Community Archives - The Boiling Point

Town Hall vote puts Fairness Committee in charge of Just Community elections

September 13, 2019

After years of dilemmas, complications and mistakes in the running of elections, the Shalhevet community voted this week to appoint the Fairness Committ...

New chesed director is also an athlete

September 11, 2019

Jolie Wineburgh, Arts and Culture Editor Running marathons and finding zen in yoga are two hobbies of Mrs. Malkie Hametz, Shalhevet’s newest Tanak...

BELL SCHEDULE: 9/10/19

September 10, 2019

Here is the bell schedule for picture day! ...

School now charging for parking to subsidize overflow spaces in Petersen lot

September 4, 2019

By Jacob Joseph Lefkowtiz Brooks, Editor-in-Chief For the first time in Shalhevet’s history, students driving their own cars to school are paying...

BELL SCHEDULE: 8/28/19

August 28, 2019

Welcome back to school! Here is the schedule for today: ...

Rabbi Segal to make gradual departure for Israel beginning next year

August 12, 2019

Rabbi Ari Segal, who transformed Shalhevet from an idealistic but financially struggling school housed in a former hospital to a stable and larger scho...

Text of school emails announcing Rabbi Segal’s departure and Rabbi Block’s succeeding him

August 12, 2019

The following combined email -- the first section from Head of School Rabbi Ari Segal and the second from Board President Dr. Noam Drazin -- was sent to...

Late-start school day gets a tryout

June 18, 2019

Shalhevet tested a 90-minute-later school start May 1 in what officials called an “alpha test” of one of various options to improve student health, ...

New student-led committee will approve chesed hours

June 13, 2019

A proposal to reform the school’s chesed, or community service, policy was approved 55 to 45 percent at the last Town Hall of the year May 29. Among ...

What is Robotics?

June 5, 2019

In its fourth year, Shalhevet's Robotics Team placed 19th out of 56 teams -- its best showing ever -- in the Los Angeles Regional FIRST Robotics Competition...

Basement flood repairs will take all summer, officials say

May 28, 2019

Shalhevet basement classrooms will be closed for the remainder of the school year because flood repairs may take all summer to complete, officials say. ...

‘Ranked Choice’ replaces ‘Instant Runoff’ as new election format in first Just Community decision this year

May 23, 2019

In the first Town Hall led by the newly elected Agenda Committee, the community voted May 15 to institute a new “ranked choice” system of voting in...