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

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Hannah Jannol

Hannah Jannol, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus

Hannah Jannol was Editor-in-Chief of the Boiling Point during the 2017-2018 school year. Since then, she has attended The New School and written for their HerCampus chapter; edited obituaries for The Trace; written poetry for Eleven and a Half literary magazine, and run Instagram and Twitter for Uptown Stories.  Her favorite parts of being on Boiling Point were production night and writing long-form features stories, many of which won awards from CSPA, Quill & Scroll and the American Jewish Press Association.

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RUNWAY: Freshman Rena Harkham modeled a white dress at the Fashion Clubs third annual "Tzniut Can Be Cute" show in the gym Feb. 18. Student models waiting their turns stood behind the wood-and-metal mechitza.

Student show reflected feminism through modest fashion

By Hannah Jannol, Editor-in-Chief
February 23, 2018
This year’s fashion show had two major stars: modest clothing and a feminist theme. These two highlights may seem contradictory: asking women to cover up is viewed in many feminist circles to be anti-woman, and a fashion show might not seem like the place to showcase feminist values.

By Hannah Jannol, Editor-in-Chief
February 1, 2018

Out of place: Bizarrely designed, it should find a different street corner The tagline for the “the Vinz,” the 150-unit,...

LISTENING: At a recent Shalhevet Institute event moderated by Ms. Julie Fax, center, members of the community heard Ms. Atara Segal, Rabbi Abraham Lieberman and Rabbanit Pnina Neuworth discuss modesty, leadership and other concerns in Modern Orthodoxy.

Institute event explores power imbalance, modesty ‘in the age of #MeToo’

By Hannah Jannol, Editor-in-Chief
January 15, 2018
At a recent Shalhevet Institute event, the moderator said she had never received a good explanation of tzniut, or modesty. “It was women's job to stop men's impulses -- I haven’t heard anything else,” said Ms. Julie Fax, the mother of sophomore Neima Fax a former senior writer at the Jewish Journal, who grew up attending Orthodox schools in Los Angeles.
NEW: Rabbi Block is now taking on oversight of the Judaic Studies department after joining the staff last year

‘Strategic shuffling’ and new staff member will cover roles of former principal, Rabbi Segal announces

By Hannah Jannol and Clara Sandler
January 11, 2018
Head of School Rabbi Ari Segal said today that a “strategic shuffling will go into effect immediately” in light of the recent removal of Shalhevet’s Principal and Assistant Head of School who was in charge of many areas within the school ranging from admissions and discipline to curriculum development, student life and co-curriculars.
OPINION: Taming our roots

OPINION: Taming our roots

By Hannah Jannol, Editor-in-Chief
December 31, 2017
My scalp is burning. My nose is dripping. The combined smell of formaldehyde and the melting, unpronounceable chemicals in my mascara have turned my eyes into a watery disarray.
REPUTATION: Like previous math chair Mrs. Malikov, Dr. Walton also hails from feeder school Maimonides Academy, as their math department chair.

New math chair loves English and writing, too

By Hannah Jannol, Editor-in-Chief
August 30, 2017
Though many believe the world is split up between “math people” and “English people,” Dr. William Walton -- new math department chair and Dean of Curriculum and Instruction -- is a walking objection to this common view.
girls basketball team shared a cheer with Coach Flava before their first game at the Glouberman Tournament Nov. 12.

Coach Flava not returning next year

By Hannah Jannol, Community Editor
April 26, 2017
Coach Ronnie “Flava” Winbush, who led the Firehawk girls basketball team to win the first-ever Steve Glouberman Tournament in 2015 and to the CIF Southern Section 6 Division Championship in 2014, will not return next year, he announced yesterday in a text to a team-wide group chat for the girls’ basketball team.
SWING: Jake Hofheimer batted and junior Alex Silberstein caught for the Firehawks as New Roads defeated Shalhevet 7 - 2 in Santa Monica April 13.

For transgender baseball player from New Roads, sports help make him ‘one of the guys’

By Hannah Jannol, Arts & Culture Editor
July 2, 2016
A New Roads batter stepped up to the plate in the bottom of the fifth inning at a Shalhevet-New Roads game April 13. Firehawk pitcher Asher Remer pitched the ball across the field to him, and the New Roads batter swung the metal bat and was struck out. He was out, but a teammate high-fived him as he trotted back to the bench and others hollered a job well done.
TRANSITION: Former student holds onto religion while changing from female to male

TRANSITION: Former student holds onto religion while changing from female to male

By Hannah Jannol, Staff Writer
January 28, 2016
Imagine waking up every morning and putting on clothes of the opposite sex. Imagine putting on a dress, or a suit and tie, and then going to work or school and being called a name of the wrong gender, and then being referred to with the wrong pronouns. Then imagine realizing you’re just in the wrong body for the gender you know you are. This is how transgender Shalhevet alumnus Benjamin Kenner explains being transgender.
MODERN: The new Broad Museum houses some 2,000 20th- and 21st-century art works from the collection of Eli and Edythe Broad.

On Bunker Hill, another art museum and another Broad

By Hannah Jannol, Staff Writer
October 17, 2015
At 10:30 a.m., half an hour before the doors open, a line of 200 ticketholders and a standby line of 60 walk-ins braves the L.A. heat to see the newest addition to the city’s arts scene, The Broad museum, which opened Sept. 20 on a corner across the street from the Walt Disney Concert Hall, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, the Colburn School, and MOCA.
INVENT: Sophomores Zev Kent, Ezra Fax and Eytan Rosenman at the CIJE conference in Irvine May 20

CIJE students at conference offer tech inventions for daily life

By Hannah Jannol, Staff Writer
June 24, 2015
A moisture sensor that tells users when their plants require watering. A robotic pair of legs that can be programmed to different speeds. A pillow alarm clock. A fork that tells its users when they are eating too quickly. These are just a few of 80 robotic biomedical projects presented at the 2nd Annual West Coast CIJE conference May 20 in Orange County.
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