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 OLD: Most flu vaccines today are grown inside eggs, taking about six months. New egg-less method will take only two.

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

By Molly Litvak, Staff Writer
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...

BETTER: In an effort to secure a room without a lock, students in Mr. Smiths English class barricaded glass doors with furniture.

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

By Tyler Ekaireb, Outside News Editor
April 24, 2018

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

CROWD: 18,000 people filled the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington DC on March 5 to hear from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

At AIPAC conference, Netanyahu was ‘like a friend’

By Kate Orlanski, Staff Writer
March 29, 2018

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

AWARD: Newspaper and Yearbook staff of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., accept a Gold Crown Award from CSPA March 16  in New York City.  An audience of about 1,200 students and advisers, including staff of the Boiling Point, gave them a standing ovation.

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

By Hannah Jannol, Editor-in-Chief
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...

BETTER: Science teacher Dr. Elizabeth Basheer received this years flu shot and got a mild case of the illness. It wasnt super bad, she said, but it wasn’t apples and sunrises and, you know, candy.”

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

By Molly Litvak, Staff Writer
March 21, 2018

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

SAFETY: Security team leaders Ivan Wolkind, Charles Law, and Randy Rangel answered student questions in the gym.

Florida shooting prompts schoolwide security assembly

By Tyler Ekaireb, Outside News Editor
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

School’s gun owners lock them away

By Tyler Ekaireb, Outside News Editor
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...

AGREE: President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shook hands at the White House on Feb. 15, 2017. Last month, President Trump announced he would move the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv.

With planned move of US Embassy to West Jerusalem, world rages but city mostly calm

January 17, 2018

By Nicholas Fields, Staff Writer Thousands of Palestinians protested and governments around the world complained, but Shalhevet...

HIRSCHONOMICS: All about that Bitcoin bubble

HIRSCHONOMICS: All about that Bitcoin bubble

December 25, 2017
Bitcoin, which has been in the news a lot lately, is a digital currency (crypto-currency) created in 2009. It has seen a ridiculously rapid rise in value, and then last week it started to fall.  What’s going on?
BLAZE: A lot next to Leo Baeck Temple was covered in flames Wednesday morning, Dec. 6.  The lot was being prepared for construction, according to Milken junior Ben Chasen.

Camp Ramah survives close call as Skirball fire contained and most schools reopen

As the Skirball Fire in Bel Air wound down Friday and many affected residents were able to return home, the the much larger...

CLOSE: (From right) Summer Gershon, Noa Silberstein, Sophie Handelman, and Clara Sandler were among eight students who left school at lunchtime in hopes of getting home to the San Fernando Valley before traffic hindered by the Skirball Fire makes travel impossible.

List of Jewish school closures due to fires

December 7, 2017

By Clara Sandler, Community Editor The following Jewish schools are closed today, according to a Boiling Point survey. Unless...

THREAT: The Leo Baeck Temple, inside the Skirball Fire evacuation zone North Sepulveda Boulevard in Bel Air, was empty Dec. 6 as flames raged in the hills above and to the east of the synagogue.  Local, state and national officials urged area residents to make plans for what to do in case of an evacuation in advance, rather than waiting until it happens. Photo by Rabbi Kenneth Chasen

Schools close as smoke, ash and fire spread across Jewish Los Angeles

By Hannah Jannol, Editor-in-Chief, and Lucy Fried, Features Editor In light of Southern California fires which have spread...

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