The Boiling Point

Princeton Model Congress team wins conference 2nd place, 14 individual awards

November 19, 2012

Here is a complete list of Firehawk accomplishments at the Princeton Model Congress debate conference last week in Washington, D.C. Awards were announced Nov. 18. Team Award: Honorable...

Boiling Point wins honors at NSPA convention in San Antonio

By Tamar Willis, Features Editor • November 18, 2012

A seven-student Boiling Point delegation finished off its weekend at the NSPA convention in San Antonio with the paper's first award for the 2012-2013 school year. It was a 10th-place Best of Show award...

Chesed Fair gives students a taste of being different

By Jacob Elspas, Staff Writer • November 5, 2012

When students walked into Town Hall Oct. 18, to their surprise the chairs were not set up in the typical Town Hall semicircle. Instead, the Beit Midrash was arranged for an assembly or davening, and students...

New awards for Yearbook and Boiling Point

By Colleen Bazak, Co-Editor-In-Chief • November 1, 2012

The Boiling Point and Shalhevet’s yearbook have both collected first-time honors this fall for last year’s work. The Boiling Point has been named one of the nine finalists for the National Scholastic...

A moving tribute to an inspiring benefactor

By Rose Bern, Community Editor • October 29, 2012

On the morning of Oct. 17, the entire Shalhevet community was ushered to the Beit Midrash for an assembly in memory of Mr. Jack Slomovic, a philanthropist and founder of the school who died at this time...

Letter from Rabbi Segal regarding decision on Boiling Point NSPA trip

October 18, 2012

October 19, 2012 - 3 Cheshvan 5773 Parshat Noach Dear Shalhevet Community,I am excited to write once again to discuss the religious philosophy of the school and how it informs the decisions and...

Math Department shakeup: Dr. Sorace replaced by Ms. Segal and a new teacher, Ms. Levy

By Jacob Ellenhorn, Co-Editor-in-Chief • October 11, 2012

After just five weeks of teaching at Shalhevet, math teacher Dr. Ron Sorace was replaced by two other teachers this week at the end of Sukkot break. His AP Statistics classes are being taught by Judaic...

NSPA will host separate award program after Shabbat for Boiling Point

By Colleen Bazak, Co-Editor-in-Chief • October 7, 2012

Leaders of the National Scholastic Press Association decided Thursday to hold a separate awards presentation for the Boiling Point delegation at the group's annual conference in San Antonio next month,...

Gliding by school, Space Shuttle thrills viewers at lunchtime

By Colleen Bazak, Co-Editor-in-Chief, and Rose Bern, Community Editor • September 28, 2012

As the Space Shuttle Endeavour glided by the south side of the Shalhevet campus last Friday, about a third of the student body was watching from the parking lot, where they had rushed to see the spectacle...

From Human Rights to Telephones, Bringing People Together

By Rose Bern, Community Editor • September 19, 2012

Working two jobs at Shalhevet, Urszula Madej-Krupitski has come to the aid of both Muriel Ohana, receptionist, and Natalie Weiss, Director of Admissions. Urszula – or “Ulla” (pronounced oo-la) --...

Dr. Ron Sorace

By Sarah Soroudi, Outside News Editor • September 19, 2012

With classes at every grade level -- Algebra 1, Geometry, Algebra 2, AP Statistics and regular Calculus -- Dr. Ron Sorace is looking forward to teaching at a high school level for the first time. “This...

WHAT’S NEW? Top 10 New Things for 2012-2013

By Colleen Bazak, Co-Editor-In-Chief • September 16, 2012

1 Longer classes and (mostly) shorter days: The new bell schedule is arranged in blocks, allowing for six hour-long classes instead of eight shorter ones. School will end at 4:20 on Monday through...