For COVID-19 nurses on opposite sides of the world, keeping families away is the hardest part
By Juliet Wiener, Staff Writer
June 28, 2020
Shalhevet alumna Sydney Miller ‘13 is a nurse at the NYU Langone Hospital in New York. Typically, she finds enjoyment in sitting next to an anxious patient and comforting him or her through conversation. However, due to COVID-19, she now mainly communicates with patients on the screen of an iPad, or ...
George Floyd protests, both peaceful and violent, reach Shalhevet neighborhoods
Molly Litvak, Community Editor
June 4, 2020
In a weeklong outburst of frustration, protest and fear that reached into the heart of Shalhevet neighborhoods, Americans reacted to the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis by taking to the streets -- some to peacefully protest police brutality and others to violently loot, graffiti and damag...
AIPAC cancels 2021 national policy conference
Benjamin Gamson, Staff Writer
June 4, 2020
Acting almost a year in advance, the America Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) announced Sunday that it would be canceling its 2021 Policy Conference due to concerns about the novel coronavirus. AIPAC is a pro-Israel lobbying group that advocates for a two-state solution and closer ties between Israel and the U.S. It does this partly by ...
Humans of Ninth Grade
June 3, 2020
Most of us make an extra effort to get to know the incoming freshman class each year. This year, that has been harder since we have been learning off campus. With the help of the spring Journalism elective, The Boiling Point is happy to be able to introduce to you to some of the ninth-graders you ought...
In annual spring One-Acts, pandemic reshapes the platform — and some of the plots
Bayley Sandler, Staff Writer
May 28, 2020
When the Shalhevet Drama’s spring production was almost in tech week -- its final week of rehearsals before the live show -- COVID-19 came to Los Angeles. The students began to wonder if the show would still go on. Drama teacher Ms. Emily Chase began looking for ways everyone could still see it th...
Students feel heard as school reshapes academic policies for COVID
Olivia Fishman, Ninth Grade
May 22, 2020
After a stressed-out start to Zoom learning in March, students are reporting lighter workloads and more free time for activities beyond school work since the administration instituted a new “Safety, Workload and Academics” policy after Passover break. The policy was announced on April 6 in a joint emai...
Rabbi Lieberman elected faculty representative to new Judicial Review Subcommittee
Benjamin Gamson and Jacob Joseph Lefkowitz Brooks
May 21, 2020
Judaic Studies teacher Rabbi Abraham Liberman was elected to be the first faculty member on the new Judicial Review Subcommittee and will serve for the remainder of this school year, the Fairness Committee announced last night. Only faculty and staff participated in the election. They were invited to ...
New York allowing minyans, Los Angeles not yet
Molly Litvak, Community Editor
May 21, 2020
New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo announced Wednesday that religious gatherings of up to 10 people will be permitted there starting tomorrow, but Los Angeles rabbis say they have not heard anything about when davening and religious services might be permitted in Los Angeles or California. Head...
CONSTITUTION OVERHAUL IS APPROVED, 149 – 20
Benjamin Gamson and Jacob Joseph Lefkowitz Brooks
May 14, 2020
UPDATED MAY 16: After a year of discussion, deliberation, meetings and last-minute revisions, members of the Just Community voted overwhelmingly today to approve a major overhaul of the Just Community constitution, the most significant change in school governance since it was first approved in 2002. The...
Voting has opened, Constitution must earn majority in at least three grades to pass
Jacob Joseph Lefkowitz Brooks, Editor-in-Chief
May 14, 2020
Today’s vote on the amended Just Community constitution will have to pass with a two-thirds majority, and also three of four grades will need to pass it by majority vote for it to be approved, Fairness Co-chair Gilad Spitzer wrote on Schoology this morning. Quoting the original 2002 constitution...
The Constitution Proposal: What you need to know
Eli Weiss, Assistant Producer of the Talking Point
May 14, 2020
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Vote moved up to Thursday after Town Hall shows support for new constitution
Benjamin Gamson and Molly Litvak
May 14, 2020
Drafters of the proposed new Just Community constitution decided late Wednesday that they would try to move up the vote to Thursday, after flash polling at Town Hall showed strong majorities favoring key aspects of the proposal. Senior Sabrina Jahan, one of three students who had been working on the...
For COVID-19 nurses on opposite sides of the world, keeping families away is the hardest part
June 28, 2020
George Floyd protests, both peaceful and violent, reach Shalhevet neighborhoods
June 4, 2020
AIPAC cancels 2021 national policy conference
June 4, 2020
June 3, 2020
In annual spring One-Acts, pandemic reshapes the platform — and some of the plots
May 28, 2020
Students feel heard as school reshapes academic policies for COVID
May 22, 2020