The Covenant Award 14 Cheshvan, 5775
This Week at CJHS Dr. Schorsch Covenant Scholar Panel Honoring Dr. Schorsch
November 7, 2014
Dr. Schorsch Goes to Washington
Cooper Invitational Open House All-School Shabbaton Fall Art Show and Concert Cross Country Reflections Students in the News PO Corner Alumni Basketball Game A Taste of Torah Alumni Trivia
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Dr. Rebecca Schorsch, head of Jewish Studies at CJHS, is now in Washington D.C. to receive the prestigious Covenant Award-- the premier award for excellence in Jewish education. The awards dinner will take place this Sunday during the General Assembly of the Jewish Federations of North America. Dr. Schorsch is one of three recipients of this year's award, established by the Covenant Foundation, a program of the Crown Family Philanthropies to recognize outstanding Jewish educators across all denominations. The entire CJHS community wishes a hearty yish'ar kochech to Dr. Schorsch
Wednesday, Nov. 26 1:15 Dismissal
for her phenomenal work as a mentor, educator, teacher, and role model for generations of Jewish students! Chizki u'vimtzi!
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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
Thursday, November 13, 2014 7:00 p.m. Jacob Cytryn, Director, Ramah Wisconsin
Tamar Cytryn, Director of Jewish Studies and Campus Life, Chicago Jewish Day School
Rabbi Ben Kramer, Director of Jewish Life & Learning, Sager Solomon Schechter Day School
Tzivia Garfinkel, Head of Jewish Studies, Bernard Zell Anshe Emet Day School
Lisa Alter Krule, Director of Regional Engagement, United Synagogue of
Rabbi Zachary Silver, Rav Beit Sefer, Chicagoland Jewish High School
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.
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Spertus Presents
CJHS alumni parent Amy Reichert will have her artwork on display at Spertus over the next six weeks! Join her at the reception in her honor on Sunday, November 9 from 3:30 - 5:00 p.m.
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.
2014 Cooper Invitational Seeding Show
Seventeen doughty CJHS basketball players are representing the Chicago area at the Cooper Invitational this weekend! The Cooper Yeshiva High School Invitational Tournament, hosted by the Margolin Hebrew Academy in Memphis, Tennessee, is now the second largest Jewish high school athletic event in North America. The tournament includes sixteen top-tier teams and a Shabbaton immersed in "southern hospitality." After bringing home the trophy two years ago, our boys were seeded fourth this year for another incredible run for the gold!
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Junior Josh Lederman reports from the Deerfield feed that CJHS ran into a tough opponent in the Weinberg Storm yesterday. Senior Josh Newlander took the lead against Boca Raton with 26 points. Freshmen Eli Nasatir and Jonah Karoll made their mark on the game as well, along with team mainstays Eli Schrayer and Jacob Erlichman. Despite crushing odds, the team made a supreme push to even the score and came back in the fourth quarter with almost 21 points to cut the lead to 6 points. CJHS is now in Tier II and faces the Atlanta Jaguars on Friday.
Admissions Open House
Open House 2014 was a huge success with over
50 families represented from both day schools and public schools, from communities all over the Chicagoland area. The event began with a Student Activities Fair, where prospective families learned about FPLA's, clubs and athletic opportunities at CJHS. A CJHS student panel responded to questions from prospective students about what it is truly like to be a student at CJHS. Prospective parents participated in Q&A rotations that included Transportation, CJ & Beyond, Academics, Jewish Experience, etc. The families also got a chance to sit in several classes to learn more about our curriculum. Thank you to our all our staff and student volunteers!
All-School Shabbaton CJHS students headed off to Evanston last weekend for the yearly DEAP Shabbato n. DEAP (Direct Service, Education, Advocacy, and Philanthropy) seeks to guide CJHS students to think and act about systemic injustice in our society. This year's theme was food justice. Samantha Warren from Campus Kitchens shared her personal perspective and talked about the role of this organization in the community, which does food recovery from the Northwestern food system and gives that food to those who need it. As Samantha explained, 40% of food is wasted in America, while one in six Americans do not know where their next meal will come from.
Followi ng Kabbal at Shabb at, Maariv ,a delicio us Tein Li Chow dinner, and a surprise birthday cake for Elan Karoll, Northwes tern's Shireinu a capella group treated the students to their first performance of the year. After Shacharit at the hotel, we headed over to Northwestern Hillel for lunch, where we were delighted to meet up with CJHS alumni Jeff Budweg, Daniel Fishbaum, Alex Krule, Aitan Licht, Iszy Licht, and Yadid Licht. Junior Aviva Hirsch fielded questions from our students to the purple Wildcat collegiates about social justice, advocacy at the college level, and Jewish life on campus. Following a simulation on food access in Chicago and identification of root causes of this problem, we strolled around campus, dived into seudah shlishit and sang our way through Maariv and Havdalah. The combination of learning, time on campus, and the opportunity to be with new and old friends at the Shabbaton served as a wonderful fusion.
Fall'in Community Concert and Art Show The CJHS fall art show last Sunday at Gidwitz Place was a tremendous success among residents and guests! Artwork was set up in the lobby as people entered into the social hall for the free concert. Studio Art students illustrated songs with fruits or vegetables in the lyrics, and the tunes were taken up by the CJHS jazz band and vocal ensemble. For the first time, our performers were joined onstage by the "Gidiwtz Players" as well. The concert ended with everyone joining in Hatikvah. We are terrifically proud of all the CJHS artists, musicians, and singers involved in this collaboration, and hope to do it again in the near future!
