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Shalhevet news online: When we know it, you'll know it

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REQUIRED: Dr. Higashi said it would be difficult for a Shalhevet student to get an exemption from the polio vaccine.

Higashi says monkeypox not a great threat to students, but polio can strike anyone unvaccinated

By Benjamin Gamson, Co-Editor-in-Chief November 28, 2022

Members of the Shalhevet community are at low-risk for contracting monkeypox, according to infectious disease expert Dr. Julie Higashi, while polio is a more serious challenge – though only for the unvaccinated. Monkeypox...

NEW: Israeli street artist Solomon Souza spent two weeks before school started painting murals of famous Jewish and Israeli figures on Shalhevet walls.

Larger than life, portraits in undulating colors now brighten hallways

By Olivia Fishman, Arts and Culture Editor November 19, 2022

When students walked into Shalhevet last August, they didn’t expect to be greeted with vibrant, oversized but lifelike, graffiti-sprayed street art. But during the last two weeks of summer break,...

TALK: Representatives of the C-T Watch security company address a 90-minute Town Hall Sept. 21 in the gym.

EDITORIAL: Disaster drills save lives. We need them here.

By By the Boiling Point Editorial Board November 17, 2022

  In the last few decades, school shootings have become an incessant problem facing high schools across America. Yet here at Shalhevet there has not been a single lockdown drill in...

PREPARED: Mr. Roque Wicker, president and CEO of C-T Watch Inc., right, demonstrating to senior Zach Rub and freshmen Sarah Goor and Lev Fishman how to use a tourniquet.

Emergency training seeks balance between ignorance and fear

By Sophie Katz, 9th Grade November 15, 2022

A counter-terrorism, security and intelligence company trained students for two hours Sept. 21 in tools they might need in an event with an active shooter, along with how to treat severe injuries and the...

COMPETE: From left, Rami Melmed, Daniel Nosrati, Avi Litvak, Keira Beller, Tali Liebenthal, Nettie Wolkind won awards at Princeton Model Congress, held in Washington, D.C., Nov. 10 - 12.

Firehawk debaters win six awards at Princeton Model Congress

By Benjamin Gamson, Co-Editor-in-Chief November 14, 2022

Shalhevet’s 18-person debate team won six awards, including four Best Delegate gavels, last weekend at Princeton Model Congress in Washington, D.C. The last time Firehawk debaters received four best...

MOM: Mrs. Maya Cohen, who has twin daughters at Shalhevet and an eighth-grader who’s applying, wants to make the middle-schoolers’ application process more fun.

New admissions director plans dance nights and scavenger hunts to make process more ‘friendly’

By Olivia Fishman, Arts & Culture Editor November 14, 2022

Mrs. Maya Cohen, who worked for five years in admissions at Hillel Hebrew Academy, brings Shalhevet’s first full-time Director of admissions since April 2020 and has plenty of new ideas to give incoming...

FAMILIAR: Mr. Plax has coached Firehawk basketball team, and Ms. Joel, who works as an occupational therapist, is married to former Assistant Executive Director Mr. Nachum Joel. (BP Photos by Sam Elyaszadeh)

New P.E. teachers turn to yoga, Zumba, weights and self-motivation

By Ariel Mazar, Ninth Grade November 13, 2022

Mr. Adam Plax and Ms. Atara Joel, the new P.E teachers, will try to get students to use the lessons they learn in sports or P.E. and apply them to everyday life. But first, they’re changing the P.E....

SCRIPT: Mr. Leach is currently writing a film about a mixed couple whose families are trying to navigate the holidays.

Fred Leach, who built close relationships in Ed Support, leaves to write for TV

By Benjamin Gamson, Co-Editor-in-Chief November 8, 2022

Mr. Fred Leach, who worked one-on-one with students taking online classes as part of the Student Support department, has left Shalhevet to pursue television and film writing, after working for five years...

DRIVE: No. 6 Nathan Sellam heads to the basket in Wednesday’s opening victory over TABC.. Nathan was the game’s second-highest scorer with 18 points.

Firehawks win both opening games as Glouberman kicks off 8th season

By Joshua Gamson, Community Editor November 3, 2022

Hundreds of Shalhevet students, faculty, and opposing teams’ fans lined the bleachers to cheer on the Firehawk girls and boys teams for the first two games of this year’s Glouberman tournament,...

DISPLAY: Amalia Abecassis explained “Getting into Cars.” It shows children and mothers saying goodbye to one another during the liquidation of the Vilna Ghetto in Lithuania in 1943, when children and elderly were taken by cattle-car to the Sobibor death camp in Poland.

Art exhibit opens window on life before, during and after Holocaust

By Joshua Gamson, Community Editor October 31, 2022

It looked like a regular Shalhevet art show, with some paintings displayed on easels in the front of the Beit Midrash, while many others lined the room’s north-wall bookshelf. But this time the artworks...

CHARGERS: Shalhevet has three EV charging stations, above, in the faculty parking lot. A portion of the Inflation Reduction Act allocates funds to build more to motivate people to purchase electric cars.

Inflation Reduction Act a boost for electric car owners

By Sophie Katz, 9th Grade October 26, 2022

Senior Maalon Bohbot is delighted with at least part of  the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), signed into law by President Joe Biden on Aug. 18. Among its provisions is a $369 billion to incentivize the...

HELPFUL: Students described Mr. Sinajon as being supportive and understanding. He taught at least five different courses during his years at Shalhevet.

‘Easygoing’ math teacher Mr. Sinajon leaves after five years

By Amalia Zucker, Features Editor October 22, 2022

Mr. Andrew Sinajon, math teacher and Robotics faculty advisor since 2017, did not return to Shalhevet for the 2022-23 school year. Mr. Sinajon, who could not be reached for comment for this story, taught...

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