman
Features Editor

Mira Schulman

Mira Schulman, 10th grade, joined the Boiling Point in freshman year as a writer and became Features Editor for sophomore year, after winning a Best of SNO award for her first article in 9th grade. Outside...

Sonya Katzin
Arts & Culture Editor

Sonya Katzin

Sonya Katzin, 10th grade, joined the Boiling Point as a staff writer in her freshman year, and this year as a sophomore is the Arts and Culture Editor. Outside of Boiling Point, Sonya is on the Shalhevet...

Sam Elyaszadeh
Sports Photo Editor

Sam Elyaszadeh

Sam Elyaszadeh, 12th grade, joined the Boiling Point in his freshman year. Since then he has taken his hobby to new heights by staying active in Shalhevet athletics as a photographer, and creating the...

Ella Hoenig
Photo Editor

Ella Hoenig

Ella Hoenig, 10th grade, joined the Boiling Point at the beginning of the first semester during her freshman year. She then became Photo Editor during her sophomore year. Besides Boiling Point, Ella volunteers...

Max Messinger
Copy Editor and Captions Editor

Max Messinger

Max Messinger, 12th grade, joined the Boiling Point in 11th grade as a writer and eventually copy editor, authoring multiple articles about Schoology-posting statistics. He has added the position of captions...

Elishai Khoobian
Business Director and Distribution Manager

Elishai Khoobian

Elishai Khoobian, 12h grade, joined Boiling Point last year as the founding member of the Boiling Points business division. He is now the acting Business Director and Distribution Manager. In addition...

Ariel Mazar
Co-Video and Podcast Editor

Ariel Mazar

Ariel Mazar, 10th grade, became a BP staff writer during the second semester of 9th grade. He now is co-video and podcast editor. Outside of the Boiling Point, Ariel is on Mock Trial, Robotics and many...

Etan Lerner
Co-Video and Podcast Editor

Etan Lerner

Etan Lerner, 10th grade, joined the Boiling Point in his freshman year and is now the co-video and podcast editor with fellow sophomore Ariel Mazar. Besides working at the Boiling Point, Etan is a member...

Eliana Wainberg
Chief Layout Editor

Eliana Wainberg

Eliana Wainberg, 12th grade, joined the Boiling Point at the beginning of her junior year, working on layout and graphic design. She is now the Chief Layout Editor. Outside of the Boiling Point, Eliana...

Molly Litvak
Editor-In-Chief Emeritus

Molly Litvak

Molly is studying at Midreshet Torah v'Avodah seminary in Jerusalem and will attend Columbia University in New York next year.

Jacob Joseph Lefkowitz Brooks
Editor-In-Chief Emeritus

Jacob Joseph Lefkowitz Brooks

Jacob Joseph Lefkowitz Brooks was editor-in-chief during the 2019-20 school year and is now a student at the University of Toronto.

Benjamin Gamson
Editor-in-Chief Emeritus

Benjamin Gamson

Benjamin Gamson, 12th grade, is in his second year as an Editor-in-Chief of the Boiling Point, having served last year as only the second junior to hold that post himself. Benjamin joined the Boiling...

Hannah Jannol
Editor-in-Chief Emeritus

Hannah Jannol

Hannah Jannol was Editor-in-Chief of the Boiling Point during the 2017-2018 school year. Since then, she has attended The New School and written for their HerCampus chapter; edited obituaries for The Tra...

Alec Fields
Editor-in-Chief Emeritus

Alec Fields

In four years at the Boiling Point, Alec Fields wrote stories for every section and won some of the top awards in high school journalism, including the Quill and Scroll Sweepstakes Award for best news st...

Maayan Waldman
Editor-in-Chief Emeritus

Ma’ayan Waldman

Ma’ayan Waldman joined the staff of the Boiling Point in ninth grade and served as Arts Editor, Opinion Editor, Community Editor, and finally Co-Editor-in-Chief.  She won First Prize in New Writing...

Eric Bazak
Editor-in-Chief Emeritus

Eric Bazak

After serving as staff writer, Features Editor, and Outside News Editor over the previous three years, Eric Bazak served as Editor-in-Chief for the 2015-16 school year. He is currently a freshman at ...

Goldie Fields
Editor-in-Chief Emeritus

Goldie Fields

Currently a freshman at USC, Goldie kept the Boiling Point going for her entire four years at Shalhevet, putting her heart and soul into every role and and was very proud of everything the staff&...

Alexa Fishman
Editor-in-Chief Emeritus

Alexa Fishman

Now a freshman at Princeton University, Alexa Fishman joined the Boiling Point as a freshman and went on to serve as Community Editor and Features Editor before becoming Editor-in-Chief in 2014-15....

Tamar Willis
Editor-in-Chief Emeritus

Tamar Willis

Tamar Willis is a graduate of Princeton University where she wrote and served as business manager for the culture magazine Nassau Weekly. She joined the Boiling Point staff in ninth grade and served as Staff W...

Kalil Eden
Editor-in-Chief Emeritus

Kalil Eden

Currently serving in the Israeli Defense Force, Kalil Eden was the Editor-in-Chief and Opinion Editor of the Boiling Point in the spring of 2013.  Before joining the IDF he spent his freshman year...

Zev Hurwitz
Editor-in-Chief Emeritus

Zev Hurwitz

After serving as Editor-in-Chief of the Boiling Point in 2010-11 school year, Zev went on to UC San Diego where he was Editor-in-Chief of the campus paper, The Guardian.  He is currently the...

Leila Miller
Editor-in-Chief Emeritus

Leila Miller

Currently a staff writer at the Los Angeles Times, Leila has already had a distinguished career in journalism, writing ground-breaking reports for the Miami Herald, Moment Magazine and the Jewish...

Lexi Gelb
Editor-in-Chief Emeritus

Lexi Gelb

Lexi Gelb was Editor-In-Chief of the Boiling Point for the 2009-10 school year and won awards from the National Scholastic Press Association and Quill and Scroll.  While at Shalhevet she was also...

Elana Eden
Editor-in-Chief Emeritus

Elana Eden

Elana Eden vowed never to write journalism again after her first catastrophic story for the BP’s Torah section but went on to become Editor-in-Chief during the 2008-09 school year. After spending...

Clara Sandler
Co Editor-in-Chief Emeritus

Clara Sandler

Clara Sandler was co-editor-in-chief during the 2018-19 school year and then studied  at the Midreshet Lindenbaum seminary in Jerusalem.  She is now a junior at the University of Chicago.

Lucy Fried
Co Editor-in-Chief Emeritus

Lucy Fried

Lucy Fried was co-editor-in-chief during the 2018-19 school year and went on to study at the Hartman Institute in Jerusalem. She is now a junior at UC Berkeley.