CJHS E-news October 2, 2015

October 2, 2015

19 Tishrei, 5776 This Week at CJHS

I'm Going to Get You, Sukkah!

Sukkah Hop

Sukkah Hop 5776

Math Team ARK Food Drive Fall Newsletter From the P.O. Community Events 窶帰lumni Trivia A Taste of Torah

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On Thursday, over half the school joined together for the annual CJHS Sukkah Hop! After eating some snacks while being welcomed by senior Jake Lankford, President of the Va'ad HaStudentim, which was hosting the event, students split into two teams - freshman and seniors vs. sophomores and juniors - to compete in huge games of Capture the Flag and dodge ball.

Save The Date October 1 Sukkah Hop October 5 No School - Shemini Atzeret October 6 No School - Simchat Torah October 13 Grandparent Meet & Greet October 14

After the game, students rode busses over to the Kaufman family

PSAT

sukkah, where we enjoyed a delicious pizza dinner, feasted on a fabulous dessert, and joyfully celebrated Sukkot together. Thank

October 15

you to Eliana and Sophie Kaufman and their family for so

Financial Aid Night

generously opening their home, and thank you to the Va'ad HaStudentim for organizing the event!

October 16-17 All School Shabbaton October 20 Early Dismissal - Conferences October 27 Early Dismissal - Conferences November 11 No School November 18-20 Junior Social Justice Seminar

Yasher koach to all the leaders and readers, singers, hora dancers, and PowerPoint compilers, to Hana Lieber, Felix Rosen, Ms.

College Season

Frankel, and the whole Va'ad Tefillah for a very special week of davenning! And best wishes to all of our readers for a merry and

CJHS is pleased to welcome

temperate yom tov from Captain Jack Marrow, Michael Welder, and

admission representatives from

Ms. Murphy's senior Anatomy and Physiology class!

over fifty colleges and Israel programs this autumn!

VIEW SCHEDULE >>

STEM Corner We encourage our students to take advantage of the many contests and research opportunities available in their fields of interest. This week, check out ExploraVision by Toshiba, a technology competition for K-12 students working in teams with a coach/mentor. There are great prizes for winning projects!

This Week in Math

Projects are due Feb. 1, 2016.

CJHS Places Third

Read more here.

Also take note of the Jerusalem Science Competition. The JSC is an extracurricular science study competition sponsored by the Walder Science Center in partnership with the Lev Academic Center, Jerusalem Israel. The winner earns $1,000 plus a four year tuition scholarship to Lev. Second prize is $700. The top five

The math team kicked off its fall season on Wednesday night with a

scorers including the

meet against Highland Park High School, Loyola Academy,

prizewinners win an

Willowbrook High School, and Romeoville High School. Our

educational Israel experience.

freshman and junior teams each earned second place; yasher

All other participants who

koach to freshmen Jake Korol, Noah Magill, and Joshua

achieve scores over the

Weisskopf, and to juniors Sara Behn, Akiva Stein, David

baseline earn cash prizes

Weisskopf, Gaby Ecanow, and Hadar Halivni--especially Gaby

commensurate with their

and Hadar, sophomores competing at the junior level! Yasher

scores. This year's topic will

koach also to oralist Ranan Vales and fellow contestants Sarah

be Light, Optics and the

Comar, Hana Lieber, and Liam Lynch.

Human Eye. For more information and to register by October 16, click here.

Thank you to our volunteers and proctors Ms. Lynch, Ms. Charous, Dr. Stein, and Mr. Weisskopf, and thanks to Mrs. Weisskopf for the snacks!

ARK Food Drive Bring by Wednesday, October 7 In the season of harvest and plenty, please join CJHS in contributing to the ARK High Holiday Food Drive! We are collecting food and other household items to help support our neighbors in need. Each student received a donation bag in his or her box, and more are available in Mr. Eskin's office on the first floor. Let's see how much we can give together!

CJHS Fall Newsletter Chag sameach to all community members, alumni, proud grandparents and interested bystanders! Our quarterly newsletter has just hit the stands! Read all about it here!

