2018-2019 Staff
Clara Sandler
Co-Editor-in-Chief
Clara Sandler served as Community Editor, Sports Editor, Torah Editor and Staff Writer before becoming Co-Editor-in-Chief during her senior year. Clara is also co-captain of the Model UN team, is very i...
Lucy Fried
Co-Editor-in-Chief
Lucy Fried joined the Boiling Point staff as a freshman and served as Arts and Culture Editor, Features Editor, and Torah Editor before becoming Co-Editor-in-chief this year. She has been published in B...
Gilad Spitzer
Web Editor-in-Chief
After joining the Boiling Point in his freshman year, Gilad got involved with the online and social media aspects of the paper, creating the post of Social Media Editor and becoming Deputy Web Editor-i...
Jacob Joseph Lefkowitz Brooks
Community Editor
Some people have to discover their interests; others have no choice but to follow them. Jacob Joseph Lefkowitz Brooks has been a member of the Boiling Point staff since the first semester of his freshma...
Maya Miro
Issue 1 Managing Editor
Maya Miro learned layout during her sophomore and junior years at Shalhevet and contributed to complex double-page spreads throughout 11th grade. For Issue 1 of her senior year, she managed photo, ...
Tobey Lee
Features Editor
Tobey Lee joined Boiling Point his freshman year, writing award-winning stories about the boys basketball team and delving into the intricacies of the California Interscholastic Federation. From th...
Nicholas Fields
Torah Editor
Nicholas Fields has been a member of the Boiling Point since freshman year. Starting off with a story about freshman orientation, he quickly fell in love with journalism. After serving as a staff writer for ove...
Molly Litvak
Outside News Editor
After serving as a staff writer throughout her freshman year, Molly Litvak is 2018-19’s Outside News editor and has written for the Boiling Point's Community, Torah, Sports and Outside News sections so fa...
Nomi Willis
Opinion Editor
Nomi is a senior and spending her first year as an editor working on the Opinion section. It's a great match, because she has strong opinions about everything from politics to the best Ben and Jerry’s...
Alex Rubel
Sports Editor
Alex joined the Boiling Point as a staff writer in his sophomore year and became Sports Editor in his junior year. Aside from journalism, Alex loves playing and watching sports, flying planes and follo...
Zev Kupferman
Graphic Design Editor
Zev has been the Graphic Designer for the Boiling Point since the first issue of his freshman year. He started with a big bang: contributing to the double-truck design about the presidential election of...
Neima Fax
Photo Editor
Neima Fax joined the Boiling Point team Freshman year as a photographer, and is now coming into her second year as a Photo Editor. Her passion for Photography is what drew her to the Boiling Point team, ...
Zoey Botnick
Photo Editor
Boiling Point was always a major point of interest for Zoey Botnick. Freshman year, she started out as a photographer. Now as a Junior, is one of the three photo editors. Whether taking pictures, edi...
Sabrina Jahan
Video Editor
Sabrina Jahan has been making videos for the Boiling Point since the beginning of her sophomore year, and continues to do so in her junior year as Chief Video Editor. Since starting to make videos for t...
David Edwards
Video Editor
David Edwards joined the Boiling Point in his freshman year, writing about the journey some students take to become athletes in college, and as a sophomore wrote about the North Korean nuclear crisis. Sinc...
Joelle Keene
Faculty Advisor
Joelle Keene, CJE, has been the faculty advisor of the Boiling Point since 2003, and is also the founding director of the Jewish Scholastic Press Association. She obtained her master's degree from Columbia U...
Hannah Jannol
Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
Hannah Jannol was Editor-in-Chief of the Boiling Point during the 2017-2018 school year. She now lives in Manhattan and attends The New School as a History and Economics major. She writes for their HerCampus...
Alec Fields
Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
In four years at the Boiling Point, Alec Fields has 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 n...
Ma'ayan Waldman
Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
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
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 ...
Alexa Fishman
Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
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....
Goldie Fields
Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
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&...
Tamar Willis
Editor-In-Chief Emeritus
Tamar Willis is a junior at Princeton University where she writes and serves as business manager for the culture magazine Nassau Weekly. She joined the Boiling Point staff in ninth grade and served as...
Kalil Eden
Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
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...
Leila Miller
Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
Currently a student at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism in New York, Leila has already had a distinguished career in journalism, writing ground-breaking reports for the Miami...
Zev Hurwitz
Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
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...
Lexi Gelb
Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
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. While at Shalhevet she was also...
Elana Eden
Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
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...
Shayna Becker
Production Director
Shayna Becker started writing for the Boiling Point as soon as her first semester at Shalhevet and since then has become more and more involved in production, stepping in to save advertising and other ...