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 and Eli Weiss
April 20, 2021
Nearly a third of Shalhevet students and staff have been partially immunized as of April 7, according to the Covid Tracker. This week for the first time, the Covid Tracker asked students and teachers whether they themselves had been vaccinated. As of April 6-7, 16.7% of students and staff said that they had received one dose, and an additional...
By Evan Beller, 10th Grade
April 6, 2021
In case you haven’t heard, starting April 15 -- next Wednesday -- California plans to expand COVID-19 vaccine eligibility to all persons ages 16 and older. With this huge wave of demand, many are worried that they won’t be able to find an appointment to get the vaccine. They have a point: even people for whom it’s been eligible...
By Samson Taxon, Bayley Sandler, Avi Litvak, and Shira Elyaszadeh
April 5, 2021
In a few decades, numbers and data might be the main vehicles through which people look back on the Covid-19 pandemic -- numbers of deaths, jobs lost and school on Zoom. But there’s something else they may want to know: How did it feel? Now that it’s been a year since the pandemic arrived, we’ve asked one student from each grade...
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...
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...