Rabbi Lieberman elected faculty representative to new Judicial Review Subcommittee By Benjamin Gamson and Jacob Joseph Lefkowitz Brooks May 21, 2020 Judaic Studies teacher Rabbi Abraham Liberman was elected to be the first faculty member on the new Judicial Review Subcommittee...
CONSTITUTION OVERHAUL IS APPROVED, 149 – 20 By Benjamin Gamson and Jacob Joseph Lefkowitz Brooks May 14, 2020 UPDATED MAY 16: After a year of discussion, deliberation, meetings and last-minute revisions, members of the Just Community voted...
Voting has opened, Constitution must earn majority in at least three grades to pass By Jacob Joseph Lefkowitz Brooks, Editor-in-Chief May 14, 2020 Today’s vote on the amended Just Community constitution will have to pass with a two-thirds majority, and also three of four...
In historically uncontested election, vice-chair and secretary winners make news By Jacob Joseph Lefkowitz Brooks, Editor-in-Chief May 7, 2020 Sophomore Jack Sanders was elected vice chair of Agenda and sophomore Liad Machmali was elected SAC Vice Chair in this year’s...
Dr. Jerry Friedman and the roots of Shalhevet democracy By Jacob Joseph Lefkowitz Brooks, Editor-in-Chief May 5, 2020 For Dr. Jerry Friedman and his wife, Jean, it all began at their daughter’s graduation from Harvard University. That day, Dr....
Zoom Town Hall will debate proposed new constitution tonight By Jacob Joseph Lefkowitz Brooks, Editor-in-Chief May 5, 2020 The Just Community tonight will hear a proposed replacement of the 2002 constitution with a new, longer document which aims to...
Zoom assembly sparks daylong outpouring of family stories, inspiration for Yom Hashoah By Jacob Joseph Lefkowitz Brooks, Editor-in-Chief April 23, 2020 [TO VIEW ALL ARTIFACTS PICTURED ABOVE, CLICK HERE.] What seemed like a limitation ended up being a new way to connect to Jewish...
Shalhevet to delay decision on reopening in-person school until after Pesach, Rabbi Segal says By Sam Rubanowitz and Jacob Joseph Lefkowitz Brooks April 2, 2020 Shalhevet officials will defer a decision on whether to reopen on-campus school this year until after Passover, Head of...
YULA student tests positive for coronavirus after Bnei Akiva shabbaton; Rabbi Segal says spread to Shalhevet ‘inevitable’ By Jacob Joseph Lefkowitz Brooks, Editor-in-Chief March 16, 2020 According to a late Saturday email from Bnei Akiva of Los Angeles, a student at Yeshiva University of LA (YULA) Girls High School...
County health officials tell Shalhevet webinar school closures certain, timing undecided By Jacob Joseph Lefkowitz Brooks, Editor-in-Chief March 12, 2020 According to Los Angeles County public health officials who are advising Shalhevet, school will not be closing for now, and any...
Three coronavirus cases in people returning from AIPAC; one is in Los Angeles By Jacob Joseph Lefkowitz Brooks and Benjamin Gamson March 8, 2020 Los Angeles County health officials announced today that one person from Los Angeles has tested positive for coronavirus after...
Campus to close Monday as trial run for coronavirus shutdown tries out online classes By Jacob Joseph Lefkowitz Brooks and Sam Rubanowitz March 5, 2020 By Jacob Joseph Lefkowitz Brooks, Editor-in-Chief and Sam Rubanowitz, Senior Editor School on Monday will be held via...
Sarachek Tournament cancelled as coronavirus outbreak closes YU By Jacob Joseph Lefkowitz Brooks and Alex Rubel March 4, 2020 UPDATED MARCH 5: Next week’s Red Sarachek Basketball Tournament at Yeshiva University has been cancelled due to fears of the...
Week of locked doors brings clean classrooms, loud hallways By Jacob Joseph Lefkowitz Brooks, Editor-in-Chief March 3, 2020 After a week of being asked to close doors during non-class periods, teachers pronounced the anti-vandalism policy instigated...
Student body fails probationary period, locked doors to start Tuesday By Jacob Joseph Lefkowitz Brooks, Editor-in-Chief February 21, 2020 The Fairness Committee will ask teachers to lock students out of unused classrooms during breakfast, lunch and other non-teaching...
LIVE BLOG: The Oscars with Zach Helfand and Jacob Joseph Lefkowitz Brooks By Jacob Joseph Lefkowitz Brooks and Zach Helfand February 9, 2020 This page is being updated throughout the Oscars awards ceremony by Opinion Editor Zach Helfand and Editor-in-Chief Jacob Joseph...
The Nine: Short reviews of the 2020 Best Picture nominees By Jacob Joseph Lefkowitz Brooks, Molly Litvak, Zach Helfand, Nicholas Fields, and Jolie Wineburgh February 9, 2020 Below are short reviews of all nine movies nominated in the Best Picture category of this year’s Academy Awards, by Boiling...
