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2008-2009 Calendar
Next year's CJHS calendar is now available! To access a copy, click here.
Please note that this calendar only lists major school-wide events. Listings for additional programs will be posted within the next week, and as they are scheduled, on Trumba (the CJHS online calendar). |
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Year In Review
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CJHS Receives Challenge Grant Opportunity
We have wonderful news!
To celebrate our first year in our new home, and to honor all CJHS students and alumni, a group of generous donors has come together to issue a challenge to our community.
Every new dollar donated before June 30th, 2008, up to a maximum of $500,000, will be matched dollar for dollar by this group. In other words, your donation to CJHS actually will be worth double the amount you give. This will raise $1 million for CJHS.
We encourage you to support this incredibly generous and exciting fundraising challenge. Please make a gift today in honor of our students, faculty, and community.
Thank you in advance for your generosity.
Call the Development Office at 847.324.3723 for more information. |
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Physics Expo
Over 80 people attended CJHS' third annual Physics Expo on Tuesday, May 28th. Mrs. Eliaser's physics classes showcased four months' worth of independent research with an eye-popping series of films, PowerPoint presentations, and demonstrations. This year's students focused heavily on the physics of sports: basketball, baseball, soccer, sledding, and snowboarding. Students explored the modes of vibration of different baseball bats, explained the application of spin in a jump shot, derived the Magnus force on a curving ball, and demonstrated Newton's laws on an impromptu summer sledding run. Two teams explored the physics of music, including a performance by the CJHS A Cappella group and a display of homemade stringed resonators. One group built a solar-powered vehicle to explore the science of semiconductors and solar cells. The heavily contested Best of Show awards went to Nicole Wiznitzer, Rachel Garfinkel, and Shai Kamin's hilarious film Music on the Strings and to Aaron Weinberg and Jack Dreifuss' PowerPoint montage Pitching the Perfect Curve Ball. Fourteen teams participated in our biggest show to date! |
Class Completes "I Believe" Project
Students in the Comparative Religions seminar presented their "I Believe" assignments during the last week of school. The assignment, based on the NPR feature, "culminated their study of comparative religions and allowed them to reflect upon their own beliefs," said Ms. Marcus, instructor of the course.
Sophomore Ariel Stoltz wrote that he believed "that God's whereabouts in the Holocaust isn't that important, but it is one's belief in himself, in his religion and in God that is the most significant thing for a human being." This belief stemmed from his grandfather who "was a Private in the US army during the Holocaust. In 1946, after World War II, my grandfather was sent along with his troops to investigate the ghettos in Auschwitz and try to find any of the victims of the inhumane actions of the Nazis. During the second day, my grandfather was sent to the 6th ghetto in Auschwitz. When he entered the ghetto, he saw that the roof fell and the place was a complete wreck. After ten minutes of research, one of the troops discovered a couple of burned bodies that were squashed by the fallen roof. My grandfather told me it was an unbearable sight, as he was watching a mother and her son being between the victims of the Holocaust. During the next fifteen minutes, my grandfather tried to pull the bodies out of the wrecked roof and what the soldiers saw afterwards was a significant view that only a Jew could appreciate. It was a silver small book of Torah, in perfect condition. The troops couldn't believe how this book survived without a scratch during the destruction of the Ghetto and when my grandfather's squad was ready to leave, my grandfather took the book of Torah with him.
Ariel brought the Torah to school to coincide with his presentation. Students and faculty were in awe of the artifact.
Other students wrote about believing in being a leader in the Jewish community, using sports as a means to relax, taking risks to avoid regrets, juggling to make the world a better place, being a good friend to someone with a cutting disorder, the preciousness of family, and maintaining hope in the face of chronic illness. |
Va'Ad Israel
Congratulations to Va'Ad Israel for an incredible year of increasing Israel awareness and advocacy.
Many thanks to the 2007-2008 leadership:
Shai Kamin, President
Josh Warshawsky, Vice President
Vanessa Youshaei, Political Vice President
Ronni Binah, Lilli Flink and Karen Avidar, Programming and Events Vice Presidents
Congratulations to next year's leadership:
Karen Avidar, President
Ron Schrag, Vice President
Gabe Rubin, Political Vice President
LeeTal Gabel and Alex Krule, Cultural/Programming Vice Presidents
A special thank you to Gvt. Moskovich who has served as Va'Ad Israel sponsor for four years. |
Friends Club
The Friends Club recently took their final visit to the Friends Center and Gidwitz Place. Under the supervision of Rabbi Reni Dickman and organization of Rena Forester and Vanessa Youshaei, the students were split into two groups. Aviva Schwartz and Joelle Swatez went to the Friends Center where they played balloon volleyball with the residents, while Nicole Wiznitzer, Rachel Binstock, Jacob Rabinowitz, and Ron Schrag headed over to Gidwitz Place to play Wii with the residents. Club members look forward to returning next year!
