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Rachel Lester

Rachel Lester, Managing Editor Emeritus

Rachel Lester, now a sophomore at USC, was on our staff starting freshman year, when she started as Staff Pollster and rose quickly to Chief Layout Editor and Features Editor, holding as many as three positions at one time.  From the Columbia Scholastic Press Association, she won the Boiling Point's first awards for design, and she continued to assist the Boiling Point even after graduation. While at Shalhevet, Rachel was commonly found in the Boiling Point office at midnight with a few other editors, and she was Editor-in-Chief of Yearbook and also participated in choir, softball, yearbook, ESC and EAC.

Rachel served as Managing Editor during the 2011-12 school year.

 

All content by Rachel Lester

Three national Quill & Scroll awards for The Boiling Point

By Rachel Lester, Managing Editor
May 1, 2012

For the sixth year in a row, The Boiling Point has won multiple honors in the annual Quill and Scroll International Writing and...

Marijuana can be a slippery slope

By Rachel Lester, Managing Editor
December 23, 2011

Nobody sets out to be addicted. In fact, most people who do “soft drugs” like marijuana and hookah do so thinking that...

First-ever championship for Firehawk basketball

By Rachel Lester, Managing Editor
December 23, 2011

After a four-year absence from the annual David A. Yaffe Basketball Tournament, the Firehawks  returned to Houston last week...

Firehawks boys basketball is champion of Yaffee tournament

By Rachel Lester, Managing Editor
November 22, 2011

After a four-year absence from the annual David A. Yaffe Basketball Tournament, the Firehawks  returned to Houston last week...

Shalhevet stands alone among Orthodox high schools in letting girls carry Torah, survey finds

By Rachel Lester, Managing Editor
November 3, 2011

At least in mixed minyans, nine other Modern Orthodox high schools hand the Torah scrolls to either nobody or just the boys It’s...

Tradition may rule, but law says girls can carry the Torah

By Rachel Lester, Managing Editor
November 3, 2011

‘All those who are impure, even niddot, arepermitted to hold a Torah scroll and to read from it, for the words of Torah are...

Dress code enforcement to be tightened today, rabbis say

By Rachel Lester, Managing Editor
September 16, 2011

Following a brief ninth-period meeting on Thursday when the administration told the juniors and seniors that they would have one...

Central locker hallway now houses faculty wing

By Rachel Lester, Managing Editor
August 22, 2011

Students arriving for the beginning of the new school year will find the main locker hallway and classrooms turned into a faculty...

Recovering slowly, Mr. Reynolds misses farewell Town Hall appearances

By Rachel Lester, Features Editor
June 7, 2011

Health problems prevented Interim Head of School Nat Reynolds from speaking at Town Hall before the end of the semester. He did...

Sh’koyach! After-school club serves Torah, brisket

By Rachel Lester, Features Editor
June 3, 2011

“Sh’koyach,” casually meaning “congratulations” or “good job,” isn’t just a popular Shalhevet expression anymore....

Looking back, Agenda chairs offer perspective and advice

By Rachel Lester, Features Editor
June 3, 2011

It's a position that leads the entire student body every week, held by an elite few who must juggle an intense workload of APs,...

Second postponement for Reynolds Town Hall appearance

Second postponement for Reynolds’ Town Hall appearance

By Rachel Lester, Features Editor
May 12, 2011

For the second time, health problems prevented Interim Head of School Nat Reynolds from speaking at Town Hall last week. He did...

New technology could offer drivers a cure for texting

New technology could offer drivers a cure for texting

By Rachel Lester, Features Editor
March 16, 2011

Car accidents are the leading cause of teenage deaths. This is common knowledge, as is the fact that most teenagers are addicted...

Slapped in the Facebook ... and other things that can go wrong when social media isnt just social

Slapped in the Facebook … and other things that can go wrong when social media isn’t just social

By Rachel Lester, Features Editor
January 7, 2011

Since Facebook has become such a dominant part of modern society, it’s easy to see why people have started using the website...

IF YOU BUILD IT... Deborah Thompson 07 building a sukkah at Brandeis last month. The Boston-area university is one of the most popular for Shalhevet alumni, and has everything Pico-Robertson has including large numbers of students observing holidays and Shabbat.

Life beyond the bubble: Alumni find many shades of Jewish life on campus

By Rachel Lester, Features Editor
November 1, 2010

Shalhevet prides itself on being a school that prepares students to study in the top secular universities and observe their religion...

Tennis champ takes over athletics

By Rachel Lester, Chief Layout Editor
August 30, 2010

Shalhevet’s new Athletic Director has many ideas to improve the school’s sports program, as well as an impressive athletic...

The new schedule: No room to rest

By Rachel Lester, Chief Layout Editor
August 26, 2010

It’s 11:11 on a Thursday morning: time to make a wish. I wish that I hadn’t had three APs in a row every day this week, you...

Eighth grade joins high school, for now

By Rachel Lester, Chief Layout Editor
August 26, 2010

By Rachel Lester, Chief Layout Editor When the board announced the closing of the Shalhevet’s lower schools last March, it...

Shalhevet choir goes backstage at Glee

Shalhevet choir goes backstage at ‘Glee’

By Rachel Lester, Features Editor
May 23, 2010

Bypassing a line that wrapped at least halfway around the building, 13 members of Shalhevet’s choir walked into the Saban Theater...

Shalhevet’s still green behind the scenes

By Rachel Lester, Features Editor
May 23, 2010

The trend of reusable bowls is dying out, the Environmental Sustainability Committee has not held any events all year, and it...

Athletes say missing class is okay;  teachers disagree

Athletes say missing class is okay; teachers disagree

By Rachel Lester, Features Editor
March 18, 2010

 Have you ever walked into an afternoon class and found it half-empty? Chances are that at least one sports team was playing...

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