BS”D Parshat Nitzavim By Josh Meisel, '12 This week's Parsha contains the concept of teshuva in it. The Rambam actually...
In a new twist to Color War breakout, the Student Activities Committee spread a fake story among the student body saying that...
Many girls at Bais Yaakov – an all-girls Haredi high school in West Hollywood – don’t know who Brad Pitt or Justin Bieber...
Last fall, an insular community that does its best to separate itself from the outside world was thrust into the spotlight after...
Although students at Shalhevet may start dating before girls at Bais Yaakov, they’re probably farther away from marriage. Most...
Scroll down to see the video of students singing and dancing in the Lancut Synagogue in Lancut, Poland. The synagogue was built...
After successfully implementing a vision of integrated Judaic and General Studies curricula at Milken Community High School,...
When you wake up in the morning to a gloomy day and realize you have 10 minutes before you have to run out the door, follow this...
Judaic Studies principal Rabbi Ari Leubitz is leaving Shalhevet at the end of the school year to be Head of School at Oakland...
According to Fairness co-chair David Fletcher, Acting General Studies Principal Mr. Roy Danovitch lost the Fairness case he brought...
This story is a National Winner in the Features Story category of Quill and Scroll’s 2012 International Writing and Photo Contest,...
Their voices rolling with a North African lilt, students in the two-month old Sephardic minyan sing to a different melody than...
Shouts, whoops, groans and clapping filled the halls today as for the first time ever students in school could watch online live...
As Shalhevet students, do we care about how we look? We all want to feel comfortable, but have we blurred the line between comfy-and-cute...
The Boiling Point has won four awards, including its first-ever prize for page design, in two of the country’s most prestigious...
With Rosh Hashanah and Simchat Torah, we marked the beginning of both the new year and the start of the Torah once again. In the...
Matisyahu’s fans are usually combat-boot clad, Afro-sporting, tattoed rockers, and in fact, quite a few of them turned up to...
Blogging,” like “Tweeting,” “Facebooking,” and “Googling,” is a web phenomenon so popular that it’s turned...
What do you get when you cross a toy piano, acoustic and electric guitars, a ukulele, a harmonica, and tambourines with some very...
Previously scheduled vacations, co-curricular conflicts, AP exams, and fundraising and teaching schedules caused Rabbi Segal to...
This fall as we settle back into our school routines, the weather is changing and so is the fashion. We are lucky because for...
Whether by carrying heavy boxes, wheeling carts through the hallway or staying until 9 p.m., Eli Schiff was going to have school...
When Coach Ronnie Winbush was younger, he always did things a bit differently – with a different “flavor,” one could say....
Personalized e-mails sent out Aug. 8 gave students their class schedules before school started. But the times of the class meeting...
When General Studies Principal Phu Tranchi moves out of his well-organized office next month, he will leave behind deep bonds...
Three rabbis and one rebbetzin, whose backgrounds include studies at Harvard, Columbia, Yeshiva University, Stern College and...
Known for hosting Friday night onegs for her classes, shopping with students online and infectious energy when advising SAC events,...
aaaaaaa VEGGIE CREW: Maintenance worker Javier Sanchez waters the new vegetable garden outside the Music and...
“You have to rely on the administration,” school founder Dr. Jerry Friedman told The Boiling Point a few hours after students...
“I am just naturally always talking with my hands, never standing still, have high energy and enthusiasm, etcetera,” Mr....
He arrived as a fulltime administrator and leaves as a part-time teacher of a popular new elective – but in his new position...
Sophomore Emilie Benyowitz has won third place in the Jewish Federation’s city-wide The Future is Now art contest, earning a...
As “Hail to the Chief” played on loudspeakers, President Barak Obama was met with cold applause as he took the stage to address...
Everyone knows about Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur and Passover, but many don’t know about the true beauty of Shavuot. As we all...
"Is that some kind of religious thing?" a fellow 16-year-old asked junior Josh Meisel, who was wearing his tzitzit hanging outside...
By Leila Miller, Outside News Editor Protestors crossed the borders from Syria, Lebanon, Gaza and the West Bank into Israel...
Ever since choir president Ariella Benji announced at Town Hall that the energetic singing group was in grave danger of being...
After of running into numerous logistical and mechanical difficulties during a five-day excursion to the University of Pennsylvania,...
Fall and winter are finally on their way out and it’s time to welcome spring and summer! With the warm seasons approaching,...
Despite its small size, Japan’s Jewish community of 2,000 organized unique relief-efforts when a 9.0-magnitude earthquake and...
