2019-2020 Staff
Jacob Joseph Lefkowitz Brooks
Editor-in-Chief
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 freshm...
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-in...
Zev Kupferman
Director of Production and Design
Zev has been the main 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...
Nicholas Fields
Managing 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...
Molly Litvak
Community Editor
Molly Litvak joined the Boiling Point in her freshman year as a staff writer and quickly fell in love with journalism. She was editor of Outside News in her sophomore year and won national multiple awards...
Alex Rubel
Senior Editor
Alex joined the Boiling Point as a staff writer in his sophomore year, rose to Sports Editor in his junior year and is serving as both Sports Editor and Senior Editor this year. Aside from journalism,...
Shayna Becker
Director of Reader Engagement
Shayna Becker started working for the Boiling Point during her first semester at Shalhevet and has gradually become more involved in reader engagement, through brainstorming out-of-the-box ways to best...
Sam Rubanowitz
Outside News Editor
Sam Rubanowitz joined the Boiling Point as a staff writer at the start of 11th grade, contributing artwork as well and winning awards for both writing and illustration. Last year he became BP’s first...
Liad Machmali
Torah Editor
Liad Machmali joined the Boiling Point during her freshman year as a staff writer and is now editor of the Torah section. As a freshman she wrote stories about the Young Americans for Freedom club and ...
Kate Orlanski
Features Editor
Kate Orlanski joined the Boiling Point as a staff writer during her freshman year and now serves as Features editor during her junior year. Outside of journalism, she is co-chair of the Young Americans...
Zach Helfand
Opinion Editor
Zach Helfand joined the Boiling Point as Opinion Editor in his senior year and is eager to make an impact in the time he has left at the school. Aside from Boiling Point, Zach participates in the scho...
Jolie Wineburgh
Arts & Culture Editor
Jolie Wineburgh joined the Boiling Point as a staff writer in her freshman year and is now serving as Arts and Culture editor. In a world chock full of fake news and misleading stories, Jolie has ...
Zoey Botnick
Chief Photo Editor
Boiling Point was always a major point of interest for Zoey Botnick. Freshman year, she started out as a photographer, junior year she was a photo editor, and now heading into her final year she’s Head...
Sabrina Jahan
Chief Video Editor
Sabrina Jahan joined the Boiling Point as a sophomore, working as a staff videographer to feed her passion for journalism and filmmaking. As founder and president of Shalhevet’s film club, Sabrina expands...
Sarah Feuer
Chief Layout Editor
Sarah Feuer joined the Boiling Point freshman year and has been working on the layout team since. This year, As Chief Layout Editor, she is excited to push the limits of design and create beautiful and ...
Ellie Orlanski
Chief Layout Editor
Ellie Orlanski joined the Boiling Point freshman year as a layout editor and is now serving as Chief Layout Editor. She really enjoys creating page designs and seeing her visions come to life in t...
Neima Fax
Photo Editor
Neima Fax has been a part of the Boiling Point team for three years now, and cannot wait for her fourth. She started out as a photographer, spent two years as Photo Editor, and is now starting as the Creative...
Maia Lefferman
Photo Editor
Now a photo editor, Maia Lefferman joined the Boiling Point as a photographer in her junior year. Her skill and passion for photography have provided the BP with pictures of striking LAUSD teachers, election...
Alyssa Wallack
Social Media Editor
Alyssa Wallack joined the Boiling Point staff as a photo editor in her sophomore year and has fallen in love with it ever since. As the current Social Media Editor, Alyssa enjoys using the newspaper as...
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...
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...
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 ...
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&...
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....
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...
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...
Leila Miller
Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
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...
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...