The Boiling Point

5 p.m. dismissal could be solution to schedule issues, Rabbi Segal tells news conference

By Hannah Jannol, Community Editor • September 9, 2016

Shalhevet’s controversial new bell schedule may be revised, the school should keep but update its Just Community constitution, and a team from Israel will play at the Glouberman Basketball Tournament...

Rabbi Segal defends Just Community constitution

By Zev Kent, Senior Editor • September 9, 2016

With the Just Community constitution recently found -- revealing many discrepancies between how the Just Community runs today and how it was originally set up to run -- Head of School Rabbi Ari Segal weighed...

New teacher for a new role: ‘Rakezet’ Mrs. Tsaidi

By Jacob Feitelberg, Outside News Editor • September 7, 2016

Ninth- and tenth-grade girls will have Mrs. Carolyn Tsaidi as a spiritual guide-counselor, or rakezet, this year.

New science teacher loves to take classes as well as teach them

By Zev Kent, Senior Editor • September 6, 2016

A California native, self-proclaimed “foodie” and former L.A. tour guide, Mr. Tushar Dwivedi is teaching this year’s Chemistry and Physics classes. Although his interests and experience are eclectic,...

Veteran English Teacher Will Aim For Personal Spin

By Lucy Fried, Arts & Culture Editor • August 31, 2016

Mr. Eric Smith likes to laugh, and says he laughs at himself a lot. “Not that students should try to make me laugh; education is a very serious thing, but we can’t take ourselves too seriously,”...

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VIDEO: New year, new rooms

August 30, 2016

Video by Talia Abel and Jordana Glouberman

JEN HURVITZ: Through winding journey, a passion for helping kids

By Benjamin Zaghi, Opinion Editor • August 30, 2016

Ms. Jen Hurvitz, new Educational Support Specialist, discovered a growing passion to help kids when she was studying sociology at UC Santa Barbara.

MS. SILVA: Receptionist loves teens, is used to hard work

By Lucy Fried, Arts & Culture Editor • August 30, 2016

Growing up as the second of five children in a low-income family in South Los Angeles, Ms. Daniella Silva said that she never really felt like a teenager. However, she believes that teenagers are at...

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VIDEO: Who’s new at Shalhevet 2016-17

By Jordana Glouberman and Talia Abel, BP Video Co-Editors • August 24, 2016

This year's new faculty and staff introduce themselves and reveal important details from back-cracking to an appearance on Friends.

A real shoe crisis: Reflections on senior visit to Poland

By Shirel Benji, 12th grade • August 24, 2016

“Mom! I’m having a major shoe crisis!” I yelled, as I shoved mounds of clothes into my suitcase. My mother walked into my room and frowned -- it was one hour till takeoff from LA to Poland, and my suitcase was overflowing, unable to zip. “Yes? she asked, clearly unamused. “Okay so basically, I want to take my Allstars AND my Adidas, because one is black and one is white, and I like them both, but they don’t both fit, and I don’t know what to do!!”

Math more often, more Talmud and less lunch time among schedule changes for 2016-17

By Alec Fields, Co-Editor-in-Chief • July 22, 2016

A longer school day, different lunch periods and schedules for different grades, more Talmud and math, and no SWAP for upperclassmen are some of the changes in a major overhaul of the schedule for the...

Sport or not, golf team makes championship round

By Clara Sandler, Staff Writer • July 20, 2016

There are students at Shalhevet who argue about golf’s validity as a sport on a regular basis, but the Firehawk golf team proved its side of the argument by making it to just one stroke away from winning the league championship.