"After the Chagim" 30 Tishrei, 5775
October 24, 2014
This Week at CJHS Grandparents' Night
Grandparents' Night
Opera Field Trip IFYC Model U.N. Movie Night Shabbaton Golf Finals P.O. Book Club USCJ Scholar in Residence Alumni Sighting Honoring Dr. Schorsch Parlor Meetings Alumni Trivia A Taste of Torah Over forty CJHS Grandparents came together
Save the Date Friday, Oct. 31Friday, Nov. 1 DEAP Shabbaton Sunday, Nov. 2 Open House Friday, Nov. 14 No School
on Thursday for our annual Fall Meet and Greet. The group was welcomed by Head of School Tony Frank and Rabbi Zach Silver, Rav Beit Sefer. Everyone was then treated to learning sessions by Ms. Tamara Frankel of the Jewish Studies Department and Mr. Dan Kassner of the Social Sciences Department. Grandparents were thrilled to get a small taste of what their grandchildren experience on a daily basis at CJHS. Special thanks to everyone who worked hard to make this evening a success! Please save the date for our spring Grandparents and Special Friends Day on Thursday, May 12, 2015.
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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 these trips. Gift card orders are placed every Thursday. Please contact Sheri Sandrof at ssandrof@cjhs.org or 847.324.3723 with any questions.
Wednesday evening, a CJHS group of twenty one reveled in the hilarious shenanigans of Figaro and his companions and gloried in the heavenly music of Mozart. Once again, our students had an opportunity to attend an opera Live in HD from the Metropolitan in New York. Not only did they love the experience, but audience members were so favorably impressed with the students' captivation by the performance -- and their own perfect behavior -- that many seasoned opera-goers spoke to students during intermission and to Mrs. Friedman and complimented our school for our marvelous students. News of who we are keeps spreading!
Sport b'Ivrit
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 ssandrof@cjhs.org with any questions.
College Visits CJHS is pleased to welcome the following schools this week:
Skidmore College Franklin and Marshall College Pitzer College Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya
10/27/14 9:00 AM 10/27/14 1:26 PM 10/29/14 2:34 PM 11/6/14 10:30 AM
Community News and Events
Anshe Sholom and Mechon Hadar Present Join Us for an Amazing Learning Opportunity with Rabbi David Wolkenfeld and Rabbi Ethan Tucker: "The Human Foundations of Divine Law: A Conversation about Halakhah" Sunday, November 2, 2014, at 7:30 p.m. At Anshe Sholom B'nai Israel Congregation 540 West Melrose Street, Chicago, Illinois 60657
Helene Hoffman Memorial Concert for Chai Lifeline
Gvt. Wasserman's Hebrew VI class gave presentations this week on their favorite sports. Things got so wild that the class ended up acting out some of them! Well done Anna Ecanow for her ballet presentation/performane, to Hadar Halivni who started a ping-pong match against Josh Levitas all b'ivrit, and to Max Pivo who presented on baseball with Liam Lynch.
IFYC Interfaith Youth Core kicked off a new year of programming this past Monday. Thirty students from CJHS and Loyola met over pizza, chips, and soda to begin getting to know each other. The discussion topic was new beginnings/new years in Christianity and Judaism, including our students' High Holiday experiences. Everyone caught up with old friends and met plenty of new ones, excited for a fantastic year of interfaith dialogue.
MUN Movie Night - This Weekend! Sunday, October 26, 6:30 p.m. Tickets : $10
At 3:00 p.m. on Sunday October 26, Congregation Beth Shalom in Northbrook will host Friends in Harmony: A Neighborhood Concert, featuring Cantor Jen Frost of BJBE, Cantor Stewart Figa of West Suburban Temple Har Zion and Cantor Steve Stoehr of Congregation Beth Shalom. The concert will benefit Chai Lifeline of Chicago whose mission is to provide free services to children diagnosed with cancer, life-threatening, or lifelong illnesses and provide emotional, social, and financial support to their families. General admission is $25 and sponsorships are available. Tickets can be purchased at the door. For advanced tickets and information call: 847.498.4100.
