29 Av, 5776 This Week at Rochelle Zell
September 2, 2016
Student Activities Fair Va'adot and Clubs Showcase
Student Activities Fair Parlor Meetings Multiple Minyanim Math and Computer Science This Week in Sports STEM Update Studio Art From the P.O. Community Events Alumni Trivia A Taste of Torah
Class Schedule
Got to get back to the sugar shack? This year's Student Activities Fair was a veritable aufruf of free candy as thirty
​Monday, September 5 No School Tuesday, September 6 C Wednesday, September 7 A Thursday, September 8 B Friday, September 9 CC
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student clubs set up tables to introduce themselves to new members. During an extended lunch period, students new and returning walked up and down the hallway, where group after group handed out chocolate, asked about their interests and goals, and described the benefits of joining various clubs. Rochelle Zell Jewish High School is now part of the worldwide Girl Up empowerment movement, and returning favorites like the Engineering Club, Gender and Feminism Club, DECA, Environmental Club, Knitting Club, and Holla for Challah attracted many new faces. Also rallying student support along with Va'ad Israel, the Va'ad Tefillah and social service powerhouse DEAP, is the team which will put together an amazing Rochelle Zell school musical in the spring! From the look of it, it's going to be a great year for extracurriculars at Rochelle Zell Jewish High School!
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Save The Date September 5 No School - Labor Day September 6 Back to School Night September 9-10 Freshman Shabbaton September 11 Senior Class Gathering September 25 Community Candidates Forum
College Visits
Parlor Meetings Spread the Word in the Community
Rochelle Zell is pleased to welcome admission representatives from over forty colleges and Israel programs this autumn! Look for the University of Illinois after school at 3:30 p.m. on Wednesday, September 7 in the Beit Knesset, Indiana University at Bloomington next Thursday September 8, after school in the Beit Knesset, and the University of Maryland, College Park, presenting in the Beit Knesset next Friday, September 9, during fourth period at 11:26 a.m.
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Multiple Minyanim Start Up Students are signing up for different ways to spend their morning tefillot! Underclassmen are continuing their twoyear study of the siddur and its meaning, while upperclassmen can put the "full" in Full Matbeah Minyan with Dr. Schorsch, engage in Storahtelling with Ms. Nadis, or study the parsha with Mrs. Eliaser. Our usual Tuesday creative options include Multimedia Art Minyan, Meditation Minyan, Poetry and Prayer Minyan, Pop Culture Minyan, Music Minyan, Drama and Movement Minyan, and Israel Affairs Minyan in addition to regular davenning. Ask your Tiger what they're choosing this year!
L'Shanah Tovah... From AP Statistics and Computer Science Classes Mr. Baumstark's AP Statistics class wishes our readers a meaningful Elul and a sweet new year, with their statistical analysis runs on packs of M & M's; not only did they (re)introduce some the essential aspects of data collection and analysis, they enjoyed consuming their work at the end of class! Across the hall, Ms. Charous's new Introduction to Computer Science students are getting ready for the New Year, creating interactive online Rosh Hashanah cards using Scratch, a programming language developed by MIT. To get in the holiday spirit, check out the drawing boards of a few of our budding computer
scientists Itamar Broekman, Nina Levine, Ari Rosen, and Akiva Stein.
Packing Tape Sculptures Studio Art Thinks Big Mrs. Snyder's art class is starting their quarter long project on texture and scale as they scale up to packing tape sculptures. Each team of artists plans to produce a full body Rochelle Zell student sculpture with a characteristic desk, chair, or piece of sports equipment. The final sculptures will be exhibited around the school later in the fall. Look for further updates on the Zellish Exhibit!
QuarkNet Plans Field Trip Science Students Heading to FermiLab The Rochelle Zell science students are going to Fermi Lab! In the first week of November after the basketball trip, QuarkNet is sponsoring a field trip to Batavia to tour the inside of the Tevatron, the largest particle accelerator in the US. All interested science students should stop by the mandatory meeting this Tuesday at lunch in Room 314. Learn physics, view current experiments, and see the lab as you've never seen it before!
Fall Sports Look for Sunshine Soccer, Tennis and Golf News
On Monday, the men's soccer team took on an always tough Holy Trinity team. Coach Shannon reports, "Last year they completely dominated us, but this year was a whole different story! We took them by surprise and at multiple times dominated the game. We battled right to the end and had multiple opportunities to pull out the win, but came up on the short end of a 4-3 game. We did have three very nice goals by Eli Ecanow, Eli Gurin, and Sammy Korol, with assists by Eli Gurin, Isaac Levitan, Noah Magill, and Jonah Magill. The highlight of Tuesday's match versus Cristo Rey was Eli Gurin scoring another goal, his fifth of the season! The women's tennis team had their first varsity match in history! We may have fallen a little short in the victory, but we had a few standouts. Betsy Winick, playing in her first match ever, had over a two hour battle. She lost in a third set tie breaker, but she fought till the bitter end. Bella LaVarre and Emma Mati, our number one doubles team, also had very tough opponents. Maine East's coach told Coach Finfer that he had never met nicer, more courteous girls. We will get them next time! After a rainy start, the men's golf team opened their season with a tough match against Lake Forest Academy. David Weisskopf and Ethan Laney put together some very nice rounds; David shot a 49 and Ethan a 50 for the match. The team has been working hard, and looking forward to their next match September 7 against Niles North. Thanks to Doug Laney for the photos! Fall Sports Photos Take a leaf from Mr. Laney's playbook and send in your photos! Photographers, SnapChatters, assistant coaches, and proud parents: E-News wants you to share the love! Snap photos of your favorite game, match, or tee-off and send to Mrs. Shira Eliaser, your faithful editor, at seliaser@rzjhs.org. We're counting on you to make this season a great one!