It was during a game of floor hockey in P.E. when the gym floor in Tokyo’s American School in Japan began shifting sideways....
Competition over fundraising has sparked animosity between the juniors and seniors of Shalhevet. The Agenda Committee proposed...
I cannot believe we are already halfway into the school year. We have our friendships established, no more nerves about new teachers...
When I think of Jewish music, I think of Uncle Moishy, or the niggunim my family sings at the Shabbat table. But there’s a new...
A 16-year-old girl’s hand, painted in the colors of the Egyptian flag with the Arabic word “enough,” can go a long way on...
Dr. Jill Beerman doesn’t actually remember that first Town Hall in the fall of 1994, but she has a pretty good idea what it...
Shalhevet’s Boys’ Basketball team suffered a gut-wrenching 64–62 loss at its first-ever CIF quarterfinal playoff game Feb....
Athough usually attuned to news about Israel, most students didn’t notice when eight South American countries recognized a state...
Shalhevet's Boys' Basketball team suffered a heartbreaking 64–62 loss March 7 against the Bishop Diego Cardinals in Santa Barbara,...
Email your answers to [email protected]. First three people to answer all six questions correctly will win a $5...
Most teenagers don’t have to explain to their classmates that they aren’t terrorists and are not related to Osama Bin Laden,...
At a first-ever school Modern Orthodoxy symposium, three rabbis who lead shuls that are home to many Shalhevet families captured...
Smooth, crisp music flows through the Beit Midrash, capturing the attention of anyone within earshot. The notes dance from black...
Adding to an exciting fourth-place finish at the Milken Classic, the Firehawk boys’ basketball team conquered the Milken Wildcats...
With screams of delight and high-fives, Boiling Point staff learned last Saturday that coverage of Rabbi Weinbach's resignation...
“Good fences make good neighbors,” wrote the American poet Robert Frost in “The Mending Wall.” However, this statement...
In a room in Tel HaShomer Hospital near Tel Aviv, just a two-hour drive from the Erez checkpoint on the Israel-Gaza border, a...
In Mexico, a country plagued by violence for decades – most recently in its ongoing drug war – people learn to adapt. “We...
Two air guitars blast “dun-dun-dun-danana” as the curtains open to flurry of black leather and biker boots. It’s so loud...
“Where are you?” “On my way to the Miley Cyrus concert.” “I just lost all respect for you.” Surprisingly,...
Peace talks between Israel and the Palestinian authority resumed Sept. 20 after 20 months, after Secretary of State Hillary Rodham...
We’re all sad to leave the sunshine for school, but the end of August does have a bright side: back-to-school shopping! I’m...
Every student who has ever attended a Town Hall knows that when the bell rings and the topic ends, a rift in the day is formed....
Shalhevet’s energetic and rambunctious choir, led by an enthusiastic Mrs. Joelle Keene in purple striped socks, performed its...
The Celtics and the Lakers got into a heated fight last week -- in the Wildfire Theater at Shalhevet. NBA Commissioner David...
By Leila Miller, Arts Editor In The Secret in Their Eyes, an Argentine movie that won Best Foreign-Language Film at this year’s...
Rachel Lester’s platform, which she posted on the SoRo website before her election to the South Roberstson...
In her black Shalhevet jacket with its blazing red letters, sophomore Rachel Lester assertively approached one of the desk clerks...
“One, we are the orange team, two, a little louder, three, I still can’t hear you four more more more”! Today is Color War...
Standing in a circle, the Shalhevet choir and Kol Sasson, the University of Maryland’s Jewish a capella group, started off chanting...
Young people, especially teenagers, sometimes find it hard to identify with older generations, and vice versa. Collective Memory,...
During lunch at a public school, students can be found strewn throughout hallways and courtyards, interlocked in public displays...
Few people can claim to have “killed God,” but in a scene from the British film Creation, T.H Huxley, a colleague of Darwin’s,...
The room is abuzz as 15 aspiring entrepreneurs click frantically on their laptops. In groups of four, they research their potential...
An 8.8-magnitude earthquake in Chile on Feb. 27 left the world stunned, especially after Haiti. But the Jewish community there,...
“It’s important to capture the moment,” says Eddie Friedman, who photographed Shalhevet’s annual Poland-Israel trips from...
Shalhevet girls have always had a flair for eye-catching color, and lately, it affects even their hair. In recent weeks, girls...
On a brightly lit outdoor soccer field in Glendale, the Shalhevet Firehawks finally accomplished what they hadn’t in two years:...
"It’s the most stressful thing ever,” said junior Nathaniel Kukurudz, who played the father role of Mordechai Weiss in this...
