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This Week at CJHS Spirit Week
November 21, 2014
Spirit Week
Alumni Basketball Game AIPAC #Giving Tuesday Debate Tournament Modeling Government Bahai Temple Trip Game Day DEAP Toy Drive STAND UPdate Sponsored Breakfast Alumni Trivia A Taste of Torah Baruch Dayan Emet
School spirit is running high as the Tigers opened their fall
Save the Date Wednesday, Nov. 26 Erev Thanksgiving 1:15 Dismissal Thursday, Nov. 27 Friday, Nov. 28 Thanksgiving Break
season against Lake Forest! The Lady Tigers took on the Caxies on Tuesday, led by Arielle Saxton, Gaby Ecanow, and Emily Reisler. Mr. Kassner and MC Elan Karoll revved up the crowd at Thursday's pep rally, where free throws were flying, seniors were yodeling, the victorious sophomores took a spectacular spill in the allclass tug-of-war, and Mr. Griffith emerged triumphant from the pie-eating
Sat. Night, Nov. 30 Alumni Basketball Game Tuesday, Dec. 2 College Night for Juniors Sunday, Dec. 14 ACT Monday, Dec. 22 Friday, Jan. 2 Winter Break
contest!
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P.O. Corner The P.O. is pleased to offer the gift card or "Scrip/Gelt" program, designed to help families earn money to apply towards their students' Shabbatonim, Junior Class trip, and Senior Israel Experience. By purchasing gift cards
through the school for vendors where you ordinarily shop (groceries, gas, household items, etc), a percentage of what you spend each time will be placed in your family's account to be used for these trips. Gift card orders are placed every Thursday. Please contact Sheri Sandrof at ssandrof@cjhs.org or 847.324.3723 with any questions.
Grandparents and Special Friends Association Help us get in touch with some very special people in your students' lives! Please reply here with the names, addresses, and emails of their grandparents and/or special friends so we can forward them a membership form to join our "Grandparents and Special Friends Organization". If you provide an email address, they can also begin receiving CJHS enews. Contact Sheri Sandrof at 847.324.3723 or ssandrof@cjhs.org with any questions.
Pajamas, Chi-town jerseys, and hippie beads were in evidence everywhere leading up to Spirit Friday. The annual homecoming dance begins this motzei Shabbat at 7:30 p.m. Go Tigers!
Community News and Events
Kristallnacht Remembrance The Ner Tamid Ezra Habonim Egalitarian Minyan of Rogers Park invites you to join us for a Kristallnacht remembrance with Ralph Rehbock from the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center's outreach program. Sunday, November 23. 9:15-10:45 a.m. Bagel breakfast from 9:15-9:45. Program from 9:45-10:45. Ner Tamid Ezra Habonim Egalitaria Minyan of Rogers Park. 7311 N. Western Ave, Chicago Childcare will be provided. Please RSVP to Scott Adams. Ralph Rehbock was born in 1934, in Gotha, Germany, and fled with his family four years later to America in the aftermath of Kristallnacht. Vice President and officer of the Executive Board at the Holocaust Memorial Foundation of Illinois, Ralph continues to speak extensively on the local and state level about his experiences and lessons of the Holocaust.
Alumni Basketball Game - Next Week! See your old friends and catch up with old teachers! Shoot some hoops while picking up some Tiger swag. Get your game on for the student-teacher tug of war. Alumni night is here this year!
Sponsor Breakfast What's better than a birthday celebration with friends? Celebrate your student's birthday or other milestone with a special breakfast at CJHS.
For a donation of $180 (10x chai), bagels, cream cheese, and orange juice will be served to everyone. Announcements will be made in Tefillah and in the dining hall, and the occasion will also be listed in our weekly E-News and on the school announcement board. If you have any questions, please call 847.324.3713 or email dzidman@cjhs.org. Order forms are available online here.
The fun begins next Saturday evening, November 29, from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Suggested donation is $10 at the door. Each entrance donation will include a free reusable tote bag from the Roar Store! To play in the Alumni Basketball Game, sign up here. For any other questions, contact Tara Seymour at 847.423.5489.