David Broza Live at Oak Park Temple Oak Park Temple kicks off 150th Anniversary with world-renowned recording artist: David Broza November 1, 2014 Oak Park Temple announces David Broza in Concert to kick off its 150th Anniversary celebration. This one-night-only concert with the world-renowned Israeli recording artist will be held 7:30 p.m. on November 1, 2014, at Oak Park Temple, 1235 N Harlem Ave in Oak Park. Tickets for David Broza in Concert are $20 for general admission; preferred tickets are $50 and include premium seats to the concert. Tickets are available online at http://davidbrozaopt.eventbrite.com . The event is open to the public.
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.
Who are the Kurds? Why has Western media paid so little attention to them? With over 35 million Kurds, why do they not have their own land? What do the Kurds have in common with the Jewish community or Israel? What role are the Kurds presently playing in the Middle East and the events focusing on ISIS? Model U.N. will be raising funds with a showing of the Kurdish film "Turtles Can Fly," followed by a discussion led by members of the Chicago Kurdish Community. You can purchase tickets from MUN members, including seniors and co-presidents Joe Cohen and Ruli Warner-Rosen, juniors Josh Pliskin, Melissa Levin, and Ranan Vales, sophomores Felix Rosen and Zev Mishell, and freshmen Emma Mati and Eli Ecanow. Mr. Eskin and Dr. Auslander will also have tickets for sale, as will the front office.
Fall Shabbaton 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 idrazin@cjhs.org. Order forms are available online
The CJHS Fall Shabbaton will be held next weekend at the Fiedler Hillel in Evanston. This year's retreat will focus on food justice via Direct Service, Education, Advocacy, Philanthropy (our DEAP board) including sustainable food production, root causes of food justice issues, and community organizing
for social change. We look forward to spending time at the Northwestern University Hillel, learning with campus groups and hanging out with a lot of CJHS alumni. Shabbaton forms are due TODAY! If you've had a sudden change of heart and wish to come, click here post-haste and contact Rabbi Silver.
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The freshmen came up big at the IHSA golf regionals earlier this month, posting the two highest scores on the team! Idan Chazan shot a 100 and Ethan Laney shot a 104. The next two highest scores were from junior Olvier Friedman who shot a 106 and junior Seth Wein who shot a 109. Well done, golfers, on a great season!
From the PO The CJHS PO book club had its first meeting Monday evening. Thank you to all who turned out to discuss the book Once We Were Brothers with author Ronald Balson. Thank you also, to book club co-chairs Susan Laney, Becky Mati, and Abby Polin for all of their hard work to make the evening a success. We are looking forward to the next meeting on February 17, when we will discuss the book Second Person Singular by Sayed Kashua.
Now that the Chagim are over, Hanukkah is on its way. The CJHS Parent Organization invites you to contribute to our annual Teacher/Staff Hanukkah Gift Fund. The suggested contribution is $18 per student, but any amount is greatly appreciated. For your convenience, PO Teacher Appreciation Volunteers Anne McDonagh and Andrea Becker will be collecting donations during conferences. If you prefer, please send cash or a check payable to CJHS PO to the main office by December 9th. Watch your inbox for more details. Please feel free to contact us with questions or if you're interested in volunteering with the PO. We'd love to hear from you!
USCJ Scholar in Residence CJHS is please to welcome Rabbi Peretz Rodman for a special session next week: Thanksgiving: A Jewish Perspective Is there a Jewish way to express gratitude? Can Thanksgiving be thought of as a "Jewish"
holiday? Rabbi Rodman will explore some classical and modern Jewish texts on giving thanks in an effort to find answers to those questions. Thursday October 30 7:00- 8:30 PM Chicagoland Jewish High School 1095 Lake Cook Road Deerfield, IL Rabbi Peretz Rodman serves as the head of the rabbinical court (av bet din) of the Rabbinical Assembly of Israel and the Masorti Movement. He has several decades of experience teaching Torah and helping to build Jewish communities in many places around the world, including time on Hillel staff, Camp Ramah staff, and being founding editor of MyJewishLearning.com.
Alum ni
Trivi a Class of 2014 gradua tes and Kivuni m membe rs Gabe Wacks , Alana Spellm an, Maddy Reisler , Carly Silverstein, Josh Silverman, and Ari Spellman send their love to CJHS from Jerusalem. Welcome home, graduates! Now then... Which of our related alumni has just been promoted?
