Mar 10 2017

12 Adar, 5777

This Week at Rochelle Zell

All School Musical Sports News Art Show News Math Adventures Math Team Competes Alumni in the News STAND Food Drive Library News Sponsor Ad Book P.O. Book Group Alumni Trivia A Taste of Torah Community News

Class Schedule

Monday, March 13 Purim ‐ Special Schedule

Tuesday, March 14

Spring Musical

March 10, 2017

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Wednesday, March 15 BB

Thursday, March 16

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Friday, March 17 A

Quick Links

RZJHS.org Calendars Lunch Menu Edline Give Now

Save The Date

March 13 Shushan Purim ‐ Special Schedule

March 15‐19 Model U.N.

Basketball News

March 20 Professional Day: No School

March 31‐April 1 All‐School Shabbaton

April 6 Spring Musical: Li le Shop of Horrors

April 10‐19 Pesach Break: School Closed

April 20 School Resumes

Mazal tov to eleventh grade Rochelle Zell Tiger Eli Nasa r, who has qualified for state and and shot his set in compe on in Peoria last night. He represented the school in stunning fashion. Congratula ons also to Coach Marty Dello as he was selected Chicago Prep Conference Co‐Coach of the Year for Boys Basketball. This award is voted on by the coaches in the conference. The team notably went from 4 wins last year to 15

wins this season and winning the Black Division Conference Championsip!

April 23 Wagner Ins tute

May 1‐12 AP Exams

Arts News

Freshman Yonit Mlotek was selected to show her metal‐ smithing in the Glenview Art League's 28th Annual Youth Art Fair. Over 25 area schools were included. Yonit was awarded a prize for her outstanding work.

According to the fair director, “Her level of talent was beyond what has been seen in previous years.” Kol hakavod, Yonit!

Speaking of art shows, check out the "Turn the Light On" exhibit mounted by our art students on the second floor!

Adventures in Math

Ever looked at the flag pole in front of RZJHS and wonder how tall it was? Honors Geometry students can now tell you the answer!

Did a brave student climb the pole and let down a rope in order to measure the height? No... the students used two indirect measurement methods in order to find the height. One method involved mirrors and similar triangles, another method involved a clinometer and a bit of trigonometry!

Math Team Takes Third

Rochelle Zell mathletes competed on Wednesday, March 8 in the North Suburban Math Leagues’ Conference Meet at Glenbrook South High School, where teams from over 55 schools par cipated. Within the Cook County Division, our freshmen finished first, our seniors finished second, and our oralists finished third! The en re team finished third overall. Congratula ons, math team on a great NSML season!

STAND Food Drive In Support of Rohingya Refugees

For the next two weeks, STAND will be running a food drive for the Rohingya Cultural Center in Chicago. Chicago hosts 1,000 Rohingya refugees who fled Myanmar due to horrific human rights abuses.

Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar are vic ms of ethnic violence, placed in internment camps, and lack poli cal rights. In order to assist these members of our community and to fulfill the mitzvah of loving the stranger, we encourage students, parents, and staff to bring in various necessi es and food. Please bring:

10 pound bags of white rice Canola Cooking oil Condensed Milk Coconut milk Canned tomatoes Body wash Body scrubbers Dish soap (NOT dishwasher soap!)

Shampoo and condi oner

Bathroom cleanser Laundry soap (pods or powder) Toilet paper Face ssues Paper towels Target gi cards Walmart Gi Card Shopping bags Any toys in very good condi on

Alumni in the News

Mazal tov to Jessica Rubens (CJHS '11) on her acceptance to Hebrew Union College in Cincinna ! J‐Rubes, alias Tzivia, joins alumni Elli Cohn, Josh Warshawsky, and Rachel Braun on the path to rabbinic ordina on. Way to go, Jessica!

Alumni Trivia

Duck and cover‐‐Purim spiels are filming everywhere you look! Where these days is everybody's favorite Purim Mrs. Eliaser impersonator? And is it true that she was sent home ed in a sack?

Library Resources

AP Guides Available

Mrs. Parker, our librarian, writes "AP exams are being offered May 1‐12, and this is a good me to begin reviewing what to expect when you need to tackle them. The library has copies of the various exams which are available for student use. The following edi ons of the AP exams are: Biology (Kaplan version) Calculus (Princeton Review, Barrons, Kaplan) English Language and Composi on (Barrons, Princeton Review, (5 steps to a 5) English Literature (5 steps to a 5) European History (5 steps to a 5) Macroeconomics (5 steps to a 5) Physics Essen als (A‐Plus Physics)

Physics 1 – Algebra based (5 steps to a 5) Physics 1 & 2 (Barrons) Psychology (5 steps to a 5) U.S. Government and Poli cs (Barrons) U.S. History (Barrons, Kaplan, Princeton Review, Rea.com) U.S. History Flash Cards (Barrons)

You can also access the college board site here. Feel free to u lize the library resources!"

Save the Date P.O. Book Club

Yearbook Ad Book Sponsorship Opportuni es

Sponsored Breakfast

Hooray! The bagel drought is over at last! A very happy birthday to Dina Barrish and many, many thanks to her family for sponsoring breakfast. To sponsor bagels in honor of your favorite hungry Tiger, please contact Diane Zidman in the main office.

Alumni Trivia

Maya Behn (CJHS '14) is spending her semester abroad in

Leuven, Belgium‐‐ironically, the old stomping grounds of Mrs. Eliaser's professorial father. And no, she was not sent home ed in a sack, but she did spend half an hour communing with silence in a sensory depriva on sack as part of an avante‐garde piece of modern art in in the STUK Cultural Center. On other, more ordinary days, Maya is grappling with train schedules, weird European keyboards, and the phenomenal absence of bike helmets as she explores Northern Europe. Check out her notes from the road here! Maya is majoring in English at Haverford as she prepares for medical school.

A Taste of Torah: Purim

Our raucous celebra on of Rosh Chodesh Adar and subsequent prepara on for Purim stands in stark contrast to another wave of an ‐Semi c bomb threats this year, including a threat to our neighbor and feeder school, Chicago Jewish Day School.

Yet perhaps Rosh Chodesh Adar and the horrible acts of an ‐Semi sm relate more to each other than we might otherwise first note. At its core, the Purim story speaks of the uncertainty, and fear that so many Jews in the world are currently feeling. As Chancellor Arnold Eisen eloquently states in an ar cle about Purim and the establishment of Jewish power, Purim is actually the most serious of all Jewish holidays, one which notes that our lots can be overturned in an instant; this reality requests that Jews work poli cally in a world that is filled with “paradox and danger.”

Analyzing the work of Rabbi Yitz Greenberg, Eisen notes how the Purim story that is ar culated in Megillat Esther an cipates a Rabbinic vision of God, one who is distant and no longer communicates through Prophets or through Temple ritual. This, of course, leaves great room both for human error and achievement.

Los Angeles‐based Rabbi Sharon Brous discusses the similari es between Yom Kippur and Purim.

Using a word Hebrew play, Yom HaKippurim, is o en referred to as “Yom K’Purim,” a day like Purim. Ul mately, both holidays honor humanity’s vulnerability. As Brous says, “In this way, both holidays ar culate a wholehearted last‐ditch effort to pierce the chaos and sha er the darkness, to respond to the threat of emp ness by pouring more kindness and sweetness into the world.

Both come to reinforce that while we can’t control the world, we can control the way we live in it.”

There is great uncertainty in the world and each holiday seeks to bring us to deeper understanding of who we are at our core. READ MORE>>

Rav Beit Sefer Zach Silver

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