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February 15, 2013 / 5 Adar 5773
CJHS Debate Second Place in
Nation
In This Issue
YU Debate
Tournament
The Puppy Project
Curriculum and
Beyond
National Merit
Finalists
Tigers Press On
Bowling Banquet
Shmuel Aleph Siyum
Fond Farewell
Debate Takes New York City by Storm!
Todah Rabbah
The Prints Presents
Cell Phones for Shalva
Jazz Band Concert
Pet Supplies Drive
STAND UPdate
Save the Date
Alumni Trivia
A Taste of Torah
Save the Date
Monday, Feb. 18
No School
Monday, Feb. 25
Shushan Purim
Tuesday, March 5 -
Sunday, March 10
Model U.N. Trip
Thursday, March. 14
Pi Day
Friday, March 15
Friday 2:45 Dismissal
Begins
Monday, March 25
Pesach Break Begins
P. O. Corner
Gelt Program The P.O. is pleased to once again introduce the gift card "Gelt program" to our families and we have made it much easier (look for upcoming email with details on how to register). Faculty and staff can also buy Gelt that will help to support programs provided for the school by the P.O. This program is designed to help families earn money toward their children's junior year
The beginning of the 24th Annual Marsha Stein Talmudical
Academy Great Debate Tournament at New York's Yeshiva
University could
hardly have been
more ominous: as
blizzard conditions
raged across
Manhattan, many
wondered whether
the seventeen Jewish
high schools from
across the country
would actually make
it to the Upper West
Side at all! But after
a series of happy
chances, an eventful Shabbat spent with Elli Cohn ('09),
Josh Warshawsky ('08), and Lilli Flink ('08) at JTS, a
quick jaunt to Central Park and a dash around Times
Square, the CJHS debate team arrived at YU Sunday
morning ready to have it out with the best of them. (See a
working link to the ABC television news interview here.)
Panim program and/or the Senior Israel Experience. The program is a passive earning system, in which you buy the things you ordinarily purchase anyway, and earn money which will be credited to your family for designated school trips. If you have any questions, contact Sheri Sandrof at [email protected] or call her at 847.324.3723.
Community News and Events
Limmud Chicago! Saturday, February 16 6:45 p.m. Join us for laughter, beats, and dancing at the UIC Student Center East to celebrate the opening of Limmud Chicago 2013.
Joel Chasnoff will perform his new piece, G.I. Joel: A 24-year-old Stand-up Comic from Chicago Gets Drafted into the Israeli Army. Watch "A Life in Stills" sponsored by the Chicago Festival of Israeli Cinema. And afterwards, dance the night away with Biblegum pop stars Stereo Sinai. Sunday, February 17 9:00 a.m.
The indefatigable Mr. Marchenko, our
stalwart and hero- worshipped coach,
reports, "We were newcomers to this
tournament and almost from the get-go,
the rumors began to flow:
* 'Did you see the Chicago team?'
* 'I
heard
they're
incredible
.'
* 'That Midwestern style of
debate is tough to beat."
It was a testament to our
school and our students that
our reputation was so
instantaneously positive and prestigious. The debate team
hopes this will be the first of many such trips and thanks
the community for the positive response we have received."
As partner teams fanned out across the building arguing
over the fate of the illegal
immigrant population in the
United States, the
excitement and tension built
steadily throughout the day.
Each team argued either for
or against a pathway to
citizenship, and after three
intense rounds, we
reconvened in the main hall
to sum up, reflect, and await
the results. However, even without the scores, each debater
was supremely proud of his or her own individual effort as
You'll be able to choose from
over 80 sessions throughout the day. Limmud Chicago 2013 is centered around two themes: Jewish Love and Jews who made Chicago; there are plenty of sessions beyond these themes, too. See the lineup here! Lunch is included along with snacks; dietary laws observed. Check out limmudchicago.org to register, and remember to use your CJHS Family Member discount of 5%!
