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COMPLETE: The Boiling Point has profiled all 18 of this years new teaching and administrative staff, some of whom are pictured above. Stories are linked at the bottom of this page.
18 new faces bring range of backgrounds to faculty and staff
By Joshua Gamson, Community Editor • November 29, 2022
PREPARED: Mr. Roque Wicker, president and CEO of C-T Watch Inc., right, demonstrating to senior Zach Rub and freshmen Sarah Goor and Lev Fishman how to use a tourniquet.
Emergency training seeks balance between ignorance and fear
November 15, 2022
Opinion
TALK: Representatives of the C-T Watch security company address a 90-minute Town Hall Sept. 21 in the gym.
EDITORIAL: Disaster drills save lives. We need them here.
By By the Boiling Point Editorial Board • November 17, 2022
JOY: “The best feeling of all, though, is watching the Dodgers win while sprinting out of the stadium to beat traffic, hearing “I Love LA.”
MY LIFE IN A SONG: Sound of a stadium
August 4, 2022
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COVID-19
FACES: Students in Mr. Forresters 10th-grade American Literature class were all maskless April 1. Masks have been optional indoors at Shalhevet since March 14.
It’s unanimous: State, county and school officials all agree - masks now optional at Shalhevet
By Benjamin Gamson, Editor-in-Chief • April 1, 2022
MASKLESS: Students lined up for PCR tests in the cafeteria last Friday, almost none wearing a mask. Two students, both seniors, tested positive, along with a staff member – all of them vaccinated.
Shalhevet cracks down on mask wearing as some students, staff test positive for Covid
December 20, 2021
SWAB: Arielle Grossman and Keira Deutsch wait for their Covid test in the cafeteria Dec. 3 as Director of Facilities Lili Einalhori oversees. Weekly Covid testing is required for unvaccinated students and members of the basketball team, and also available for any student who wishes.
Vaccine mandate takes effect for most students 16 and up
December 2, 2021
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Can a loss be a win? Soccer team thinks so
Post Roe, states’ laws may say no when halacha says yes
Most Yeezys stay home as students respond to Kanye’s, Kyrie’s antisemitism
Simple changes, or sign of the times?
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Arts & Culture
NEW: Israeli street artist Solomon Souza spent two weeks before school started painting murals of famous Jewish and Israeli figures on Shalhevet walls.
Larger than life, portraits in undulating colors now brighten hallways
November 19, 2022

When students walked into Shalhevet last August, they didn’t expect to be greeted with vibrant, oversized...

DISPLAY: Amalia Abecassis explained “Getting into Cars.” It shows children and mothers saying goodbye to one another during the liquidation of the Vilna Ghetto in Lithuania in 1943, when children and elderly were taken by cattle-car to the Sobibor death camp in Poland.
Art exhibit opens window on life before, during and after Holocaust
October 31, 2022
Senior columnist Elliot Serure prompted an AI art generator to create this picture by requesting “Van Gogh’s Starry Night but with the Brooklyn Bridge.”
Wait -- AI can paint now?
September 4, 2022
NEON: Lenny’s bright sign can be seen -- and noticed -- from down Pico Boulevard.
Lenny’s Casita fills an L.A. kosher food gap
May 12, 2022
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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

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PROTEST: From left, Shalhevet faculty Rabbi Yitzchak Etshalom, Dr. Jonathan Ravanshenas, Mr. Chris St. Germaine, and Rabbi David Block stood outside a home on Poinsettia Place in Hancock Park to support Lonna Ralbag’s right to a get, or religious Jewish divorce, Aug. 23. Agunah activist Rabbi Jeremy Stern joined them, at right.

Rabbis, others demonstrate against ‘get refuser’ while he is sitting shiva

Boiling Point Caption Contest: Winners and new cartoon!
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Sports
DRIVE: No. 6 Nathan Sellam heads to the basket in Wednesday’s opening victory over TABC.. Nathan was the game’s second-highest scorer with 18 points.
Firehawks win both opening games as Glouberman kicks off 8th season
By Joshua Gamson, Community Editor • November 3, 2022

Hundreds of Shalhevet students, faculty, and opposing teams’ fans lined the bleachers to cheer on the Firehawk girls and boys teams for the first two games of this year’s Glouberman tournament, which began yesterday afternoon at 2:30 p.m.  Shalhevet teams, wearing for the first time this season their new white jerseys, defeated both of their opponents, the girls winning 63 - 19 against...

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NET: Senior Noa Talasazan hit the ball over the net Sept. 8 in Shalhevet’s victory over Compton Early College High School.
Girls volleyball team keeps winning as season heats up
By Dana Brodt , Ninth Grade • September 14, 2022

UPDATE: The girls volleyball team’s record is now 3-0, after they defeated Price last night in the Shalhevet gym.  The score was 3-0, Shalhevet winning all 3 sets, 25-10, 25-14 and 25-6. The Firehawks’ girls volleyball team continued its season-opening winning streak by defeating Compton Early College High School 3-0 Sept. 8, demonstrating strong chemistry and teamwork and bringing their win-loss...

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