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INTERNATIONAL:Youth protestors crowded downtown Los Angeles Nov. 1 to pressure Gov. Gavin Newsom for more action against climate change.

Greta Thunberg finds local angle on climate change

By Jacob Joseph Lefkowitz Brooks, Editor-in-Chief
December 3, 2019

Thousands of protesters gathered outside of Los Angeles City Hall Nov. 1 heard the leader of the world’s youth climate change...

PARTNERSHIP: UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, right, met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at 10 Downing Street, the residence of the British prime minister, earlier this year. The two countries signed a trade agreement in February in case Brexit occurs.

Brexit fears? Israel has a separate trade deal with the UK, just in case

By Sam Rubanowitz, Outside News Editor
October 16, 2019

Leaving the European Union will mean that the United Kingdom — whose full moniker is the United Kingdom of Great Britain and...

ORIGINAL:   About 2,000 protestors filled the streets of downtown Sept. 20, most under 30 and many carrying signs with slogans they’d painted themselves. They marched in hot weather from Pershing Square to City Hall, seen at top right behind palm trees against a blue sky.

Big crowd, small Shalhevet contingent joins worldwide walkout to protest inaction on climate change

By Jacob Joseph Lefkowitz Brooks, Editor-in-Chief
October 4, 2019

  “We’re missing our lessons to teach you one,” read one sign at the Youth Climate March on Sep....

Live coverage of Israeli election results

September 17, 2019

LIVE BLOG: Boiling Point Outside News Editor Sam Rubanowitz, Staff Writer Sivan Karz and History Teacher Mr. Jeremy Shine are...

The Green New Deal: Big cost, big ambitions

The Green New Deal: Big cost, big ambitions

By Kate Orlanski, Staff Writer
June 13, 2019

A resolution that seeks the physical result of protecting the environment combined with the more abstract result of an improved...

PRIVILEGE: Mr. Eli Shavalian is one of two college counselors at Shalhevet. Only a third of public schools have even one.

No bribes, but Shalhevet students have an edge for college

By Jacob Joseph Lefkowitz Brooks, Community Editor
June 12, 2019

No Shalhevet students were involved in the nationwide college admissions bribery scandal. But merely attending Shalhevet almost...

COALITION: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with his security team March 26. Religious and defense-oriented parties  have held his government together in the past, and may again.

Israeli election chooses same old same old — but not exactly

By Sivan Karz, Staff Writer
May 20, 2019

After a tight race in Israel, it is almost definite that Likud party leader Benjamin Netanyahu will continue as Prime Minister,...

LABELS: Left means more government involvement and right means less - but sometimes theyre reversed, as in the debate over abortion rights.

Right or left? In politics, it can be hard to tell

By Sivan Karz, Staff Writer
May 20, 2019

“Right” and “left” are used as political terms all the time today, but what do they mean? The political terms left...

SENTENCE: The Federal Correctional Institution at Otisville, N.Y., where President Trumps former attorney Michael Cohen will begin serving his sentence May 6.

Michael Cohen heading to prison Tuesday to start three-year sentence for actions during Trump campaign

By Jolie Wineburgh, Staff Writer
May 3, 2019

Michael Cohen, President Trump’s former personal lawyer, is scheduled  to report to the Federal Correctional Institute...

GLOOM:    The weather reflected the feelings of the crowd as hundreds stood and watched the funeral on a screen right outside.

Lori Gilbert-Kaye, Poway Chabad victim, is remembered for strength and ‘radical empathy’

By Clara Sandler, Co-Editor-in-Chief
May 2, 2019

Her favorite song was Eshes Chayil -- Woman of Valor -- sung around tables on Friday nights just before Kiddush, as several speakers...

VIOLENCE:    A Starbucks outside the St. Lazare train station was vandalized and looted on Dec. 8, with inscriptions on the store saying ‘Pay your taxes’ and ‘Return us the money’.

‘Yellow Vest’ protests rock France

By Jolie Wineburgh, Staff Writer
March 20, 2019

The broken glass and graffiti have been cleared away, but according to Americans in Paris reached by the Boiling Point, the gap...

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