Jan 20 2017

22 Tevet, 5777

This Week at Rochelle Zell

January 20, 2017

Bruce Scher Tribute

Fourth Annual Parent and Alumni Parent Night

Mr. Scher Tribute Senior Israel Experience Driver's Ed Curriculum Night Arts Night Community News Alumni Trivia A Taste of Torah

Class Schedule Monday, January 23

A ‐ Extended Tefillah Tuesday, January 24

B Wednesday, January 25 A Thursday, January 26

On Saturday evening, over 200 guests joined us for the fourth Annual Rochelle Zell Parent and Alumni Parent event. This year’s event honored our long‐ꬅme Academic Dean, Mr. Bruce Scher. Guests mixed and mingled and enjoyed tasty creaꬅons from Premier Catering. One of the highlights of the evening came when Head of School Tony Frank presented Mr. Scher with a tribute book filled with photos and messages submiꬅed by the Rochelle Zell Community. A great ꬅme was had by all!

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What about the spirited video tribute, prepared as a surprise by Bruce's colleagues? Click here to view Bruce‐ical the Musical, a hear塪�elt tribute to everything that makes us love Mr. Scher so much.

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Many thanks to all those that contributed to the Academic Dean’s Tuiꬅon Assistance Fund. There is sꬅll ꬅme to give!

Please contact Michelle Friedman at 847.324.3720 or mfriedman@rzjhs.org for more informaꬅon. A very special thank you to the event chairs, Judi Kelly, Carolyn Rosenberg, Debbie Copley, Susan Laney, Beth Bernat, and Jennifer Rosenblum for an outstanding event, and to Rochelle Zell faculty member Lynn Friedman for her invaluable input.

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Jerusalem and Co. Senior Israel Experience

January 8‐30 (NEW!) Extended Senior Israel Experience January 23 Second Semester Begins January 31 (NEW!) Classes Resume for Seniors (C Day Schedule) February 7 Academic Planning Meeꬅng for Sophomores February 12 ACT February 20 No School February 22‐26 Miami Basketball Shabbaton March 2‐3 All‐School Shabbaton March 13 Shushan Purim

Our seniors are on the go, cramming as many experiences as they can into a whirlwind of a trip, as you can see from all the photos! From Shabbat in Jerusalem to the annual HaPoal soccer game, from the Pantry Packers tzedakah project to the many faces of Israeli street theater, the group is moving fast and having a blast! Tuesday's journey to Tel Aviv began with a trip to Save a Child’s Heart in Holon, a world‐famous cardiac surgery unit for pediatric cases, where our seniors enjoyed some much‐appreciated playꬅme with the liꬅle paꬅents. How can Israel balance its values of democracy and being a Jewish state? What is it about our liꬅle country that makes it such a "Star‐Up Naꬅon"?

Follow the class' adventures at seniorisraelexperience.wordpress.com to find out!

March 15‐19 Model U.N. March 20 No School

Drivers Ed

Registraꬅon for Drivers Educaꬅon 2017 is now open for students born on or before May 16, 2002.

Adams Driving School will be holding classes at Rochelle Zell Jewish High School beginning Thursday, January 26, 2017. Adams is offering 20 classes for 90 minutes beginning at 3:30 p.m. and ending at 5:00 p.m., which will allow our students who use the shuꬅle to Braeside to catch the 5:10 p.m. train. Please contact Adams directly for class informaꬅon at 847.965.6565. Click here for registraꬅon forms and schedules. If you have have quesꬅons, email jdlaꬅ@rzjhs.org.

Performing Arts Night

Curriculum Night

Alumni Trivia

Brain hurt from all those exams? Which of our alumni has recently published her senior thesis on the topic of brain trauma?

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Alumni Trivia

"The Effects of Repeated Concussive Traumaꬅc Brain Injury at Acute and Chronic Time‐Points" was published through Lake Forest College by Sarah Chiren (CJHS '12), who graduated in May, and is taking a gap year before medical school. "It’s been a great year," Sarah reports. "I went to Israel for the first ꬅme this past summer, and I’ve done research in brain injuries and dermatology! I’m volunteering as a crisis hotline counselor at Lurie Children’s Hospital, and I’m studying for the MCAT. I’ve also had some ꬅme to focus on my non‐science interests, like new religions, so that’s been exciꬅng. Overall, I’m very happy."

A Taste of Torah: Shemot

"We had beꬅer outsmart the [Semiꬅc interlopers], in case a war breaks out and they ally themselves with our enemies, and aꬅack us and rise from the ground." ‐‐Pharaoh, Exodus 1:10 "What has happened predicts what will happen again: what has been done will be repeated [by those in similar circumstances]‐‐there is nothing new under the sun. You may think you are in a new situaꬅon, but it was already present forever, and enacted by those in ages before us. There is no remembrance [of history] in former ꬅmes, and those who come a퟇�er us will not remember it [any more than we did]." ‐‐Kohelet, Ecclesiasꬅes 1:9‐11 In this week's porꬅon, Pharaoh is faced with a dilemma. He wishes to make his empire great, and is dismayed by a class of funny‐looking frizzy‐haired Semites, who speak a different language, refuse to assimilate Egypꬅan culture, and live privileged lives in Goshen as a result of their wealthy and poliꬅcally connected ancestors. His soluꬅon is fear‐mongering, hate, and violence, building his empire on the backs of slaves, whose loyalty he demands while ruining their lives and crushing their children.

Who stands in his way? The midwives‐‐who are never idenꬅfied as Israelites‐‐resist Pharaoh's terrible decrees because they are God‐fearing people. Although it is too dangerous for them to openly defy the monarch, they nevertheless find the courage to challenge unjust laws, to stand up for people who have been stripped of their basic human rights, and to make sure that what is legal is not equated with what is right.

The midwives' personal relaꬅonships with their paꬅents enabled them to do what millions of ordinary Egypꬅans would not or could not: to resist the hate and violence that their king defined as being in their naꬅonal interests. Because they reached out to those in need‐‐well‐bred Egypꬅan mothers as well as Semites, immigrants, and other second‐class ciꬅzens‐‐they could see the faces of mothers delivering in pain and babies being born with hope. They saw people, not policies.

In these ꬅmes of divergence and change, it is probably too much to hope for a Moses, a Prince of Egypt to rise up from exile and redeem us with the voice of the One True God‐‐and even if such a one arose, his presence alone would not be able to bring both healing and jusꬅce, but plague a퟇�er

plague of divine retribuꬅon for the absence of both. However, without such a leader, both sides in our divided kingdom may sꬅll find common ground in the hands of our midwives. We must do as they did: build personal relaꬅonships. Help those who are frightened and in pain, console those who are cold and overwhelmed and worried about the future. We must see the most vulnerable members of our society as people, not labels. We must, as the nameless midwives did, work from the ground up to oppose hate and resist violence, to act as God‐fearing people, to fear injusꬅce, unrestrained power, and unmiꬅgated hate more than we fear our neighbors.

Mrs. Shira Eliaser

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