Save the Date
Monday, May 4 - Friday, May 15 AP Exams
Friday, May 15 - Saturday, May 16 Senior Shabbaton
Sunday, May 17 Bev Fox Memorial Garden Dedication
Sunday, May 17 Student Directed One-Acts
Sunday, May 24 Prom
Tuesday, May 26 Physics Expo
Wednesday, May 27 Graduation
Thursday, May 28 Erev Shavuot (2:45 Dismissal)
Friday, May 29 Shavuot (No School)
Sunday, May 31 Dance Marathon
Friday, June 12 Year-End BBQ
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Community News and Events
Continuing Education at Melton
The Florence Melton Adult Mini-School is an outstanding two-year program which offers a comprehensive range of Jewish studies. Knowledge of Hebrew is not required. Melton students are a committed group of adult learners who represent a great diversity in background, prior level of learning, and affiliation, but are united by their desire to learn more about their Judaism.
Registration fills up fast! For further information, click here, or call or email Keith Kanter at kkanter@cfje.org or 847-410-3900 ext. 25.
Melton has received rave reviews from the CJHS members who have taken it; let it now be your turn! CFJE Ulpan: Summer and FallThe Community Foundation for Jewish Education of Metropolitan Chicago offers a first-class, exciting way for adult members of our community to learn Modern Hebrew. We are so pleased to now offer the Ulpan at four different sites. Click here for information about our summer and fall course offerings. JUF Teen ConnectionsJUF is planning a great deal of exciting events for teens in the near future. Click on http://www.juf.org/
teens/newsletter_web.aspx to read about all of the events. You can subscribe to the JUF Teen Connections newsletter via a link at the bottom of the website. Perlstein Family VacationsShare quality time with your family and get the benefits that only an all-inclusive Perlstein family vacation can provide. Vacation at JCC's Perlstein Resort & Conference Center in Lake Delton, WI, adjacent to Camp Chi and minutes from the Wisconsin Dells. August 17-23 & 24-30, 2009. · Day camp/day care for all age groups-infants to teens · Family activities and events · Nightly activities for adults and evening babysitting · Relax and leave all of the Shabbat preparation to us! · 3 Kosher meals a day with snacks Included Activities, no additional fee: waterskiing, sailing, swimming, boating, arts & crafts, outdoor & indoor play spaces, rock climbing, mountain biking, horseback riding, archery, sports, yoga, field trips and more! There's so much to do. For details visit www.gojcc.org/prcc, call 847.763.3603 or email prcc@gojcc.org. |
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 $162 (9x chai), bagels, cream cheese, 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 ialtman@cjhs.org. Order forms are available online here.
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"Soul Searching" Art Show
  The opening reception for "Soul Searching," an art exhibit at Princeton Frame and Art Gallery in Highland Park, was truly a family affair. Students stopped by to see their work hanging in the window of the gallery; parents and siblings came too! CJHS faculty and staff also stopped in and were impressed at the variety and presentation of the exhibit. If you missed the reception, stop by the galllery! The exhibit will be up through May 14.



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Senior Class Raffle  Tired of walking all the way from the parking lot to the front door? Wish you could own a prime parking spot? The senior class is holding a raffle for that very privilege! There will be a limit of 150 tickets sold @ $5 each. Buy one, two or more to improve your chances! The winner will have the first spot (past the handicapped spaces) for the rest of the school year. Proceeds will benefit the senior class gift to the school. For tickets, see Brett Kopin or Avra Shapiro. The drawing will be held after tefillah on Friday, May 15. |
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Seniors/Teachers Basketball Game
This Tuesday, May 12, the senior boys will be playing the teachers in a "friendly" game of basketball. Come watch the David and Goliath match up of Roman "The Hulk" Marchenko and Bruce "The Truth" Scher as they battle it out at halftime. Tear your ticket at the door for a chance to be entered into a raffle. Three names will be selected to play a game of HORSE, and the winner goes home with an awesome CJHS basketball sweatshirt! The tickets cost $3 before the game, and $4 at the door; proceeds will benefit teh senior class gift. Come join your friends and family to cheer on your favorite teachers at Tuesdays matchup!
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Donate to Emergency Tuition Fund
The EmergencyTuition Fund was recently created in response to our community's growing need for tuition assistance, precipitated by the dramatic shifts in the economy. Over 50 percent of our students receive some form of financial assistance and the dollar amount allocated to scholarships has increased by 20 percent. In spite of this increase, we remain committed to all of our students and do not want financial hardship to stand in the way of anyone benefitting from the excellent education CJHS offers. In fact, the positive response CJHS has received to its appeal is a testament to the scope of this community's compassion. If you have not already done so, please consider donating to the Emergency Tuition Fund and giving a student the gift of education. To make a gift, please click here. For more information, please contact Stephanie Smerling, Director of Institutional Advancement, at ssmerling@cjhs.org or 847.324.3720.
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Rabbi Barkan and Roger Stein Honored
 The Midwest Region of the Jewish Educators Assembly has announced its Jewish Educators of the year, among them our own Roger Stein and Rabbi Ruven Barkan. Both will be honored at a gala celebration of the Jewish Educators Assembly on Thursday, May 14, at Beth Hillel Congregation Bnai Emunah in Wilmette. |
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Trip to Sudanese Community Center
The Jewish World Watch/STAND organization of CJHS is arranging a visit to Chicago's Sudanese Community Center for Sunday, May 31. At the center, our group will discuss current African events with Sudanese community leaders and participate in cultural activities of the region. This trip culminates a year of education at CJHS about the current crisis in Darfur. All students and faculty are invited to come on this momentous excursion.
A bus will leave CJHS on Sunday morning and return in time for Dance Marathon in the afternoon. Stay tuned for further details about the day's schedule. If you are interested in coming on the trip, please contact Jordy Shapiro Jdshapkid@aol.com or Noa Fleischacker noadaphne@yahoo.com. |
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Save the Date - Graduation
On Wednesday May 27 at 5:30 p.m., the students of CJHS's sixth graduating class will receive their diplomas and commence the next stage of their lives. |
Popcorn Thursdays!
Buy $1 bags of delicious, fresh popcorn every Thursday in the cafeteria to support the Model United Nations team! |
| Refuah Shleimah
 CJHS wishes a full and speedy recovery to Mr. Harvey Gross, who suffered a thankfully mild heart attack last Friday and has just been discharged from Highland Park Hospital. E-News salutes our student who accompanied Mr. Gross to the hospital and has been taking care of him for these many days, as well as the additional students who accompanied him home. We wish Mr. Gross and Ms. Rostker a speedy refuah shleimah and hope to see them back in our hallowed halls soon. |
Breakfast Sponsors
 Happy birthday to Jonah Harris. Many thanks to his family for sponsoring breakfast. |
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Don't Forget to Count the Omer
Today is 29 days, which is four weeks and one day of the Omer. The kabbalistic feature of the day is Chesed b'Hod, humility tempered with lovingkindness. In preparation for Shavuot, maintain a sense of true humility without compromising your inner worth or your ability to give, love,and make a difference.
Many online resources are available to send daily Omer reminders via email, including chabad.org, ou,org, and torah.org.
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Religious Life
Yasher koach to all the students who lead davening during AP week; also to Aaron Freeman for his Torah reading debut at CJHS, and to Louis Shekhtman, Leo Spornstarr, and Jeremy Hulkower for reading Torah.
An additional yasher koach to Amit Marom from Elem: Youth in Distress for his dvar Torah this morning. |
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Shabbat Shalom
Candlelighting is 7:33 p.m. this Friday. Shabbat shalom!
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