Oct 14 2016

12 Tishrei, 5777 This Week at Rochelle Zell Cross Country Champs Volleyball Victorious Rochelle Zell Kippot This Week in English Guest Speaker in International Affairs Hurricane Relief Fund Alumni Trivia A Taste of Torah

Class Schedule ​Monday, October 17 No School Tuesday, October 18 No School Wednesday, October 19

October 14, 2016

Conference Champions Again!

Cross Country Wins Seventh Consecutive Title The Rochelle Zell cross country team ran their final race of the season on Monday, and they saved their best for last in the conference championship! Ariel Saxton was the top finisher for the girls, coming in fourth place. Brian Silverstein won the JV boys race, followed closely by Max Pivo, Sean Dreifuss and Henry Wolle: four of the top five runners in the race!

A - Special Schedule Thursday, October 20 B - Special Schedule Friday, October 21 CC - Special Schedule

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Save The Date October 17-18 No School - Sukkot October 19 PSAT October 20 Sukkah Hop

​The varsity girls finished second in conference, topping last years third place finish. Five girls made the All-Conference team--a new school record! Many congratulations to Lucy Braverman, Elitsa Sklar, Gaby Ecanow, Romi Moller, and Bea Treister. Gaby made the All Conference team for the third straight year, and Romi for the second. Yonit Mlotek, the only freshman on either varsity team, did spectacularly well, and only just missed making the AllConference team. We'll be watching you next year, Yonit!

October 24-25 No School - Shemini Atzeret and Simchat Torah November 1-6 Memphis Basketball Shabbaton November 1 Parent Teacher Conferences November 7 FermiLab Field Trip November 10

And never fear, boys, the trophy is still ours: the varsity boys cross-country team won their seventh straight conference title! Liam Lynch made his first All-Conference team; Ben

Parent Teacher Conferences​

College Visits Rochelle Zell is pleased to welcome admission representatives from over forty colleges and Israel programs this autumn!

Lesch, Sol Treister, and Felix Rosen made the All Conference team for the second year in a row; and senior superheroes Yoni Maltsman and Zev Mishell have made the All-Conference team for the fourth straight year: the only runners in conference history to have made the AllConference team for four years running. It was a wonderful way to end a fabulous season!

Varsity Volleyball Victories

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The girls varsity volleyball team is unstoppable! The team dominated Cristo Rey on Monday night, winning the first game 25-10 and the third, 25-8. Along with stalwart all-stars Lucy Cohen, Hannah Cohen, Erin Miller, and Dafna Stofenmacher, senior Arielle Small added four aces and three digs. The team continued their dominating serving with 19 aces and an 86% serve percentage! The girls played their final regular season match last night against Beacon and pressed ahead in the second game with strong serving, winning the match 29-27 and 25-11. The mighty Tiger girls have now won seven of their last eight matches as they head in to the Chicago Prep Conference Tournament!

After two weeks off, the JV volleyball team returned on Monday to challenge Cristo Rey-St. Martin. The team played extremely well with two incredible comebacks, but came up short, 20-25 and 23-25, despite some fantastic aces and kills from Ari Handelman and Maya Vaknin. Leading the way against Beacon last night in the final match of the season were Rikki Drexler, Ma'ayan Noy, Ari Handelman, and Noa Mishell with multiple aces, assists, and kills!

Flip Your Lid Rochelle Zell Kippot Now Available

Get your new Rochelle Zell kippot for the holidays!

Handwoven kippot from Jerusalem are available through the development office for $20 each. Contact Michelle Friedman at 847.324.3720 or mfriedman@rzjhs.org to get yours today.

This Week in English I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings How did it feel to become San Francisco's first black conductor? Mrs. Averbach's junior English class performed original adaptations of Maya Angelou's experience on October 6 and 7. In small groups, the students set to the task of reimagining Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings as a script with stage directions, dialogue, and setting. Many performances included new interpretations of Angelou's metaphorical language, bringing clarity to her words. The juniors successfully broke through the challenging language and performed original works of art!

