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

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ISSUES: A Boiling Point online poll surveyed students on presidential candidates and important issues in advance of Election Day on Nov. 5. As in the U.S. election, Mr. Trump won by a large margin.

Shalhevet students support Trump by an overwhelming majority while staff favors Harris, poll finds

By Sophie Katz, Editor-in-Chief • November 15, 2024

Shalhevet students support President-elect Donald Trump over Vice President Kamala Harris by an overwhelming majority, a Boiling Point poll found the day before and on Nov. 5, Election Day.  The poll...

SOLDIER: Alumnus Mitchell Hoenig ‘20 speaks to students and teachers about his experience on Oct. 7 in Israel, serving in IDF reserves afterwards, and about his two friends – one who died fighting on Oct. 7, and one who was killed in Gaza months later. To start off the assembly on the roof, students and teachers clad in blue and white watched a video of the destroyed homes and buildings on kibbutzim in southern Israel after the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks

With songs and stories, Shalhevet remembers Oct. 7 one year later

By Sophie Katz, Editor-in-Chief • October 11, 2024

A Magen David formed by electric candles on the ground illuminated the faces of Shalhevet students and faculty as they sat tightly packed around it for a kumzitz the morning of Oct. 7, 2024.  Clad...

BACKHAND: Co-Captain Dana Treitel setting up to hit the ball in their game against Pacifica Christian on Sept. 27. This was the first win in program history for girls tennis, and the team would go on to win two more games.

Girls tennis team wins three games in historic first victories for athletic program

By Benny Portnoy, 9th Grade • October 10, 2024

Overcoming early challenges like inconsistent player attendance and lineup changes, the girls tennis team won three games this past month – the first wins in the history of the Shalhevet tennis program.  On...

RULE: Freshman Romy Burg puts away her phone before class. Administration introduced the new policy requiring phones put away before all class periods and programs a few days before the start of the school year.

New cell phone policy introduced following changes across Los Angeles community

By Sonya Katzin • October 8, 2024

Administration introduced a new cell phone policy at the beginning of the school year that prohibits all cell phone use and possession during class periods and community programmed time, including davening,...

New Teachers 24-25: Kustanowitz, Tucker

New Teachers 24-25: Kustanowitz, Tucker

By Zecharya Rosenthal and Sonya Katzin • September 20, 2024

VIEW: Smoke rises from the Line Fire in the San Bernardino Mountains, which — at press time — had spread over 23,714 acres and was only 5% contained. Running Springs, where Shabbaton campsite Moshava Alevy is located, is one of the communities currently under a mandatory evacuation order because of the life-threatening conditions in the area.

Freshman-Senior Shabbaton evacuated from Running Springs campsite on Shabbat as wildfire raged

By Sophie Katz and Sonya Katzin • September 10, 2024

Friday morning of the Freshman-Senior Shabbaton, faculty were unaware of the wildfire that was spreading towards Running Springs, where Moshava Alevy, the site of the Shabbaton, is located.  As teachers...

New Teachers 24-25: Zack, Mintz, Anders

New Teachers 24-25: Zack, Mintz, Anders

By Natalie Gul, Mindy Nagel, and Bella Graber • September 8, 2024

CONTINUITY: Firehawks4Israel set up a table was set up in the foyer with items to encourage prayers, mailing of letters and postcards and other ways to reach out to soldiers and others in Israel. It was still there in June.

Seven months later, Shalhevet keeps Oct. 7 in mind

By Mira Schulman, Features Editor • July 16, 2024

More than seven months after a mob of terrorists decimated communities, families and lives throughout Israel, Shalhevet has taken numerous steps to commemorate and participate in its grief and resolve,...

Ohtani’s greatness is grown in Japan

Ohtani’s greatness is grown in Japan

By Arieh Elad, Torah Editor • July 2, 2024

Since joining Major League Baseball as an Anaheim Angel in 2018, now Los Angeles Dodgers star designated hitter and future pitcher Shohei Ohtani has not only found his spot in the record books but has...

FORM: JJ led the Firehawk boys volleyball team to the CIF 2024 quarterfinals. He will play for Bard next year.

Once a hobby, volleyball now sends JJ Stoff to college on a scholarship

By Henry Kaplan, 10th Grade • June 24, 2024

When senior Jonathan Stoff, more commonly known as JJ, played Firehawk volleyball during his junior year season, it was just a hobby. Now he has a college scholarship to play the sport at Bard College...

CAMP: Demonstrators at the University of Michigan protest to demand the school cut all ties with the State of Israel in light of its war with Hamas. (Vivienne Schlussel '23)

Alumni and seniors navigate new campus reality as anti-Israel protests explode at universities

By Sophie Katz and Arieh Elad • June 3, 2024

After Oct. 7, the number of Shalhevet students asking whether they should remove parts of their college applications that disclosed their Jewish identity or Israel connections drastically increased, said...

NUANCE: Rabbi Block said his decision to censor the article had been difficult. “It’s not that I agree that such an article can never be shared or understand the other side... But to me, I provide education for our community, and so if our community can’t handle something, I do have to consider that.”

School censors story about LA Muslim teens and war

By Boiling Point Staff • June 2, 2024

Sophomore Sophie Katz, the Boiling Point’s Outside News Editor, searched for three months for Muslim teenagers in Los Angeles to interview for a story about their experiences and feelings during the...

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