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Farewell to Israel
3 Shvat, 5775 January 23, 2015
This Week at CJHS
Senior Israel Experience
New Student
Sushi and Sake Too
Tigers Play to Win
STEM Opportunities
From the PO
Sponsored Breakfast
Mazal Tov
Alumni Trivia
A Taste of Torah
Save the Date
Monday, Jan. 26 School resumes for seniors
Senior Israel Experience Concludes
Wednesday, Jan. 28 9:45 Start Sunday, Feb. 8 ACT
Monday, Feb. 9 - Wednesday, Feb. 11 Jewish Advocacy Seminar for Juniors Tuesday, Feb. 24 Curriculum Night
Monday, Feb. 16 Presidents' Day: No School Wednesday, Feb. 25 9:45 Start
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P.O. Corner
The P.O. is pleased to offer the gift card or "Scrip/Gelt" program, designed to help families earn money to apply towards their students'
Shabbatonim, Junior Class trip, and Senior Israel Experience. By purchasing gift cards through the school for vendors where you ordinarily shop (groceries, gas, household items, etc), a percentage of what you spend each time will be placed in your family's account to be used for
The flight is touching down and our jetlagged
seniors are staggering home, full of memories
and food for thought. They began this week in
Tel Aviv, beating the pavements for our
annual scavenger hunt. Teams interviewed
passersby, hunted artifacts, and sought out
ways
they
could be
helpful
to the
people
around
them. S
unday
night
brought
them to
Na
Lagaat, the theater for the blind and deaf in
Jaffa, for a performance which Rayna
Gorstein described as "absolutely
mesmerizing." Miki Gavrealov rocked out in
concert on Monday night for a different side of
Israeli culture--especially for those students
who weren't already fans!
these trips. Gift card orders are placed every Thursday. Please contact Sheri Sandrof at [email protected] or 847.324.3723 with any questions.
Grandparents and Special Friends Association
Help us get in touch with some very special people in your students' lives! Please reply here with the names, addresses, and emails of their grandparents and/or special friends so we can forward them a membership form to join our "Grandparents and Special Friends Organization". If you provide an email address, they can also begin receiving CJHS e-news. Contact Sheri Sandrof at 847.324.3723 or [email protected] with any questions.
Community News and Events
JNF Tu Bishvat Community Fun Fair
Update!
Sunday, February 8 11:30 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. 1095 Lake Cook Rd.
Jewish National Fund will host the Tu BiShvat Community Celebration on Sunday, February 8. This free event, cosponsored by Shalom Memorial Park and Chicagoland Jewish High School, features arts and crafts, live entertainment from local performance groups, tree planting, games and prizes. Attendees are asked to bring their filled Blue Boxes to count Tzedakah with JNF's coin counter. JNF's Tu BiShvat Community Celebration will take place at Chicagoland Jewish High School, 1095 Lake Cook Road in Deerfield. Register online at jnf.org/chicagotubishvat.
From Tel Aviv, our seniors moved into the
north as
their
exploratio
n of arts,
water,
and
security
went off
the
beaten
path.
They
explored
opportunit
ies for
coexistenc
e in Haifa,
considere
d the
impact of
war at the
Lebanon overlook, and volunteered at the
Yemin Orde youth village for troubled teens,
as well as exploring the natural beauty of
Nachal Zavitan, the Golan, and the rest of the
beautiful Galil.
Share more of the Class of 2015's adventures,
insights, and photos at the group blog. Thank
you to Rabbi Silver, Mr. Kassner, and Ms.
Seymour for all their hard work and
inspiration, and to all our Israeli madrichim
for helping make this trip so wonderful!
Sponsor Breakfast
What's better than a birthday celebration with friends? Celebrate your student's birthday or other milestone with a special breakfast at CJHS.
For a donation of $180 (10x chai), bagels, cream cheese, and orange juice will be served to everyone. Announcements will be made in Tefillah and in the dining hall, and the occasion will also be listed in our weekly E-News and on the school announcement board. If you have any questions, please call 847.324.3713 or email [email protected]. Order forms are available online here.
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CJHS Welcomes New Tiger
CJHS is delighted to welcome
our newest freshman Bella
Lavarre! Bella comes to us
from a semester at Glenbrook North. Great to
have you on board, Bella!
Sushi and Sake Too
This
past
Saturda
y night,
over
eighty
guests
joined
us for
Sushi
and
Sake
Too, the
second
Annual
CJHS
Commu
nity
Event.
The gym
was
transfor
med
into a
Japanes
e dining extravaganza as everyone
was treated to tasty sushi and other Asian
inspired creations. The Tigertini, mixed
especially for CJHS, also made its annual
appearance. One of the
highlights of the evening was a photo
presentation of our Senior Class in Israel. If
you missed it, the photos can be viewed at
Israel 2015. Many thanks to the event chairs,
Lynn Schrayer, Melissa Spellman and Rivka
Zell for an outstanding event.
847.470.6700
Tigers Play to Win
With the seniors in
Israel, freshman
basketball is ruling
the court! Our boys
steamrollered
Northtown on
Thursday night 50-
21. Freshman Alan
Seidel reports, "CJ
played really, really
well! The whole team
together, as a squad.
We were unstoppable!"
