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HANGING: Banners and flyers have been put up by candidates around the school last week ahead of elections this week.

Monday is first of two Just Community Election Days

By Benjamin Gamson, Editor in Chief May 1, 2022

Just Community officer elections will take place in two parts, beginning this Monday for all positions other than Agenda Chair, SAC Chair, and SAC Vice Chair. Campaign presentations will occur on Monday...

OLD: The school’s original Just Community Constitution, signed by students in 2003, was returned to the second-floor stairway lobby on Feb. 23.

Landslide schoolwide vote returns Constitution to the second floor lobby

By Tali Liebenthal, Community Editor April 29, 2022

Although it wasn’t welcomed by speeches and the playing of the National Anthem, on Feb. 23 the Just Community Constitution was restored to the center wall of the second-floor lobby, after a Just Community...

CRISPY: Originally a vegetarian restaurant, Melrose Bite enthusiastically promoted its switch to chicken in 2021.

Chicken shortage bites kosher restaurant on Melrose

By Olivia Fishman, Arts & Culture Editor April 28, 2022

Melrose Bite, the trendy fried chicken joint not far from school, announced an end to its O-K Kosher supervision March 18 and stated it would no longer be serving kosher meat. The update was posted on...

NEW: Mr. Juan Verduzco taught his 10th grade Advanced Algebra 2 class April 6.

One new teacher arrives as two more staff depart mid-year

By Benjamin Gamson, Editor-in-Chief April 26, 2022

Mr. Rico Tan, who arrived at Shalhevet Oct. 19 following the unexpected departure of Mr. St. Germaine’s, did not return for the second semester.  Mr. St. Germaine was teaching chemistry, math, and...

FACES: Students in Mr. Forresters 10th-grade American Literature class  were all maskless April 1. Masks have been optional indoors at Shalhevet since March 14.

It’s unanimous: State, county and school officials all agree – masks now optional at Shalhevet

By Benjamin Gamson, Editor-in-Chief April 1, 2022

For the first time since March of 2020, since the middle of this month Shalhevet students and faculty no longer are required to wear masks indoors while on campus. The change took effect March 14, after...

TOGETHER: Rabbi Block  (facing camera) and Rabbi Sufrin hugged before the Shalhevet vs. YULA soccer game March 19 in a display of public unity.

Rabbis Block and Sufrin call for unity after skit mocking Shalhevet and social activism

By Tali Liebenthal, Community Editor March 28, 2022

At a Shalhevet soccer game against YULA on March 19, YULA Head of School Rabbi Arye Sufrin apologized to Shalhevet students, parents and faculty for a Purim skit gone wrong on March 15.  As he began...

EFFORT: Senior Talia Tizabi, who plays center and is a team captain, drove to the hoop and scored a layup. She led the team with nine points in the first-ever appearance by a Jewish high school team in a CIF girls basketball championship.

Firehawks come close in historic CIF run but fall short of State Championship win

By Noah Elad, Sports Editor March 22, 2022

In a low-scoring, back and forth game, with hundreds of opposing fans in attendance and an enthusiastic but small contingent from Shalhevet, the Firehawk girls fell short in the CIF Div. V State Championship...

WINNERS: Two seniors and two sophomores won awards in the four-day conference in Boston.

Firehawk debaters win four awards at Harvard Model Congress

By Benjamin Gamson, Editor-in-Chief February 27, 2022

Shalhevet’s 21-person debate team has won four awards this weekend at Harvard Model Congress in Boston, Massachusetts.  Team co-captain Henry Fried was awarded Best Delegate in the event’s House...

This school year, students are not allowed have unnaturally colored hair and boys are not permitted to have piercings of any kind.

Students respond to new policies on appearance

By Tali Liebenthal, Community Editor January 25, 2022

Last Aug. 4. Principal Mr. Daniel Weslow sent out an updated version of the Shalhevet Student Handbook to students and parents.  Almost no students – or maybe none at all – actually read it. But...

COURSES: Rabbi Block said he wanted departments to offer more specialty courses. ‘We have amazing departments in this school and I want to take those to the next level,’ he said.

Rabbi Block sees a future where Shalhevet alumni lead in all fields

By Liad Machmali, Deputy Editor-in-Chief January 18, 2022

“The world needs so much help – why should the people who are thought leaders and communal leaders, and those who are creating societal change, why should they not be Shalhevet students?” With...

SPACE: Roen posed in the Art Room in 2019.  In Shalhevet’s old and new buildings, the rooms were always covered with art of hers and her students, and became not only a place for art class, but a place to relax and chat with Roen throughout the school day.

Roen Salem, who found beauty in stray objects and sparked students’ creativity, has died at 76

By Benjamin Gamson, Editor-in-Chief December 31, 2021

Ms. Roen Salem, who inspired more than a generation of Shalhevet art students with her creativity, quirkiness and belief that anyone could be great at art, passed away yesterday morning at the age of 76. She...

AWARENESS: Mrs. Mehdizadeh will be meeting with students twice a week, on Tuesdays and Thursdays. She hopes to organize mental health-related events.

New part-time guidance counselor looks for student connection

By Keren Tizabi, 9th grade December 27, 2021

Shalhevet’s new guidance counselor, Ms. Mary Johnson Mehdizadeh, found her passion for helping others after suffering from anxiety and insecurities as a teenager. Born and raised in Birmingham, Ala.,...

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