Shalhevet student journalists get the OK to attend award ceremony on Shabbat

By Jonah Lowenfeld
Published on October 3, 2012

Last week in these pages, we reported that The Boiling Point, the Shalhevet High School student newspaper, is one of nine finalists for the prestigious National Scholastic Press Association’s Pacemaker award, but that since the prize will be announced on Nov. 17, a Saturday, the student journalists’ ability to attend still needed rabbinic authorization.

Shalhevet rabbis clear students to attend newspaper award ceremony on Shabbat

By Jonah Lowenfeld
Published on September 29, 2012

Student newspaper finalist for national prize

By Jonah Lowenfeld
Published on September 27, 2012

On Sept. 21, the day the space shuttle Endeavour flew past local landmarks on its way to Los Angeles International Airport, every media outlet in the city had dispatched multiple reporters to look to the skies.

Fixing the world, one extracurricular at a time

By Ryan Torok
Published on June 8, 2011

On the Web site for The Boiling Point, Shalhevet High School’s student newspaper, Jaclyn Kellner’s biography says she spends more time at school than most of the teachers do. That’s because Kellner, who will spend five months working with Eco-Israel, an agricultural program in Modi’in, next year before attending Brandeis University in fall 2012, is involved with more extracurricular activities than seems possible for any 18-year-old.