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RAIN: Covid tests went on as planned Thursday evening in spite of heavy rain. All students who plan to come to school next week were required to get the test.

Covid tests will be required for all students who want to attend in-person next week

By Molly Litvak and Benjamin Gamson January 28, 2021

For the first time this year, all Shalhevet students will have to be tested for Covid-19 this week if they wish to attend in-person school next week, school officials have announced.   The requirement...

STORM: This graphic from Thursday mornings hourly weather report showed the most intense part of the storm is expected to take place during Shalhevet’s outdoor Covid testing of students who wish to attend classes or co-curriculars on campus next week. Source: wunderground.com/hourly/us/ca/beverly-hills/date/2021-01-28

In-person school and co-curriculars cancelled tomorrow for rain, but outdoor Covid testing will proceed

By Benjamin Gamson, News Editor January 28, 2021

Shalhevet's optional in-person learning and co-curriculars have been cancelled for tomorrow due to am expected drenching rainstorm, but schoolwide Covid testing will still take place in the late afternoon,...

WET: Rain pummelled the rooftop turf March 12, 2020. The roof is now home to the Leah, Yaakov, Rachel, Avraham, and Sarah open-sided tents where Judaic Studies classes are held for those who want to learn on campus during Covid.

In-person school may be cancelled this week — for rain

By Benjamin Gamson, News Editor January 25, 2021

The second winter storm of 2021 is expected to bring several inches of rain to Los Angeles this week, threatening outdoor in-person learning at Shalhevet.  According to The Weather Channel there is...

SYMPTOMS: A Shalhevet student who tested positive for Covid-19 told the Boiling Point having the virus felt like a bad cold.

First confirmed Covid case in Shalhevet student this year is contained

By Molly Litvak, Editor-in-Chief January 19, 2021

Shalhevet’s first confirmed Covid-19 case of the school year was announced in an email sent out Oct. 19 by Chief Operating Officer Sarah Emerson to parents of 10th- and 11th-graders.  The student...

LIVE: Rabbi Abraham Lieberman taught 10th-grade Modern Jewish History Dec. 3 in the Sarah tent on the third-floor patio. According to a Nov. 27 Los Angeles “Health Officer Order, schools and day camps can remain open while following health protocols. Shalhevet has been having one grade per day meet iat school since Dec. 1.

Medical Task Force works to steer school through changing Covid pandemic

By Juliet Wiener, Staff Writer December 17, 2020

When Sarah Emerson, Shalhevet’s Chief Operating Officer, first came to the school four years ago, she never imagined that fending off a deadly disease would be part of her job description.  At that...

BACK: Rabbi Block taught his senior Advanced Jewish Philosophy class in person for the first time Dec. 1, in the ‘Sarah’ tent outside the Beit Midrash on the third floor.  Outdoor temperatures that day were in the upper 60s.

Exciting, live and ‘weird,’ in-person school reopens outside in tents

By Molly Litvak, Editor-in-Chief December 13, 2020

In the thousands of years that Jews have studied in chevruta, probably never before have partners been forced to learn from six feet apart while almost shouting to hear each other’s voices.  “I...

CHESED: Then-juniors Maya Miro ‘19 and Mikey Khatan ‘19 volunteered with Mr. Reusch at the Lynn project in June 2018.

Chesed Committee changes course to follow school constitution

By Benjamin Gamson, News Editor December 11, 2020

In a possible turning point for the Shalhevet democracy, a summer election for representatives to this year’s Chesed Committee was nullified before school started this year, after it was determined that...

CANCELED: Prospective students and their families arrived in the foyer Nov. 22 at the first of three Open Houses that had been scheduled for this admission season.

School stays open but Open House is cancelled as Mayor Garcetti issues new orders to fight Covid-19

By Benjamin Gamson, News Editor December 4, 2020

As Covid cases hit another all-time high in LA County last night, Shalhevet cancelled its second open house for prospective students until further notice as well as a Kabbalat Shabbat event, school officials...

NAMES: New tents set up to accommodate in-person outdoor learning are named after the patriarchs and matriarchs. Tents Sarah and Abraham are on the third-floor patio; tents Leah, Yaakov, and Rachel are on the turf; and tents Yitzchak and Rivka are in the parking lot.

After delay, in-person school to start tomorrow with one grade at a time instead of two

By Benjamin Gamson, News Editor November 30, 2020

Thirteen days after Shalhevet unexpectedly “paused” a planned reopening of on-campus Judaic Studies classes, the administration announced Friday that students would return to campus after all -- but...

ROLE: Yoetzet Halacha Atara Segal will continue to be Shalhevet’s Israel gap-year advisor for the class of 2021.

Yoetzet Segal moves to Israel, will keep some roles at Shalhevet

By Molly Litvak, Editor-in-Chief November 22, 2020

Yoetzet Halacha Atara Segal may have moved to Israel this summer, but she is still continuing her work with the Shalhevet community.  The Segal family moved on Aug. 5, although Yoetzet Segal’s...

PAUSED: New tents in the parking lot last Thursday night waited for students who would have started on-campus Judaic Studies classes yesterday if not for a last-minute cancellation.

Partial reopening of in-person school is cancelled after LA Covid cases spike

By Molly Litvak and Benjamin Gamson November 18, 2020

At a meeting that lasted less than an hour, school officials decided Sunday to cancel yesterday’s scheduled reopening of on-campus Judaic Studies classes because of a sudden steep spike in local cases...

MODEL: Firehawk debaters managed three honorable mentions at this year’s meet in spite of missing fully half of the two-day competition.

3 awards for Firehawk debaters at first-ever Zoom Model Congress

By Benjamin Gamson, News Editor November 16, 2020

Competing this year over Zoom, Shalhevet’s debaters won three honorable mentions at the two-day Princeton Model Congress conference last Friday and Saturday, in spite of missing the entire second day...

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