Egg Drop 2014 20 Kislev, 5775
This Week at CJHS Egg Drop
December 12, 2014
Egg Drop
Holla for Challah Chanukah Plans Mathletes Compete DEAP Helps Out This Week in Sports CJHS Community Night Baruch Dayan Emet Sponsored Breakfast Alumni Trivia A Taste of Torah
Save the Date Stirring John Williams music resounded in the
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halls as Mrs. Eliaser's twelve teams of physics students proudly marched their designs to the testing balcony. The three physics classes have been hard at work all month using their knowledge of the impulse-momentum theorem and collisions to design protective cases that would allow their eggs to survive the 24-foot drop from the second floor balcony. Juniors Sarah Gilman, Ari Rosenthal, and Maya Resnick built a spiked cube which successfully impacted upon landing. Seth Wein, Julia Mati, and Zach Becker built a nest of double-suspended cubes which kept their precious egg well away from the landing zone. Arthur Sredni, Jorie Dayan, and Jordan Rosenfield watched in great frustration as their carefully-designed cube executed a complete 180-degree turn in midair, landing upside-down with a midline crack. The team theorizes that more weight lower down and centered would prevent such a spill on a second go-round. Congratulations to all the students who participated!
Holla for Challah
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.
This week marked the emergence of a new
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.
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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group at CJHS, Holla for Challah. Conceived, organized, and brought to life by the dynamic freshman duo of Lucy Cohen and Lisa Klein, Holla for Challah is a space for students to come together and have fun baking challah. For the inaugural session, Rabbi Silver taught the group in attendance - freshmen, sophomores, juniors, seniors, and even a couple staff - about the mitzvah of hafrashat challah ("separation of the challah"). Students then braided dough, put on toppings, and, a few hours later, were able to take their warm, school-made challot home with them. Holla for Challah is off to a sweet start!
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Math Team Competes
Our stalwart mathletes traveled to Libertyville High School to compete against Deerfield, Highland Park, Libertyville, and Warren in the North Suburban Math League's third meet of the year. Despite stiff competition, our sophomore team brought home second place ribbons. Congratulations to Sara Behn, Sarah Comar, Leora Calamaro, Gaby Ecanow, Benji Fishbaum, Jonah Glick-Unterman, Talia Gorstein, Rayna Gorstein, Hadar Halivni, Elan Karoll, Lexi Levin, Ranan Vales, and David Weisskopf.
Alumni Trivia Which CJHS bridge building and egg drop science champion is now studying pediatric neurology before applying to med school next year?
DEAP Helps Out DEAP's direct service had their first service opportunity December 3. Four students went to Northwestern University's Campus Kitchen to make peanut butter and jelly sandwiches that will be served to families all over the Chicagoland area. Junior Seth Wein says, "We had a fun time, while feeling as though we were making an impact on our community." Direct Service will continue their partnership with Campus Kitchen, and will hopefully return in two weeks. If anyone is interested please contact anyone on the direct service board.
This Week in Sports For the second year in a row, the men's varsity basketball team defeated Dundee-Crown High School--a 4A school with an enrollment of 3,000! Josh Newlander led the way with 31 points and 7 rebounds in the 38-30 victory. Coby Drexler, Jonah Karoll, and Joe Cohen each had crucial baskets down the stretch. Eli Schrayer added in 5 rebounds. The team played North Shore Country Day on Wednesday and is all set to battle Providence St. Mel before Chanukah. The women's basketball team played Tuesday at home against Chicago Hope Academy! Co ach Mark Forde reports, "Even though we lost, you could feel the excitement in the crowd! The girls are getting better each game!" The women's basketball team will also be playing Providence St. Mel and Beacon Academy next week.
SUSHI AND SAKE TOO: 2nd Annual
Chicagoland Jewish High School Community Event
Reconnect with old friends, meet new ones and see what's happening in the halls of CJHS Saturday, January 17, 2015 27 Tevet 5775 7:30 p.m. Suggested Couvert: $50 per person RSVP to Michelle Friedman by January 9.
Baruch Dayan Emet We are saddened to announce the passing of Dianne Hoffman, mother of executive director Inez Drazin. Shiva is being held at the home of Inez and Jerry Drazin, 3741 Mission Hills Road, #109 in Northbrook, Saturday from 6-9 p.m. and Sunday from 1-9 p.m. Hamakom Yinachem Etchem B'toch Sh'ar Avalei Tziyon V'Yerushalayim. May God's presence comfort Inez and her family among the mourners of Zion and Jerusalem.
Sponsored Breakfast
Happy birthday to Natalie Ecanow! Many thanks to her family for sponsoring breakfast. Many thanks also to the kind parents of the P.O. for sponsoring an all-school morning feast on Monday to kick off the Chanukah festivities!
Alumni Trivia Lauren Steinberg ('12) is a biology major at the University of Wisconsin, minoring in global health and leadership. Lauren reports, "I have been researching for a year and a half in the neurology department under a pediatric neurologist. We studied the effect of soy foods on seizure rate in infants with Fragile-X Syndrome (genetic autism). Now, we are studying the over prevalence of APP protein on motor function and memory in Alzheimer's. I also volunteer weekly at the Children's Hospital in the Bone Marrow Transplant unit, where I have formed incredible relationships with the kids who are there. It's really inspired me to pursue pediatrics." Lauren is an active member of Alpha Epsilon Delta (AED), the pre-med honors society, through which she shadows a surgeon to observe in the OR and follow her mentor's rounds with patients. Lauren works as a supervisor at Camp Young Judaea Midwest and is also the Social Chair of the Chabad student board, which, Lauren reports, is a ton of fun!
A Taste of Torah: Vayeshev During a week of dreams in Parashat Vayeshev, we offer a modern poem of dreaming from CJHS alumni parent, David Silverman, proud father of Jessie Silverman Gandea ('05), Matthew Silverman ('07), Reby Silverman ('10), and Josh Silverman ('14).
Upon Seeing My Children's Newly Built School for the First Time
For the founders and builders of Chicagoland Jewish High School
We are dreamers of outlandish dreams, diggers of holes, movers of earth. Sinking pillars into bedrock, we aspire to permanence in an impermanent world and though, in time, all man-made things crumble, the outlandish dream survives. For we will bring the inanimate to life, fill empty rooms with words and song, splash walls with color, open windows to let in the sweet, invigorating breeze. We do this not for fame, not for fortune, not even to leave behind our names. We do this because it is what we can do.
To fill the void. To articulate the grand vision. To create, as we were created. Oh, to dream outlandish dreams! --Mr. David Silverman Congratulations to David on publishing his first book of poetry, It's the Little Things.
Shabbat Shalom Candlelighting this week is at 4:01. Shabbat shalom! ,ש ְׂבי ָּה ִ ַהנְׂתּונִים ְׂבצ ָָּּרה ּו ַב,ַאחֵינּו כָּל בֵית יִש ְָּׂראֵל ַה ָּמקֹום י ְַׂרחֵם,הָּעֹומְׂדִ ים בֵין ַבי ָּם ּובֵין ַבי ַ ָּבשָּה ֲעלֵיהֶם, ּו ֵמ ֲא ֵפלָּה,וְׂיֹוצִיאֵם ִמצ ָָּּרה ל ְִׂר ָּוחָּה שתָּ א ַב ֲעגָּלָּא ּו ִבזְׂמַן ְׂ ַה,שעְׂבּוד ִלגְׂ ֻאלָּה ִ ּו ִמ,ְׂאֹורה ָּ ל ק ִָּריב.