Farewell to Israel

3 Shvat, 5775 January 23, 2015

This Week at CJHS

Senior Israel Experience

New Student

Sushi and Sake Too

Tigers Play to Win

STEM Opportunities

From the PO

Sponsored Breakfast

Mazal Tov

Alumni Trivia

A Taste of Torah

Save the Date

Monday, Jan. 26 School resumes for seniors

Senior Israel Experience Concludes

Wednesday, Jan. 28 9:45 Start Sunday, Feb. 8 ACT

Monday, Feb. 9 - Wednesday, Feb. 11 Jewish Advocacy Seminar for Juniors Tuesday, Feb. 24 Curriculum Night

Monday, Feb. 16 Presidents' Day: No School Wednesday, Feb. 25 9:45 Start

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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

The flight is touching down and our jetlagged

seniors are staggering home, full of memories

and food for thought. They began this week in

Tel Aviv, beating the pavements for our

annual scavenger hunt. Teams interviewed

passersby, hunted artifacts, and sought out

ways

they

could be

helpful

to the

people

around

them. S

unday

night

brought

them to

Na

Lagaat, the theater for the blind and deaf in

Jaffa, for a performance which Rayna

Gorstein described as "absolutely

mesmerizing." Miki Gavrealov rocked out in

concert on Monday night for a different side of

Israeli culture--especially for those students

who weren't already fans!

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 e-news. Contact Sheri Sandrof at 847.324.3723 or ssandrof@cjhs.org with any questions.

Community News and Events

JNF Tu Bishvat Community Fun Fair

Update!

Sunday, February 8 11:30 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. 1095 Lake Cook Rd.

Jewish National Fund will host the Tu BiShvat Community Celebration on Sunday, February 8. This free event, cosponsored by Shalom Memorial Park and Chicagoland Jewish High School, features arts and crafts, live entertainment from local performance groups, tree planting, games and prizes. Attendees are asked to bring their filled Blue Boxes to count Tzedakah with JNF's coin counter. JNF's Tu BiShvat Community Celebration will take place at Chicagoland Jewish High School, 1095 Lake Cook Road in Deerfield. Register online at jnf.org/chicagotubishvat.

From Tel Aviv, our seniors moved into the

north as

their

exploratio

n of arts,

water,

and

security

went off

the

beaten

path.

They

explored

opportunit

ies for

coexistenc

e in Haifa,

considere

d the

impact of

war at the

Lebanon overlook, and volunteered at the

Yemin Orde youth village for troubled teens,

as well as exploring the natural beauty of

Nachal Zavitan, the Golan, and the rest of the

beautiful Galil.

Share more of the Class of 2015's adventures,

insights, and photos at the group blog. Thank

you to Rabbi Silver, Mr. Kassner, and Ms.

Seymour for all their hard work and

inspiration, and to all our Israeli madrichim

for helping make this trip so wonderful!

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.

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2014-2015 Dates

CJHS Welcomes New Tiger

CJHS is delighted to welcome

our newest freshman Bella

Lavarre! Bella comes to us

from a semester at Glenbrook North. Great to

have you on board, Bella!

Sushi and Sake Too

This

past

Saturda

y night,

over

eighty

guests

joined

us for

Sushi

and

Sake

Too, the

second

Annual

CJHS

Commu

nity

Event.

The gym

was

transfor

med

into a

Japanes

e dining extravaganza as everyone

was treated to tasty sushi and other Asian

inspired creations. The Tigertini, mixed

especially for CJHS, also made its annual

appearance. One of the

highlights of the evening was a photo

presentation of our Senior Class in Israel. If

you missed it, the photos can be viewed at

Israel 2015. Many thanks to the event chairs,

Lynn Schrayer, Melissa Spellman and Rivka

Zell for an outstanding event.

847.470.6700

Tigers Play to Win

With the seniors in

Israel, freshman

basketball is ruling

the court! Our boys

steamrollered

Northtown on

Thursday night 50-

21. Freshman Alan

Seidel reports, "CJ

played really, really

well! The whole team

together, as a squad.

We were unstoppable!"

CJHS debaters welcomed Schaumburg for the

January scrimmage on Wednesday

evening! Students went head to head on UN

peacekeeping policies and the question of

minimum wage in the U.S. Congratulations to

fantastic Tiger debaters Arthur Sredni, Ben

Saxton, and David Weisskopf.

