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NEW: Mr. Danovitch described plans for the Shalhevet Advanced Studies curriculum to parents and students the evening of May 1. A two-year pilot program will begin next year with Advanced Biology and an honors class in European history.

School begins replacing APs with new ‘SAS’ advanced courses

By Alexa Fishman and Sigal Spitzer, Community Editor and Opinion Editor May 22, 2014

Beginning next fall, Shalhevet will begin eliminating Advanced Placement courses in the hope of replacing all of them with advanced courses offering more depth, critical thinking and problem-solving, administrators...

GOOGLE IT: Shalhevet students learned about Google’s technology on March 19.

CIJE students get a taste of work and play at Google in Venice

By Zev Kent, Staff Writer May 22, 2014

“Working at Google, now that’s the dream,” said freshman Isaac Goor as he walked out of the local Google office March 19, with the rest of CIJE and the Introduction to Computer Programming class....

QUESTIONS: Details like parking and location of some co-curriculars have yet to be ironed out.

Back to the future: Shalhevet will relocate to JCC during construction on new building

By Eric Bazak, Alexa Fishman, Noah Rothman, Features Editor, Community Editor, Torah Editor May 21, 2014

UPDATED MAY 21 -- Going backwards to go forward, Shalhevet plans to relocate to the Westside Jewish Community Center for the 2014-2015 school year while its new building is under construction, school officials...

CHEMISTRY: Students were stunned when they learned that Dr. Smallwood would not be returning next year.

Dr. Smallwood leaving to coordinate CIJE at day schools in New York and New Jersey

By By Rose Lipner, Arts & Culture Editor May 20, 2014

Science teacher Dr. Jay Smallwood yesterday announced his departure after three years of teaching Chemistry, Biology and Physics and inaugurating the school's popular CIJE hands-on engineering program. On...

Text of statement from Dr. Smallwood on his departure from Shalhevet

May 20, 2014

The following statement was sent to The Boiling Point on May 19 by Dr. Jay Smallwood, after he announced to his CIJE class that he would not be returning this year: In my time at Shalhevet, I have...

Shalhevet will not match merit grants for incoming freshmen

By By Alexa Fishman, Community Editor May 16, 2014

By Alexa Fishman Shalhevet has decided not to counter the merit scholarships that YULA Boys High School is offering to selected incoming freshmen next year. According to School President Larry Gill,...

CHESED: Seniors Sarah Soroudi and Annie Asch paint a Habitat house last month.

A day of sun, sweat and spackle

By By Tamar Willis, Editor-in-Chief May 16, 2014

The smell of sunscreen, sweat and sawdust permeated the air at 3305 Magnolia Avenue in Lynwood on Apr. 9. Instead of sitting in classes that day, seniors were lifting planks, spackling and sanding at a...

REMEMBER: Freshmen Nathan Benyowitz and Tanya Bohbot hold candles while reciting names of children who died in the Holocaust as part of the Yom Hashoah ceremony on April 28.

Remembering not to forget

May 2, 2014

By Rose Lipner, Arts & Culture Editor Fifty-five freshman students glided into the Beit Midrash holding lit candles as administrators, teachers and students gathered for an hour April 27 to commemorate...

DANGER: Workers remove asbestos, a toxic chemical that was formerly used to prevent fires, from the walls of the old school building April 29.  Asbestos must be removed first to prevent poison dust from being released when the building is demolished.

Shalhevet moving to JCC during construction, officials say

By Alexa Fishman, Community Editor April 30, 2014

Shalhevet plans to relocate to the Westside Jewish Community Center for the 2014-2015 school year while its new building is under construction, school officials confirmed yesterday evening. Also, the...

RAISE YOUR GLASS: Board treasurer Jeff Fishman drank some wine Thursday night on the day he signed papers closing the sale of Shalhevets building to Alliance Residential.  Rabbi Segal and board president Larry Gill were out of town.

Shalhevet closes building sale–finally

Ten months after construction was supposed to start and ending a series of delays caused by permit challenges from neighbors, Shalhevet board members signed papers April 17 that finalized the $14 million...

New Schedule: It’s Complicated

By Colleen Bazak, Co-Editor-in-Chief April 7, 2014

A new rotating block schedule, with six longer classes a day instead of eight shorter ones, will take effect when school starts later this month, according to General Studies Principal Mr. Roy Danovitch. Classes...

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LEARNING: Seniors Liat Bainvoll, Liat Menna and Sharona Sedighim hear from Dr. Rachel Korazim, a Holocaust education specialist, as part of the new Shalhevet-LAMOTH fellowship.  The girls visit the museum three times a week to learn about the Holocaust.

New fellowship at LA Holocaust Museum lets seniors see history through the eyes of victims

March 17, 2014

By Nicole Soussana, Staff Writer, and Tamar Willis, Editor-in-Chief Three seniors have become the first-ever Madrichim Fellows of the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust, and are spending three class...

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