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Shalhevet news online: When we know it, you'll know it

The Boiling Point

Shalhevet news online: When we know it, you'll know it

The Boiling Point

What we’re wearing: Sleep decides when ‘comfy’ becomes ‘lazy’

By Talia Rotenberg, Staff Columnist November 7, 2011

As Shalhevet students, do we care about how we look? We all want to feel comfortable, but have we blurred the line between comfy-and-cute and lazy-and-baggy? When it’s time to get dressed in the morning,...

Quiz Yourself: Are you a super studier or a total study copout?

By Hannah-Leeba Ellenhorn, Features Editor November 7, 2011

You’re working on your English essay when all of a sudden you remember that there is a box of Zours in your kitchen practically waiting for you. You are half way through the essay so you...   Continue...

As readers and as writers, students brave the blogosphere

As readers and as writers, students brave the blogosphere

By Leila Miller, Editor-in-Chief October 31, 2011

Blogging,” like “Tweeting,” “Facebooking,” and “Googling,” is a web phenomenon so popular that it’s turned a noun into a verb -- a verb that describes condensed news and opinion that in...

Live-Blog of the Emmys

September 19, 2011

BP Features Editor Hannah-Leeba Ellenhorn posted updates from the Emmys Sept. 18.   8:00 p.m. Good Night y'all! See you at the Next Award Show!! 7:56 p.m. And the Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy...

Relax! It’s just ninth grade

By Hannah-Leeba Ellenhorn, Features Editor August 23, 2011

  The leap from middle school to high school can be nerve-wracking.  Relax.  You have already survived eight years of first-day-of-school jitters. You can also take comfort in knowing that Shalhevet...

The British Royals: Why we care

By Hannah Leeba Ellenhorn, Staff Writer June 3, 2011

It’s 2011 and we are still talking about them.  Two hundred thirty-four-plus years after the American Revolution, the royals of England still have us in awe, and it’s not because of their pretty dresses...

Seniors see Holocaust close up

By Zev Hurwitz, Editor-In-Chief June 3, 2011

Day 1: Lufthansa This trip is about perspective. I have to say though, as a privileged American who expects much from his airlines, this trip has gotten off to bizarre and slightly uncomfortable footing. The...

Students’ AP Psych experiments find students… normal

By Tamar Willis, Staff Writer June 3, 2011

“It’s clearly line C!” exclaimed junior Yossi Halpert when asked which line matched the others, among three that were projected on a whiteboard in Mrs. Sunshine’s room. The other students in...

The British Royals: Why we care

The British Royals: Why we care

By Hannah-Leeba Ellenhorn, Staff Writer April 29, 2011

It’s 2011 and we are still talking about them.  Two hundred thirty-four-plus years after the American Revolution, the royals of England still have us in awe, and it's not because of their pretty dresses...

SHABBOS? Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie, first cousins of Prince William, arrive at Westminster Abbey for the royal wedding April 29.  To blogger Hannah-Leeba Ellenhorn, the profusion of fancy millinery looked like Saturday morning in shul.

BLOG: “It looks like Shabbat at Beth Jacob!”

By Hannah-Leeba Ellenhorn, Staff Writer and Official BP Royal Wedding Cyberspondent April 28, 2011

Here is a minute-by-minute blog of the wedding of William and Kate, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, last Friday morning at Westminster Abbey in London -- with a running comparison to more familiar...

‘Caspian Rain’ author offers insight on Iranian culture

By Tamar Willis, Staff Writer April 18, 2011

In a school with no shortage of Iranian Jews, it was pretty exciting when probably the most famous Iranian Jewish author of our time came to Shalhevet to talk about her book while students noshed on Persian...

New technology could offer drivers a cure for texting

New technology could offer drivers a cure for texting

By Rachel Lester, Features Editor March 16, 2011

Car accidents are the leading cause of teenage deaths. This is common knowledge, as is the fact that most teenagers are addicted to their cell phones. These two behaviors combined -- cell phones and driving...

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