Matt Weintraub, advisor and friend, leaves marketing post
Zev Hurwitz, Editor-in-Chief
December 31, 2010
Matt Weintraub, who in two years at Shalhevet reorganized the school’s communications department and was the only non-teacher to be a ma’agal advisor, packed up his office and said goodbye last Monday, Dec. 13. The Director of Marketing and Communications left to assume the same title at Temple... Read more »
An evening of song and Chanukah cheer
Jacob Ellenhorn, Staff Writer
December 31, 2010
The boundless Shalhevet spirit was alive and well on display the seventh night of Chanukah. An audience of families, faculty and some students packed the Beit Midrash to hear the Shalhevet Choir perform in the annual Chanukah Concert, including traditional Chanukah, Israeli, and even some pop pieces. The... Read more »
Story of a Model Congress bill: Point, counterpoint, teamwork
Tamar Willis, Staff Writer
December 31, 2010
Sitting in the “Red Senate,” one of four color-coded legislative bodies meeting in full session at Princeton Model Congress Nov. 21, Shalhevet’s champion debaters put up a united front in support of junior Eitan Spitzer’s global warming bill, which then passed by a landslide. “I felt really... Read more »
‘Metamorphoses’ tells mythical tales with a twist
Hannah-Leeba Ellenhorn, Staff Writer
December 31, 2010
The gods and goddesses of Metamorphoses have descended upon Shalhevet. Running Dec. 16 through Dec. 23, the show was perhaps an unusual choice for a high school production; it has no real story line but is rather a series of sketches taken from Ovid’s epic poem of the same title. The abstract nature... Read more »
Mock Trial team falls to county’s second-best
Hannah-Leeba Ellenhorn, Staff Writer
December 31, 2010
Cyber-bullying, First Amendment rights and assault charges were all elements of the case that Shalhevet debaters argued in the school’s third annual participation in the Mock Trial competition. For Shalhevet, the competition ended early, when they lost round two to Monroe High School of North Hills. ... Read more »
Two Boiling Points of View: For Poland-Israel fundraising, juniors should wait their turn
Rebecca Asch, Opinion Editor
December 31, 2010
Imagine a year when the senior class stays at home to watch television instead of going on the annual class trip to Poland and Israel. Because of fundraising by juniors, this could actually happen. The trip—which takes students through the concentration camps in Poland and then flies them to more cheerful... Read more »
Two Boiling Points of View: Juniors should start fundraising now, to avoid a crunch next year
Adam Kellner, Staff Writer
December 31, 2010
Walking down the hall, you see an upperclassman harassing a group of students to buy a box of Krispy Kreme doughnuts, and you think to yourself, “Oh, not another one — didn’t they just have a fundraiser yesterday?” Then you notice that it isn’t a senior, but rather a junior. How refreshing! As... Read more »
This year, a real community
The Boiling Point Editorial Board
December 31, 2010
We teenagers love to complain. We complain about homework, food, fellow teenagers and pretty much anything else that can possibly be criticized. But what you haven’t heard us complain about recently is the state of our democracy – our school’s Just Community. That’s because recently students... Read more »
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