Second meeting of Constitutional Convention considers whether ‘values of the school’ should be a reason to veto Town Hall proposals By Jacob Joseph Lefkowitz Brooks, Editor-in-Chief January 30, 2020 Participants at the second meeting of the school Constitutional Convention Dec. 18 tried to decide the role of the head of school...
We can hold two ideas at once By Jacob Joseph Lefkowitz Brooks, Editor-in-Chief January 28, 2020 I’ve felt a lot of things over the past few days. I was at first shocked, in complete denial that something could happen to...
A comic book supervillain who changed the game By Jacob Joseph Lefkowitz Brooks, Editor-in-Chief January 27, 2020 Comic books feature many types of villains. There are the tragic ones, the megalomaniacs, the evil gods. But one group that has...
Aviva Walls leaving, will lead day school in Fairfax, Virginia, next year By Jacob Joseph Lefkowitz Brooks, Editor-in-Chief January 15, 2020 Ms. Aviva Walls, Shalhevet’s Dean of Academic Affairs and Director of College Counselling, will be leaving next year to become...
Fairness Committee may ban students from empty classrooms after teacher files complaint over food mess and poster vandalism By Molly Litvak and Jacob Joseph Lefkowitz Brooks January 14, 2020 Responding to food left in classrooms after lunch and vandalism against posters, the Fairness Committee is considering a two-week-long...
New play explores trauma’s impact across generations and cultures By Jacob Joseph Lefkowitz Brooks, Editor-in-Chief January 8, 2020 The Holocaust is arguably the most common subject and setting of Jewish art. Eight Nights, written by Jennifer Maisel and directed...
10 stories that shaped the 2010’s By Jacob Joseph Lefkowitz Brooks, Editor-in-Chief December 31, 2019 As a disclaimer, I was only eight years old at the onset of the 2010’s and live in America, so there is a degree of bias in...
Move to revise Just Community constitution debates who should decide what’s debatable By Molly Litvak and Jacob Joseph Lefkowitz Brooks December 17, 2019 After being talked about by Agenda committees and chair candidates since 2016, a proposed rewriting of Shalhevet’s constitution...
Jojo Rabbit: Sparks of love in a world of hate By Jacob Joseph Lefkowitz Brooks, Editor-in-Chief December 15, 2019 After sitting through an opening scene featuring at least 10 “Heil Hitler”’s, few would expect a film that evokes uncontrollable...
Greta Thunberg finds local angle on climate change By Jacob Joseph Lefkowitz Brooks, Editor-in-Chief December 3, 2019 Thousands of protesters gathered outside of Los Angeles City Hall Nov. 1 heard the leader of the world’s youth climate change...
Princeton Model Congress debaters take 6 awards, including first in novice committee By Jacob Joseph Lefkowitz Brooks, Editor-in-Chief November 24, 2019 Maya Tochner and Rachel Metzger won gavels and a freshman won an honorable mention as Shalhevet’s 20-delegate Model Congress...
NEW LACMA: Designing the shape of the future By Jolie Wineburgh and Jacob Joseph Lefkowitz Brooks November 7, 2019 Just two blocks north and one block east of Shalhevet, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art is about to begin a four-year,...
For the Clipper who used to be a Raptor, only love By Jacob Joseph Lefkowitz Brooks, Editor-in-Cheif November 1, 2019 There were four seconds left on the shot clock in a tied game seven against the Philadelphia 76ers. Kawhi Leonard caught...
LETHAL VAPOR: At least 12 deaths so far from mysterious vaping illness By Jacob Joseph Lefkowitz Brooks and Sivan Karz October 3, 2019 BP Graphics by Zev Kupferman There are lots of reasons not to vape. For one thing, it’s against Shalhevet rules, as Principal...
Rabbis, others demonstrate against ‘get refuser’ while he is sitting shiva By Jacob Joseph Lefkowitz Brooks, Editor-in-Chief August 29, 2019 Soaked from knee to toe, 40 people stood outside a shiva home on Poinsettia Place Aug. 23 to take a stand against get refusal. Inside,...
OPINION – Our college graphic: A dissent By Jacob Joseph Lefkowitz Brooks, Community Editor June 18, 2019 Last month, I faced one of my most difficult decisions on the Boiling Point Editorial Board -- one which a year or even a month...
Not just her initials: Skirball exhibit explains why RBG is ‘notorious’ By Jacob Joseph Lefkowitz Brooks, Community Editor March 5, 2019 When considering the achievements of history’s greatest social reformers, it’s easy to say that they were simply destined...
Call for emails to senators starts dispute over politics on Schoology By Lucy Fried and Jacob Joseph Lefkowitz Brooks November 13, 2018 Some have called the past two years the most divided time in American history. Last month, that division spilled onto Schoology...
Gathered on the roof, students become a giant choir to celebrate Israeli Independence Day By Jacob Joseph Lefkowitz Brooks, Features Editor April 22, 2018 In under an hour on a sunny Yom Ha'atzmaut morning, choir teacher Mrs. Joelle Keene was able to turn an unorganized gathering...