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Math Team
The CJHS Math Team celebrated the end of the school year with a Puzzle Party where students were given a chance to solve various brainteasers. Pyramids were built, horseshoes separated and letters created. The Math Team thanks graduate Seth Berkman for his leadership and enthusiasm, and welcomes Jonah Harris aboard. The leaders for next year are: senior Avra Shapiro, junior Ari Eisenstadt, and sophomore Jonah Harris. |
The CJHS literary journal The Prints is proud to announce its editor in chief for the 2008-09 school year: senior Lea Sarris. Also announced was the editor of the Web Edition of The Prints: Hannah Rosenbaum. The rest of the editorial board will be announced in August. Congratulations to Lea and Hannah and remember to submit your works of art, photography, poetry and prose. |
Josh Warshawsky Meets with Congressman
Congratulations to Josh Warshawsky, Class of 2008, who was selected to be one of three leaders of the Midwest Region's Congressional Delegation at the National AIPAC Conference in Washington, D.C. This delegation asked questions of Congressman Kirk during their lobbying session on Capitol Hill earlier this week. Josh was invited to attend the conference in his role as International Membership/Kadima Vice President. |
Glenview State Bank Scholarships Awarded
Chicagoland Jewish High School is proud to announce that Vanessa Youshaei and David Weltman are the recipients of the Glenview State Bank Scholarship award. |
Ms. Musin Awarded Fellowship
Mazal tov to Ms. Musin, Student Activities Director, on receiving a Legacy Heritage Communal Fellowship to study at the Conservative Yeshiva in Jerusalem for three weeks this summer. |
Peer Buddy Program
The Peer Buddy Program is designed to create a supportive relationship between current students, incoming freshman and transfer students. Peer buddies contact each new student over the summer, and also exchange emails to establish a relationship before the start of the school year. Social events and periodic get togethers in the first few weeks of school help new students become acclimated to the school, get to know other students and understand the CJHS environment. 54 students have volunteered to be Peer Buddies for the 2008-2009 school year. Leaders of the Peer Buddy program are seniors Joel Pachefsky, Esther Lowe, Elli Cohn, Alan Bukingolts, junior Jessica Silverman and sophomores Natalie Salzman and Joelle Swatez. |
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CJHS Parent Wins Physician Award
Mazal tov to Dr. Jeffrey Kopin, who is the 2008 recipient of the Gary A. Mecklenburg Distinguished Physician Award. This award is presented annually to the physician who best embodies professionalism and humanism. Dr. Kopin is the father of Brett Kopin, a CJHS junior. He has been a member of the medical staff at Northwestern Memorial Hospital for approximately 20 years. |
Baruch Dayan HaEmet
It is with sadness that we announce the death of Isadore Scheinman, beloved grandfather of Sarah Scheinman (9th grade) and great uncle of Ari Glasser (12th grade). The funeral has taken place.
It is with sadness that we announce the death of Murray Rosenberg, beloved father of Aaron (Iris) and grandfather of Jessica Rosenberg (10th grade). The funeral has taken place.
We are sad to inform you of the death of Ada Kenksy, mother of Rabbi Allan Kensky, Rabbi of Beth Hillel Congregation Bnai Emunah and part of the CJHS Bible Curriculum Advisory Task Force. The funeral will take place on Sunday.
Hamakom Yinachem Etchem B'toch Sh'ar Avalei Tziyon V'Yerushalayim.
May God's presence comfort these families among the mourners of Zion and Jerusalem. |
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Thank you to Stuart Kersky for sponsoring breakfast on May 30.
Thank you to the family of Victoria Aron for sponsoring breakfast on June 2 and June 5 to wish all CJHS students Good Luck on their finals.
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Shalom TV Announces Israel at 60 High School Video Contest
As part of its yearlong celebration of "Israel at 60," Shalom TV is inviting high school students throughout America to participate in an "Israel at 60 Video Contest." Any 60-second video saluting Israeli history or Israel today is welcome. Winning videos, and those receiving honorable mention, will air nationally on Shalom TV to more than 16 million homes across the country. Submissions must be postmarked by August 31, 2008. An entry form and official contest rules are available on the Shalom TV website. Greater Chicago Jewish Festival
The Greater Chicago Jewish Festival will be held at the Cook County Forest Preserve on Oakton Street, west of Lehigh, on Sunday, June 15, from 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. For further information, click here, or call the festival hotline: 847.933.3000. Raffle for TuitionThe Foundation for Learning & Development announces its second annual raffle for Jewish education tuition, available to the entire community (Grades K - 12: day schools and religious schools. For further information on this raffle, worth up to $12,000, click here. |
Shabbat Shalom
Candlelighting is at 8:07 p.m. Friday. Shabbat Shalom! | |
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