Shalhevet High School
| Shalhevet High School SHALHEVET |
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Los Angeles, California United States |
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| Type | Independent |
| Motto | "Ignite the Flame" |
| Established | 1992 |
| Founder | Jerry Friedman |
| Religion | Religious Modern Orthodox Judaism |
| President | Mr. Fred Toczek |
| Dean | Mr. Jason Feld |
| Principal | Mr. Noam Weissman |
| Faculty | 60 |
| Grades | 9–12 |
| Head of School | Rabbi Ari Segal |
| Number of students | Approximately 220 |
| Color(s) | Red and Black |
| Mascot | Firehawk |
| Accreditation | WASC |
| Newspaper | The Boiling Point |
| General Studies Principal | Mr. Daniel Weslow |
| Average class size | 23 |
| Website | shalhevet |
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. The school's principal is Noam Weissman, with Shalhevet teacher Rabbi David Stein, of the 2013 Mayberg Family Foundation grant 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.
Shalhevet's debate teams have won awards in Model Congress and Model UN events around the U.S., including awards as the best delegation at Penn Model Congress (2009–2010) and second best delegation at Princeton Model Congress.
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.
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.
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