29 Adar II, 5776 This Week at Rochelle Zell
April 8, 2016
Get Schooled! 2016 Rochelle Zell Spring Musical
Wagner Ins*tute Weekend! Spring Musical Math Team Wins This Week in Sports Opera Field Trip Spring Blood Drive Mia Adler Ozair Speaks Talmud Speakers DECA Speakers Late Bus for Actors Alumni Trivia Kavannah From Tefillah
Class Schedule Monday, April 11
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Tuesday, April 12 B Wednesday, April 13 A Thursday, April 14 C
Rochelle Zell is proud to present Sheinkin and Finn's one-‐act comedy The 25th Annual Putnam County
Friday, April 15 BB
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Spelling Bee, which debuted on Broadway in 2005 and was nominated for six Tony Awards. The musical chronicles the misadventures of several middle schoolers compePng for big bucks in the local spelling bee, with or without the assistance of the awkward adults who think they are in charge. Tickets are $10 at the door or click here to purchase! See you this coming Thursday at the Bee!
Mathletes Victorious! Last Meet of the Season Against Ida Crown
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Save The Date April 10-‐11 Wagner Ins*tute Through JTS April 10 ACT April 14 School Musical: The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee April 20-‐May 1
Kol hakavod to stalwart mathletes Gabby Ecanow, Hadar Halivni, Jake Korol, Josh Weisskopf, David Weisskopf, Sara Behn, and Sarah Comar, who led the math team to victory in Wednesday night's big season finale against Ida Crown! Hadar and Gabby won first place in the freshman/sophomore pairs compePPon, while Sara and Sarah won first place in the junior/senior pairs compePPon. David took third place in the pairs compePPon, working all by himself against five other pairs! Hadar, Gabby, Jake, and Josh won first place in the freshman/sophomore team compePPon, and Sarah, Sara, and David won second place in the junior/senior team compePPon. A standing ovaPon goes to four-‐year champion and team captain Sarah Comar, bringing in yet another victory in the last meet of her high school career. We'll miss you, Sarah!
Spring Sports Chill Out Wins Against Ida Crown and Holy Trinity
Pesach Break No School April 22 First Seder May 2 -‐ May 13 AP Exams May 27 Last Day of Classes All-‐School BBQ May 29 Rochelle Zell Community Naming Dedica*on Prom Night May 31 -‐ June 7 Final Exams June 1 Siyum and Gradua*on No Classes June 19 ACT
On a windy and cold Sunday morning, the women's soccer team beat Ida Crown 2-‐1! Goals were scored by Jordan Krauss and Maya Resnick. Livi Moses, Ariel Saxton, and Hannah Taussig were big contributors. Kudos to the defensive unit for staying tough throughout the game as Ida Crown tried to penetrate the defensive line! Last night, the team came in 1-‐0 against Cristo Rey, with Hannah Taussig as the scorer for the evening. Ariel Saxton reports from the field, "The whole team really worked well together, and we were able to defeat the former conference champs. We couldn't have done it without everyone giving their best effort." The Tigers next game is Sunday 4/10 at 3 p.m. vs Ida Crown on the L & L Goodman Soccer Field. See you there! JV and varsity volleyball celebrated two wins last Tuesday against Holy Trinity, on the shoulders of Ben Lesch, Daniel Sacks, Liam Lynch, and Micah Brody, with aces, kills, and blocks by varsity champs Benjy Salzman, Ben Hirsch, Akiva Stein, and Eli Nasa*r. Wednesday's match against ChrisPan Heritage was less successful, despite aces from David Levin and Noah Cope on the JV Squad and amazing plays by Joey Schrayer, Itamar Broekman, Akiva Stein, and Eli Nasa*r.
Alumni Trivia Women's soccer is sPll dreaming of another trophy! Where is CJHS soccer star of yore Annie Schrayer?
Studio Art Show Tuesday Ader many weeks of hard work, the Studio Art exhibit Just My Jeans! will go up in the Shapiro Dining Hall next week. Students in Ms. Snyder's art class were asked to come up with three words that say something about themselves. They then created symbols for the words and put them in a pafern. They are painPng their paferns on a pair of blue jeans! Please join us for the opening of the exhibiPon at a dessert recepPon
on Tuesday, April 12 at noon.
Opera Field Trip Under the direcPon of Ms. Lynn Friedman, sixteen students and four staff travelled on Wednesday to see a stereosimulcast of the Metropolitan Opera's producPon of Madama Bu@erfly. Ms. Friedman reports, "The twenty in afendance were truly transported to a brilliantly created world of Japanese theatrical arts and some of the most gorgeous music and glorious singing human beings can produce. Every single student loved the evening and thanked me enthusiasPcally for providing this unforgefable opportunity. And what a celebraPon, too, of our magnificent students! Ader the performance, seven patrons spoke to me -‐-‐ all wishing to kvell over the uferly perfect behavior of our students. Because of their rapt afenPon, fellow theatergoers mistook our afendees for music students. When I pointed out that it was their very first foray into the world of opera, this older couple was stunned. How proud I was to tell them that they had just met Rochelle Zell Jewish High School! I am sPll soaring!"