The Ten-Pin Tigers are on a roll! Coach

Auslander reports from the bowling alley, "Ten

people saw their averages rise in the past

week. Claire Gruenberg is bowling solid,

while Danny Gabel took on alumni guest

Benny Gabel ('14), and rose to the occasion

by bowling his highest game ever. Dena

Romanoff, Max Gruenberg, Nina Levine,

Mollie Kramer, Oliver Friedman, and

Sarah Comar are all in great form. Viktor

Cin averaged close to 130 for all three games,

which is the best he has bowled since joining

the team. Ranan Vales overtook everyone in

game three with a 198!"

Save the date for the annual parent/staff

bowling invitational! The Tigers invite

everyone to join their last practice on

Thursday, February 5 at Brunswick Zone in

Deerfield! Take on our team from 3:45 to 5:15 p.m.!

Alumni Trivia

Which

multitalented

CJHS actress

and singer

starred in five

musicals

during her four years at CJHS--four mainstage

shows, two student director projects, and the

first cinematic Purim spiel musical?

STEM Opportunities for Juniors and Seniors

Juniors and

seniors: take your

education to the

next level! Which of these six opportunities

interests you most? Check out WYSE

engineering summer camps at the University

of Illinois' college of engineering. Life science

aficionados can try biology research

at University of Chicago's summer

session. You can also follow the many CJHS

alumni who have made their mark on summer

research at the Technion! Girls, there are

many programs just for you! The Society of

Women Engineers has weeklong summer

camps at the University of Michicagn, the

University of Illinois, and the University of

Maryland!

Research Experience for High School and

Undergraduates "Genes and Addictive

Behavior" is accepting applications!

Information about the program is at

www.ratgenes.org. Winners will be matched

with faculty researchers and lab associates

from major universities and hospitals. To

apply or read more, click here.

Upcoming Events From the P.O.

Tuesday, February 17, at 7:00 p.m.

Join us for our second CJHS PO Book

Discussion

Second Person Singular, by

Sayed Kashua. A Palestinian

who writes in Hebrew, Sayed

Kashua defies classification

and breaks through cultural

barriers. Second Person

Singular is a gripping tale of

love and betrayal, honesty

and artifice, which asks

whether it is possible to truly

reinvent ourselves, to shed

our old skin and start anew.

Wednesday, March 18, doors open at

7:00 p.m.

Join us for a baking

demonstration and

tasting by renowned

cookbook author,

Paula Shoyer. The

author of The Kosher

Baker, The Holiday

Kosher Baker, and

soon to be released

The New Passover Menu, Shoyer will also be

signing her cookbooks available for purchase.

Light refreshments will be served.

Sponsored Breakfast

Happy birthday to Eli Nasatir and

Joey Schrayer. Many thanks to

their families for sponsoring

breakfast.

Mazal Tov

Mazal tov to

Judaic studies

teacher and

feminist macher

Ilana Gleicher-

Bloom and her husband Daniel

on the birth of an adorable little

daughter on January

17. Congratulations to big

brother Ezra as well!

A second mazal tov goes to

pioneer alumnus Joseph

Waldman ('05) and his wife Lindsay on the

birth of their son Brendan last week. He's

adorable, Joe!

Alumni Trivia

Lisa Wiznitzer ('11) debuted as Gladys, the

sharp-eyed secretary in The Pajama

Game. She went on to

play Lucy in You're a

Good Man, Charlie

Brown, beauty school

dropout Frenchie in

Grease, and the

musical schoolteacher

in School House Rock.

Now a senior at

Northwestern, Lisa is

double majoring in

theater and political science, where she is the

literary manager for the Purple Crayon Players

and an executive board member for the Delta

Gamma sorority. Lisa was excited to intern

for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart last

summer and the Late Show with David

Letterman the year before that! Lisa is

planning on going to law school next year to study entertainment law. Good luck, Lisa!

A Taste of Torah: Bo

"The LORD said to Moshe, "Stretch out your hand

against the sky, and there will be darkness over the land of Egypt, darkness that can be felt. Moshe

stretched forth his hand against the sky and grim darkness fell across the land of Egypt; no one recognized his brother or got up from where he was sitting for three days, while the Israelites all had light in their homes."

--Shmot 10:21-23

Driven to disaster by a selfish and insensitive leader, battered by one natural disaster after another, their economy devastated and their public

health a menace, the Egyptians succumb to crippling hopelessness and impenetrable gloom. The penultimate plague is depression: a

darkness which can be felt. In the fast-paced, isolating culture of the 21st century, we know too well how depression can root us to our seats and prevent us from seeing the common humanity of

others in our sufferings. The Egyptians could see with their eyes, but the darkness within made them as paralyzed as if they had been blind. The light in our dwellings was indeed miraculous, but the miracle was the miracle of hope.

--Mrs. Shira Eliaser

Shabbat Shalom

Candlelighting this

week is at 4:36

p.m. Shabbat

shalom!

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