J2J Networking
Wednesday, February 20 7:45 p.m. We hope you can join us at our next J2J Networking Group meeting at Beth Hillel Congregation Bnai Emunah (3220 Big Tree Ln, Wilmette IL 60091) on February 20. We will have the following panel speaking on "Staying Afloat While Unemployed:"
David Fain, Fain
Financial Services Ira Piltz, Attorney,
Law Offices of Ira Piltz in Skokie
Fred H. Rothschild, CLU RHU, Rothschild Insurance Group
American Friends of
Israeli War Disabled
Presents...
"Everything Is Illuminated"
well as the remarkable performance of the team as a whole.
A glitch in the scoring meant we
headed back to Chicago without
knowing the outcome of the
competition: after two fearful days,
the good word came through: the
newly-deployed CJHS team took
second place! Junior/sophomore
superstars Maya Behn and Elan
Karoll (left) took 4th prize for Best
Pair Team in the tournament, while
seniors Michael Jacobson and
Benji Noy also maintained a 3-0
record. Senior Daniel Fishbaum
had the most speaking points for
the team. Many congratulations to winners Eli Krule,
Isaac Johnston, Alex Cope, Ceren Maeir, Nate
Swetlitz, Elan Sykes, Alana Spellman, and Jonathan
Schrag. We are so proud of you all!
Please note: all rumors that the
Debate Team and the Model U.N.
team (also 2nd place in the
nation) will be enacting West Side
Story and staging an impromptu
"rumble" to determine once and
for all which gang is cooler are
entirely unfounded. It is the
faculty that will be doing a
musical Purim shpiel, not the
students. Cutthroat rivalry
between the two nationally
famous teams is restricted to the
faculty sponsors only.
The Puppy Project
This past Friday we were
fortunate to have a very
special freshman advisory
activity. Julia Havey, a
representative from
Canine Companions for
Independence, a non-
profit organization that
trains assistance dogs for
people with disabilities,
came to CJHS with two service puppies in training. Our own
Sunday, March 17 2:00 p.m. Noyes Cultural Center 927 Noyes Street, Evanston
The Next Theater Company's upcoming production is Jonathan Safran Foer's Everything is Illuminated, adapted for the stage by Simon Block. It chronicles a young
Jewish man's journey as he struggles to unlock the secrets of his past. It follows the quirky journey of Jonathan scouring the rural Ukraine landscape in the search of a woman who may have saved his grandfather from the Nazis, accompanied by an old man haunted by memories of the war, an amorous and excitable dog named Sammy Davis Jr. Jr., and an irreverent translator with a unique grasp of the English language
Join us at 1:00 p.m. before the show for an hour of light refreshment and camaraderie at the Noyes Cultural Center in the studio right next door to the theater entrance. The play begins at 2:00 p.m. Advance copies of the script will be available and we are invited to a special post-show discussion with members of the cast and artistic team.
The cost for this wonderful afternoon is only $36.00 per
person. Make your checks out to AFIWDF.
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,
freshman Rebecca Abrams, an assistant volunteer puppy
raiser, brought this
wonderful program
to our school.
Rebecca showed
each group of
freshmen a
Powerpoint
presentation
outlining what this
wonderful program
does for those in
need, providing
free trained dogs
for support, assistance, and companionship to those who
could benefit from a canine companion and thus lead a
fuller and more productive life. Each freshman had an
opportunity to practice some commands with the dogs and
to play with them as well. Charles Schultz said, "Happiness
is a warm puppy." Guidance counselor Nancy Steinberg
insists, "No, happiness is watching our wonderful young freshmen playing with a warm puppy!"
Thanks so much to Julia for all of the work she does on
behalf of those in need. And a special thank you to Rebecca
for volunteering her time with this wonderful organization
and for making us all aware of this unique and special organization.
