And Down the Stretch They Come! 16 Iyar, 5774
This Week at CJHS This Week in Sports Special Event in Chumash Stand Update Ride for Jewish Education Host Families Needed Bike the Drive Grandparents and Special Friends Day A Taste of Torah Alumni Trivia Shabbat Shalom!
May 16, 2014
A Strong Finish For CJHS Sports!
Save the Date Friday, May 16Saturday, May 17 Senior Shabbaton Sunday, May 18 Lag Ba'Omer Monday, May 19 CJHS Open Mic Friday, May 23 Last Day for Seniors and Mandatory Graduation Rehearsal, followed by all-school BBQ Sunday, May 25 CJHS Prom Wednesday, May 28 8am-12pm: Siyyum 5:30pm-7:15pm: Graduation
P.O. Corner The P.O. is pleased to continue the gift card "Gelt" program. This program is designed to help families earn money toward their children's junior year Panim program and/or the Senior Israel Experience. Faculty and staff can also buy Gelt to support programs provided for the school by the P.O. By buying things you ordinarily purchase anyway, you can earn money which will be credited to your family or class for designated school trips. Contact Sheri Sandrof at ssandrof@cjhs.org or call her at 847.324.3723.
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A senior night to remember for men's tennis! The team closed the season with a final win over Lake Forest Academy. The afternoon began with an emotional and moving ceremony honoring the team's seniors, for whom this was their last match as members of the CJHS tennis team. All three seniors, Adam Taitz, Ari Spellman, and David Kosman picked up personal wins in the team's triumphant victory. Men's baseball keeps rolling! The baseball team defeated CICS Northtown 9-4 in a lightning-shortened 5 innings! Jon Silvers started his first game and pitched excellently, earning his first "W" in a Tigers uniform. Everyone contributed on offense in the 9-run onslaught. Women's soccer concludes a great season! The Lady Tigers suffered a tough loss in their tournament this week, falling to Woodlands by a score of 4-3. The girls can look back on a high-scoring season of phenomenal teamwork and camaraderie!
Bible Students Discuss Sacred Architecture
The Generation to Generation program, affiliated with the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center, is seeking new members. The program is designed to match Holocaust survivors with younger (adult) partners who are interested in learning about the survivors' experiences before, during and after the Holocaust. The younger partners will one day share these stories of survival with future generations through the Speakers' Bureau of the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center. The Speakers' Bureau is a group (currently only consisting of people who have survived the Holocaust) who personally explain their story of survival to groups of visitors who come to the museum. The Generation to Generation program meets about four times a year as a group-both for socializing and to learn from each other-and the remainder of the year you will meet independently with your partner to learn his or her story, and to get to know him or her on a personal level.
Last week, Rabbi Belgrad's freshman-sophomore Chumash class benefitted from a visit from CJHS alumni parent Amy Reichert, a "CJHS mother" (Noa & Benjy Fleishacker) and architect who works, amongst other things, with the design of sacred space. Amy's presentation deepened the students' knowledge of and appreciation for the design of the Mishkan - the ancient Tabernacle - as she engaged them in considering the ways in which design can enhance spirituality. Her presentation included a comparison of the Mishkan with the Tower of Babel and the pyramids of Egypt.
STAND Update
Please join us for our next gathering, May 18th, from 11:30-1 at the IHMEC, to find out more and to ask questions. We hope you can join us! Or, please email Blair Koorsen at blair.gersten@gmail.com.
Job Opportunities at the Ramah Day Camp!
We're looking for friendly and enthusiastic Jewish students to work as: -Counselors (seniors) -Swim Staff (16 and older) -Art Staff (16 and older) Do you enjoy playing with kids? Spending summer outside in a beautiful wooded setting? Being part of a fun and friendly Jewish
It has been a quite successful year for CJHS STAND. We've held a variety of STAND Seminars throughout the year in which we have educated the community on various human rights issues. This April, STAND held a fantastic Human Rights Week, culminating in a fun and informative Sleep-In. I would like to thank my dedicated STAND Executive Board-Gabe Wacks, Shira Harris, Evan Gorstein, and Noa GordonGuterman -- for being such an outstanding, helpful group. I also want to
community? Then Ramah Day Camp is for you! Come join us - you can make a difference in the lives of Jewish kids this summer. Our counselors ride the camp buses with the kids, so you don't need to worry about transportation. If you're interested in Working at Ramah Day Camp, please email Director Lori Stark at director@ramahday.com.
Keep Calm the Festival is On!
thank the general STAND board for their hard work. I also want to express my gratitude to Dr. Schorsch-- without her constant advice and guidance, this club would not be nearly as successful. I would like to announce that STAND's next president will be Noa Gordon-Guterman, who I am absolutely sure will do an incredible job in continuing STAND's efforts in the future. It has truly been a great honor being the president of STAND this year, and I have learned an immeasurable amount in terms of how to lead and direct a group of people. Thank you all for reading the STAND Updates, and make sure to check for more in the years to come! Signing off for good, Yadid
Update On the Ride for Jewish Education!
Join our community at the Greater Chicago Jewish Festival on Sunday, June 8 from 11 am to 6 pm at the Cook County Forest Preserve. Bring your friends and family for a memorable day of fun, food, art, music and dancing! For more information about the event,visit www.jewishfestival.org.
