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Daniel Steinberg

Daniel Steinberg, Opinion Editor

After a 6-year odyssey to and from Toronto, Canada, Daniel returned to his hometown of Los Angeles the summer before his sophomore year, immediately joining The Boiling Point. Daniel has served in the past as Outside News Editor and returns this year as Opinion Editor. Aside from his responsibilities on the Boiling Point, he likes reading, playing video games and traveling, and enjoys being a member of the Model Congress team, the Fairness Committee, and the parody newspaper The Freezing Point.

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SPIRAL: The new round foyer stretches from the entry level to the third floor.  The communal staircase emerges under a sunroof dome supported by beams that form the shape of a Jewish star.

[Photo] Diverse spaces will become classrooms in ‘flexible’ new building, set to open in July

By Alexa Fishman, Editor-in-Chief
May 1, 2015

ONGOING: Rapid construction work on site in order to reach the July completion deadline.

 HOME: Alan Gross descends from a United States government plane in Maryland after his release from Cuban prison. Gross served five years on an espionage charge.

Alan Gross returns home as part of Cuba deal

By Daniel Steinberg and Henry Wineburg
February 13, 2015

When Alan Gross was released after five years in a Cuban prison on Dec. 17, alumni parent and former Shalhevet board member David...

ZIONISM: Students from across the country listen to Dana Erlich, Israels Consul for Public Diplomacy in L.A.

Israeli consul laments tourists’ negative view of Holy Land

By Daniel Steinberg, Outside News Editor
November 21, 2013

Where would you rather go, Israel or Costa Rica? And what makes a country desirable to tourists – low crime, beautiful scenery...

INVOLVED: Teens of Syrian descent, including Mona Ghannoum of Arcadia High School, are sending supplies to relatives caught in the civil war there.

For teens with ties to the Middle East, concern and action around the civil war in Syria

By Daniel Steinberg, Outside News Editor
October 9, 2013

Local Muslim teens with relatives in Syria don’t have to turn on a TV or read the newspaper to follow the conflict unfolding...

VICTORY: Mayor-elect Eric Garcetti told supporters at the Hollywood Palladium that it was time to rebuild Los Angeles.  He became the citys first Jewish mayor and won a majority of nearly every ethnic, geographic and demographic group.

At Election Night party in Hollywood, loud music and diversity as L.A. elects its first Jewish mayor

By Daniel Steinberg, Staff Writer
May 23, 2013

The Hollywood Palladium is most famous for its weekend events, but last Tuesday night it was filled with thousands of Eric Garcetti...

RUNOFF: Eric Garcetti, candidate for mayor, reading The Boiling Point at a private fundraiser in Hancock Park in March. Election Day is next Tuesday.

Mayoral candidates answer questions from The Boiling Point as election nears

By Daniel Steinberg, Staff Writer
May 17, 2013

Taking the pulse of next Tuesday's runoff from Bill Clinton to Will Ferrell -- with a stop at Steven Spielberg's mom's restaurant...

RUNOFF: Eric Garcetti, candidate for mayor, reading The Boiling Point at a private fundraiser in Hancock Park in March. Election Day is next Tuesday.

Eric Garcetti, who would be LA’s first Jewish mayor, defends his record at event in Hancock Park

By Daniel Steinberg, Staff Writer
April 14, 2013

"Wendy actually just blamed me for causing the recession," mayoral candidate Eric Garcetti gibed to a laughing audience last Wednesday. With...

REDEYE:  Debate team members hotel rooms werent  available yet when they arrived in Washington Nov. 15 after flying overnight, so they spent the day working on their bills in a conference room.  This happens when they fly to both Princeton and Penn model congress competitions.

With talent and adrenaline, Shalhevet’s debate team creates a legacy

By Daniel Steinberg, Staff Writer
January 12, 2013

Princeton Model Congress is a four-day marathon of bickering, shouting, and arguing that would not fall under the conventional...

Shakespeare you can love: Drama prepares ‘Twelfth Night’

By Daniel Steinberg, Staff Writer
November 5, 2012

From the mismatched chairs and miscellaneous props strewn across the floor to the dazed ninth-grader waltzing in 20 minutes late,...

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