Curriculum and Beyond
and orange juice will be served to everyone. An announcement will be made in Tefillah and in the dining hall, and the occasion will also be listed in our weekly E-News. If you have any questions, please call 847.324.3713 or email [email protected]. Order forms are available online here.
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Many thanks to everyone who
came together to make
Wednesday's Curriculum and
Beyond Night a success! Over 30
families piled into CJHS on
Wednesday night to experience
the best of what we have to offer,
and they professed themselves
mightily impressed.
An extra special thank you
goes out to the teachers and students who helped with the
logistics, ran model classrooms, staffed activity booths, and
led tours of our institution. Yasher koach, everyone!
National Merit Finalists
Congratulations to seniors Nate Swetlitz and Elan
Sykes on being named a National Merit Finalists! We are
all proud of everything these young men have achieved in
science, politics, oratory, religious studies, mathematics,
writing, devotion to the community, and a commitment to
social justice. We look forward to following their future careers with pride.
Alumni Trivia
Which former CJHS figure of note can you find peacefully
praising her Creator in this picture before she was pulled
aside and detained by the police for "engaging in behavior likely to cause a breach of the peace"?
JV Tigers Say 'W'!
The sophomore basketball team ended their season with
a tough loss to CICS Ellison in the Chicago Prep Conference
Tournament, while the freshmen lost to Lake Forest
Academy on Monday and played North Shore Country Day
on Thursday. The freshmen will play in the Chicago Prep
Conference Tournament, Sunday at 9 a.m., right here at
the Caplan gym. The amazing JV Tigers did their best last
night to avenge the Lady Tigers' defeat at the hands of
North Shore Country Day; junior Hillel Schwartz had an
amazing game with 22 points, with further great plays
delivered by seniors Rami Eilian and Josh Flink and
juniosr Evan Gorstein and Josh "Gingi" Aaronson. Go
Tigers!
CJHS defeats Lake Forest Academy! Many thanks to the inexhaustible Coach Newlander for the video
production.
Across the gym with the varsity team,
the Tigers knocked off another top
team, defeating Lake Forest Academy
88-80. Jake Newlander had 28 points
and 5 assists to lead the way for the
Tigers, whose amazing season record of
21-3 has never been topped at CJHS.
Next week the men's varsity basketball
team begins the IHSA Regional
Tournament at
Christian Liberty
Academy in Arlington
Heights. The semifinal
game is Tuesday at
6:00 p.m. Tickets are $4; please see Mr.
Gleicher if you would like to sign up for
the bus.
Lady Tigers Alana Stoehr, Caroline
Dreifuss, and Alana Spellman slammed
some 3-pointers last night at the Sectional Championship
Three Point Showdown at Westminster Christian School. We
are incredibly proud of our CJ sectionalists... Go Lady
Tigers!
Don't miss SENIOR NIGHT, THIS
SATURDAY NIGHT VS. IDA CROWN.
Come out and watch the seniors play one
final time at Caplan Gym: the women's
varsity Lady Tigers play at 8:00 p.m.,
followed by the men's varsity at 9:30
p.m. And Tuesday after school is the
winter pep rally, so blue out for your team
and show your CJHS colors!
Bowling Banquet
The annual bowling
invitational and banquet
celebrated the 39
members of the CJHS
bowling team, who
completed their season
last week at Brunswick
Zone in Deerfield. The
banquet honored the
three assistant coaches
whose help made the
three months of bowling
a rousing success: Mr.
Jerry Drazin, Mr. Henry
Bernstein and Mr.
Arnold Bender, father of
sophomore Larry
Bender. Aitan Licht
was also honored as
being the bowling with
the highest overall
average; team
competition honors went
to the team of Rachel
Small, Fede Romano,
and Elijah Kliot. Also
saluted were our five
seniors: Elan Sykes,
Benjy Noy, Aitan Licht, Yoni Gabel, and Nate Swetlitz.
