Knocking us off balance
Two Boiling Points of View, By Ari Feuer, Deputy Editor-in-Chief
December 23, 2011
Look up from your screen for a second. Is there a plate of French fries in front of you? If there is, I’m sure you’ve already asked the owner of those mouthwatering, aromatic potatoes for a sample. It’s just basic Shalhevet conduct. Just as we never let free fries pass by, Shalhevet students... Read more »
The challenge is optional
Two Boiling Points of View, By David Rokah, Staff Writer
December 23, 2011
“Bleep! Bleep!” It’s 6:50 AM and my alarm blasts at full power. I roll around a bit and convince myself to get up for the start of my school day, a frivolous double period of AGT with davening and breakfast sandwiched in between. I arrive at school at precisely 7:50 a.m., only to find my entire... Read more »
13th Grade: In Israel, lessons for life and a sustainable world
Jaclyn Kellner, BP Emeritus
December 23, 2011
Sometimes I feel like everything on the farm revolves around food, but really everything revolves around everything. On the farm, where I’m in a semester-long Masa program called Eco Israel, a semester-long Masa program in Israel, study agriculture both in the classroom and hands-on in the field where... Read more »
When the work isn’t yours
The Boiling Point Editorial Board
December 22, 2011
It creeps into all classrooms and plagues students everywhere. It’s socially accepted and practiced in smaller and larger doses. The phenomenon is cheating. Don’t gasp, because whether it’s copying a friend’s homework or cheating on an exam, this exists in all schools, including ours. In... Read more »
The missing voice
The Boiling Point Editorial Board
December 22, 2011
Our Judaic staff had been talking about it for weeks, and our principal had prepped us: Shalhevet was going to host, for a second time, three important and inspiring rabbis — Rabbi Elazar Muskin, Rabbi Yosef Kanefsky and Rabbi Kalman Topp — in the Beit Midrash for the annual Modern Orthodox... Read more »
A Slice of Shalheaven: Off the beaten path
Katie Feld, Staff Columnist
December 20, 2011
I sometimes find myself wondering where I’ll be in 20 years. Oftentimes I take the easy way out and choose not to think about it. For many of us students, it’s hard to imagine any life outside of the classroom. We’ve been in school for as long as we can remember. I’m in 11th grade now, and word... Read more »
Kaparot: Cruel and un-Jewish
Tamar Willis, Sports Editor, Two Boiling Points of View
November 7, 2011
Shalhevet is a quirky school, and anyone who has attended our high school knows it. I never know what kind of crazy thing is going to happen when I walk through the doors each morning. Will there be a cupcake truck giving out free cupcakes for Rosh Chodesh, or a Mexican-style fruit vendor during... Read more »
Kaparot: A way to feel guilt
David Fletcher and Justin Brandt-Sarif, 12th grade, Two Boiling Points of View
November 7, 2011
Every year as the sun sets and we prepare ourselves for Yom HaDin, we as Jews are supposed to go in to the Day of Atonement knowing that we have done our due diligence to repent for our sins. Along with introspective analysis, we practice numerous customs forwhich the sole purpose is to rid us of our... Read more »
On women and Torah, Shalhevet should lead
The BP Editorial Board
November 3, 2011
When disagreements arise, people generally look for the easiest solution and automatically assume it’s the best. When a disagreement arose in the Shalhevet community about whether women could carry the Torah, most people immediately assumed it would be best for everyone if the davening groups split.... Read more »
Gilad and terror
The BP Editorial Board
November 3, 2011
After five-and-a-half years, Gilad Shalit is home. And even though our community stands extremely divided on the deal that was reached —even the Editorial Board of The Boiling Point is split right down the middle —all agree that he evolved into a national symbol for Israel, and that besides having... Read more »
Loading ...
