Shalhevet High School

Shalhevet High School
Address
910 South Fairfax Avenue
Los Angeles, California
United States
Information
Type Independent
Motto Ignite the Flame
Established 1992
Founder Jerry Friedman
Religion Modern Orthodox Judaism
Head of School Rabbi Ari Segal
Dean Aviva Walls
Principal Daniel Weslow
Faculty 60
Grades 9–12
Number of students Approximately 220
Color(s) Red and Black         
Mascot Firehawk
Accreditation WASC
Newspaper The Boiling Point
Average class size 23
Website shalhevet.org

Jean and Jerry Friedman Shalhevet High School is a co-educational, college-preparatory, Modern Orthodox Jewish high school in Los Angeles, California. Boys and girls follow the same Judaic curriculum, including Talmud, in mixed classes, which is unusual for Orthodox Jewish high schools, and a full program of visual arts, music, drama, and athletics is offered in addition to the dual curriculum of secular and Judaic studies. Co-founded in 1992 by Jean and Jerry Friedman, Ed. D., and Steve Bailey, Ph.D., the school's founding headmaster, Shalhevet developed a modified version of the Kohlberg-Gilligan "Just Community" template.

Shalhevet has about 223 students in grades 9 -12 as of 2014-15 and is led by Head of School Rabbi Ari Segal. Mr. Noam Weissman, formerly principal,[1] with Shalhevet teacher Rabbi David Stein, of the 2013 Mayberg Family Foundation grant [2] for their original Judaic Studies curriculum. Other headmasters were Nathan O. Reynolds, who had served as General Studies principal on two previous occasions;and Rabbi Elchanan Weinbach, whose tenure lasted two years following Dr. Friedman's retirement in spring 2008. Mr. Daniel Weslow is currently principal of General Studies. A lower school that had opened in 2000 was closed at the end of the 2009-10 school year.

Debate

Shalhevet's own debate teams have won awards in Model Congress and Model UN events around the U.S., including awards such as the best delegation at Penn Model Congress (2009–2010) and second best delegation at Princeton Model Congress.

Under the leadership of debate coach Christopher Buckley, Shalhevet's debate teams (Model Congress, Model UN and Mock Trial) won numerous county and national awards. He left the school in 2015.

Performing arts

Performances include twice-yearly drama productions, a fall main stage production and a spring production consisting of one-act plays written and directed by students. Its 20-voice choir performs secular and religious repertoire at school and community events as well as two concerts per year.

Journalism

Shalhevet's news source is The Boiling Point, published seven times per year in print and on the web since April 2010 at www.shalhevetboilingpoint.com. It has won national awards from the National Scholastic Press Association, Columbia Scholastic Press Association, and Quill & Scroll International Honorary Journalism Society, including six NSPA Story of the year awards and more than two dozen national awards for reporting and photography and three for layout and design from CSPA and Quill and Scroll.

The Boiling Point was a finalist for both the NSPA Pacemaker and CSPA Gold Crown awards for its 2011-12 editions,[3] and named a Crown winner in March 2013 and again in 2014. In June 2013 it was awarded two Simon J. Rockower Awards[4] from the American Jewish Press Association (AJPA), after becoming the first high school publication ever to enter the contest. It won a third Rockower award in 2014.

The paper went online in April 2010 and in November was awarded First Prize, Multimedia Story of the Year, by the NSPA in its first year, followed by two Multimedia Story of the Year Honorable Mentions the two years after that. In October, 2013, it hosted the inaugural national conference and Shabbaton of the Jewish Scholastic Press Association (JSPA), co-sponsored by Shalhevet and the AJPA. Keynote speaker was Gary Rosenblatt, editor and publisher of the New York Jewish Week, and the meeting received press coverage on both coasts.[5]

Athletics

Shalhevet has boys' and girls' soccer and basketball teams, as well as baseball, softball and girls' volleyball.

Shalhevet's boys' Varsity Basketball team reached the CIF Division 5A finals for the first time in school history in February 2013. A year earlier, the team lost the Yaffee Boys' Basketball Tournament in Houston, Texas, defeating Beren Academy in the final game. The team also lost in the division playoffs in 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2009, 2011, 2012 and 2014.

In addition, the boys' basketball team lost the Tier I Championship at the Red Sarachek Basketball Tournament.

During the 2013-14 season, the girls' Varsity Basketball reached the CIF Division 6 finals for the first time.

The Boys' Tennis team began in the spring of 2012.

References

  1. ↑ https://shalhevetboilingpoint.com/top-stories/2018/01/08/dr-weissman-not-returning-next-year/
  2. ↑ Mayberg Family Foundation grant
  3. ↑ http://www.shalhevetboilingpoint.com/community/2013/04/15/newspaper-contest-adds-category-for-print-online-hybrids-and-boiling-point-wins-a-gold-crown/
  4. ↑ http://www.jta.org/2013/06/28/news-opinion/the-telegraph/excellence-in-jewish-journalism-the-rockower-awards
  5. ↑ http://www.thejewishweek.com/editorial-opinion/gary-rosenblatt/high-school-drama-what-publish

Coordinates: 34°03′33″N 118°21′46″W / 34.059220°N 118.362825°W / 34.059220; -118.362825

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