Spring Blood Drive Rochelle Zell's annual Spring Blood Drive took place on Monday. All day long, students and staff made their way to Room 244 to donate their Pme and, more importantly, their blood, to help save lives around the Chicagoland area. We collected 30 units as a school, smashing our record from our first blood drive earlier this year. Thank you to the Va'ad HaStudenPm for your hard and dedicated work in adverPsing, organizing, and staffing the blood drive!
Talmud Class Learns About Agunot Last week, Rabbi David Wolkenfeld of Anshe Shalom B'nai Israel and Kayla Robbins of the Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance visited Rabbi Silver's junior Talmud classes. For the past month, students have studied about the efforts that the Rabbis of the Talmud took to ensure that women would not become agunot. Rabbi Wolkenfeld and Kayla brought contemporary discussion about how communiPes are seeking to protect women from becoming agunot today. Their real-‐world examples gave great context to our month of studying these texts about the Rabbis protecPng both individuals and the halachic system as a whole.
Cook, Pray, Eat Kosher Mia Adler Ozair Presents at Rochelle Zell On Tuesday, April 5th, the Rochelle Zell Jewish High School Parent OrganizaPon, together with the Solomon Schechter Day School Parent OrganizaPon, presented an evening with Mia Adler Ozair, the founding ExecuPve Director of CJHS and an alumna of Solomon Schechter. Mia shared her cookbook, Cook, Pray, Eat Kosher and regaled us with stories of its creaPon born from her love of food. It was a warm evening, filled with stories of Mia's life and, in parPcular, her strong Pes to both Rochelle Zell and Solomon Schechter. The delicious desserts from her cookbook were an added bonus. Many thanks to Mia for traveling from Los Angeles to share her stories and for her conPnued support of our communiPes. Click here to see some highlights of the evening! There is sPll Pme to order a copy of Mia's cookbook. To do so, please send a $25.00 check, payable to Rochelle Zell, to the office no later than Thursday, April 14.
DECA Guest Speaker Series Small Business and Big Business On Tuesday March 29, DECA welcomed Albert Karoll, father of Jonah Karoll, to give a career talk to the club. Mr. Karoll is a sole proprietor and owner of Richard Bennef Custom Tailors, a high-‐end custom tailoring business that provides disPncPve custom made garments for its clients. Approximately 20 students took advantage of the opportunity to learn about his company and career and to hear some "life lessons" about what it takes to successfully run your own business. Thanks Albert for dedicaPng your Pme to helping our students learn about business!
On Tuesday April 5, DECA welcomed Marc Sacks, father of Daniel Sacks, to give a career talk to the club. Mr. Sacks is the Chief ExecuPve Officer of Mesirow Financial Private Equity. He shared with us the details of the profession that helped launch many of the companies that are household names to our students, such as Snapchat, Grubhub, and Google. Approximately 20 students took advantage of the opportunity to learn about the private equity business and the many career insights Mr. Sacks had to offer. Thanks Marc for carving out Pme from your busy schedule to help our students learn about business! Mr. Sacks was the third of our three speakers in DECA's guest speaker series this semester.
Late Bus 4/11 - 4/13 In order to accommodate students who will be afending rehearsals for the musical, there will be special Shalom buses to Braeside staPon on the follow days and Pmes: Monday April 11 Tuesday April 12
Wednesday April 13
LEAVE Rochelle Zell at 6:10 p.m. to catch the 6:41 train to Chicago
LEAVE Rochelle Zell at 7:10 p.m. to catch the 7:39 train to Chicago
Students must be ON the bus at the scheduled Pme to leave!
Sponsored Breakfast Happy birthday to Zev Mishell. Many thanks to his family for sponsoring breakfast. To sponsor bagels in honor of your favorite Tiger, please contact Diane Zidman in the front office.
Community News and Events Wagner Institute This Weekend! Sunday April 10 -‐ Monday, April 11 | Rochelle Zell Jewish High School
Alumni Trivia Annie Schrayer ('13) is finishing up her junior year at the University of Michigan, where she has just been admifed to their masters program in social work! Annie says, "I definitely want to work with children and families, so I am very interested in being a school social worker, but who knows where life will take me? Man plans and God laughs, so I am trying to live in the moment as much as possible and enjoy my Pme led in my favorite place on earth!"
Kavannah From Tefillah
"In the past couple of months, devastaPng events have terrorized thousands of people. Afacks in Paris, Brussels, and Pakistan have overwhelmed us all around the world. It seems as if everyday something awful is happening, and some days are just depressing and gloomy. It reminds us of how precious life is, and how important every single day is. Each moment we have to live and enjoy life is a special one, and they shape us into who we are and what we do. Consider the Ze Frank video project, 'The Time You Have.' It’s not always about how much Pme you have, it’s about how you spend that Pme and who you spend it with. Do not procrasPnate and waste the precious and limited Pme that you have. Explore the world, spend Pme with loved ones, go on adventures. How much Pme do you spend worrying instead of doing something you love? How much Pme have you already used up? What if you only had half of the Pme, what would you do differently? What about half of that? What if you only had one more day?” -‐-‐Sammy Vayngart ('19)
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