January 19, 2014
Although Shalhevet did not formally commemorate the passing of legendary human rights leader and statesman Nelson Mandela, the five minutes in between class...
January 14, 2014
Jumping out of the car 20 feet from the door of school last month, there was one thought in many students’ heads: run inside Recently, the U.S. has ex...
January 12, 2014
Seven juniors spent an afternoon looking at Middle Eastern culture through the lens of a local mosque, on a field trip last month to Culver City that was...
November 20, 2013
Melissa transformed into Mah Lissa. Natalie rechristened herself Nah Tally, and Kaili became Kay Lee...in cyberspace, that is.
With college application...
November 17, 2013
Q: What do you and your daughter think of Rabbi Segal’s decision, which would have encouraged your daughter to use tefillin at home but not allowed it...
November 16, 2013
Out of six other Modern Orthodox high schools contacted by The Boiling Point, only one has ever allowed women to wrap tefillin at school, and that was...
November 16, 2013
Three weeks after his initial email raising the question to the Shalhevet community, Rabbi Segal announced Nov. 14 that he would not let female students...
November 16, 2013
Should Shalhevet allow women to wrap tefillin and wear tallit during Shacharit?
This question began floating around Shalhevet on Oct. 25, when Rabbi...
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...
May 30, 2013
Here is a list of the 19 awards won by the Boiling Point and its staff during the 2012-13 school year, in chronological order of when we learned of them. Unless otherwise stated, all are for work done during the 2011-12 school year.
National Scholastic Press Association
NSPA: 2012 Pacemaker Finalist, large-paper category (16-plus pages per issue) - one of 16 in the US. This is f...
May 14, 2013
In the opening weeks of school last fall, at least five students learned that a parent was suffering from some form of cancer. Since enrollment at Shalhevet hov...
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...
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