Hebrew Ulpan at the JCC
Conversational Hebrew classes in Skokie, Lakeview, and
Larry and Angie left Amarillo, Texas yesterday and headed towards Santa Fe, New Mexico where they tackled wind, rain, sleet, hail and snow (yikes). Today they are resting in Santa Fe and will hit the road tomorrow. Let the adventure continue! Please click here to donate!
Northbrook start May 12. Connect to Israel and Jewish culture!
Yali Derman Comes Full Circle
Spring Mini-Session: 5 Classes for $150. For more details or to register, call 847-763-3627.
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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 dzidman@cjhs.org. Order forms are available online here.
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CJHS Alumna Yali Derman ('09) was spotlighted on the official blog of the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago this week. Now a registered nurse, Yali has returned to work at the same hospital where she was treated for leukemia as a girl. The nurses who once cared for her are now her colleagues, and Yali is now working to care for and support kids who are going through many of the same challenges she once faced. Yishar Kocheych, Yali! To read the full article, please click here.
CJHS Cyclists Getting Ready to Bike the Drive! CJHS now has ten riders for Chicago's annual Bike The Drive, but we are still hoping for more. On Sunday morning, May 25 participants will be riding on Lake Shore Drive; there will be no cars on the road from 4:30 until 9:30 in the morning. The CJ team will meet at Buckingham Fountain at 6:30 and ride south to the Museum of Science and Industry where there will be good food to eat and plenty to drink. Most ride back to Buckingham Fountain but some will also ride the Northern portion of Lake Shore Drive. Each rider will go at his or her own speed
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and mingle with over 30,000 cyclists of all ages. CJHS riders will be raising money for Chai Lifeline and are asking you to donate by going to the website (chailifeline.org/bikethedrive) and hitting the "Sponsor a Cyclist" button. Donations can be made in any amount, and will go directly to help Chai Lifeline provide crucial emotional, psychological, and financial support to seriously ill children in our area that enables them to weather the crises, treatment, recuperation and longterm impact of lifethreatening or lifelong pediatric illness. Our riders include sophomores Ranan Vales, Seth Wein, Noam Sigler, and Jake Lankford. Juniors already signed up for the ride are Alex Cope, David Steinberg, Eli Schrayer and Jonathan Schrag. Mr. Ron Urick, Chemistry teacher at CJHS and Dr. Gary Auslander, school social worker will ride with the group. We do expect more to join us. If anyone is interested in riding with us, please e-mail drauslander@cjhs.org.
Host Families Needed We are in need of families who are interested in becoming hosts fo the 2014-2015 school year for CJHS students who live beyond daily commuting range. If you are interested in learning more about this wonderful opportunity, please contact Lily Zoberman at 847-324-3706.
Alumni Trivia Which CJHS alumna is exploring psychology and mentoring high schoolers in the Minnesota tundra?
Grandparents and Special Friends Day
Thursday, May 22 is Grandparents and Special Friends Day at CJHS! Please join us at 11:00 for an optional tour of our beautiful building, followed by lunch with your student at 11:30. After lunch, stay for Arts Alive, featuring live entertainment from the CJHS a cappella choir, drama class, and the jazz band! Enjoy the afternoon by walking the halls of our student art galleries, or try attending classes to see our outstanding faculty and staff in action. To RSVP click here. We are so looking forward to a wonderful day with our grandparents and special friends!
A Taste of Torah The mitzvah of counting the Omer between Pesach and Shavuot comes from Leviticus 23:15-16, p'sukim that are familiar to CJHS because we say them as part of the introduction to counting the Omer. We read: "And from the day on which you bring the sheaf of elevation offering - the day after the sabbath - you shall count off seven weeks. They must be complete: you must count until the day after the seventh week fifty days; then you shall bring an offering of new grain (mincha hadasha) to the Lord." Rabbi Ephraim Luntschitz, known better by his pen-name, the Keli Yakar, links this grain offering to the day of the giving of Torah, because Torah needs to be new each and every day for anyone who studies it. The Keli
Yakar notes explicitly that the Torah does not speak about Shavuot as the anniversary of Revelation. But each day, one's relationship to Torah needs to be renewed. And this is not just any offering to God, it is one that necessitates human involvement in the process - humans grind wheat into flour. Following the metaphor, Torah, like the mincha sacrifice, inherently involves human contributions. There is no greater way to live the Keli Yakar's words than to teach Torah at CJHS on a daily basis. In the words of our Rabbis, each day, students discover new tastes of the learning, which, in turn, nourish the teachers. The Torah indeed is a new mincha offering on each day. -Rabbi Zachary Silver
Alumni Trivia Jill Merrick ('12) says: "I'm a psychology and educational studies double major here at Macalester. In terms of big things I'm doing...I'm doing psych research in a Morality and Social Cognition lab and plan to work in a developmental psychology lab at Northwestern over the summer, I'm a sophomore leader for a first year community service and reflection program, and I'm a member of the Macalester Multifaith Council. I'm also the chair of a college mentoring program that goes into one of the local schools once a week and works with high school juniors in an AVID classroom, and volunteers with immigrants to help them prepare for the citizenship test."
Shabbat Shalom! Candlelighting tonight will be at 7:48 p.m.