From the P.O. The Junior grade get-together is Sunday, October 11 at the Levin home: we hope to see you there.

Sponsorship of the grade get-togethers in any amount is welcome and appreciated.

CJHS PO Book Club - Fall Book Club Meeting: The Book of Aron by Jim Shepard Monday, November 9 7:00 p.m. at CJHS Join us as Edie Salzman leads us in what is sure to be an engaging discussion about The Book of Aron, "a novel that will join the short list of classics about children caught up in the Holocaust." For more information about the book, click here.

Please RSVP to both events at PO@cjhs.org. Feel free to contact us with questions.

Karen Ecanow & Debbie Copley CJHS PO Presidents

Alumni Trivia Happy holidays to all our readers everywhere--and hang in there, "after the chagim" will soon be with us! Who are the Jewish holiday poster girls on our website and where are they now?

Community News and Events

BRCA: The Center for Jewish Genetics October 14, 2015 On Wednesday, October 14, the Center for Jewish Genetics and the Basser Center will present “What’s Jewish About BRCA?”, a community education event at the Chicago Botanic Garden, featuring national speaker Dr. Susan Domchek of the Basser Center for BRCA, a panel of cancer experts, and moderator Bonnie Miller Rubin of the Chicago Tribune. This is an opportunity to learn about your risk for hereditary cancers and what you can do about it. The program fee is $18 and includes a pre-program reception, the program, and kosher dessert. Doors open at 6:00 p.m. and the program will start promptly at 7:00 p.m.

For more information call 312.357.4988 or register here. READ MORE>>

Alumni Trivia Zahava Vales ('14) reports, "After an incredible year in Israel on Nativ where I studied in the Conservative Yeshiva, taught English to 5th graders, and volunteered on an ambulance, I am now a freshman at Indiana University!" After Nativ, Zahava spent the summer in Prague and Budapest. Zahava is still considering her major; she is considering applying to the nursing school and is active in the campus Hillel. Welcome back, Zahava!

Hannah Given ('15) is currently working with City Year in the Back of the Yards community, tutoring and mentoring and doing her best to help at-risk kids stay in school. Hannah says, "I'm currently teaching differential equations to 4th and 5th graders--and by differential equations I mean place value! It's crazy but very rewarding." Hannah will be starting at the University of Chicago next fall.

A Taste of Torah: Sukkot and the Eclipse This past Sunday night, erev Sukkot, was the fourth and last of a rare tetrad - a sequence of four consecutive total lunar eclipses. The last three happened during Pesach and Sukkot two years ago and last year. A lunar eclipse, as any CP physics student can tell you, is caused when a full moon, the Earth, and the sun, align completely, the moon passing right into the Earth's shadow: no direct sunlight can therefore reach the moon. Jews all over the Americas were able to make kiddush in the sukkah and watch the brilliant full moon slowly vanish as the stars came out.

At 9:11 p.m. as the moon reached the umbra (direct shadow) and the full eclipse began, the last of the white sunlight was blocked and the moon disappeared. However, instead of total darkness devoid of moonlight, we instead were able to view a beautiful orange-red "blood moon." This beautiful phenomenon is cased by the small amount of light that does not travel in straight lines, but refracts (bends) through the air particles, moisture droplets, and dust motes in our atmosphere. Different colors of light refract at different angles; the warmer colors at lower frequencies are more likely to reach our eyes. Of course, only a tiny percentage of the sun's rays actually bend through the atmosphere in such a manner, and these lovely colors are whited out in a blast of light as soon as the first few rays of direct white moonlight peek out from behind the edge of the planet's shadow.

The holiday of Sukkot encourages us to go outside, to leave our comfort areas and safe zones, and venture out into the unknown. This Sukkot, let us appreciate the beauty of people who do not travel in

straight lines, who take different paths and thereby give the whole world a unique and phenomenal beauty. Their contributions often go unseen, eclipsed by the masses who are certain that theirs is the only true derech.

Let us make sure now that they are seen in all their warmth, color, and divine artistry:

let their light shine through to all of us. Chag sameach,

Mrs. Shira Eliaser

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