Altogether, 34 of the 39 bowlers raised their averages
during the season. In addition to being our biggest team
ever, Dr. Auslander, our redoubtable coach, has also
pointed out that this year's team included more girls than ever before. Go Ten-Pin Tigers!
Junior Siyum
Ms. Gleicher-Bloom's Tanakh class
has concluded their study of Shmuel
Aleph, the First Book of Samuel!
Junior Jackie Geraty reports, "After
[finishing] Sefer Shmuel Aleph, we
came together as a class to share
snacks and individual 'Divrei Nach,'
each using a pasuk of our choice from
the text we spent so much time
studying. We related these psukim to
our personal lives and our society
now-- the topics went all the way from politics to TV shows.
The siyum gave us a real feeling of closure, even though we started Sefer Bet the next class!"
Fond Farewell
CJHS bids a fond farewell to front desk
maven Sandi Topper and her husband
Jeff, who will be moving to Harrisburg,
PA. We will miss them very much and we
wish them every good fortune in their move and in their new home.
Todah Rabbah
Many thanks to all the students and staff who came
together to get everyone home safely in the wake of last
week's winter storm. Special thanks from all of us at CJHS
go to Mr. and Mrs. Ronald and Melissa Namberg of
Deerfield, who rescued and sheltered the four last
mathletes unable to make it home due to road conditions. God bless all our good neighbors!
Spoken Word Workshop: The Prints
Two years ago, our
literary magazine
students watched
Louder than a Bomb,
a documentary that
follows the journeys
of four high school
students as they write
and perform poetry in
the annual Louder Than a Bomb spoken word competition.
This year, The Prints is proud to announce that one of the
stars of the film, Adam Gottlieb, will be leading CJHS
students in a spoken word workshop on February 28, from 5:00-6:30 p.m. To hear Adam's incredible work, click here.
In preparation for this event, The Prints will be screening
Louder than a Bomb during FPLA on February 21. Everyone
is welcome to join us for the movie--so get excited, and be
inspired! Additionally, we have six spots reserved for the
workshop for students who are not yet members of the
Prints; if you would like to join, we would love to have you. Please contact Ada Moses or Betty Shklover.
Cell Phones for Shalva
Bring your old cell phones to the Cell Phone Drop Box in the
office. By doing so, you will be supporting Shalva and providing
critical support to Jewish survivors of abuse. Recycle that old phone and do a
mitzvah!
Jazz Band Concert
CJHS is proud to be part of TUNED-IN, the 6th Annual Larry
Dobkin Teen Music Showcase to benefit RESPONSE. This
incredible organization services over 13,000 young people
and their families each year, empowering teens to make
healthy life choices. This year's concert will take place at
the Sheely Center for the Performing Arts at Glenbrook
North High School on March 2 at 8:00 p.m. with a dessert
reception at 7:30 p.m. For information about tickets,
please contact Mr. Scher or RESPONSE at 224-625-2922.
Pet Supplies for Orphans of the Storm
DRIVES has teamed up with the Chesed
Club to run a great collection for Orphans of
the Storm, a no-kill shelter that cares for
stray, abandoned, abused, or neglected
dogs and cats. Next week is the last week we will be
collecting blankets, towels, newspapers, baking soda, toys, treats, brushes, and combs for dogs and cats. Thanks!
STAND UPdate
STAND secretary Yadid Licht reports, "This next edition of
I Am Congo tells the story of Amani Mataboro, a community
builder in the Democratic Republic of Congo." Watch this
week's video here.