Cross Country All-Conference
Team As basketball begins its pre-season training, the 2014 cross country team wraps up another successful year. With the largest team in school history (25 boys and 13 girls), our boys won the Lake Forest Invitational for the first time, and brought home the trophy from the Conference Championship for the fifth straight year. Woohoo-- 5 PEAT!
The girls' team showed remarkable improvement, placing fourth at the Conference Championship, and fifth at the Lake Forest Invitational, with both meets hosting 11 teams. Thirteen CJHS students won medals; all seven varsity boys finished in the top 11 at the Conference Championship, and all made the AllConference Team. Yasher koach to Yoni Maltsman, Zev Mishell, Akiva Stein, Ari Rosenthal, Ranan Vales, Parker Weber, and Felix Rosen. JV boys also won the Conference meet, placing ten boys in the top 12 runners, and yielding medals for Josh Pliskin, Sol Treister, and Liam Lynch. Yoni Maltsman and Zev Mishell each set school course records; and Yoni won the Lake Forest Invitational. Gaby Ecanow and Ariel Saxton made the AllConference Team, tying the girls' school record for All-Conference medal winners. Gaby set two school course records, and Ariel Saxton set one. The most rewarding achievement this year happened one week after the season ended. The
team captains, Rayna Gorstein, and Jonah Glickman-Unterman organized a "Cross Country Shabbaton," with over 30 runners spending the weekend at the Vales and Romanoff households. Thanks to Moriah Congregation for hosting!
Students in the News Congratulations to junior Sarah Comar, whose poem "The Stylist" about body image, selfdetermination, and having a positive relationship with God was published in Mishpacha Junior magazine--with a fullpage spread, no less! Sarah has been actively raising awareness in the community about alopecia for many years, and CJHS heartily applauds her efforts and her literary talent. Yasher koach, Sarah!
Alumni Trivia This was a big week in local elections. As we look back on the history of CJHS politics, who was the first president of the Va'ad and where is she now?
P.O. Corner The CJHS Parent Organization invites you to contribute to our annual Teacher/Staff Hanukkah Gift Fund. The suggested contribution is $18 per student, but any amount is greatly appreciated. Please send cash or check payable to CJHS PO to the main office by December 9.
Alumni Basketball Game
Featuring the annual tug-of-war competition and fun interactive activities, Saturday evening, November 29, from 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. There will be a suggested $10 donation 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.
A Taste of Torah: Vaera
This is the week where half-brothers Yitzchak and Yishmael separate, their personal sacrifices sowing the seeds of conflict. The Yedid Nefesh bencher
traces the source of the discord up and away from the two brothers, each of whom was sorely tried in his lifetime, to the two women whose voices are so seldom heard: Sarah, Avraham's long-suffering wife, and Hagar, the Egyptian slave girl who was passed from one master to another without any rights to her own body or the destiny of her child. As descendants of Sarah, the first Jewish woman, we are quick to blame Hagar for "putting on airs" and for being unable to cope with thedeath of a loved one, but the angel who speaks to her is not so judgmental: Hagar hears in her oppression and despair what righteous and wise Jewish prophets could not. Hagar was given over to Avraham without need for consent, held as a dangerous rival by the mistress who arranged the match, delivered of a son with the barest minimum of acknowledgement, and freed just as suddenly with equal disregard for her wishes or safety. Which of us could have coped better with these circumstances? Perhaps the blame lies neither on Sarah for asserting
her rights nor to Hagar for defending hers. Sarah's fear for her own wellbeing was borne of bitter experience, experience learned in Egypt. Midrash Rabbah suggests that Hagar, being Egyptian, was given as a gift to Avram and Sarai by the Pharaoh as part of reparations for the treatment afforded to Sarai in last week's parsha. Recall how Pharaoh abducted her--what's another pretty face?--and Avram, fearing for his life, forced her to lie to the amorous monarch and wait for God to rescue her. Even a righteous, God-fearing woman like Sarah was traumatized and changed by a system wherein she was treated like a thing, where her beauty and her body were freely available to be snatched up and paid for by the first power to take an interest.
--Mrs. Shira Eliaser, From a drash given by Chava Evans of Yeshivat Maharat
Alumni Trivia Pre-pioneer student and first Va'ad president Mollie Flink ('04) earned her B.A. from Columbia/JTS, and has just finished her masters' in social work at the University of Chicago. After interning at the Lincoln Park Community Shelter and St. Joseph Hospital, Mollie now works as a consultant at the PCC Community Center in Oak Park.
Shabbat Shalom Candlelighting this week is at 4:19. Shabbat !shalom ַאחֵינּו כָּל בֵית יִש ְָּׂראֵלַ ,הנְׂתּונִים ְׂבצ ָָּּרה ש ְׂבי ָּה ,הָּעֹומְׂדִ ים בֵין ַבי ָּם ּובֵין ּו ַב ִ וְׂיֹוצִיאֵ ם ַ ,בי ַ ָּבשָּהַ ,המָּקֹום י ְַׂרחֵם ֲעלֵיהֶם ְׂאֹורה, ִמצ ָָּּרה ל ְִׂר ָּוחָּהּ ,ו ֵמ ֲא ֵפלָּה ל ָּ שתָּ א ַב ֲעגָּלָּא ּו ִבזְׂמַן שעְׂבּוד ִלגְׂ ֻאלָּהַ ,ה ְׂ ּו ִמ ִ .ק ִָּריב