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

The Boiling Point

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

The Boiling Point

Leila Miller

Leila Miller

September 1, 2012
Editor-in-Chief Emeritus

Color War opened with drug-testing ruse

By Leila Miller, Editor in Chief
June 29, 2012

In a new twist to Color War breakout, the Student Activities Committee spread a fake story among the student body saying that...

PLAYING: Young Haredi boys grow their payot long and their tzitzit out.

HAREDI: Behind the label is a world apart

By Leila Miller, Editor-in-Chief
June 14, 2012

Many girls at Bais Yaakov – an all-girls Haredi high school in West Hollywood – don’t know who Brad Pitt or Justin Bieber...

HAREDI: From Beit Shemesh, a spark that exposed a simmering fire

By Leila Miller, Editor-in-Chief
June 14, 2012

Last fall, an insular community that does its best to separate itself from the outside world was thrust into the spotlight after...

Haredi Dating: Rabbis, research, resumes and a look into the soul

By Leila Miller, Editor-in-Chief
June 12, 2012

Although students at Shalhevet may start dating before girls at Bais Yaakov, they’re probably farther away from marriage. Most...

Milken’s Jason Ablin to blend Judaic, General Studies here

By Leila Miller, Editor-in-Chief
April 2, 2012

After successfully implementing a vision of integrated Judaic and General Studies curricula at Milken Community High School,...

Rabbi Leubitz leaving next year to be head of Oakland Hebrew Day School

By Leila Miller, Editor-in-Chief
March 26, 2012

Judaic Studies principal Rabbi Ari Leubitz is leaving Shalhevet at the end of the school year to be Head of School at Oakland...

Fairness Committee votes 6-5 not to block Facebook

By Leila Miller, Editor-in-chief
March 21, 2012

According to Fairness co-chair David Fletcher, Acting General Studies Principal Mr. Roy Danovitch lost the Fairness case he brought...

Shalhevet Drama finds an unexpected mirror In ‘Pride and Prejudice’

By Leila Miller, Editor-in-Chief
December 23, 2011

This story is a National Winner in the Features Story category of Quill and Scroll’s 2012 International Writing and Photo Contest,...

New Sephardic minyan lets students feel at home

By Leila Miller, Editor-in-Chief
December 22, 2011

Their voices rolling with a North African lilt, students in the two-month old Sephardic minyan sing to a different melody than...

Hallway mania: Students watch live streaming of Houston basketball tournament

Hallway mania: Students watch live streaming of Houston basketball tournament

By Leila Miller, Editor-in-Chief
November 21, 2011

Shouts, whoops, groans and clapping filled the halls today as for the first time ever students in school could watch online live...

As readers and as writers, students brave the blogosphere

As readers and as writers, students brave the blogosphere

By Leila Miller, Editor-in-Chief
October 31, 2011

Blogging,” like “Tweeting,” “Facebooking,” and “Googling,” is a web phenomenon so popular that it’s turned...

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