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January 25, 2013 / 14 Shevat 5773
Senior Israel Experience Concludes
In This Issue
Martin Luther King Day
Senior Israel
Experience
Israeli Elections
Tu B'Shevat
Write On For Israel
This Week in Sports
Curriculum and Beyond
Musical Auditions
STAND UPdate
Alumni Trivia
A Taste of Torah
Martin Luther King Jr. Day
150 years after Lincoln's first first wave of emancipation
and 50 years after the historic March on Washington, CJHS
Save the Date
Sunday, Jan. 27
JNF Tu B'Shevat Fair
Monday, Jan. 28
Senior Classes Resume
Sunday, Feb. 10
ACT
Wednesday, Feb. 13
Curriculum and Beyond
Monday, Feb. 18
No School
Monday, Feb. 25
Shushan Purim
P. O. Corner
Gelt Program The P.O. is pleased to once again introduce the gift card "Gelt program" to our families and we have made it much easier (look for upcoming email with details on how to register). Faculty and staff can also buy Gelt that will help to support programs provided for the school by the P.O. This program is designed to help families earn money toward their children's junior year Panim program and/or the Senior Israel Experience. The program is a passive earning system, in which you buy the things you ordinarily purchase anyway, and earn money which will be credited to your family for designated school trips. If you have any questions, contact Sheri Sandrof at [email protected] or call her at 847.324.3723.
Community News
and Events
joined the rest of America in remembering the civil rights
triumphs of our past and renewing our dedication to the
ideals that will make this country flourish. The annual
Martin Luther King Jr. Day program was planned by Mr.
Griffith and Rabbi Belgrad; many thanks to Dr. Auslander
for his reminiscences, to Josh Aaronson for his flourishing
quotes and to Maddy Mynatt for coordinating an inspiring
video montage of Rosa Parks' legacy and the civil rights
struggle. May the next 50 years work changes as
unrecognizable in our great society and witness a new birth
of freedom for all Americans. May we see the day when
red states and blue states, the 99% and the 1%, the
religious right and the secular left "sit down at the table of
brotherhood" as Dr. King would have us do, to forge a
common consensus that will bring us all a little closer to
the promised land.
Senior Israel Experience Concludes
The senior class headed north this week to the Galil, the
Kinneret, and the Golan, learning about Israel's precious
water resources and how to manage them for the next
generation. In addition to volunteering for social action
projects in Teverya (Tiberias) and meeting teens in an
Israeli Arab village, our students were able to experience
firsthand the natural beauty and sweetness of the promised land.
Limmud Chicago! Saturday, February 16 6:45 p.m. Join us for laughter, beats, and dancing at the UIC Student Center East to celebrate the opening of Limmud Chicago 2013.
Joel Chasnoff will perform his new piece, G.I. Joel: A 24-year-old Stand-up Comic from Chicago Gets Drafted into the Israeli Army. Watch "A Life in Stills" sponsored by the Chicago Festival of Israeli Cinema. And afterwards, dance the night away with Biblegum pop stars Stereo Sinai. Sunday, February 17 9:00 a.m.
You'll be able to choose from over 80 sessions throughout the day. Limmud Chicago 2013 is centered around two themes: Jewish Love and Jews who made Chicago; there are plenty of sessions beyond these themes, too. See the lineup here! Lunch is included along with snacks; dietary laws observed. Check out limmudchicago.org to register, and remember to use your CJHS Family Member discount of 5%!
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. An announcement will be made in Tefillah and in the dining hall, and the occasion will also be listed in our weekly E-News.
If you have any questions, please call 847.324.3713 or email [email protected]. Order forms are available online here.
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Share more of the Class of
2013's adventures, insights,
and moments of discovery at
the group blog. Thank you to
Rabbi Silver, Dr. Schorsch,
and Mrs. and Mr. Griffith for all
their hard work and inspiration,
and to all our Israeli madrichim
for helping make this trip so
wonderful!
Israeli Elections
This past week in Gvt. Moskovich's Hebrew VIII classes, the
juniors researched the different parties running in
Tuesday's elections in Israel. After finishing their own
research, students presented their political parties to the
class. Through Powerpoints, paper flyers, and video
advertisements from the specific parties, they described
what each party stands for, ranging from the more well-
known right-wing Likud, Kadima, or the orthodox Shas, to
the less-known parties such as Ahim Anahnu, the anti-
discrimination party, and Orr, a party focused on
separation of church and state and educational equality.
After everyone presents, the class will participate in a mock
election, where we will find out how the results in our class
compare to the results from Tuesday!
JNF Tu B'Shevat Fair
CJHS presents the annual Jewish National Fund
TU B'SHEVAT FAMILY CELEBRATION
Co-Sponsored By The United States Forest Service
Sunday, January 27, 2013 11:30
a.m. - 3:00 p.m. Chicagoland Jewish High School
Arts and crafts projects! Tree planting! Live entertainment! Games and prizes! All free!
Right on, Write On!
Congratulations to juniors
Josh Aaronson, Jonathan
Chasin, Ariel Efergan,
Jeremy Goodman, Evan
Gorstein, Nathaniel
Moses, Maddy Reisler,
Josh Silverman, and Carly
Silverstein on being
appointed Fellows in the
ninth cohort of Write On for
Israel, our community's leading Israel education and
advocacy training program for high school students. As
CJHS parent Mr. Carl Schrag embarks on the two-year
program with the newest Fellows, we are confident that
each one of them will become important resources for their
peers and community. You can learn about Write On by visiting our website at http://www.juf.org/writeon.
Alumni Trivia
Which of our recent
graduates is Nativ 32's new
poster girl?
