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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

Lucy Fried

Lucy Fried

September 22, 2019
Co Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
THOUGHT: Voters considered how to rank candidates in last Tuesday’s Just Community elections in the gym.  Races with more than two candidates were tallied according to an “instant runoff” system.

Open Fairness hearing Friday morning will consider possible change to Fairness Chair election outcome

The Fairness Committee will hold an open hearing this morning to decide whether to change the outcome of this week’s election...

FEAT: Adam Ritz, center, had to sync his lines with the pre-recorded projections of other characters, including a recorded version of himself.

Connecting the disconnected in ‘Technical Difficulties’

By Lucy Fried, Co-Editor-in-Chief
May 7, 2019

With an overarching title of Technical Difficulties, the seven original plays in this year’s One-acts Festival all explored...

REMOTE:   New Nest brand temperature controls are operated by an app.

New thermostats bring hope for stable temperatures

By Lucy Fried, Co-Editor-in-Chief
March 19, 2019

After four years of fluctuating temperatures that have left students and faculty alternately sweating or reaching for a sweater,...

Getting paid on Shabbat: The work is fun, but is it legal?

Getting paid on Shabbat: The work is fun, but is it legal?

By Lucy Fried, Co-Editor-in-Chief
March 8, 2019

On a typical Shabbat morning in a typical synagogue in Los Angeles, dozens of small children are chatting and giggling, playing...

OUTBREAK:   Harvard Westlake school has had 30 cases of pertussis among their 1,600 students at its upper and middle school campuses. Above, the Upper School is in Studio City.
 BP Photo from HW.com

Pertussis spreads to Harvard-Westlake and two other schools besides Shalhevet, protocols differ

By Lucy Fried, Co-Editor-in-Chief
March 5, 2019

There were at least five documented cases of pertussis among Shalhevet students last fall, and a continuing outbreak at Harvard-Westlake...

CANCELLED:  Choirhawk practice was cancelled until after three of 23 singers were diagnosed with pertussis. Dr. Julie Higashi of the LA County Health Department said singing could make the virus easier to spread.

Health department adds another three weeks to babysitting ban as two more whooping cough cases are reported at school

By Lucy Fried, Co-Editor-in-Chief
January 1, 2019

A fifth documented case of pertussis among Shalhevet students diagnosed Dec. 7 extended the dates recommended to avoid babysitting...

BACTERIA: Bordetella Pertussis bacteria are responsible for the disease known as whooping cough.  It is easily cured with antibiotics, which can be given even before a diagnosis is confirmed.

Third case of whooping cough diagnosed at school

By Lucy Fried, Co-Editor-in-Chief
November 29, 2018

A third Shalhevet student has been diagnosed with pertussis, extending the time recommended for students to avoid babysitting...

SAFE:    Dr. Julie Higashi, an infectious disease specialist and assistant health officer with the Los Angeles County Health Department, said Shalhevet students should stay away from teachers' babies until the pertussis outbreak is over. Seven staff members now have babies under the age of 1.

Shalhevet students should not babysit infants until Nov. 30, Health Department official recommends

By Lucy Fried, Co-Editor-in-Chief
November 18, 2018

This past month, there have been two cases of pertussis, also known as whooping cough, among Shalhevet students. While pertussis...

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...

 Meeting during Period E in Room 304, Rabbanit Henkin said future leaders of Jewish learning would come from today’s talmidot, or female students of Torah.

Rabbanit tells senior girls: ‘We need you within the Torah world’

By Lucy Fried, Co-Editor-In-Chief
October 23, 2018

'In the 12th century, there was no holiday of Simchat Torah. In the 14th century, it was celebrated in part by pre-bar-mitzvah-age...

SPACE:    Technology Director Nick Parsons has a newly built office that used to be part of a wider hallway. Five teachers also got their own offices for the first time this year. BP photo by Neima Fax.

Summer construction: New colors, better acoustics and a space for non-profits at school

By Lucy Fried, Co-Editor-In-Chief
October 11, 2018

Artwork lines the basement hallway, red accents paint the pipes, and new offices mean more teachers now have...

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