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HONORED: Mr. Richard Sandler, Milken Family Foundation’s Executive Vice President, shakes hand with Rabbi Schwarzberg while presenting him the Jewish Educator Award. Neither students nor Rabbi Schwarzberg knew what the surprise assembly was about when the school gathered at the end of the day on Sept. 23.

Rabbi Ari Schwarzberg honored with Jewish Educator Award at school-wide assembly

By Simon Goldberg, 9th Grade • December 11, 2024

Judaic Studies teacher Rabbi Ari Schwarzberg was honored with a teaching award from the Milken Family Foundation during a schoolwide assembly on Sept. 23. Mr. Richard Sandler, Milken Family Foundation...

SOLDIER: Alumnus Mitchell Hoenig ‘20 speaks to students and teachers about his experience on Oct. 7 in Israel, serving in IDF reserves afterwards, and about his two friends – one who died fighting on Oct. 7, and one who was killed in Gaza months later. To start off the assembly on the roof, students and teachers clad in blue and white watched a video of the destroyed homes and buildings on kibbutzim in southern Israel after the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks

With songs and stories, Shalhevet remembers Oct. 7 one year later

By Sophie Katz, Editor-in-Chief • October 11, 2024

A Magen David formed by electric candles on the ground illuminated the faces of Shalhevet students and faculty as they sat tightly packed around it for a kumzitz the morning of Oct. 7, 2024.  Clad...

RULE: Freshman Romy Burg puts away her phone before class. Administration introduced the new policy requiring phones put away before all class periods and programs a few days before the start of the school year.

New cell phone policy introduced following changes across Los Angeles community

By Sonya Katzin • October 8, 2024

Administration introduced a new cell phone policy at the beginning of the school year that prohibits all cell phone use and possession during class periods and community programmed time, including davening,...

New Teachers 24-25: Kustanowitz, Tucker

New Teachers 24-25: Kustanowitz, Tucker

By Zecharya Rosenthal and Sonya Katzin • September 20, 2024

VIEW: Smoke rises from the Line Fire in the San Bernardino Mountains, which — at press time — had spread over 23,714 acres and was only 5% contained. Running Springs, where Shabbaton campsite Moshava Alevy is located, is one of the communities currently under a mandatory evacuation order because of the life-threatening conditions in the area.

Freshman-Senior Shabbaton evacuated from Running Springs campsite on Shabbat as wildfire raged

By Sophie Katz and Sonya Katzin • September 10, 2024

Friday morning of the Freshman-Senior Shabbaton, faculty were unaware of the wildfire that was spreading towards Running Springs, where Moshava Alevy, the site of the Shabbaton, is located.  As teachers...

New Teachers 24-25: Zack, Mintz, Anders

New Teachers 24-25: Zack, Mintz, Anders

By Natalie Gul, Mindy Nagel, and Bella Graber • September 8, 2024

NUANCE: Rabbi Block said his decision to censor the article had been difficult. “It’s not that I agree that such an article can never be shared or understand the other side... But to me, I provide education for our community, and so if our community can’t handle something, I do have to consider that.”

School censors story about LA Muslim teens and war

By Boiling Point Staff • June 2, 2024

Sophomore Sophie Katz, the Boiling Point’s Outside News Editor, searched for three months for Muslim teenagers in Los Angeles to interview for a story about their experiences and feelings during the...

WORKING: Mrs. Keene perched at her desk in the Boiling Point office. She keeps a photo of her father with Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (at right) for inspiration, as well as mugs with slogans and various newspapers.

​​Mrs. Keene, who led Boiling Point and Choirhawks for 21 years, leaves to boost journalism in more Jewish schools

By Sophie Katz, Outside News Editor • June 1, 2024

After 21 years of leading the Boiling Point, directing the Choirhawks, and teaching classes, Mrs. Joelle Keene is leaving Shalhevet to continue and expand her work at the Jewish Scholastic Press Association,...

OFF: Students place their phones on tables in preparation for Town Hall March 5, ths first of three phone-free Town Hall after th'trials' mandated by the Fairness and Agenda committees with administrative

After a three-week trial period, students vote 2-1 for no phones at Town Hall

By Martzi Hirsch and Joshua Gamson • May 31, 2024

By a vote of 91 to 52, the Just Community voted in favor of removing their phones and leaving them aside for Town Hall henceforth after April 9.  The result, which took effect immediately and will...

GLASSES: Made of paper (not glass), the latest protective eyewear was shared with all students and staff who wanted to view the eclipse, enabling them to turn their gaze straight up to the sky.

School takes midday break to view partial eclipse – music included

By Mindy Nagel, 9th Grade • May 19, 2024

Many students were already eagerly on the turf before 10:45 A.M. on Monday, April 8, to observe the solar eclipse, when classes were interrupted so the whole school could be present.  Once they arrived,...

SOCIAL: Mr. Reusch has an active social media account and wants to teach people how to think. Students said he encouraged them to express and develop their opinions.

Mr. Reusch, social studies teacher and more, leaves to start a school online

By Eliana Vahedifar, Staff Writer • May 16, 2024

Mr. William Reuch, the founder of Shalhevet’s Civics course, social studies teacher and Model Congress advisor, is leaving Shalhevet after 11 years, taking a step back from classroom teaching to launch...

SERVICE: Ivan Wolkind z"l smiles as his daughter Nettie, now a Shalhevet senior, affixes his badge at his LAPD swearing-in ceremony July 2, 2014, as then-Chief Charlie Beck looks on. Mr. Wolkind was known in the Jewish community and beyond as a champion of safety and love of family.

Ivan Wolkind, Shalhevet dad, champion of community safety and liaison with law enforcement, dies at 56

By Mira Schulman, Features Editor • May 15, 2024

Mr. Ivan Wolkind, father of current senior Nettie Wolkind and two Shalhevet alumni and former Chief Operating and Chief Financial Officer of the Los Angeles Jewish Federation, passed away suddenly on May...

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