By Juliet Wiener, Outside News Editor
September 27, 2021
To separate fact from fiction, the Boiling Point asked Dr. Julie Higashi, who has served on Shalhevet’s Medical Task Force and the mother of sophomore Tomomi Shaw, to answer student questions about Covid-19, masks, vaccines, and other topics. Dr. Higashi is an infectious disease specialist who has been working in disease control since 2006. She completed...
By Juliet Wiener, Outside News Editor
August 25, 2021
Head of School Rabbi David Block has tested positive for Covid-19 and is quarantining at home, he announced in an email to the Shalhevet community at 7:44 p.m. yesterday evening. In the email, Rabbi Block announced that he had tested positive earlier that day, at the beginning of the second week of meetings and orientations for the 2021-22 school...
By Benjamin Gamson and Eli Weiss
June 25, 2021
More than three-quarters of Shalhevet students and staff were at least partially vaccinated against Covid-19 by late May, and the percentage who had tested positive for the virus remained at just under 10 percent, according to the final Covid Tracker of the 2020-21 school year. It was the Boiling Point’s 14th Covid Tracker survey of students,...
By Juliet Wiener , Science Writer
May 28, 2021
In order for Shalhevet to be completely mask-free next fall, all staff and students would have to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19, school officials said this week. However, the question of whether vaccines will be required for all students in 2021-22 has yet to be decided, according to Chief Operating Officer Ms. Sarah Emerson. “A decision...
May 23, 2021
When the school year ended for the Shalhevet senior class, so did online learning for everyone. Seniors’ last day of school was April 30, so as of Monday May. 3, all ninth-, 10th-, and 11th-graders started meeting on campus every day, instead of a shifting pattern of two or three days a week. Zooming in to class was allowed only with permission...
By Benjamin Gamson and Eli Weiss
May 7, 2021
More than 40 percent of Shalhevet students and staff have been at least partially immunized as of April 21, according to the most recent Boiling Point Covid Tracker. And almost 90 percent of Shalhevet households have at least one person who is vaccinated. This week for only the second time, the Covid Tracker asked whether respondents themselves...
By Benjamin Gamson, News Editor
May 4, 2021
As of this week, for the first time in over a year all grades are present on campus for all five days, and in fact, school will stay that way until the end of the year. The "all" does not include seniors, who finished their classes as of last Friday and are now on a class trip in Oregon. But since March 13 of 2020, no student at Shalhevet has...
By Noah Elad and Jack Metzger
April 25, 2021
The Steve Glouberman Annual Basketball Tournament, one of the most energetic and ruach-filled events of the Shalhevet year, is being planned for May 23-27 in Phoenix, Ariz., school officials say, though they’re not 100 percent sure it will happen. Glouberman is traditionally held in the Shalhevet gym each November, with visiting teams staying in...
By Benjamin Gamson, Editor-in-Chief
December 21, 2021
Starting Monday, Dec. 20, Shalhevet officials began “expecting” students to wear masks while indoors, after three Covid cases were discovered in the Shalhevet community...
By Juliet Wiener, Outside News Editor
December 3, 2021
As of Nov. 30, all Shalhevet students 16 and up, as well as faculty and staff, must be fully vaccinated against Covid-19 in order to attend in-person school, or they will...