These stories, by Noah Rothman of Shalhevet High School in Los Angeles, won the second annual Grand Prize in Jewish Scholastic Journalism, awarded Nov. 1 by the Jewish Scholastic Press Association at the close of its annual convention and Shabbaton in Los Angeles. They appeared in the Shalhevet Boiling Point and shalhevetboilingpoint.com.
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