April 19, 2013 / 9 Iyar 5773
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Yom HaZikaron
Yom HaZikaron On Monday, CJHS commemorated Yom HaZikaron, memorializing Israel's fallen soldiers and victims of terror. Israeli Film Festival We began the morning tefillot with a moment of silence Halacha and Sharia heralded by a siren, as is done in Israel on this solemn Conference day. Along with a beautiful El Malei Rachamim, Rabbi Wagner Institute This Robkin contributed a very moving rendition of Idan Amadi's "כאב של לוחמים," an Israeli song which deals with the Weekend pain suffered by survivors and the difficulties of moving on Holocaust Museum Trip with life after loss. Special guest speaker Eli Mizrahi (owner of Mizrahi Grill) recalled his time in the Israel Write On For Israel Defense Forces and how deeply it shaped who he is today. Community Film He spoke of the communal nature of Yom HaZikaron in Screening Israel, and how important it is for him and for all of us to The Fountainheads At honor the day in America as a community, when it would CJHS otherwise easily pass by without notice. We remember with honor and gratitude those who gave their lives so that Lishma Yom HaAtzmaut
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Save the Date Sunday, April 21 Monday, April 22 Wagner Institute Friday, April 26 No School Monday, May 6 Friday, May 17 AP Exams Tuesday, May 14 1:15 p.m. dismissal Wednesday, May 15 Thursday, May 16 Shavuot - No School Wednesday, May 22 AP US History Exam AP Economics Exams Thursday, May 23 Grandparents and Special Friends Day
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
the Jewish state could continue.
Yom HaAtzmaut A swinging, stirring Hallel courtesy of Rabbi Feinsmith and his magical guitar kicked off Israel's 65th birthday celebration at CJHS! Falafel and birthday cake were consumed by all (at least all who arrived before the students could lick up the last smidgen of blue-and-white frosting) before the annual Yom HaAtzmaut soccer tournament treated the school to a field day spent in Israel's favorite pastime. This year, honors went to the muddrenched Team Yellow from Tzfat. Way to go, kabbalists! New this year was the studentproduced CJHS Israeli Film Festival, where harried teams of teens were given 60 minutes to produce a film about a given region of Israel. Team Be'er Sheva screened "Israel's Next Top Camel," while Team Haifa put together a screaming horror flick about an outbreak at the Technion. Tying for "loudest screams heard in a short film" was Team Petach Tikva, who managed to pen a comedy about a malaria outbreak in the earl y part of the last century. Team Tzfat's mystery movie had Mr. Scher singing; detectives are even now trying to figure out what exactly he was singing about. Team Tel Aviv churned out a rip-roaring romantic comedy--a
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 ssandrof@cjhs.org or call her at 847.324.3723.
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genre assigned to a flock of teenagers at their peril and everyone else's--about night life in Tel Aviv, which apparently begins with the band cages and only gets more interesting. By this time, seven films had been screened and the scent of muddy soccer socks was becoming overpowering; the audience was touchingly grateful to Team Zichron Ya'akov, who easily won the "Best Short Film" award for its 45-second silent film about the winery failures. However, the Best Picture Award for the afternoon went to Team Jerusalem, whose action-packed documentary "HaKotel Shelanu" recreated the surrender of the Old City in 1948 and the decisive 1967 battle that reunified the city and returned our people to the holy sites we loved.
Israel Solidarity Day Sunday, April 28 Ravinia Festival Highland Park
Israel Solidarity Day is our community's annual celebration of Yom Ha'atzmaut (Israel Independence Day). This year we celebrate Israel's 65th birthday by coming together for one big event filled with music, family fun and Israeli spirit.
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Further awards of the afternoon were best supporting actress Mira Sykes and best supporting actor Jacob Erlichman, best actress Alana Stoehr, and best actor Josh "Gingi" Aaronson. Best picture "HaKotel Shelanu" was directed by Zach Erlichman and Ms. Lynn Friedman, starring Rami Elian and his eyepatch as Moshe Dayan, Eleanor Dunietz as Moshe Gur, Shira Harris as Rabbi Shlomo Goren, Rabbi Marc Belgrad as
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Kickoff Rally Walk with Israel King David Drummers Matisyahu
Typecast Distressed Rabbinical Survivor, and Evan Gorstein and Avidan "Oscar Moment" Halivni as the brave paratroopers of the IDF. Many thanks to the athletic department and the physics department for Parking will be available at the arming our brave troops with metersticks and hockey Ravinia Festival. Shuttle buses sticks, and to our new security guards, who really weren't accessible from central locations and from the Metra Union Pacific kidding when they said they had real helmets and combat North Line stop in the village of vests that they were prepared to lend out for educational Ravinia. Attendees are welcome purposes. Thanks, guys! to bring picnic lunches. Kosher food will also be available for purchase.
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.
Top Ten Things I Learned at the CJHS Israeli Film Festival 10. No juniors were harmed, smooched, or permanently locked in the band cages as a result of this film. 9. When in doubt, a pillow fight will symbolize practically anything. 8. The CJHS shofar can never truly be stolen.
If you have any questions, please call 847.324.3713 or email idrazin@cjhs.org. Order forms are available online here.
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7. Everything is funnier in Spanish. 6. Nothing is faster than Aaron Zell. 5. If you've come to Israel and can't find Jesus, try tourism! This message sponsored by Team Eilat. 4. Mr. Marchenko can do anything. Including be a camel, if necessary. 3. This performance was in no way authorized by the real Guru Grid folk rock band, who takes no responsibility for the impromptu quintet of piano, drums, tambourine, cowbell, and shofar that was perpetrated in their name.
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2. If we can retake the Jerusalem wall, we can do anything! 1. If a door is closed, leave it closed!
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Many thanks to Va'ad Israel, Rabbi Silver, Shelly Dekalo, and Ari Spellman for an incredible celebration!
IFYC Afield Twelve IFYC members went to the "Shari'a and Halakha in America" Conference sponsored by IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law, The Jewish-Muslim Initiative at UIC, and the Institute for the Humanities at UIC. We attended the Monday afternoon session. The panel was entitled, "On Being a Religious Minority in a Liberal Democracy." There were three panelists: Mustafa Baig, lecturer at University of Manchester; Rabbi David Novak, Professor at University of Toronto; and Eboo Patel, founder of IFYC! Mr. Baig discussed the classical "halakha" of Muslims living under non-Muslim rule, while Rabbi Novak expressed his Jewish approach to the hot-button issues of abortion and samesex marriage. However, Mr. Patel stole the show with his lecture on the current state of Islamaphobia in America. He focused on Mayor Bloomberg's positive reaction to the "Ground Zero" Mosque and negative reaction to the attempt to close public schools on Eid. He challenged us to, "build institutions that support private religious identity, but that also serve the public good and promote pluralism in society."
Wagner Institute This Weekend! This Sunday and Monday, we will once again host the Wagner Institute, where Jewish Theological Seminary professors come to teach on the topic of "Creating a Just
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