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TOSSED: On their last day of classes, seniors drop their notes from the top of the school’s spiral staircase. This annual event is on the last day of school, which, for seniors, often caps a semester marked by a decrease in academic performance sometimes known as “senioritis.”
Taking on 12th graders’ low turnout and big burnout
By David Dakar, 11th Grade • November 26, 2025
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Torah
CHAVRUTA: Juniors and sophomores enjoy chicken wings with barbecue sauce while studying texts with Dr. Sheila Keiter Feb. 22 in the Beit Midrash.
Afternoon chevruta learning returns, this time with incentives
May 14, 2024
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Opinion
VOTE: Except for just minutes before voting, there were no active campaigns for Just Community representatives last October. Above, 10th-graders watched a candidate's video.
EDITORIAL: Elections – We can do better
By The Boiling Point Editorial Board • January 30, 2024
Oct. 7 sparked an outpouring of love for our land, and we should respond by upholding our highest values of love for all.
EDITORIAL: Hamas vs. humanity
December 13, 2023
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Features
CONTINUITY: Firehawks4Israel set up a table was set up in the foyer with items to encourage prayers, mailing of letters and postcards and other ways to reach out to soldiers and others in Israel. It was still there in June.
Seven months later, Shalhevet keeps Oct. 7 in mind
By Mira Schulman, Features Editor • July 16, 2024
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Rabbi Jason Weiner
For Talmud teacher directing spiritual care at Cedars-Sinai, it’s dignity, dedication and the Dodgers
By Emil Kestenbaum, 11th grade • January 11, 2026

Rabbi Jason Weiner is teaching a 12th-grade Lahav Talmud class focusing on Shabbat this year, but he is no stranger to Shalhevet or to the Los Angeles. Jewish community. He...

JOY: Students and faculty created an atmosphere of celebration with song, prayer and dance in honor of the new Torah.
Rashidi-Doust family gifts Sephardic Torah to Shalhevet
By Alma Miller, 9th grade • January 9, 2026

On Friday, November 21, 2025, students and faculty gathered in the gym for a special Hachnasat Sefer Torah, a celebration to welcome a newly commissioned...

TOGETHER: Visiting Israeli soldiers who had been injured during combat connect with faculty members in the Shalhevet lobby.
IDF soldiers share injury and recovery stories with students
By Daniella Deitcher, 9th grade • January 8, 2026

Israel Defense Forces Commander Amit Moaz, who was injured in the 2nd Lebanon war in 2006, and Shimon Cohen, an IDF soldier who was injured in the Oct....

BRIDGING: Morah Inbal Phacher connects Hebrew literacy with Israel and the importance of having a shared language for Jews worldwide.
New Teacher 25-26: Morah Inbal Phacher
By Daniella Deitcher, 9th grade • January 4, 2026

New Hebrew teacher Morah Inbal Phacher’s goal is to take down any barriers to help students connect with the language, and show them through games, songs,...

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Arts & Culture
SPELLBOUND: The fully-costumed spellers of the cast of 'The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee' pose before the show's run in February 2025.
Wildfire Theater readies for spring’s spooky spotlight as ‘The Addams Family’ starts rehearsals
By Eliana Swarz, 10th Grade • November 6, 2025

After You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown (2023), Singin’ in the Rain (2024) and The 25th Annual Putnam...

HOMAGE: Mr. Souza, best known for spray-painting murals of Israeli leaders on storefront shutters in Jerusalem’s Machane Yehudah marketplace, created a new second-floor artwork commemorating Oct. 7. The theme is “After things are destroyed, we rebuild,” he said.
Solomon Souza, famous in Israel for Machane Yehudah murals, returns to school painting an Oct. 7 commemoration artwork
February 5, 2025
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Shabbat Candlelighting Times

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Outside News
LOST: Junior Micah Shaked’s destroyed home in the Palisades. Most of his possessions burned in a catastrophic wildfire that began Jan. 7 and swept through his neighborhood (Photo courtesy of Micah Shaked).
Shalhevet student left with clothes, backpack as home destroyed in Palisades fire
By Sophie Katz, Editor-in-Chief • February 17, 2025
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SWING: Co-captain Ari Elad at bat at a Firehawks game from earlier in the 2024-2025 season.

Despite league playoff suspension, Firehawks make meaning at Columbus Baseball Invitational tournament

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Rabbi Jason Weiner

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BUILDING: New girls’ basketball coach Sabrina Norton coaches from the sidelines during a Firehawks game.

Basketball that builds “identity, chemistry and consistency”: ​​New coach Sabrina Norton

Sports
SWING: Co-captain Ari Elad at bat at a Firehawks game from earlier in the 2024-2025 season.
Despite league playoff suspension, Firehawks make meaning at Columbus Baseball Invitational tournament
By Nathaniel Kurzban, 11th Grade • December 31, 2025

The Shalhevet Firehawks were suspended from eligibility for any playoff games in the California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) baseball league until Feb. 16, 2027 because the team missed a state playoff game to participate in a Jewish baseball tournament in Columbus, Ohio last May. The suspension was announced in a press release from CIF. Hosted by Columbus Torah Academy in Ohio, the tournament...

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