Hello from Israel

18 Tevet, 5775 January 9, 2015

This Week at CJHS

Senior Israel Experience

Research Opportunity

CJHS Community Night

From the PO

Exam Schedule

Sponsored Breakfast

Alumni Trivia

A Taste of Torah

Save the Date

Senior Israel Experience

Sunday, Jan. 4 - Friday, Jan. 23 Senior Israel Experience Monday, Jan. 12 - Friday, Jan. 16 Winter Exams

Monday, Jan. 19 MLK Day: No School Monday, Jan. 26 School resumes for seniors

Wednesday, Jan. 28

9:45 Start Monday, Feb. 9 - Wednesday, Feb. 11

Jewish Advocacy Seminar for Juniors Monday, Feb. 16 Presidents' Day: No School Wednesday, Feb. 25

9:45 Start

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P.O. Corner

The senior class

touched down

in Israel on

Tuesday to start

their three-week

seminar on life in

our Jewish

homeland. This

week, our seniors

learned about

Zionism,

coexistence, and

renewal as they

explored the

desert from

their home base

on Kibbutz

Ketora. The

dunes of the

Negev provide

endless

possibilities, not

just for

reflection and

self-discovery,

but for environmental development at the

Arava Institute and the kibbutz's renewable

energy initiative, which is providing other

villages across the globe with information and

tools necessary to utilize available resources

to produce natural energy without a power

grid.

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 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

Sunday, February 8 11:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. 1095 Lake Cook Rd. The annual Chicago TuBishvat Community Celebration will take place on February 2 right

Hiking, art expression, and

dance parties provided some

lighter moments as our team

soaked up some rays in Eilat

before braving the cold in

Jerusalem for erev Shabbat.

Mark Lazar welcomed the

seniors to Jerusalem with a

theatrical introduction to

Israeli culture before a

Thursday afternoon trip to

the shuk. Everyone is looking forward to

meeting up with our alumni at the Fuchsberg

Yeshiva after an erev Shabbat walk around

the old city.

here at CJHS! Bring your kids-- or your grandkids-- to the yearly environmental fun fair for arts and crafts projects, sapling planting, performances by local Jewish choirs and Israeli dance troupes, storytelling for young children, visits with Smokey the Bear and Blue Box Bob, and Israeli food for the whole family.

Younger siblings at Schechter and other Jewish schools can see their paintings displayed and come for the judging of the annual Tu Bishvat art contest! Co-sponsored by the JCC's, the JCYS, and the United States Forest Service.

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.

Shabbat shalom

from Jerusalem from Mr. Kassner, Ms.

Seymour, Rabbi Silver, and all our

seniors! Follow their adventures at

http://seniorisraelexperience.wordpress.

com.

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Alumni Trivia

Which of our recent

graduates is now

published in the Times of

Israel with a very

thoughtful response to

North America's outcry

about the new USY leadership standards? And

who is he studying with these days?

Research Opportunity: Genetics and Addiction

Juniors and seniors! REHU 2015 "Genes and

Addictive Behavior" is accepting applications

for research! Stipends of $2,000 for high

school students are available this summer

(June 15 - August 21, 2015) for resereach.

Information about the program is at

www.ratgenes.org. Winners will be matched

with faculty researchers and lab associates

who will mentor REHU (Research Experience

for High School and Undergraduate) activities.

There will be a mid-summer working lunch

and informal journal club program to discuss

research projects and papers. At the

conclusion of the REHU, students will produce

a written report and present research findings

at a REHU symposium. The NIDA Center is led

by the University of Chicago but includes

collaborating investigators at the University of

Michigan, University of Tennessee Health

Science Center, University of Buffalo, and the

Medical College of Wisconsin. Deadline for

receipt of application materials is February 9,

2015. To apply or read more, click here.

SUSHI AND SAKE

TOO:

Second Annual Chicagoland Jewish High School

Community Event

Reconnect with old friends, meet new

ones, and see what's happening in the

halls of CJHS!

