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

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

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NEW: Shalhevet Scottsdale students wearing Nishmat Adin sweatshirts with academic facilitator Josh Meisel, right, in the Scottsdale JCC last month.
Seven now attending Shalhevet on Zoom from Arizona, starting new school there
By Benjamin Gamson, Editor-in-Chief • October 31, 2021
INVOLVED: Shalhevet Scottsdale freshman Hinda Gross will serve on the Fairness Committee this year. She attends most classes and activities via Zoom but visits the LA campus about once a month.
Scottsdale student wins position on Fairness Committee in grade-level rep election
October 19, 2021
Opinion
FIT: Which one are you? The right way to wear a mask is covering your nose, not your neck.
EDITORIAL: Masks work. We should know.
By The Boiling Point Editorial Board • October 27, 2021
The early-morning Hashkama Minyan, started in 2013, had grown to be the most popular prayer service on campus, sometimes with more than 100 people attending at 7:20 a.m.
EDITORIAL: Let Town Hall vote on Hashkama Minyan
October 10, 2021
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COVID-19
SPIKES: mRNA vaccines like Pfizers and Modernas cause cells to produce a spike protein, which stimulates the production of antibodies against it that will attack Covids spike proteins if the body encounters them.
True or false? From vaccines to variants, Dr. Julie Higashi explains it all
By Juliet Wiener, Outside News Editor • September 27, 2021
QUARANTINE: Head of School Rabbi David Block, shown last spring, says he struggled to believe he might have Covid but got tested anyway.
Rabbi Block has Covid, will miss opening days of school
August 25, 2021
POLL: View a slideshow of poll results by clicking through the Gallery box below.
Covid Tracker May 25-26 – Last survey of school year shows three-fourths of the school is partly or fully vaccinated
June 25, 2021
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THANKSGIVING: Grateful in public
Housing wins out as Planning Commission votes down ‘Soro Hotel’
Hotel or housing? City Planning Commission deciding future of key intersection tomorrow
WHAT I KNOW NOW: Work smarter, not harder
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Arts & Culture
The cover of the album ‘Flower Boy’ by Tyler the Creator.
MY LIFE IN A SONG: A friend in the wild
November 8, 2021

My mom told me that wearing headphones on a hike was likely not a great idea, nor was hiking alone for...

ART: Ms. Salem’s art room was ”a safe space for students to express themselves and create art,” according to Drama teacher Ms. Emily Chase. Above, she works with then-junior Sophie Handelman in 2019.
Roen Salem, head of art department and longest serving faculty member, retires for health reasons
October 18, 2021
READY: Appearing finished on Sept. 13, the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures is at the northeast corner of Fairfax Avenue and Wilshire Boulevard, just two blocks north of school. Its eye-catching, multi-story sphere is just behind the main building, visible from Fairfax and also from LACMA to the east.
Vacation plan: How about a museum?
September 17, 2021
REBIRTH: A screenshot of the music video for Kanye Wests song Come To Life, one of many songs on the theme of redemption in his new album, Donda.
Worth the wait, Kanye West’s Donda shares every sort of emotion
September 17, 2021
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CENTRAL: A proposed hotel being voted on by a city panel today would fill most of the block just south of the intersection of Pico and Robertson boulevards, the central corner that gives the neighborhood its name.

Hotel or housing? City Planning Commission deciding future of key intersection tomorrow

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YUM: Companies that specialize in making kosher versions of popular non-kosher snacks are now part of a $13 billion industry. Treif, or forbidden, foods are one type of food that cant be enjoyed by those who keep kosher; another are kosher dairy items, which cant be eaten immediately after meat.

Kosher knockoffs offer a taste of the wide world of American snacks

How is your seder different from all other seders?
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Sports
POWER: Firehawk co-captain Talia Tizabi dribbles around a Ramaz defender in the quarterfinals game on Friday. The Firehawks won that game 60-47, and Talia went on to be named tournament MVP. To see more pictures, click on Gallery above.
Backed by cheering crowd, Firehawk girls defeat Berman Cougars to win their second Glouberman championship
By Noah Elad, Sports Editor • November 12, 2021

At around 11 o’clock Saturday night, the frenzied cheers of the home crowd swept through a packed gym as the Shalhevet Firehawk girls team emerged with its second championship in the school’s annual Steve Glouberman Basketball Tournament.  Two hours later, the Firehawk boys fell short, losing their championship game, and will have to try again next year.  But school officials considered...

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CLOSE: Berman lead after the first half of the game 36-29, but Shalhevet took the lead in the second half winning 71-64. Sophomore Yalee Schwartz dribbles down the court in the first quarter.
GLOUBERMAN DAY 1: A comeback and a landslide open Firehawks’ Glouberman as both boys’ and girls’ teams win
By Benjamin Gamson, Editor-in-Chief • November 4, 2021

Both Shalhevet basketball teams won last night, the Shalhevet girls team defeating Berman Hebrew Academy of Rockville, Md., 71-64 in a come-from-behind victory, and the boys team in a dominant 63-39 win over the Flatbush Falcons.  This opened the Seventh Annual Glouberman Basketball Tournament, which this year brings 18 teams from 11 Modern Orthodox Jewish high schools from across the United...

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