Junior Varsity Tigers Strike Back
With the seniors away, the JV and freshmen Tigers are
ruling the courts! Since restarting the season, they've
taken on the Skokie Yeshiva and St. Martin de Porres; JV,
sophomores, and freshmen boasted fabulous wins against
St. Gregory, and Cristo Rey and Westminster Christian. In
Wednesday's game, the redoubtable Jonny Chasin totally
shut down St. Gregory's best player with one amazing
block after another, and the
unstoppable Josh
Silverman racked up 30
points, sinking eight 3-
pointers despite being
sick! (Yasher koach and
feel better!) The Lady
Tigers also showed their
paces against Westminster
Christian and are looking
forward to taking on Christ
the King next week!
The 39 members of
this year's Ten-Pin
Tigers are concluding
the bowling season on
Thursday, February 5
with the annual CJHS
Invitational. Students,
parents, and staff are
invited out to
Brunswick Zone in
Deerfield to come bowl with our champions! The bowlers
leave school at 3:30 p.m and finish at 5:15 p.m., so come
on out and hit the lanes!
Curriculum and Beyond - Prospective
Students and Parents
Monday, February 13
6:15 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
6:15 p.m. - Mini Activities Fair
with a light pizza dinner
Learn all about the different
extracurricular
activities available to
you while meeting with
current students who
play a part in our
athletic program, fine & performing arts
program and social action groups. Get
information on our college counseling
office while learning about the
exceptional college placement of our
graduates.
7 p.m. - Classroom presentations
Wonder what life is like as a CJHS student? If so, this is
your opportunity to experience high school during
interactive classroom presentations. Choose from three
model lessons to
attend.
For more information,
please contact
admissions
officers Ms.
Zoberman or Ms.
Karasov.
Spring Musical
CJHS is excited to announce
that our drama and fine arts
students will be working with
playwright Joanne Koch in a
raucous and melodic version of
her play "Flying Feathers."
Auditions will be held next
Wednesday, Thursday, and
Friday. Pick up audition
materials from Ms. Brothers, CJHS Theater Director, and
save the date for March 17-18!
STAND UPdate
STAND secretary Yadid Licht reports, "Last Wednesday,
President Obama signed an expansion to the Justice Bill.
When the law was originally written in 1984, it was
intended to encourage citizens to disclose information on
drug trafficking and terrorists by allowing the state
department to offer rewards to those who reveal
information. President Obama has now expanded the law,
so that the government will also reward those who reveal
information that may lead to the capture of individuals who
have been indicted by the international criminal tribunal for
genocide, perpetrated crimes against humanity, war
crimes, and transnational criminal activity such as human
and gun trafficking. This law is a victory for human rights
defenders who work to create justice and accountability in
the world.
Additionally, the Enough Project has been releasing a series
of short videos, each dedicated to a specific person in
Congo who has achieved amazing things in a place that the
world has left for dead. This video below introduces the
many characters that will appear in the videos. In the
coming weeks, a different video will be attached to each
STAND Update. Check out this week's feature: I Am the
Congo.
Alumni Trivia
Miriam Coven ('12) and
Tzipi Ladin-Gross ('12) are
pictured here with two of
their busmates on Nativ
32. Miriam reports for
CHUSY, "This winter break I
flew to Vienna and from
there took a train to Venice,
Florence, and Rome. My trip
was great, and I'm happy
that I was able to experience
other [places] in Europe. The
day after my return to Israel,
I am leaving again for Poland
with 24 other Nativers for a
weeklong seminar.... I am
really looking forward to this,
and I'm glad it's an option for the many of us who were
unable to go on USY pilgrimage.... Once we are all back in
Israel, we will spend a week in Jerusalem participating in
an Israel seminar, followed by a week down south for our
southern tiyul. [I] will be spending my second semester in
Yerucham, which is a development town in the Negev.... So
far Nativ has been great, and I'm looking forward to the rest of the year!"
Sponsored Breakfast
Happy birthday to Benjy Fishbaum and
David Steinberg. Many thanks to their
families for sponsoring breakfast.
A Taste of Torah: Beshallach
In the Mekhilta for this week's parasha, Rabbi Eliezer ben Taddai described the Song of the Sea, the supreme moment
when the Jewish people experienced supreme faith together with poetic inspiration. Rabbi Taddai sought to expound on the phrase "va-yomru lemor," which might imply either that the Israelites sang together with Moshe, or like pupils with a teacher, they merely
repeated the verses which Moshe himself composed and sang (Sotah 30b).
Said Rabbi Taddai, "Moses began and the Israelites repeated what he had said and
then completed the verse. Moses began by saying, 'I will sing to the Lord, for He has triumphed gloriously,' and the Israelites repeated what he had said, and then completed the
verse with him, saying, 'I will sing to the Lord, for He has triumphed gloriously, the horse and its rider He hurled into the sea.' Moses began saying,
'The Lord is my strength and my song,' and the Israelites repeated and then completed the verse with him, saying,
'The Lord is my strength and my song; He has become my salvation.'" This is why our greatest prophet and leader is not called Moshe ha-Navi, Moses the Prophet, or Moshe ha-Gadol, Moses the Great. He is known as Moshe Rabbenu, Moses our teacher, for he not only was inspired, but used his insight to inspire others. The
crowning success of the greatest teacher is to watch the students not only repeat what they have been taught, but surpass it, adding their own talents, ideas, and inspiration. Neither alone could have achieved the testament of faith and artistry that they composed together.
--Mrs. Shira Eliaser
Shabbat Shalom
Candlelighting this Friday night will be at 4:38 p.m. Shabbat Shalom!