Teens charged with felonies for cheating on SATs
Shayna Gersten, Staff Writer
December 23, 2011
Through rumors overheard in school hallways, principals at several suburban high schools in New York began to suspect that their students had cheated on the SAT and ACT college entrance exams last spring. Three of the schools were public, but one was a Modern Orthodox high school, North Shore Hebrew... Read more »
Occupy L.A. built a tent city of mixed beliefs
Kalil Eden, Staff Writer
December 23, 2011
“You can’t arrest an idea,” wrote a woman named Kat Knox, who was printing slogans on brightly colored bandannas. Kat made these, along with patches and armbands, from donated materials, and handed them out for free on the lawn outside Los Angeles City Hall, where she slept along with hundreds... Read more »
Anti-semitism alive and well at Occupy protests — or is it?
Kalil Eden, Staff Writer
December 23, 2011
“You got the money! That’s why you’re fighting, Jewish man!” yelled Danny “Lotion Man” Cline, at an Occupy Wall Street protest in New York. Danny went on to say, “Go back to Israel!” and “You’re a bum, Jew!” A video of these remarks circulated around social networking sites and... Read more »
Alumni join Occupy protests on college campuses
Colleen Bazak, Outside News Editor
December 23, 2011
Sleeping in tents and organizing online, students get involved at UCBerkeley, McGill. On Sproul Plaza at the UC Berkeley campus last month, Shalhevet alumna Elana Eden ‘09 was among a handful of students spending the night in tents set up for the Occupy Cal movement. Staying all night, even when there... Read more »
Freedom rider takes students back in time
Ari Feuer, Deputy Editor-In-Chief
December 9, 2011
With stories of violent discrimination and perilous resistance, “Freedom Rider” Earnest Rip Patton Jr. narrated, educated, and sang with Shalhevet in the Beit Midrash Monday morning, Dec 5. In a last-minute assembly that caused davening to be moved before first period, the 71-year-old African American... Read more »
Financial aid is up, but Jewish education still out of reach for many
Colleen Bazak, Outside News Editor
November 4, 2011
With California’s unemployment rate at 12.1 percent, state budget cuts are challenging public education and fewer families can afford private school tuition. Head of School Rabbi Ari Segal said Shalhevet has responded by increasing the per capita amount of financial assistance and initiating improvements... Read more »
E-mails to Congress voice student views on ‘Palestine’ vote
By Rebecca Mandel, 11th grade
November 3, 2011
Looking ahead toward a possible UN vote declaring a Palestinian state, more than 100 Shalhevet students crowded the foyer at lunch Sept. 20 to send pre-written letters by e-mails to U.S. senators and congressmen. The letters urged office holders to speak out on the House and Senate floor against the... Read more »
Students stay up late to welcome Gilad Shalit
Colleen Bazak, Outside News Editor
November 3, 2011
When Gilad Shalit returned home to Mitzpe Hila last week from his prison cell in Gaza, he completed a journey that was paved with politics, prayers, and a worldwide outpouring of activism that reached as far as the Beit Midrash at Shalhevet High School. Sgt. Shalit was released on October 18 after 1,941... Read more »
Outside News Briefs
November 1, 2011
Steve Jobs dies at 55 Apple’s co-founder and former chief executive Steve Jobs passed away on October 5 from pancreatic cancer. He had stepped down from chief executive of Apple in August. Jobs was the visionary for many of Apple’s products, and he helped bring in the era of the personal computer... Read more »
LIVE BLOG OF GILAD SHALIT PRISONER EXCHANGE
BP Staff Report
October 17, 2011
Boiling Point staff monitored various websites for the latest updates as Gilad Shalit prisoner exchange took place in Israel, Gaza and Eypt. 2:26 AM BBC broadcasts a lengthy Egyptian TV interview with Shalit, at which he is asked questions such as whether he’s “stronger” now... Read more »
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