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The Boiling Point

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

The Boiling Point

2025-2026 Boiling Point Staff

Sophie Katz
Editor-in-Chief

Sophie Katz

Sophie Bick Katz, 12th grade, joined the Boiling Point as a staff writer her freshman year. She served as Outside News Editor her sophomore year, including Chief Editor of the second print edition, and...

Benjamin Kolieb
Web Editor-in-Chief

Benjamin Kolieb

Benjamin Kolieb, 12th grade, joined the Boiling Point at the beginning of his freshman year, working on developing a new Boiling Point app, and as Chief Web Editor in the Spring Semester, he oversaw the...

Ella Hoenig
Co-Photo Editor

Ella Hoenig

Ella Hoenig, 12th grade, joined the Boiling Point during the first semester of her freshman year. She served as Photo Editor in her sophomore year, Co-Photo Editor in her junior year, and is continuing...

Gabe Mittman
Co-Photo Editor

Gabe Mittman

Gabe Mittman, 12th grade, joined Boiling Point freshman year as a photographer and in 10th grade as Sports Photo Editor. This year, he is serving as the Co-Photo Editor, his second year in the position....

Emma Kotzen
Co-Chief Layout Editor and Graphic Editor

Emma Kotzen

Emma Kotzen, 12th grade, joined the Boiling Point her sophomore year and is now in her second year as Co-Chief Layout Editor and Graphics Editor where her work has been recognized by Columbia Scholastic...

Zachary Schechter
Web Editor and Games Editor

Zachary Schechter

Zachary Schechter, 12th grade, joined the Boiling Point at the beginning of his sophomore year, working on uploading stories and managing the website. Outside of the Boiling Point, Zachary is on the soccer...

Esther D. Kustanowitz 
Faculty Advisor

Esther D. Kustanowitz 

Esther D. Kustanowitz is an award-winning writer and long-time contributor to publications such as eJewishPhilanthropy.com, Hadassah Magazine, J.: The Jewish News of Northern California, the Los Angeles Jew...

Joelle Keene
Faculty Advisor Emerita

Joelle Keene

Joelle Keene MJE was faculty adviser to The Boiling Point and shalhevetboilingpoint.com from 2003 to 2024, during which time she also founded the Jewish Scholastic Press Association (JSPA), which she now leads as Executive Director and President.  During her time at Shalhevet, the paper and its staff won scores of national awards, i...

Tali Liebenthal
Co-Editor-in-Chief Emeritus

Tali Liebenthal

Joshua Gamson
Co-Editor-in-Chief Emeritus

Joshua Gamson

Ezra Helfand
Executive Editor Emeritus

Ezra Helfand

Benjamin Gamson
Editor-in-Chief Emeritus

Benjamin Gamson

Hannah Jannol
Editor-in-Chief Emeritus

Hannah Jannol

Hannah Jannol was Editor-in-Chief of the Boiling Point during the 2017-2018 school year. Since then, she has attended The New School and written for their HerCampus chapter; edited obituaries for The Tra...

Alec Fields
Editor-in-Chief Emeritus

Alec Fields

In four years at the Boiling Point, Alec Fields wrote stories for every section and won some of the top awards in high school journalism, including the Quill and Scroll Sweepstakes Award for best news st...

Ma'ayan Waldman
Editor-in-Chief Emeritus

Ma’ayan Waldman

Ma’ayan Waldman joined the staff of the Boiling Point in ninth grade and served as Arts Editor, Opinion Editor, Community Editor, and finally Co-Editor-in-Chief.  She won First Prize in New Writing...

Eric Bazak
Editor-in-Chief Emeritus

Eric Bazak

After serving as staff writer, Features Editor, and Outside News Editor over the previous three years, Eric Bazak served as Editor-in-Chief for the 2015-16 school year. He is currently a freshman at ...

Goldie Fields
Editor-in-Chief Emeritus

Goldie Fields

Currently a freshman at USC, Goldie kept the Boiling Point going for her entire four years at Shalhevet, putting her heart and soul into every role and and was very proud of everything the staff produ...

Alexa Fishman
Editor-in-Chief Emeritus

Alexa Fishman

Now a freshman at Princeton University, Alexa Fishman joined the Boiling Point as a freshman and went on to serve as Community Editor and Features Editor before becoming Editor-in-Chief in 2014-15.  She...

Tamar Willis
Editor-in-Chief Emeritus

Tamar Willis

Tamar Willis is a graduate of Princeton University where she wrote and served as business manager for the culture magazine Nassau Weekly. She joined the Boiling Point staff in ninth grade and served as Staff W...

Kalil Eden
Editor-in-Chief Emeritus

Kalil Eden

Currently serving in the Israeli Defense Force, Kalil Eden was the Editor-in-Chief and Opinion Editor of the Boiling Point in the spring of 2013.  Before joining the IDF he spent his freshman year of...

Zev Hurwitz
Editor-in-Chief Emeritus

Zev Hurwitz

After serving as Editor-in-Chief of the Boiling Point in 2010-11 school year, Zev went on to UC San Diego where he was Editor-in-Chief of the campus paper, The Guardian.  He is currently the Goldman...

Leila Miller
Editor-in-Chief Emeritus

Leila Miller

Currently a staff writer at the Los Angeles Times, Leila has already had a distinguished career in journalism, writing ground-breaking reports for the Miami Herald, Moment Magazine and the Jewish Journal,...

Lexi Gelb
Editor-in-Chief Emeritus

Lexi Gelb

Lexi Gelb was Editor-In-Chief of the Boiling Point for the 2009-10 school year and won awards from the National Scholastic Press Association and Quill and Scroll.

Elana Eden
Editor-in-Chief Emeritus

Elana Eden

Elana Eden vowed never to write journalism again after her first catastrophic story for the BP’s Torah section but went on to become Editor-in-Chief during the 2008-09 school year. After spending a...

Clara Sandler
Co Editor-in-Chief Emeritus

Clara Sandler

Clara Sandler was co-editor-in-chief during the 2018-19 school year and then studied  at the Midreshet Lindenbaum seminary in Jerusalem.  She is now a junior at the University of Chicago.

Jacob Joseph Lefkowitz Brooks
Editor-In-Chief Emeritus

Jacob Joseph Lefkowitz Brooks

Jacob Joseph Lefkowitz Brooks was editor-in-chief during the 2019-20 school year and is now a student at the University of Toronto.

Lucy Fried
Co Editor-in-Chief Emerita

Lucy Fried

Lucy Fried was co-editor-in-chief during the 2018-19 school year and went on to study at the Hartman Institute in Jerusalem. She is now a junior at UC Berkeley.

Molly Litvak
Editor-In-Chief Emerita

Molly Litvak

Molly is studying at Midreshet Torah v'Avodah seminary in Jerusalem and will attend Columbia University in New York next year.