Community Archives - The Boiling Point

Rabbi Segal announced three new hires in an email today

May 17, 2019

Here is that email: Dear Shalhevet community, First, I’d just like to turn your attention to a set of excellent divrei Torah published on AccidentalTalmudist.com. Our student Sheyna Schusterman wrote a beautiful piece on Parshas Emor, along with four other students from Milken Community Schools, YULA Girls and Boys, and de Toledo High School. It’s wonderful...

Purim talent show brought community together with costumes, nerves and cheers

May 14, 2019

Freshman Victory Fuchs sat anxiously in her seat as she waited to be called up to the stage in front of the whole school last month for the Purim Talent...

Fairness Committee overturns result of election for next year’s Fairness chairs, committee to have three next year

May 10, 2019

Shalhevet’s Fairness Committee will have three co-chairs next year, after a Fairness deliberation changed the result of a Just Community election to...

The Fairness Committee’s official statement appointing three Fairness Co-Chairs for next year

May 10, 2019

Following a public Fairness Committee hearing today regarding whether the Fairness Chair election outcomes would change, the Fairness Committee delibera...

Open Fairness hearing Friday morning will consider possible change to Fairness Chair election outcome

May 10, 2019

The Fairness Committee will hold an open hearing this morning to decide whether to change the outcome of this week’s election for Fairness Co-chairs...

David Edwards elected new Agenda chair; Klores and Rubel will lead Fairness

May 7, 2019

Here are the results of today’s Just Community Elections. The Boiling Point observed the counting of ballots. Voting was by computer, and voters were aske...

Lighting up the night for homeless kids on Skid Row

May 5, 2019

Banners hung all around, decorating the rooftop space. Lights flashed and music played loudly, the bass trembling. The tall buildings of downtown LA l...

LIVESTREAM: Press Conference with Rabbi Segal

April 12, 2019

New harassment policy sets rules, defines terms

April 8, 2019

After several Town Hall discussions and heated debates about what exactly sexual harassment is, the school released a new harassment, discrimination and r...

FLOOD: All basement classrooms under inches of water after city main breaks

April 2, 2019

A huge gush of water from a burst city pipe poured through a basement wall and into a storage room early this morning, overflowing into two basement l...

Debaters win six awards at Penn Model Congress

March 31, 2019

Shalhevet's 21-delegate Model Congress team missed half of the committee sessions and a third of the full-house sessions, yet still won two gavels and fo...

From CSPA, a seventh consecutive Crown, this time a silver

March 22, 2019

For the seventh consecutive year, the Boiling Won won a CSPA Hybrid Crown Award this afternoon, but this year’s is silver instead of gold. Hybrid...