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CAMPAIGN: Slogans in English and Hebrew adorned flyers on the door to Ms. Kong’s room, advertising candidates for Agenda and SAC in the second-floor hallway.

Just Community officer elections set for Friday after Agenda Chair debate

By Joshua Gamson, Community Editor April 27, 2023

UPDATED MAY 3: Rami Melmed has won the election for Agenda Chair. See results of all JC elections at the bottom of this story. Election flyers and posters have been on display throughout school this...

EMAIL: Ms. Singh, who has been at Shalhevet since fall 2021, announced her departure in an email to her students today at 4 p.m.

Priyanka Singh departing at the end of year, moving to San Diego

By Joshua Gamson, Community Editor April 25, 2023

Ms. Priyanka Singh, who has been Associate Director of College Counseling and Academic Guidance since the beginning of last year, is moving to San Diego to be closer to her family and will not return next...

OPENING: Three simultaneous chess matches were held March 13 during lunch as part of the first round of this years Chess Club tournament. Confetti was left over from a celebration of the Girls Basketball team CIF win.

Freshmen step up as Chess Club gets more members and attention

By Martzi Hirsch, 9th Grade April 23, 2023

With what looks like a bright future, this year’s intramural chess tournament has been full of great matches and great upsets as well, according to senior Alon Keiter who runs the annual event and leads...

OLD: The school’s original Just Community Constitution, signed by students in 2003, was returned to the second-floor stairway lobby on Feb. 23.

Just Community approves proposals to change Constitution display and student store

By Sonya Katzin, Staff Writer April 21, 2023

Three different proposals – two by students and one by a teacher  – were presented at  Town Hall March 15, the 17th Town Hall of the year. Two of the proposals passed, but one, regarding dress code,...

Pavel Lieb leaving at the end of the year, will be principal at Yavneh

Pavel Lieb leaving at the end of the year, will be principal at Yavneh

By Benjamin Gamson, Co-Editor-in-Chief March 29, 2023

Mr. Pavel Lieb, who has led the Shalhevet science department as department chair for the last six years, will be leaving Shalhevet at the end of this school year, according to an email sent to the Shalhevet...

CROWD: Fans from both schools roared in support of their teams at the girls CIF semifinal game  Feb. 18. Above, Buena Park fans filled the northern section of the bleachers as the Firehawks No. 25 Talia Tibi dribbled away from a Coyote defender.

CIF semifinal game marred by ethnic taunts from both Shalhevet’s and visitor’s fans

By Benjamin Gamson, Co-Editor-in-Chief March 2, 2023

  When the Shalhevet girls basketball team lost to the Buena Park Coyotes Feb. 18 in the Shalhevet gym, the drama didn’t end with the final buzzer. Instead, reports of anti-semitic and racist...

TAPED: A Nazi flag about the size of a billboard appeared briefly on a fenced gate between LACMA and the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures this morning. About 16 feet wide, it may have been made of colored tape or other adhesive.

Nazi flag appears on Fairfax fence between LACMA and Academy Museum, half-mile north of school

By Tali Liebenthal, Co-Editor-in-Chief February 13, 2023

EDITOR'S NOTE: Since the publication of this story, The Boiling Point has learned that the swastika affixed to the LACMA fence depicted an Iranian flag when viewed at a different angle and was meant...

COMPLETE: The Boiling Point has profiled all 18 of this years new teaching and administrative staff, some of whom are pictured above. Stories are linked at the bottom of this page.

18 new faces bring range of backgrounds to faculty and staff

By Joshua Gamson, Community Editor November 29, 2022

Eighteen new staff members have joined Shalhevet this year as 10 departed, making it almost certainly the biggest single year of staff turnover in the school’s history. Four departments grew – Judaic...

PREPARED: Mr. Roque Wicker, president and CEO of C-T Watch Inc., right, demonstrating to senior Zach Rub and freshmen Sarah Goor and Lev Fishman how to use a tourniquet.

Emergency training seeks balance between ignorance and fear

By Sophie Katz, 9th Grade November 15, 2022

A counter-terrorism, security and intelligence company trained students for two hours Sept. 21 in tools they might need in an event with an active shooter, along with how to treat severe injuries and the...

COMPETE: From left, Rami Melmed, Daniel Nosrati, Avi Litvak, Keira Beller, Tali Liebenthal, Nettie Wolkind won awards at Princeton Model Congress, held in Washington, D.C., Nov. 10 - 12.

Firehawk debaters win six awards at Princeton Model Congress

By Benjamin Gamson, Co-Editor-in-Chief November 14, 2022

Shalhevet’s 18-person debate team won six awards, including four Best Delegate gavels, last weekend at Princeton Model Congress in Washington, D.C. The last time Firehawk debaters received four best...

MOM: Mrs. Maya Cohen, who has twin daughters at Shalhevet and an eighth-grader who’s applying, wants to make the middle-schoolers’ application process more fun.

New admissions director plans dance nights and scavenger hunts to make process more ‘friendly’

By Olivia Fishman, Arts & Culture Editor November 14, 2022

Mrs. Maya Cohen, who worked for five years in admissions at Hillel Hebrew Academy, brings Shalhevet’s first full-time Director of admissions since April 2020 and has plenty of new ideas to give incoming...

FAMILIAR: Mr. Plax has coached Firehawk basketball team, and Ms. Joel, who works as an occupational therapist, is married to former Assistant Executive Director Mr. Nachum Joel. (BP Photos by Sam Elyaszadeh)

New P.E. teachers turn to yoga, Zumba, weights and self-motivation

By Ariel Mazar, Ninth Grade November 13, 2022

Mr. Adam Plax and Ms. Atara Joel, the new P.E teachers, will try to get students to use the lessons they learn in sports or P.E. and apply them to everyday life. But first, they’re changing the P.E....

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