When we know it, you'll know it The Boiling Point is the student-produced newspaper of Shalhevet High School and is published 6-8 times yearly.
Operating as usual
The Boiling Point has reached its millionth view! Since going online in April of 2010, the BP website has allowed student coverage to be seen by readers across the world. Thank you to our readers for continuing to read, watch, and listen to our stories. This would not be possible without you. (BP Infographics by Eli Weiss)
Right in the neighborhood.
Tomorrow, the Los Angeles City Planning Commission is expected to vote on whether to approve a hotel near the intersection of Pico and Robertson boulevards, which its developer says would serve both the neighborhood and the local Jewish community. What it would not do is add any housing to the area....
Shalhevetboilingpoint.com is about to reach 1 million all-time page views! Stay tuned: When we know it, you'll know it.
Shalhevetboilingpoint.com is about to reach 1 million all-time page views! Stay tuned: When we know it, you'll know it.
With links to livestreams of all the games, featuring play-by-play and color commentary by the BP's best. Congratulations to the Shalhevet girls' and TABC boys' teams!
At around 11 o’clock Saturday night, the frenzied cheers of the home crowd swept through a packed gym as the Shalhevet Firehawk girls team emerged with its second championship in the school’s annual Steve Glouberman Basketball Tournament. Two hours later, the Firehawk boys fell short, losing the...
You mean you didn't know?? Glouberman is back!! Games started tonight. For video livestreams with peerless Boiling Point play-by-play (most games) ... scores, schedule and stats ... stories and feature videos ... and much more, click on the link!
https://shalhevetboilingpoint.com/glouberman/
Students will once again be seen peeking down from the second-floor hallway into the gym trying to catch a glimpse of a basketball game in the middle of the school day. The downstairs hallways will again be full of unfamiliar faces wearing non-Shalhevet colors and looking slightly lost, while Shalhe...
What it was like to be in Afghanistan, and to see the U.S. leave.
Watching with the rest of America as the Taliban swiftly took over Afghanistan last month were two members of Los Angeles’s Orthodox Jewish community who are currently on active duty in the U.S. Army. Major Moses Scheinfeld and Army chaplain Rabbi David Becker were stationed in Afghanistan during ...
Full vaccination will be required as of Nov. 30 for students 16 and up.
Vaccine mandate to take effect Nov. 30 for students 16 and up Officials say requirements younger students will be ‘revisited’ after FDA gives full vaccine approval for ages 12-15
Live on Youtube now -- News Conference with new Head of School Rabbi David Block
A reminder that no matter how close we can feel to God, we're only human. Chag Sameach from the Boiling Point!
The High Holidays are a very busy time of year in Judaism, and by the time we get to Sukkot, we’ve already been through Rosh Hashana, Yom Kippur, and the Fast of Gedaliah. It’s a lot of extra time immersed in religion and ritual, and thus, the significance of Sukkot tends to be sidelined or...
Shana tova from the Boiling Point! Wishing everyone a happy and healthy 5782, and a year of good news!
Blowing the shofar seems like a strange tradition. We take the horn of an animal, hollow it out, and then blow into it 100 times. But the shofar isn’t about the horn. It’s about what the horn symbolizes. In addition to the message of waking us up and inspiring us, I believe that the shofar...
Wishing a refuah shelemah to our new head of school.
Head of School Rabbi David Block has tested positive for Covid-19 and is quarantining at home, he announced in an email to the Shalhevet community at 7:44 p.m. yesterday evening. In the email, Rabbi Block announced that he had tested positive earlier that day, at the beginning of the second week of....
Announcing the 2021-22 BP leadership team!
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF: Benjamin Gamson
DEPUTY EDITOR-IN-CHIEF: Liad Machmali
WEB EDITOR-IN-CHIEF: Eli Weiss
Benjamin will be only the second 11th-grader in the history of the Boiling Point to take on the top post. He's written more than 50 published stories in his first two years and last year led the Community, Outside New and Torah sections all at the same time. He's also worked on videos and podcasts and won awards for stories, podcasts and photography. Benjamin is a true news addict and has millions of ideas. We know he's ready to lead ...
Liad has won awards in news and feature writing, managed our Snapchat presence and written some of our most sensitive unsigned editorials, making it look easy. Her connection with many different facets of Shalhevet's community -- including SAC, which she will be co-chair of this year -- will make it possible to bring to life her particular vision for making the Boiling Point relevant to all ...
And Eli has been running our website for the better part of two years, in which capacity he helped develop our groundbreaking home page design, produced or co-produced podcasts and news broadcasts, and has enhanced the appearance of stories by finding ways to add as much media as possible, from photo galleries to video and sound clips.