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The annual Schusterman Advocacy Institute High School Summit this past week brought together
over 400 pro-Israel high-school students from a variety of backgrounds, political affiliations, and religions, to become better advocates for the USIsrael relationship . Meira Levine and Elan Karoll represente d CJHS in learning about the crucial alliance between our countries. Along with Emma Siegel, who attended the meeting with Anshe Emet Synagogue, they studied Israel's current and past conflicts, attended lectures on the BDS movement, and learned how to advocate for Israel on campus and on Capitol Hill. Elan reports, "To culminate our trip, Meira and I lobbied Congressman Brad Schneider about two specific issues: preventing Iran from attaining nuclear weaponry, and ensuring that Gaza is demilitarized and is rebuilt responsibly. In just two-anda-half days I have learned an enormous amount; it was an amazing experience. I am ready and eager to bring what I learned back to the CJHS community, and with me when I go on to college next year. Perhaps the most important lesson of the many that the AIPAC conference taught me is the need for every pro-Israel person to be engaged in the US-Israel relationship. The historic bond between these two nations is of the utmost importance to the safety and success of each." Many thanks to Congressman Schneider
for personally taking time out of his busy schedule to meet with our students, and to Dr. Auslander for chaperoning!
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Alumni Trivia With the bitter winds blowing through this week, it sometimes feels like we're living on an ice mountain! Speaking of ice mountains, ?ווו זענען די אייז בערג איצט Or to put it another way, what are the Eisenbergs up to these days?
Debate Flies to New York Our debaters spent the past weekend in New York at the annual Yeshiva University debate tournament! Coach Jonathan Horowitz reports from the Big Apple, "Words cannot describe the warm reception and generous hospitality we received at Shaarei Zedek in New York. We ran into some huge mazel, as a fellow worshiper sitting near us was an immigration lawyer! He joined us for dinner, and we had a lively conversation about immigration law. He helped us think more deeply about the topic, and gave us insight that we hadn't thought about before.
It was fantastic and fantastically lucky. After shacharit on Shabbat, we went to Central Park where we hung out, climbed trees, and watched a lot of ducks." Shavua tov and warmest wishes from Rabbi Ayal Robkin, who came down from Yeshivat Chovevei Torah to meet up with the team motzei Shabbat in Times Square!
Debaters Isaac Johnston, Jonathan Schrag, Justin Lanoff, Michael Weldler, Akiva Stein, Jake Dayan, and Adam Gilman received the "traveled the farthest" trophy as they prepared to take on the east coast day schools! Senior captain Jonathan Schrag went maverick (solo) and went 2-1 with his eastern opponents. We anxiously await trophy news from YU as the results come in. Thank to to Coach Horowitz and Ms. Stephanie Gladstein for chaperoning!
Social Studies Exercises Ms. Glads tein's world histor y class is puttin g the "exer cise" in exerci se as they try to stage tableaus representing different forms of world government. Can you tell whether this one is oligarchy, monarchy, or democracy?
Sophomores Visit Bahai Temple The sophomore class took a field trip on Wednesday to the Bahai Temple of Wilmette to examine the beauty of the structure and discuss the concept of sacred space in the context of Shlomo's dedication of the Beit HaMikdash. Is there a fundamental distinction between sanctity, sanctuary, inspiration, and aesthetics? Can space truly be sacred? Thanks to Ms. Frankel and Rabbi Belgrad for chaperoning and leading the discussion.
Game Day Game day: it's not just for football anymore! On Friday, the CJHS Math Team hosted the first ever ice cream game day lunch. Students brought their favorite games, like Mastermind, Chess, and SET and competed against each other while eating delicious ice cream. If you want some serious SET competition, just play against Shira Forester! Thanks to Sarah Comar, Rayna Gorstein, and Ms. Gitlin for organizing. Look for
more of these coming up!
DEAP Toy Drive DEAP is sponsoring a toy drive for Chai Lifeline. Please send in gifts for the sick boys or girls, infants through teens, especially ages 13+! Gifts and donations in any price range are welcome; wrapping is not necessary, and we are trying to steer clear of guns, games, or toys that encourage violence. Our drive goes through Monday, December 8, so why not start your holiday shopping?
STAND UPdate At least 48 protesters were arrested in downtown Cairo on Wednesday as small groups of activists marched and chanted slogans in memory of colleagues killed in clashes with the police three years ago. Read all about it here. This world news item is highlighted by STAND member Zev Mishell.
Sponsored Breakfast Happy birthday to Tali Geifman! Many thanks to her family for sponsoring breakfast on Thursday, and to Camp Ramah Wisconsin and Ramah Day Camp for treating us to bagels on Friday.
