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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 six 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, and...

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...

WORKING: Mrs. Keene perched at her desk in the Boiling Point office. She keeps a photo of her father with Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (at right) for inspiration, as well as mugs with slogans and various newspapers.

​​Mrs. Keene, who led Boiling Point and Choirhawks for 21 years, leaves to boost journalism in more Jewish schools

By Sophie Katz, Outside News Editor June 1, 2024

After 21 years of leading the Boiling Point, directing the Choirhawks, and teaching classes, Mrs. Joelle Keene is leaving Shalhevet to continue and expand her work at the Jewish Scholastic Press Association,...

OFF: Students place their phones on tables in preparation for Town Hall March 5, ths first of three phone-free Town Hall after thtrials mandated by the Fairness and Agenda committees with administrative

After a three-week trial period, students vote two-to-one for no phones at Town Hall

By Martzi Hirsch and Joshua Gamson May 31, 2024

By a vote of 91 to 52, the Just Community voted in favor of removing their phones and leaving them aside for Town Hall henceforth after April 9.  The result, which took effect immediately and will...

HOPE: Mrs. Inez Cohen Sasson  has been preparing home-cooked meals for her fellow evacuees since leaving Sderot.

From handymen to teachers to hotel sales managers, Jews everywhere pitch in to make displaced Israelis feel at home

By Arieh Elad, Torah Editor May 28, 2024

For six months, Mrs. Batya Ammar has been living at the Renaissance Hotel in Tel Aviv. In Kiryat Shmona, the northernmost city in Israel, Mrs. Ammar worked as an elementary school teacher with more...

MUNCH: A Boiling Point survey has a hunch that a bunch dont eat lunch.

Hungry? Survey shows nearly half of students come to school with no plan for lunch

By Mira Schulman, Features Editor May 24, 2024

A sizable proportion of Shalhevet students arrive at school without a plan for lunch some days, and nearly a quarter do so at least twice a week, according to a new Boiling Point poll. In a March survey...

ZAP: Adi Liebenthal knocks Kira Kuperferman out of competition — while filming it, as per class rules — on Purim day, March 24, in this springs game of Senior Assassin.

‘Senior Assassin’ unites class of ‘24 via water guns, dolls and paranoia

By Olivia Petlak, Staff Writer May 20, 2024

To bond with their classmates in the last few months of their senior year, the seniors of 2024 held a grade-wide competition involving pretending to “kill” one another with water guns. Popular on...

GLASSES: Made of paper (not glass), the latest protective eyewear was shared with all students and staff who wanted to view the eclipse, enabling them to turn their gaze straight up to the sky.

School takes midday break to view partial eclipse – music included

By Mindy Nagel, 9th Grade May 19, 2024

Many students were already eagerly on the turf before 10:45 A.M. on Monday, April 8, to observe the solar eclipse, when classes were interrupted so the whole school could be present.  Once they arrived,...

SOCIAL: Mr. Reusch has an active social media account and wants to teach people how to think.  Students said he encouraged them to express and develop their opinions.

Mr. Reusch, social studies teacher and more, leaves to start a school online

By Eliana Vahedifar, Staff Writer May 16, 2024

Mr. William Reuch, the founder of Shalhevet’s Civics course, social studies teacher and Model Congress advisor, is leaving Shalhevet after 11 years, taking a step back from classroom teaching to launch...

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