Editor’s note: These stories appeared in the Boiling Point’s Issue 4, in early March, less than two weeks after Color War ended, but we are just posting them now to our website. We delayed...

For Shalhevet’s delegates to this year’s AIPAC Policy Conference in Washington, D.C., an appearance by Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu was doubly special. Whereas last year he merely appeared...

There are many things that make the nights of Passover different from all other nights. The classic examples are: On other nights we don’t dip more than once, on this night we dip twice. Instead of...

Students and faculty sitting in a large circle mourned the lives lost in the Parkland, Fla., shooting last Wednesday, joining students across the U.S. in a classroom walkout one month to the day after...

When we were children, all we could do was feel. We knew very little, so our beliefs were based mainly on intuition. We didn’t know the difference between right and wrong per se, but we did know that...

COMMITTEE SESSION AWARDS Talia Gill - Gavel (Best Delegate) - House Ethics Committee Sam Hirschhorn -  Gavel (Best Delegate) - Senate Judiciary Committee Ayala Chocron - Honorable Mention...

When Judaic Studies teacher Rabbi Daniel Bouskila was 12 years old, he aspired to be an actor. With a father in the entertainment industry as a wardrobe specialist, Rabbi Bouskila easily found an agent...

The rain had stopped in LA, but it was still cold and the ground was damp when juniors Mia Freeman and Hayley Licata of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School told their story to Shalhevet students in the...

In the wake of the shooting that killed 17 students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., last month, the school’s student journalists found themselves breaching the norms of journalism...

The flu season, although it has already peaked, is still active, and the illness is still circulating through the country with an unusually low vaccine effectiveness of 25 percent. Officials say the main...

It seemed improbable, nearly impossible. The Firehawks had been down 20-6 and were still losing 29-14 at the half. Victory was slipping away.  Valley Torah, it seemed, had completely shut them down. But...