Save the Date - Honoring Dr. Schorsch
Thursday, November 13, 2014/20 Heshvan 5775 7:00 p.m. Dr. Rebecca Schorsch, Moderator Panelists Jacob Cytryn, Director, Ramah Wisconsin Tamar Cytryn, Director of Jewish Studies and Campus Life, Chicago Jewish Day School Tzivia Garfinkel, Head of Jewish Studies, Bernard Zell Anshe Emet Day School Rabbi Ben Kramer, Director of Jewish Life and Learning, Sager Solomon Schechter Day School Lisa Alter Krule, Director of Regional Engagement, United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism Rabbi Zachary Silver, Rav Beit Sefer, Chicagoland Jewish High School
For Prospective Families Evanston/Skokie/ Wilmette Parlor Meeting This Wednesday at 7:30 p.m.! At the home of Head of School Tony Frank in Evanston Open House is Coming! Sunday, November 2 1:00 p.m.
Studio Art Show Date: Sunday, November 2nd Time: 2-3:30 p.m. Place: 1551 Gidwitz Place (social hall) Lake Cook Rd. Deerfield In keeping with their Surrealism theme, Studio Art students are working on watercolors with fruits or vegetables in a song lyric. Their finished art will be displayed at the open reception of "Falling" a music, song, and art presentation in conjunction with the residents of Gidwitz Place. All CJHS family and friends are invited to attend. Look for the current surrealism exhibit on the first floor near the Dining Hall, "This is not a T-shirt."
Alumni Trivia
First lieutenant Matthew Silverman ('07), second eldest of one of our pioneer families, graduated from officer school this past week, where his parents and his youngest brother Josh Silverman ('14) were proud to cheer him on. Matthew graduated from the University of Maryland, made aliyah in August of 2011, and went into the IDF in January of 2012. He is now in the third year of five as a soldier in the intelligence branch of the IDF. He lives in Jerusalem.
Sponsored Breakfast Happy birthday to Hannah Kelly. Many thanks to her family for sponsoring breakfast.
A Taste of Torah: Noach
"Noach ish tzaddik tamim haya b'dorotav; ethaelohim hithelech Noach." Noah was a righteous man in his genertion; Noah walked with God. The students in Ms. Frankel and Dr. Schorsch's parsha minyan participated enthusiastically in the ongoing debate on whether "tazaddik b'dorotav," righteous in his generation, is a compliment to Noach or a backhanded compliment. Many praised him for daring to be good in the face of pervasive evil. One junior felt rather inspired to think that were Noach living in this generation, he would have been no more than an ordinary man--that is to say, any one of us could be Noach and could be the seed of a whole new world. Another felt bothered by the implication that anyone who obediently watched the destruction of his neighbors could be held up as the ideal of righteousness, and a third wondered whether our tradition acts fairly to judge Noach or his moral character while sweeping away his struggle with alcohol (post-traumatic stress syndrome, perhaps?) during his later years.
One student put forward the notion that there are no such creatures as truly righteous people, for acts can be considered righteous acts, but people are complex and changeable creatures. Further investigation revealed that Noach was 600 years old when the Flood came, and opinion quickly suggested that Noach is called righteous not necessarily because of his actions to save his family from the Flood, but because of the kind and great deeds he and his family did for six whole centuries before it, which rendered them all worthy to be saved. His actions before and during the Flood, while guided by God, may not be representative of the best points of his character. Perhaps no one person can labor forever under the burden of having to be a Tzaddik: a perpetually righteous being in word, thought, and deed. Being righteous in a generation of disaster, destruction, and holocaust is a far different matter from being righteous in a generation of assimilation, illiteracy, and peaceful protest. Within the confines of time and space, each of us must strive to do great things when the opportunity presents itself. If we can each do one righteous act, perhaps among us, we can do the word of one Tzaddik.
Shabbat Shalom Candlelighting will be at 5:37 p.m. Shabbat shalom. ש ְבי ָה ִ ַּ ַהנְתונִים ְבצ ָָרה וב,ַאחֵינו ּכָל ּבֵית י ִּש ְָראֵל, ַהמָקום י ְַרחֵם ֲעלֵיהֶם,הָעומְדִ ים ּבֵין ּ ַבי ָם ובֵין ּ ַביַבָּשָ ה, וְיוצִיאֵם שתָ א ּ ַב ֲעגָלָא ְ ַּ ה, ומִ ּשִ עְבוד ִלגְ ֻּאלָה,ְאורה ָ ו ֵמ ֲא ֵפלָה ל,ִמצ ָָרה ל ְִר ָוחָה ו ִבזְמַן ק ִָריב