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FIREMAN: Senior Sammy Ellenhorn stands in front of firehouse 63 in Venice where he worked this summer training to become a cadet.

Job hunt uncovers a passion for firefighting

By Benjamin Zaghi, Opinion Editor October 18, 2016

Sammy Ellenhorn, now In 11th grade, looked for a job last summer but ended up finding a passion for a career that he might later pursue in his life. He worked at Los Angeles Fire Station No. 63, near...

Students fix to Jastrow goes viral

Student’s fix to Jastrow goes viral

For Talmud students everywhere, gone are the days of spending distracting minutes of learning trying to locate a difficult Aramaic word and its translation in the Jastrow Online Dictionary.
GATHERING: Boys in the Just Community League congregated at Alec and Jordan Fields house for the Fantasy Football draft Sept. 4. They were encouraged to wear their favorite players jerseys.

‘Sweet Agony’ of Fantasy Football lures students anyway

By Jacob Joseph Lefkowitz Brooks, Staff Writer October 12, 2016

Competition, anxiety and many lost hours of homework are all hallmarks of Fantasy Football, but it seems students at Shalhevet have fallen for it as hard as the rest of the country. Once an activity...

New Science Chair wants classes to do real research

New Science Chair wants classes to do real research

By Jacob Feitelberg, Outside News Editor October 12, 2016

New Science Department Chair Mr. Ayden Jacob plans to move the department away from tests and lectures and towards labs and projects. He also plans on helping individual students go beyond the classroom...

TEXT: The 18th verse of Vayikra (Leviticus), above,  calls it an abomination to iie with a man as one lies with a woman.  Rabbi Segal said that does not mean gay students should not be able to participate fully in religious life at school and beyond.

School makes LGBT inclusion official policy, hoping to set an example for Modern Orthodox schools

By Alec FIelds, Co-Editor-in-Chief October 11, 2016

Hoping to start a trend that will spread throughout Orthodox Judaism, Shalhevet has adopted a six-point LGBT non-discrimination pledge, co-written by Head of School Rabbi Ari Segal and openly gay 12th-grader...

Democrat? Clara Sandler made phone calls from the Hound Dog Hot Dog Shop.

Republican student campaigns for Clinton

By Jacob Feitelberg, Outside News Editor October 11, 2016

Over the summer, sophomore Clara Sandler worked for Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign, making 176 phone calls over two weeks for two hours at a time, based at two restaurants in the San Fernando...

First-ever Israeli in MLB would not play on Yom Kippur

First-ever Israeli in MLB would not play on Yom Kippur

By Jordan Fields, Sports Columnist October 11, 2016

Dean Kremer, a 20-year-old pitcher drafted by the Los Angeles Dodgers in the 14th round last summer, is the first Israeli citizen to sign with a Major League Baseball team.  He now plays in the minor...

NEW HEIGHTS: Freshmen, here on the roof the first week of school, should remember to be themselves and take their time

Dear Freshmen

By Aidel Townsley, Staff Writer October 10, 2016

The ’16-’17  Shalhevet school year has brought 13 new hires, a new bell schedule, and one of the biggest freshman classes in Shalhevet's history, at 67 kids. That’s external change, which reminds...

Poll shows most Shalhevet students agree with their parents and Clinton edges Trump, though many still undecided

Poll shows most Shalhevet students agree with their parents and Clinton edges Trump, though many still undecided

By Lucy Fried, Arts & Culture Editor October 9, 2016
In a recent anonymous poll of the Shalhevet student body, the 120 students polled were almost evenly split on who they would vote for in the upcoming 2016 presidential election if they were of age.
PURPOSE: Seiji Shaw worked at two hospitals, including Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.

Robotics captain turns his talents to hospital labs

By Clara Sandler, Sports Editor October 9, 2016

Senior Seiji Shaw is known around school as the robotics superstar, and he spent his summer also pursuing work in the field of science – working with computers at San Francisco General Hospital and in...

YOM KIPPUR VIDEO: Shalhevet’s Repenters

By Leor Kaminski, BP Video Staff October 6, 2016

Yom Kippur is next Tuesday night, and like Jews everywhere, Shalhevet's students are reviewing the year and taking stock of what they've done wrong.   Here are some examples of what the Shalhevet community...

PASSIONATE: Sophomore David Mazouz said that he acts and goes to auditions simply out of enjoyment

‘Gotham’ star and sophomore, David Mazouz, balances stardom with studies

By Eva Suissa, Staff Columnist October 6, 2016
Last year Shalhevet welcomed a superstar into its family — then freshman, now sophomore, David Mazouz.
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