CJHS debaters welcomed Schaumburg for the
January scrimmage on Wednesday
evening! Students went head to head on UN
peacekeeping policies and the question of
minimum wage in the U.S. Congratulations to
fantastic Tiger debaters Arthur Sredni, Ben
Saxton, and David Weisskopf.
The Ten-Pin Tigers are on a roll! Coach
Auslander reports from the bowling alley, "Ten
people saw their averages rise in the past
week. Claire Gruenberg is bowling solid,
while Danny Gabel took on alumni guest
Benny Gabel ('14), and rose to the occasion
by bowling his highest game ever. Dena
Romanoff, Max Gruenberg, Nina Levine,
Mollie Kramer, Oliver Friedman, and
Sarah Comar are all in great form. Viktor
Cin averaged close to 130 for all three games,
which is the best he has bowled since joining
the team. Ranan Vales overtook everyone in
game three with a 198!"
Save the date for the annual parent/staff
bowling invitational! The Tigers invite
everyone to join their last practice on
Thursday, February 5 at Brunswick Zone in
Deerfield! Take on our team from 3:45 to 5:15 p.m.!
Alumni Trivia
Which
multitalented
CJHS actress
and singer
starred in five
musicals
during her four years at CJHS--four mainstage
shows, two student director projects, and the
first cinematic Purim spiel musical?
STEM Opportunities for Juniors and Seniors
Juniors and
seniors: take your
education to the
next level! Which of these six opportunities
interests you most? Check out WYSE
engineering summer camps at the University
of Illinois' college of engineering. Life science
aficionados can try biology research
at University of Chicago's summer
session. You can also follow the many CJHS
alumni who have made their mark on summer
research at the Technion! Girls, there are
many programs just for you! The Society of
Women Engineers has weeklong summer
camps at the University of Michicagn, the
University of Illinois, and the University of
Maryland!
Research Experience for High School and
Undergraduates "Genes and Addictive
Behavior" is accepting applications!
Information about the program is at
www.ratgenes.org. Winners will be matched
with faculty researchers and lab associates
from major universities and hospitals. To
apply or read more, click here.
Upcoming Events From the P.O.
Tuesday, February 17, at 7:00 p.m.
Join us for our second CJHS PO Book
Discussion
Second Person Singular, by
Sayed Kashua. A Palestinian
who writes in Hebrew, Sayed
Kashua defies classification
and breaks through cultural
barriers. Second Person
Singular is a gripping tale of
love and betrayal, honesty
and artifice, which asks
whether it is possible to truly
reinvent ourselves, to shed
our old skin and start anew.
Wednesday, March 18, doors open at
7:00 p.m.
Join us for a baking
demonstration and
tasting by renowned
cookbook author,
Paula Shoyer. The
author of The Kosher
Baker, The Holiday
Kosher Baker, and
soon to be released
The New Passover Menu, Shoyer will also be
signing her cookbooks available for purchase.
Light refreshments will be served.
Sponsored Breakfast
Happy birthday to Eli Nasatir and
Joey Schrayer. Many thanks to
their families for sponsoring
breakfast.
Mazal Tov
Mazal tov to
Judaic studies
teacher and
feminist macher
Ilana Gleicher-
Bloom and her husband Daniel
on the birth of an adorable little
daughter on January
17. Congratulations to big
brother Ezra as well!
A second mazal tov goes to
pioneer alumnus Joseph
Waldman ('05) and his wife Lindsay on the
birth of their son Brendan last week. He's
adorable, Joe!
Alumni Trivia
Lisa Wiznitzer ('11) debuted as Gladys, the
sharp-eyed secretary in The Pajama
Game. She went on to
play Lucy in You're a
Good Man, Charlie
Brown, beauty school
dropout Frenchie in
Grease, and the
musical schoolteacher
in School House Rock.
Now a senior at
Northwestern, Lisa is
double majoring in
theater and political science, where she is the
literary manager for the Purple Crayon Players
and an executive board member for the Delta
Gamma sorority. Lisa was excited to intern
for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart last
summer and the Late Show with David
Letterman the year before that! Lisa is
planning on going to law school next year to study entertainment law. Good luck, Lisa!
A Taste of Torah: Bo
"The LORD said to Moshe, "Stretch out your hand
against the sky, and there will be darkness over the land of Egypt, darkness that can be felt. Moshe
stretched forth his hand against the sky and grim darkness fell across the land of Egypt; no one recognized his brother or got up from where he was sitting for three days, while the Israelites all had light in their homes."
--Shmot 10:21-23
Driven to disaster by a selfish and insensitive leader, battered by one natural disaster after another, their economy devastated and their public
health a menace, the Egyptians succumb to crippling hopelessness and impenetrable gloom. The penultimate plague is depression: a
darkness which can be felt. In the fast-paced, isolating culture of the 21st century, we know too well how depression can root us to our seats and prevent us from seeing the common humanity of
others in our sufferings. The Egyptians could see with their eyes, but the darkness within made them as paralyzed as if they had been blind. The light in our dwellings was indeed miraculous, but the miracle was the miracle of hope.
--Mrs. Shira Eliaser
Shabbat Shalom
Candlelighting this
week is at 4:36
p.m. Shabbat
shalom!
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