International Affairs Dr. Laura Silver Speaks to Would-Be Politicians On Monday, Dr. Laura Silver, sister of Rabbi Silver, visited school to speak to students who are interested in international affairs and governmental work. Dr. Silver currently works at the U. S. State Department (Intelligence and Research), where she polls citizens of East Asian countries to gauge their support of certain policies in their own countries. Dr. Silver became interested in international affairs during high school when she was active in Model U.N. and went on during college to serve as Secretary General of the National High School Model United Nations Conference. Following college at Wesleyan University, she spent a year continuing her Mandarin study by working at a micro-finance bank in rural China. Students were quite interested in each of the parts of Laura's biography, asking for information for how MUN is judged, how she got her start at the State Department, and her opinion on recent newsworthy events, including the leaking of information by Edward Snowden. Students were particularly blown away by her TS/SCI clearance level (Top-Secret, Sensitive Compartmented Information). Many thanks to Dr. Silver for sharing her expertise!

Alumni Trivia Go Blue! Or is it go Badgers? Which of our alumni has checked in from the big Michigan/ Wisconsin game where a number of CJHS alumni were thrilled to met up? (Unfortunately, his beloved Badgers lost 7-14.)

Sponsored Breakfast Happy birthday to Noah Cope! Many thanks to his family for sponsoring breakfast this week. To sponsor bagels in honor of your favorite Tiger, please contact Diane Zidman in the front office.

Community News and Events Hurricane Matthew Emergency Fund JUF is working with the Red Cross, Jewish Federations of North America, NECHAMA: Jewish Response to Disaster, and local Jewish communities in the storm’s path to gauge the scope of the damage as it unfolds, and to quickly address specific needs of the Jewish and general communities. Our overseas partner, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, is working closely with overseas authorities to ensure survivors’ most urgent needs are met. As always, JUF will absorb all administrative costs, so that 100 percent of funds collected will provide relief for the thousands impacted by this disaster. Contribute online at http://www.juf.org/Matthew.

Alumni Trivia Jacob Erlichman (CJHS '15) was recently admitted to the University of Wisconsin School of Business, where he continues to pursue an International Business degree with a focus on European languages "I wish Hebrew made the cut!" Jake laughs. He adds, "I have also been pretty involved with my fraternity, Zeta Beta Tau. In my little spare time, I still play basketball and soccer, reminiscing the good ol’ days of organized sports. Fun fact: I have not missed a home football game yet, especially visiting 'blue territory' with Tiger alumni Eli Schrayer, Joe

Cohen, and the Spellman twins at the Michigan versus Wisconsin showdown. Of course, I’m savoring every moment that I have with my older brother Zachary Erlichman (CJHS '13) during his last year on campus." Enjoy, Jacob!

A Taste of Torah: Sukkot Sunday night is the holiday of Sukkot, named for the booths that we are supposed to eat and sleep in for seven days. Another name for the holiday is zman simchateinu, the time of our happiness. What do these two different names for the holiday have to do with each other?

[Sukkot...], these booths that we sit, eat, and sleep in for a week, are said to represent one of two things. Either they represent the literal booths the Israelites lived in the desert, or they represent heavenly Clouds of Glory, with which God surrounded and protected the Israelites in the wilderness. Either way, they symbolize exposure to the elements, and dependence on outside forces. They represent moving out of our comfort zone, leaving our normal environment behind, and surrendering to the (literal and metaphorical) outside. Just like the Israelites in the desert, we go out into the “wilderness” for a week.

But while we are outside of our comfort zone, we have the comfort of zman simchateinu (the time of our joy). We have the comfort of celebrating our renewal and our own cleansing with the start of the new year. We may be sitting in a booth, outside, but we bring the Clouds of Glory with us. Sukkot gives us the opportunity to do this, to move beyond what we once were, and to what we did on Rosh Hashannah and Yom Kippur. On those solemn days we tried to make ourselves into better selves. Sukkot is zman simchateinu because now we can be that better self. But to do that we have to move outside, away from our past selves, our past comfort zones. We can’t be our old selves and our better selves at the same time.

I came into this school year way outside my comfort zone: in a new city, new country, new school, with new faces all around me. I felt like I was in the wilderness. But now I can say that I feel the Clouds of Glory around me. In my time at Rochelle Zell so far I have been able to become a better me, to move out of my old comfort zone and into a new one. And I can also say that anyone who hasn’t been at Friday tefillah at Rochelle Zell, has never seen a real Halleluyah in their life. May we all be blessed to become out best selves, and may our time in the wilderness be short. Shabbat shalom, and chag sukkot sameach! READ MORE>> Student Activities Director Matthew Cohen

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