Visit shalhevetboilingpoint.com to see what we've been up to, and congratulations to Benjamin, Liad and Eli on assuming these challenging and important positions in our school community.
Announcing the 2021-22 BP leadership team!
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF: Benjamin Gamson
DEPUTY EDITOR-IN-CHIEF: Liad Machmali
WEB EDITOR-IN-CHIEF: Eli Weiss
Benjamin will be only the second 11th-grader in the history of the Boiling Point to take on the top post. He's written more than 50 published stories in his first two years and last year led the Community, Outside New and Torah sections all at the same time. He's also worked on videos and podcasts and won awards for stories, podcasts and photography. Benjamin is a true news addict and has millions of ideas. We know he's ready to lead ...
Liad has won awards in news and feature writing, managed our Snapchat presence and written some of our most sensitive unsigned editorials, making it look easy. Her connection with many different facets of Shalhevet's community -- including SAC, which she will be co-chair of this year -- will make it possible to bring to life her particular vision for making the Boiling Point relevant to all ...
And Eli has been running our website for the better part of two years, in which capacity he helped develop our groundbreaking home page design, produced or co-produced podcasts and news broadcasts, and has enhanced the appearance of stories by finding ways to add as much media as possible, from photo galleries to video and sound clips.
Visit shalhevetboilingpoint.com to see what we've been up to, and congratulations to Benjamin, Liad and Eli on assuming these challenging and important positions in our school community.
The scenes spanned the building and the audience moved in pods.
Gitty Rav-Noy and Dallas Corn were arguing on the outdoor stairwell at school. Except it wasn’t “school,” and it wasn’t actually Gitty and Dallas arguing — it was Veronica, a social media influencer, arguing with her husband Todd, an aspiring film director, outside a gala dinner at a ficti...
https://shalhevetboilingpoint.com/top-stories/2021/05/21/walk-off-single-by-josh-harrison-lifts-firehawks-over-panthers-6-5/
First rivalry baseball matchup since 2019 went down to the wire.
https://shalhevetboilingpoint.com/top-stories/2021/05/21/walk-off-single-by-josh-harrison-lifts-firehawks-over-panthers-6-5/
First rivalry baseball matchup since 2019 went down to the wire.
But it was still historic for them to have competed this far at this level.
The Shalhevet Firehawks fell just short of advancing to the CIF Div. 3A championship, losing in a nail-biting game to the Marina Vikings 76-74 on Thursday night in the semifinals. An optimistic crowd of 80 Shalhevet fans had been provided bus transportation to the game, a 38-mile bus ride at the end...
Already historic.
The Shalhevet Firehawks advanced to the California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) Southern Section Division 3A semifinals after a win against the El Segundo Eagles 67-52 on Tuesday, marking the first time in California state history a Jewish Day School has reached the semifinals at this level of c...
With photos and video, what it was like to be there, and what may have happened.
Around 1:15 a.m. on April 30, Sam Rubanowitz tried to make his way down an overcrowded, slippery exit pathway from the Lag B’Omer celebration at Northern Israel’s Mount Meron. Twenty minutes earlier, 45 people lost their lives, apparently in a forward crush of exiters who were unable to stop mov...
How it felt -- and feels -- to have been there in person
Around 1:15 a.m. on April 30, Sam Rubanowitz tried to make his way down an overcrowded, slippery exit pathway from the Lag B’Omer celebration at Northern Israel’s Mount Meron. Twenty minutes earlier, 45 people lost their lives, apparently in a forward crush of exiters who were unable to stop mov...
If you're observing Shavuot, today's your last chance to vote since Election Day is Tuesday. Here's report on a Bnai David-and AJC-sponsored debate for this open State Assembly seat.
“What is your view on U.S-Israel relations, California-Israel trade, and BDS, the Boycott Divestment Sanctions movement?” When the two most prominent candidates running for state Assembly were asked this question May 3, Heather Hutt said the answer is simple — she opposes BDS and believes Isra...
In LA after all?
The Steve Glouberman Basketball Tournament, postponed from last November due to Covid and then planned for May 23-27 in Phoenix, will most likely be played in Los Angeles after all, school officials said tonight. In addition, information was provided on six teams expected to attend the tournament, w...
Democracy in the time of Covid
Adina Kurzban stressed a commitment to fairness while Jack Sanders emphasized his long experience planning Town Halls as Shalhevet students congregated in the gym yesterday for the first Agenda Chair debate in two years. Standing behind podiums about 20 feet away from the first row of the audience,....