Saturday, January 17, 2015

27 Tevet 5775

7:30 p.m.

Suggested Couvert: $50 per person

RSVP to Michelle Friedman TODAY!

Upcoming Events From the P.O.

Tuesday, February 17, at 7 pm

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

p.m.

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.

Final Exams

Stay warm, and happy studying, everyone!

Click here for next week's exam

schedule. Please note that there will be no

cafeteria service next week, so be sure to

brown bag it!

Sponsored Breakfast

Happy birthday to Bea and Sol

Triester! Many thanks to their

family for sponsoring breakfast.

Alumni Trivia

"I, too, see the impending

doom of Conservative

Judaism in the events of

the past [month],"

teases Avidan Halivni

('14) in his blog "Peshat

and Derash" in the international news center

at the Times of Israel. Of course, the rest of

his thoughtful and well-written article

indicates how much hope an interested pedant

can find, not in the dry dictates of party line

divorced entirely from meaning and context,

but in the human faces of young Conservative

Jews and the lives they live. Our movement,

Halivni writes, and indeed all of Jewish study

through the ages, lives in the nuances, the

interpretations, and the living, breathing midrash of the mere words on the page.

Avidan is studying with his bros Evan

Gorstein ('14) and Nathaniel Moses

('14) at Yeshivat Maale Gilboa, the kibbutz

dati overlooking the Yizrael (Jezreel) valley.

The boys study Bava Kama together in the

mornings; Avidan is studying Avoda Zara,

Nathaniel is doing Yoma, and Evan is doing

Makkot. They are also learning Tanach,

chasidut, theory of halacha, and Rav Ethan

Tucker's tshuva on the role of women in the

synagogue. We're behind you, bochurs--keep up the great work!

A Taste of Torah: Shmot There arose a new Pharaoh over Egypt, one who had not known Joseph [personally]. He said, "Look, the nation of the children of Israel is more numerous and strong than we are. We must deal cleverly with them, lest they grow;

it will happen, when there is a war, and they add to our enemies and they will fight us, rising up from the Earth!"

--Exodus 1:8-10 Jews all over the world begin to read this week how our people were mistrusted, enslaved, and made

the subject of terrible atrocities. The new administration had its own agenda and its own version of recent history: never knowing Joseph personally, it was easy for the new king to view his predecessor's nepotistic flunky Tzafnat Paneach (as Yosef was known in court) as a power-hungry,

manipulative yes-man who played on the old king's fears to the advantage of himself and his extended family. No one attempted to correct his narrow-minded opinion; Israelites were animal-keepers who did not move in court circles, and so Pharaoh Raamses chose the path of escalation instead of the path of dialogue.

It is easy to be angry and bitter at Pharaoh and all

his willing helpers for perpetrating the atrocities and becoming the most brutal slavemasters in our history. But the echoes of his voice still ring true in our world. About which minorities do we catch

ourselves saying, "These people are too numerous for our own good?" Whose crimes scream from the headlines and whose equally heinous violence is brushed aside without notice? Whom do we suspect--perhaps even rightly!-- of starting a war

before one has started? The Egyptian enslavement was not wholly without precedent: at the end of Genesis, Joseph reduces the free Egyptian people to serfs as part of his duties to the Crown. Just

who is it now who may rise from the Earth to destroy our way of life? And who might well live with us very peaceably if given the chance? Pharaoh did not discriminate. He targeted all Israelites, killing the young and enslaving the old, leaving their girls alive to be used by his own

people as means to an end. His was a despicable moral failure, and it began because he did not know Joseph. Do we know Joseph? Do we know Jósef,

José, Yussuf, Ussup, and Yossele? When given the

power to choose and the strength to defend ourselves, what kind of Pharaohs can we be? --Mrs. Shira Eliaser

Shabbat Shalom

Candlelighting this

week is at

4:20. Shabbat

shalom!

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