Alumni Trivia Early CJHS student Ruthie Eisenberg ('07) got her B.A. in statistics and economics from Barnard, and has just finished her masters in biostatistics at Columbia. Ruth lives New York, where she works as a biostatistician at Columbia University's department of
psychiatry and the New York State Psychiatric Institute. Her brother Daniel Eisenberg ('10) majored in chemical engineering at MIT and minored in energy studies. Daniel is living in Cambridge, MA and has just started his first job working for a small company called American Ag Energy. Dan explains, "We build commercial sized greenhouses integrated with small natural gas power plants to grow vegetables and produce electric power... big combined heat and power projects!"
A Taste of Torah: Toldot ַויִּגְדְ לּו, יֹׁשֵב, אִּיׁש שָדֶ ה; ְויַעֲק ֹב אִּיׁש תָ ם, ַויְהִּי ֵעשָו אִּיׁש י ֹדֵ ַע ַצי ִּד,ַהנְע ִָּרים יַעֲק ֹב- א ֹ ֶהבֶת ֶאת, ַצי ִּד ְבפִּיו; ו ְִּר ְבקָה- כִּי, ֵעשָו- ַוי ֶ ֱאהַב יִּ ְצחָק ֶאת.א ֹ ָהלִּים. The lads grew up, and Esav became a man who knew how to hunt, a man of the field, while Ya'akov was a simple man who stayed with the tents. Yitzchak loved Esav, for venison was there to eat, but Rivka loved Ya'akov. (Genesis 25:27-28) Students in Dr. Schorsch and Ms. Frankel's parsha minyan considered the question of hunting this week. One group maintained that human rights activists have a moral imperative to speak up for those without voices, among whom defenseless animals can be numbered. Another team pointed out that hunting is a more ecologically sustainable method of acquiring meat than
buying from factory farms and irresponsible meat packers. Rabbinic views on hunting are uniformly negative and all but nonex istent in the practi cal vein. Comin g from a ;yeshi va-literall y, a place where people need do nothing but sit, fed by the support of an urban center or prosperous farm--the rabbis never considered a kosher way to hunt. The only rabbinic discussion of hunting comes as a castigation of our uncle Esav's chosen profession. Esav was a hunter, and thus hunting, like Esav, is irredeemably un-Jewish. The farmer or herdsman must first devote most of his waking hours to keeping the animal alive; nevertheless, the end result of hunting and husbandry is the same: an innocent creature is brought to a swift end. Perhaps the Biblical antipathy towards hunting stems not only from the blood of the animal, but from the location in which the profession is practiced. Even a 21st century hunter must spend weeks in the wild, unreachable even by cell phone, in order to bag a buck to bring home. Esav, loving son that he was, was seldom home to be of help to the family. Ya'akov, who does not develop a profession as a shepherd until next parsha, is as above, fundamentally a boy who stays home. Esav provides a nice Thanksgiving dinner, but whenever someone needed guarding or guiding, whenever his father needed a meal or his mother
needed a man's help, only Ya'akov was on hand. Rivka recognized in her younger son the patient and above all present capacity of someone who could be responsible not only for his family but for the covenant as well. --Mrs. Shira Eliaser
Av Harachamim We honor the memories of Avraham Shmuel Goldberg, Aryeh Kupinsky, Moshe Twersky, and Officer Zidan Seif who lost their lives in the brutal attack on Tuesday in the Har Nof neighborhood of Jerusalem. On Friday morning, the students recited Psalms, and Larry Bender and Sarah Levin, presidents of Va'ad Israel, gave tribute to the slain. May God comfort the mourners during this difficult time and bring peace to the land and people of Israel.
Shabbat Shalom Candlelighting this week is at 4:06. Shabbat shalom! ַהנְתּונִּים ְבצ ָָרה,ַאחֵינּו כָל בֵית יִּש ְָראֵל , הָעֹומְדִּ ים בֵין ַבי ָם ּובֵין ַבי ַ ָבׁשָה,ש ְבי ָה ִּ ּו ַב ַהמָקֹום י ְַרחֵם ֲעלֵיהֶם, וְיֹוצִּיאֵ ם ִּמצ ָָרה שעְבּוד ִּ ּו ִּמ,ְאֹורה ָ ּו ֵמ ֲא ֵפלָה ל,ל ְִּר ָוחָה ׁשתָ א ַב ֲעגָלָא ּו ִּבזְמַן ק ִָּריב ְ ַה, ִּלגְ ֻאלָה. Happy Thanksgiving to all our readers everywhere. May we enjoy and be thankful for the blessings of peace, acceptance, and plenty. E-News will resume after Thanksgiving break.