Sept 23 2016

20 Elul, 5776 This Week at Rochelle Zell Engineering Club Field Trip National Merit Scholars This Week in Sports JSTOR From the P.O. Community Events Alumni Trivia A Taste of Torah

September 23, 2016

Engineers Afield Engineering Club Visits IMTS Engineering Club members hit the road for their annual outing to the International Manufacturing and Technology Show last Friday. Sammy Hoffman, Yoni Maltsman, Arielle Bledsoe, Claire Gruenberg, Isaac Marguiles, Liam Lynch, Matthew Weiss, Eli Gurin, Shai Sklar, Alex Bernat, and Josh Levitas participated in student challenges such as rocket building, viewed cutting edge technologies such as 3D printing and autonomous vehicles, and learned about the intricacies of manufacturing and product development. Club president Yoni Maltsman reports, "Everyone had a great time, and hopefully it inspired some future engineers!"

Class Schedule ​Monday, September 26 BB Tuesday, September 27 C Wednesday, September 28 A

National Merit Semifinalist

Thursday, September 29 B Friday, September 30 CC

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Rochelle Zell senior Sara Behn is a semi-finalist in the 2017 National Merit Scholarship Program. The nationwide pool of semi-finalists, representing less than one percent of U.S. high school seniors, includes students who received the highest scores in each state on the 2015 PSAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT). Sara is one of about 16,000 semi-finalists. Finalists will be named in February. Well done, Sara!

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This Week In Sports Save The Date

Big Wins in Cross Country, Volleyball, and Soccer

September 25 Candidate Forum

October 3-4 No School - Rosh Hashannah October 11-12 No School - Yom Kippur October 13 9:45 Late Start October 17-18 No School - Sukkot October 19 PSAT October 20 Sukkah Hop October 24-25 No School - Shemini Atzeret and Simchat Torah November 1-6

The cross country team ran against Ida Crown this past Sunday, bringing home the big win for the boys JV and varsity races. Max Pivo ran an exceptional race for the Tigers, winning the boys junior varsity race by over 100 meters. Congratulations to speedy Tigers Lucy Braverman, Ariel Saxton, Yoni Maltsman, Sol Treister, and Henry Wolle for bringing home the medals, too! This is our third win in a row against our arch rivals; the boys' JV has never lost to them.

This past Tuesday, the team ran in beautiful Burnidge Forest Preserve in Elgin, where victors Yoni Maltsman, Sol Treister,

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Ben Saxton, and Noah Cope sped past the finish line to win their medals and the varsity boys team took third place. The highlight of the day was the Boys Open, with senior Henry Wolle winning his first race ever!

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

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JV girls volleyball brought home a doubleheader win last week against Providence St. Mel and the next night versus North Shore Country Day. They played close, tight matches against Christ the King and Cristo Rey. Ma'ayan Noy led the way with five aces, four kills, two assists and two digs during that time. Ari Handleman continues to be one of the best servers on the team with thirteen aces while playing in only three of those matches, with ace leads Talia Schoenberg and Rikki Drexler. Varsity played their best two matches of the year, Coach Hambach reports, while bringing in a long-awaited win against Christ the King! Hannah Cohen led the way with aces and kills, with Lucy Cohen, Erin Miller, Dafna Stofenmacher, and Sam Wolf close behind.

Rochelle Zell tennis singles Hannah Kelly and Betsy Winick have been doing a great job for us on the court with an impressive 6-2 record. The tennis doubles teams have

a few standouts as well: senior Lexi Levin and freshman Abby Becker won their last match 8-0. Come cheer on the team on Tuesday at Beacon Academy!

Boys soccer had its first conference win this week. In our first match Monday vs.

St. Benedict, we got on the board with two amazing goals by Eli Gurin, assisted by Eli Simmons and Eli Ecanow. St. Benedict tied it up in the second half, but we surged ahead and scored the winning kick late in the second half. Our next game versus Holy Trinity was a wild one, and we came up a little short 4-3, but Eli Gurin got his tenth goal of the season, Eli Simmons notched his first, and Jonah Magill scored his second of the season. There was some great ball movement in this match, we had assists by Jonah Magill, Gabe Chasin, Ari Rosen, Eli Ecanow, and Eli Gurin!"

Booster Club You are invited to join the Rochelle Zell Athletic Booster Club! The booster club promotes school spirit and sportsmanship, encourages attendance at all Rochelle Zell athletic events and provides additional financial support for athletic activities at Rochelle Zell Jewish High School. Interested in volunteer opportunities or joining the Athletic Booster Club Board?

Please contact Booster Club President, Larry Becker at lpbecker5@gmail.com or Athletic Director, David Martinez at dmartinez@rzjhs.org.

Primary Sources Online Students Engage with JSTOR We are excited to announce that Rochelle Zell students can now access the world-class digital library, JSTOR. JSTOR offers a growing collection of books, academic journals and primary sources covering a variety of subjects from economics to art to Jewish Studies. Students can access JSTOR using our school login on any computer connected to the Internet.