A summary, with Shalhevet reaction
There is no map in Judaism to guide an LGBTQ person in family life, but Rabbi Benny Lau has tried to create one, blending what he describes as the disparate worlds of Torah ideals with the reality of the lives of real people. Rabbi Lau, an Israeli rabbi and social justice activist who leads the...
Democracy in action at Shalhevet
Town Hall decided the very first proposal of the year April 9, voting overwhelmingly that teachers should, unless taking a leave of absence or chaperoning a school trip, grade all work or tests within three weeks of when students submit it. If work is not graded by then, the teacher may not assign a...
Four views back on a year of school with Covid
In a few decades, numbers and data might be the main vehicles through which people look back on the Covid-19 pandemic — numbers of deaths, jobs lost and school on Zoom. But there’s something else they may want to know: How did it feel? Now that it’s been a year since the pandemic arrived, we.....
More heroism from the year of Covid
Almost exactly a year ago, Los Angeles schools, businesses, travel, and just about everything else shut down to keep people safe from the coronavirus. The city’s Jewish food banks didn’t have that option. The stakes for their clients were too high. Unlike most other businesses, these and other f...
As planned and previously announced:
Rabbi Ari Segal, who began a gradual departure as Head of School more than a year-and-a-half ago, signed off in what he announced was his last weekly newsletter to the Shalhevet community, sent last Friday, March. 25. As planned and previously announced, he turned over his position as planned to Rab...
Basketball is back!
Shalhevet basketball is back! After a long hiatus due to the pandemic, the Firehawk boys varsity team roared back to action in a hard-fought game against the Bulldogs of Buena High School of Ventura Thursday evening in the Shalhevet gym. That gym looked different. Instead of being packed with the no...
Examples and insights from those who know
Racism against Black Americans exists in the Jewish community too, according to four Black panelists — two of whom are Jewish — who spoke at Town Hall on Feb. 5 in honor of Black History Month. Interviewed together during the schoolwide meeting on Zoom were Shalhevet faculty Mr. Fred Leach, D...
And CAL-20C variant, identified at Cedars-Sinai Jan. 3, is probably not resistant to vaccines, says doctor whose team found it.
California is known for the beach, movie stars, fashion, and now for its very own coronavirus variant. Originating in Southern California, this variant — called CAL.20C, or the California variant — has now spread to 19 other states, Washington D.C., and six other countries, including Israel. Sci...
Dr. Sam Gomberg, former principal and architect of Just Community at Shalhevet, has died at age 74
Dr. Sam Gomberg, former Shalhevet Principal and Director of Moral Education and an integral contributor to the school’s Just Community, passed away at age 74 March 2 at his home in Crest Hill, Ill., a suburb of Chicago. The cause was a heart condition, according to Shalhevet founder Dr. Jerry Frie...
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VIRTUAL: The Choirhawks Spring Concert will be held on Zoom Thursday, June 11th at 8PM
FAKEOUT: A fake color war breakout occurred after schoolwide mincha today.
HIGHLIGHT: Junior Jacob Benezra dunked tonight in the fourth quarter. The Firehawks will play the winner of the TABC vs SAR game in the championship tomorrow at 12:00PM. BP video by David Edwards. Commentating by Nicholas Fields.
NEW FEATURE: Wondering what time Shabbat starts? The Boiling Point has got you covered every week. Just head to shalhevetboilingpoint.com and scroll down to the Shabbat Candlelighting Times section in the right sidebar of the homepage.
BREAKING NEWS: SIXPEAT: Congratulations to the Boiling Point on winning the Columbia Scholastic Press Association Gold Crown award for the sixth year in a row.
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SPORTS: This weekend the Shalhevet boys football team played in the Loma Linda Tournament. They beat LA Adventist but lost to Loma Linda High School and San Diego Academy, finishing with a 1-2 record. Quarterback Coby Mendelson threw seven touchdowns, five to Avi Weinreb, one to Zack Hirschhorn and one to Sam Hirschron. Zack and Sam both had rushing touchdowns as well. Videos from Blue Zone Sports Productions.
Press Conference with Rabbi Segal!
According to the bus driver, Jose Larios, as translated by BP Layout Editor Tara Chriki, two tires are flat, and “They’re gonna bring a company to fix it, and if not they’re going to bring a new bus.”
BREAKING NEWS: No injuries and no estimate yet on length of delay after two right rear tires go flat at almost the same moment on the bus carrying sophomores returning from chessed trip in Arizona. Incident occurred at 3:50 pm. Arts & Culture Editor Lucy Fried interviews General Studies Principal Daniel Weslow on the bus.