March 13, 2013
Palestinians and Israelis are like an unhappily married couple in need of a formal separation, according to the Palestinian Liberation Organization’s Ch...
November 9, 2012
Transitioning from a school like Shalhevet—where students don’t need to think twice about keeping kosher or observing Shabbat—to a public u...
June 14, 2012
Many girls at Bais Yaakov – an all-girls Haredi high school in West Hollywood – don’t know who Brad Pitt or Justin Bieber are. But they also don’t...
Leila Miller, Editor-in-Chief
June 14, 2012
Last fall, an insular community that does its best to separate itself from the outside world was thrust into the spotlight after Haredi men were accused of having spat at, and otherwise harassed, a Modern Orthodox second-grader for the way she was dressed on her way to school.
The girl’s family said that far from being a one-time occurrence, it was part of a pattern, and...
June 13, 2012
According to Judaic Studies teacher Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz, all the kosher restaurants on Pico Boulevard have been invited to apply for the new Tav HaYosher,* or ethical seal, proving that they treat their workers according to ...
Leila Miller, Editor-in-Chief
June 12, 2012
Although students at Shalhevet may start dating before girls at Bais Yaakov, they’re probably farther away from marriage. Most girls in Los Angeles' Haredi community expect to begin the shidduch – matchmaking – process when they return from a year of seminary after high school.
“You realize it’s very smart, the system,” said Leora, 21, a Bais Yaakov alumna ...
June 10, 2012
On any given day, about one third of Shalhevet students regard themselves as feeling depressed -- or so they say. On two separate days this year, one...
May 30, 2012
Located next door to B’nai David-Judea on Pico near Livonia, “Got Kosher?” reopened in February after several months of remodeling. It used to be...
May 10, 2012
In a new twist to Color War breakout, the Student Activities Committee spread a fake story among the student body saying that random drug testing was...
April 27, 2012
This letter was sent to the Shalhevet community and separately to the Boiling Point Editorial Board by Head of School Rabbi Ari Segal.
April 27th, 2012, 5 Iy...
April 25, 2012
In a new twist to Color War breakout, the Student Activities Committee spread a fake story among the student body saying that random drug testing was...
Rebecca Mandel, Arts & Entertainment Editor
April 18, 2012
In other Modern Orthodox schools, there is a lack of consensus on the interpretation of kol isha. But in every case, the policy has been arrived at deliberately and with halachic support.
SAR High School in Riverdale has a co-ed choir and allows the girls to have solos.
“We want to give both boys and girls opportunity to express themselves through non-suggestive and appr...
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