Global Studies teacher Mr. Matthew Cohen is excited to engage in primary source learning with his students. "I plan to use JSTOR as a platform to teach my students how to conduct research, which is a valuable skill they will need throughout the rest of their education. By offering a database with credible sources, students can learn to explore these sources, analyze and evaluate them for credibility, know which sources are best for which tasks, and allow themselves

to become better critical thinkers." Their first project using JSTOR? "Exploring how ancient civilizations started and evaluating sources that help them answer if civilization in itself was a leap forward in progress for mankind."

Alumni Trivia Time to rev up that Rosh Hashannah Torah reading! Which of our former faculty members recently convened an Abrahamitic feast to mark the weaning of their family's long-awaited child?

From the P.O. Sunday night was the Junior Grade Get Together, organized by the Rochelle Zell Parent Organization. The Levitas family graciously opened their home for students and parents to reconnect for the new school year. With fifty-five people in attendance, you could feel the excitement for the upcoming year. Thank you Lisa, Jim and Josh for your kindness and support of the Rochelle Zell community. Contributions to support the Grade Get Togethers are greatly appreciated in any amount, large or small. Please email the P.O. if you are interested.

Thank you Maryl Dayan and Amy Mishell for all of your hard work organizing and shlepping in order to make these grade dinners a success. Your expertise makes everything seem effortless! We would also like to thank Michelle Friedman for all her help in working with the P.O.; getting our school to gather together by grades is another aspect that makes Rochelle Zell so special. Our small but mighty community is our unique strength that makes our school so wonderful. Once again, we would like to thank the Simmons, Dayan, and Levitas families for helping Rochelle Zell start off the year right!

Back by popular demand the P.O. will be hosting the Griffith/Schorsch debate on Thursday, December 8 at 7:00 p.m. Please save the date so our brilliant teachers can awaken and enlighten us as they do for our students!

Where's My E-News?

E-News apologizes for the late arrival of last week's edition; the delay was caused

by Robly, our service provider, experiencing server errors on Friday afternoon.

We have been assured by Robly that they have dealt with the golem in the gears; if you are still receiving late editions or none at all, please contact Michele Agbodza.

Sponsored Breakfast Happy birthday to Emma Mati! Many thanks to her 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 Candidate Forum 2016 Co-Sponsored by Rochelle Zell Jewish High School Sunday, September 25, 3:00 p.m. | Congregation BJBE, across from Rochelle Zell

Maot Chitim Sunday, September 25, 6:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. | 8260 N. Austin St., Morton Grove This Sunday, help pack and deliver food to needy Jewish families with Maot Chitim of Greater Chicago. Packing of perishables starts as early as 6:00 a.m. You can also drive up between 8:00-8:45 a.m. to help load up waiting cars. After loading boxes, why not join

the crowds making a delivery run to those families and individuals who need it most. Not only will you be performing a mitzvah by giving someone a kosher holiday meal, but you can brighten their day with a friendly hello, letting them know that someone in the community cares. The warehouse is located a few blocks west of Dempster St. off the Edens expressway. Please wear closedtoed shoes for safety. For additional information, visit www.maotchitim.org or 847.674.3224.

Alumni Trivia Rabbi Robyn Fryer Bodzin, esteemed mora d'atra of the Israel Center for Conservative Judaism, is taking new motherhood to the rabbinic level with the full support and love of her multigenerational congregation. Rabbi Fryer Bodzin is a wellknown public voice for social justice with Rabbis Against Gun Violence and for women's experiences in the rabbinate. Her thought-provoking and deeply moving story, "When the Rabbi Gives Birth," has recently been spotlighted by JOFA and featured on Kveller. Read all about it here! Rabbi Fryer Bodzin was a rabbi in residence at CJHS and now lives with her husband Aaron Bodzin in Queens, New York; their adorable daughter Ariella will turn two on Purim.

A Taste of Torah: Selichot This Saturday night, the Ashkenazi community will begin saying the penitential prayers of selichot. (Sepharadim have been saying them since the beginning of Elul.) We are officially one week away from Rosh Hashannah.

On Rosh Hashannah we crown God sovereign of the universe, and on Yom Kippur we atone for our sins from the previous year. Why does the Torah mandate this sequence? Would it not make more sense to enter the crowning of God as our purest selves? Rabbi Jonathan Sacks makes a profound point, noting that there are two central components of teshuvah, “commitment to the future and remorse about the past‌ The placing of Rosh Hashannah before Yom Kippur means that our determination to act better in the future is prior to our feelings of remorse about the past. To which we might add, that this is why we blow shofar on Rosh Hashannah. The shofar, too, turns our attention to what lies ahead, not behind (Mahzor, xxvii). Sacks suggests that Judaism prioritizes our future actions both with God and our fellow humans over our past transgressions. Both are essential. But the ritual calendar places emphasis on how we are going to take the strides into the future.

As a high school community, we remind ourselves each year of this reality. Students can recreate themselves in this upcoming year. Before looking back at what happened during last year, look forward! This is the dream of our learning community for 5777.

Rav Beit Sefer Zach Silver

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