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COUNT: From left, Sam Hirschhorn, Rabbi Ari Schwarzberg and Academic Dean Aviva Walls compiled tallies after school in Rabbi Schwarzberg's office from today's Just Community elections.

Talia Gill is new Agenda Chair

May 4, 2018

Here are the results from the 2018 Just Community elections: Agenda: Chair -  Talia Gill Vice Chair - Maya Tochner Secretary...

CHANGE: Agenda Chair Daniel Lorell heard a comment from senior Rami Gruman at Town Hall.

Votes keep no-lunch Fridays, change boys dress code

By Shayna Becker, Staff Writer
April 10, 2018

Schedule: The Just Community voted on Jan. 4 to continue no-lunch and early dismissal on Fridays, guaranteeing that school...

EDITORIAL: Playing with food

EDITORIAL: Playing with food

April 9, 2018
On any given day at school, one can see students hunched over, staring at screens, their fingers restless from typing away yet another essay, assignment or email. Pairs of eyes are tired from the constant blue light, and the near seven hours of sitting per day takes a toll on posture and energy. Students are on technology all the time, and most of their entertainment also involves electricity or the use of fossil fuels from driving around town to various hang-outs and restaurants.
EDITORIAL: Playing with passion

EDITORIAL: Playing with passion

April 8, 2018

By the BP Editorial Board Color War at Shalhevet is an event of intense competition among the four grades, during which the...

COLOR WAR 2018: Intense competition, shortcuts and penalties, a hard-boiled egg genius and a senior three-peat make it memorable

COLOR WAR 2018: Intense competition, shortcuts and penalties, a hard-boiled egg genius and a senior three-peat make it memorable

April 3, 2018

Editor’s note: These stories appeared in the Boiling Point’s Issue 4, in early March, less than two weeks after Color...

SAFE: Members of the Red and Green teams ran to their partners' laps as they tried to stay in the game.

COLOR WAR: Disputed call gave ‘Coke – Pepsi’ game to the seniors; juniors still have not conceded

By Molly Litvak and Lucy Fried
April 3, 2018
The stakes were high as a sea of students, each grade wearing a different color, flooded into the gym for the last event of the first day of Color War. The whole school was there, some 250 students and about 50 staff. Seniors wore purple, juniors wore red, sophomores wore green and freshman wore black.

Students and faculty walk outside to honor shooting victims, but leave politics indoors

By Shayna Becker, Staff Writer
March 27, 2018

Students and faculty sitting in a large circle mourned the lives lost in the Parkland, Fla., shooting last Wednesday, joining...

PAGE THREE: Where feelings go too far

PAGE THREE: Where feelings go too far

By Shana Lunzer, Staff Columnist
March 26, 2018

When we were children, all we could do was feel. We knew very little, so our beliefs were based mainly on intuition. We didn’t...

EXPLORE: Mrs. Samantha Garelick, right, explained to Michelle Navi and Yehudah Zadeh in the new art room, B102.

New media arts and journalism classes offered to freshmen

By Sivan Karz, Staff Writer
March 18, 2018

Freshmen rushed to their phones, laptops and iPads Jan. 19 to submit their preferences for their second semester electives, something...

SALE: Within minutes of its posting, Ben-Tsion Oliel perused merchandise on the website of Supreme. He sells everything he buys, at a huge markup,

Clothing company creates student entrepreneurship at the click of a button

By Clara Sandler, Community Editor
March 14, 2018
It’s 8 a.m. and a regular Thursday morning for most Shalhevet students, but for Ben-Tsion Oliel, Sam Navon, Josh Weindling, Sam Navon and Asher Dauer, it’s time to get down to business.
PAGE THREE: For better or for worse or for two dollars

PAGE THREE: For better or for worse or for two dollars

By Shana Lunzer, Staff Columnist
March 13, 2018

No one wants to admit the existence of sexual harassment. It's an uncomfortable phrase and society’s attitude thus far has been...

Officers of the Broward County Sheriff's Department last month in a photograph taken after the shooting at Margory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla.

Officials say school will not punish students who join walkout Wednesday

By Tyler Ekaireb, Outside News Editor
March 12, 2018

As students across the nation are orchestrating school walkouts for this Wednesday in the wake of a deadly shooting in Parkland,...

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