Alumni Trivia 'Tis better to give than to receive--at least if you're talking to alumni Eliana Fisher and Avram
Pachter! What worthy causes are our former students industriously fundraising for?
From the P.O. Grade Get-Togethers Proliferate Sunday night was the Sophomore Get Together organized by the Rochelle Zell P.O. The Simmons family graciously opened their home for the students and their parents to reconnect for the new school year. With approximately 85 people in attendance, you could feel the excitement of the upcoming year. Thank you Julie, Russell, and Eli Simmons for your kindness and support of the Rochelle Zell community. Sunday, September 11 is the Senior Get Together hosted by the Dayan Family, and Sunday, September 18 is the Junior Get Together hosted by the Levitas Family. Please RSVP to PO@rzjhs.org with the names of the students and parents who will be attending. Contributions to support the Grade Get Togethers are greatly appreciated in any amount, large or small. Please email the PO if you're interested.
Sponsored Breakfast Happy birthday to Joey Rosenblum and Sarah Tenner. Many thanks to their extended families for sponsoring breakfast. 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
JUF Tov Baton Rouge Disaster Relief Mission In the wake of devastating floods in Baton Rouge, TOV is launching a relief mission to the region to assist with clean-up efforts. Tens of thousands have evacuated their homes and are in desperate need of assistance and emergency aid. The mission will depart Wednesday, September 28 in the afternoon and will conclude Friday, September 30 before Shabbat.
Transportation, meals and flights will be heavily subsidized by JUF. The work is physical. Please come prepared to stand for 8 hours a day. No prior experience is necessary -- all training occurs on the ground by a NECHAMA professional. Volunteers ages 13 thru 17 must be accompanied by a parent. If you're interested, please contact YaelBrunwasser@juf.org. Please note, space is limited and available on a first-come, first-serve basis. To complete your registration, please fill out this application. If you are unable to volunteer, but would like to support the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago's Baton Rouge Flood Relief Fund, please visit www.juf.org/JFBatonRouge.
JUF Annual Meeting Thursday, September 15, 12:00 p.m. | 151 E. Wacker Drive, Chicago The Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago will celebrate and renew its commitment to caring for Jews in Chicago, Israel, and around the world at its 116th Annual Meeting in two weeks on Thursday, September 15, at the Hyatt Regency Chicago. This year’s luncheon will feature guest speaker Hillel C. Neuer, human rights activist and executive director of UN Watch. David T. Brown will receive the Federation's highest honor, the Julius Rosenwald Memorial Award. The Business Meeting and Members’ Forum will begin at 10 a.m.; the lunch program begins at noon. Learn more and register here.
Alumni Trivia Eliana Fisher (CJHS '12), whom you may know as the Ramah Rosh Schiyah, graduated from the Double Degree Program at Barnard College and the Jewish Theological Seminary with a degree in Political Science and Human Rights and another in Talmud. Eliana is working for AVODAH as a paralegal for the New York Legal Assistance Group, working with senior citizens to navigate Medicare and Medicaid as well as create and facilitate training sessions for health care professionals. Click here to support her cause! Avram Pachter (CJHS '06), the first of the great kosher chefs to come out of our high school, is the director of hospitality at NSS Beth El and head chef of Circle of Life Kosher Catering. Over the summers, however, he's the head chef of Ramah Outdoor Adventure, keeping the base camp in the Rocky Mountains running while Jewish teens hike and bike, learning about
farming, sustainable living, and wilderness skills. Avram is doing the Shmirat HaGuf Challenge to raise scholarship funds for the Outdoor Adventure; as an added bonus for the next four days, he will personally match 50% of all money donated! Click here to support his workout!
A Taste of Torah: Re'eh
The Torah makes a striking claim in this week’s Parasha: There shall be no needy among you (Deuteronomy 15:4). God promises that God will protect the Israelite people so long that they live up to their side of the covenant. As part of this, Deuteronomy establishes a striking economic system, where during every seventh year, all debts are cancelled. Yet within ten verses of establishing the law, the text notes how difficult this commandment will be to follow, particularly as the Sabbatical year approaches. As the verse states: “Beware, lest you have a sinful thought in your heart, saying, ‘The seventh year approaches, the Sabbatical year,’ and you will look malevolently upon your needy brother and refuse to give him — then he may appeal against you to God, and it will be a sin” (15:9). The Torah notes the natural human instinct to protect one’s own economic interests — and states that the primary characteristic of this system will be to trust God. As juniors learn in their study about Hillel’s Prosbul, it must be noted that the Rabbis of the Talmud are not able to maintain this idyllic Biblical economic vision. Indeed, on the ground, it is clear that people refrained from giving loans as the Sabbatical year approached, which threatened the entirety of the economic system. Yet simultaneously, the Rabbis maintain a Rabbinic remembrance of shmitah which exists until this day. The vision set forth in Deuteronomy was not an economic system that worked practically in post-agrarian society. Yet its aspirations to cultivate in tangible ways that we are mindful of every member of our society leaves us reason to pause about how we can best fulfill the imperative of the religious ethic of non-indifference. READ MORE >> Rav Beit Sefer Zach Silver
A huge yasher koach to senior Zev Mishell, for giving a thoughtful and fascinating dvar Torah this morning at shacharit on faith, God, Eema and Emunah! For those of you who are curious to read his remarks--or go through them a second time!--you can peruse the whole text at your leisure. READ MORE >>
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