Save the Date: Wagner Institute
Join us at
"Creating a Just Society" The Isidor and Rose Wagner Institute for Leadership
Development of The Jewish Theological Seminary
in partnership with Chicagoland Jewish High School
Featuring JTS Chancellor Arnold M. Eisen
Sunday, April 21 - Monday, April 22
Alumni Trivia
Rabbi Robyn Fryer-
Bodzin was detained
by the Israeli police
during Rosh Chodesh
services on Monday as
the Women of the Wall
peacefully made their
way down from the
Kotel to Robinson's Arch to read Torah. A full 190 other
participants in the service went unmolested, including the
three 1967 paratroopers and other brave men who were
standing on the men's side to support their fellow Jews'
right to pray with tzitzit, and--according to the major
coverage in the Israeli newspaper Ha-Artez--three others
who linked arms and refused to move. Rabbi Fryer-Bodzin
and about ten others were taken to a police station,
questioned, and released with a judicial order not to return
to the Kotel for 15 days.
Officer: Why were you wearing a talit?
Rabbi Fryer-Bodzin: I was wearing a talit because I am a
rabbi, I am Jewish, and I have chiuv (obligation).
Support for Rabbi
Fryer-Bodzin has
poured in from all over
North America; she has
been interviewed in her
hometown paper about
her history of social
activism and her
ongoing battle against
intolerance. Rabbi
Fryer-Bodzin's own
essay on her
experience, "On Being Attained at the Kotel," including a
beautiful Ani Ma'amin prayer composed in her honor by
Cantor Shiya Ribowsky, can be found here. Chizki v'imtzi,
Rabbi: CJHS is proud of you!
A Taste of Torah: Adar Is Here!
On Monday we celebrated Rosh Chodesh as a school, beginning Tefillot with
raucous singing of "Mi Shenichnas Adar Marbin b'Simcha," or, "He who enters Adar increases in joy." However, can we truly mandate feelings, particularly happiness?
After all, there are so many reasons why someone would like to be happy but certain parts of life are holding us back - factors that we don't have control over.
I think that the four mitzvot (commanmdents) of Purim give insight into how we can foster a community of happiness, if not mandate
happiness outright. The four mitzvot are: reading the Megillah, having a Purim seudah (festive meal), giving Mishloach Manot (gifts to friends), and Matanot LaEvyonim (gifts to the poor).
These mitzvot represent concentric circles of responsibility, each of which push us to interact with a certain set of relationships in our lives. While we might not be able to force
our own emotional state, we certainly can strive to make others
joyful on this day.
Megillah: It is customary to read
Megillat Esther with a minyan because of the wish to publicize the miracle. The reading connects us not only to those around us through raucous joy, but also vertically in time, to the narrative of our people.
The mitzvah of hearing the megillah forces us to interact with the miracles of the day, to those in our past who allowed us to celebrate on this day.
Purim Seudah: Those who sit around our tables are generally those closest with
us, and the table is limited to the number of chairs that can fit around
it. A Purim seudah guarantees that we will break bread with those who are closest to us in
our lives and make festive eating (but of course!) a part of this day.
Mishloach Manot: One more step beyond the table in our concentric circles
of relationships represents those who are
important in our lives and on this day in particular, we want to reach out to and say, "I care about you." These
people may not have been at the table for the Purim Seudah, but giving mishloach manot says in both words and deeds that you are important to me, and I want to make your Purim joyous.
Matanot LaEvyonim: The Rambam (Moses Maimonides,
1135-1204) says that giving gifts to the poor is more important than any of the other three mitzvot of Purim, and that "the one who brightens the hearts of the unfortunate is similar to the
Shechinah," the Divine Presence (Yad, Hilchot Megillah v'Chanukah, 2:17). In our final
circle of relationships, we recognize that there is no one who is on the outside of our community. On Purim, anyone
who reaches out and asks for a gift (kol mi shepores yad), we
have the obligation to give. On any other day we can think about tzedakah priorities, how much to give toward immediate need and how much toward systemic change. But on this day, we give to all who ask - because this is the essence of what it means to manifest joy on Purim.
During this Purim, take the opportunity to make all of your circles of friends and acquaintances happy. Be Happy, It's Adar!
--Rav Beit Sefer Zach Silver
משנכנס אדר מרבין בשמחה
Candlelighting will be at 5:05 p.m. Shabbat
shalom, and happy Adar!