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PINNACLE: Ryan Coleman started coaching Shalhevet’s girls varsity basketball team in 2019. He said that the girls state victory this year was the highest achievement of his career.

Coach of Champions: Ryan Coleman reflects on historic state CIF basketball title

By Benjamin Gamson, Co-Editor-in-Chief April 29, 2023

This year for the first time in Shalhevet history in any sport, the Firehawks’ girls basketball team won the California Interscholastic Federation’s state championship in Division 4. They defeated...

CAMPAIGN: Slogans in English and Hebrew adorned flyers on the door to Ms. Kong’s room, advertising candidates for Agenda and SAC in the second-floor hallway.

Just Community officer elections set for Friday after Agenda Chair debate

By Joshua Gamson, Community Editor April 27, 2023

UPDATED MAY 3: Rami Melmed has won the election for Agenda Chair. See results of all JC elections at the bottom of this story. Election flyers and posters have been on display throughout school this...

INSIGHT: Life lessons and perspective on a career in politics were imparted to Mr. Liebs Pharmacology class by former White House official Mr. Jeffrey Donfeld, above.

Drug policy chief from Nixon years has advice for today

By Sophie Katz, Staff Writer April 26, 2023

The senior Pharmacology class learned from one of the people in charge of the United States’ drug policy at the time about efforts in the early 1970s to fight drug addiction with another drug instead...

CALENDAR: Every year, Yom Hashoah is followed a week later by Yom HaZikaron, a remembrance day for soldiers and victims of terror, which is then followed by Israeli Independence Day one day later.

Three days that remember a century: Yom HaShoah, Yom HaZikaron, Yom HaAtzmaut

By Etan Lerner, 9th Grade April 26, 2023

For the Jewish world, the 20th century was incredibly dynamic and Jewish life changed fundamentally. Out of everything that happened, two events stand out in particular: the Holocaust and the founding...

EMAIL: Ms. Singh, who has been at Shalhevet since fall 2021, announced her departure in an email to her students today at 4 p.m.

Priyanka Singh departing at the end of year, moving to San Diego

By Joshua Gamson, Community Editor April 25, 2023

Ms. Priyanka Singh, who has been Associate Director of College Counseling and Academic Guidance since the beginning of last year, is moving to San Diego to be closer to her family and will not return next...

OPENING: Three simultaneous chess matches were held March 13 during lunch as part of the first round of this years Chess Club tournament. Confetti was left over from a celebration of the Girls Basketball team CIF win.

Freshmen step up as Chess Club gets more members and attention

By Martzi Hirsch, 9th Grade April 23, 2023

With what looks like a bright future, this year’s intramural chess tournament has been full of great matches and great upsets as well, according to senior Alon Keiter who runs the annual event and leads...

BORDER: Mr. ValaNejads Feb. 13 art installation was woven between angled panels of a LACMA security fence. Above, a section of the fence where the two different images — a swastika and an Islamic Republic of Iran flag — begin to morph into one another as a viewer passes by.

LAPD will investigate guerilla art installation until artist comes forward, offical says

By Tali Liebenthal, Co-Editor-in-Chief April 21, 2023

The guerilla art installation installed on a LACMA fence Feb. 13 is still being investigated by police as a “hate incident,” according to the Los Angeles Police Department, in spite of the artist’s...

END: With 6.9 seconds left in the semifinal game, SAR led the Firehawks by 2 as team co-captain Avi Halpert moved the ball.

Stung by overconfidence, Shalhevet falls to SAR in Sarachek semi-final

By Benjamin Gamson, Co-Editor-in-Chief April 21, 2023

With less than 25 seconds left to play, Shalhevet and SAR were tied 55-55 March 26 in the semifinal game of this year’s Red Sarachek Tournament at Yeshiva University in New York. Playing in YU’s...

OLD: The school’s original Just Community Constitution, signed by students in 2003, was returned to the second-floor stairway lobby on Feb. 23.

Just Community approves proposals to change Constitution display and student store

By Sonya Katzin, Staff Writer April 21, 2023

Three different proposals – two by students and one by a teacher  – were presented at  Town Hall March 15, the 17th Town Hall of the year. Two of the proposals passed, but one, regarding dress code,...

DOORPOST: In the Pesach story, blood on the doorposts of their homes kept Israelites safe during the 10th Plague.

Pesach is behind us. Why was it the peak of the year?

By Zane Mendelson, Staff Writer April 20, 2023

Pesach is now behind us, and looking back on all the chaos of the climax of the Jewish calendar, something constantly crosses my mind. Why Pesach? Why is Passover the most decorated holiday of the year? It...

ENOUGH:  Dayenu, sung during the Magid section of the seder, lists many things God did when the Jews left Egypt and says each one would have been sufficient without the next.

Dayenu: Not enough to say it once

By Zion Schlussel, 11th Grade April 11, 2023

Dayenu – we say it at the end of the seder's Magid section and it means, "It would have been enough." But if you read the actual words of Dayenu, it is clear that it wouldn’t have been enough. In fact,...

Schoology Score: Weslow leads pack in posting of group updates, Kunin a distant second

Schoology Score: Weslow leads pack in posting of group updates, Kunin a distant second

By Max Messinger, 11th Grade April 3, 2023

Principal Daniel Weslow, with a whopping score of 62, is officially the most frequent user thus far of the Schoology “Group Update” feature in the 2022–23 school year. Through the learning-management...

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