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TABLE TALKS: Brazil museum fire, Pepsico acquires SodaStream, and plastic straw pollution

September 23, 2018

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From fact-checks to Facebook, Shalhevet alum helps IDF tell its story

September 7, 2018

Imagine you’re watching gruesome raw footage of people running with weapons, setting fire to wide swathes of land and threatening harm. Now imagin...

Check your freezer: Salmonella outbreak in Empire chicken from last spring prompts USDA advisory now

August 29, 2018

The USDA has issued a public health alert for Empire Kosher Poultry because of “possible Salmonella contamination.” The notice, issued Aug. 24, states that this contamination may have affected raw whole chicken and raw chicken parts that were sold between September 2017 and June 20...

Was IDF Gaza action justified? Students struggle but most say yes

June 5, 2018

Shalhevet students were mostly supportive of the actions of Israeli soldiers who shot into crowds of Palestinian protesters gathered at the Israel-Gaza bor...

TABLE TALK: Netanyahu may face charges; new U.S. tax plan takes effect

May 16, 2018

Netanyahu accused of corruption Investigations into Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara have led to three suggested charges ...

New DNA production method may mean a much more helpful flu vaccine

May 8, 2018

This year’s influenza vaccine might have been a bust, but a new faster vaccine-manufacturing technology may soon make it possible to produce vaccines that...

Lights out, desks up and if possible, lock the door

April 24, 2018

With responses that ranged from barricading doors with furniture to continuing class as though nothing was happening, Shalhevet experienced its first-ever...

At AIPAC conference, Netanyahu was ‘like a friend’

March 29, 2018

For Shalhevet’s delegates to this year’s AIPAC Policy Conference in Washington, D.C., an appearance by Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu was...

Student journalists from Parkland high school tell CSPA how they covered shooting that killed 17

March 22, 2018

In the wake of the shooting that killed 17 students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., last month, the school’s student journali...

It’s not too late for a flu shot — here’s why you might want one

March 21, 2018

The flu season, although it has already peaked, is still active, and the illness is still circulating through the country with an unusually low vaccine...

Florida shooting prompts schoolwide security assembly

March 6, 2018

Shalhevet responded to last month’s Florida high school shooting by remembering the victims and holding an hour-long assembly to reassure the community about campus safety.

School’s gun owners lock them away

February 8, 2018

Seventeen percent of Shalhevet students have firearms at home, 99 percent of whom know where they are kept and all of whom say their guns are under lo...

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