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Save the Date
Sunday, November 15 - Wednesday, November 18
Panim El Panim
Thursday, November 18
Tigerfest Begins
Saturday Night, November 21
Homecoming
Wednesday, November 25
CJHS All-School Beit Midrash
Thursday, November 25 - Friday, November 26
Thanksgiving Break
Tuesday, December 1
Chef Laura Frankel
Wednesday, December 2 - Sunday, December 6
Women's Basketball Tournament
Monday, December 7 - Friday, December 11
Darfur Activism Week
Friday, December 11 - Sunday, December 13
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P.O. Corner
Parent Education The Parent Organization is very excited about our program for the upcoming year. The program is comprised of three strands: · Issues of Concern to Parents · The CJHS Book Group · Torah Lishma (Learning for its own sake) Please find the details about programs at www.cjhs.org/pdf/
parenteducation. Click here for more information on December's Book Group! We'll be reading Khirbet Khizeh and discussing it on 12/7.
Gelt Program
The P.O. is pleased to introduce the gift card "Gelt program" to our families. Faculty and staff who buy Gelt 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 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 Kim Frankel 847.373.1183 kfrankel0721@gmail.com or Sarah Budweg 847.710.1740 sbudweg13@aol.com.
Need stationery? Holiday cards? Family tributes? Order cards from the P.O.! Click here for more information.
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College Visits
Bar-Ilan University
Nov. 16, 1:10 PM
University of Delaware
Nov. 17, 12:43 PM
Midreshet Ein Hanatziv
Nov. 23, 12:26 PM
Suffolk University
November 24, 9:00 PM
The Technion
November 24, 12:48 PM
Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) of Herzeliya
December 7, 9:44 AM
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Community News and Events
Women's Rosh Chodesh Group
CJHS parent Amy Reichert will take us along on Talmudic journeys while explaining the meaning of her beautiful and functional Judaica.
Ms. Reichert is an award winning architect, exhibition designer, and designer of Judaica. Since 1996, when she won second place in the Philip and Sylvia Spertus Judaica Prize for her seder plate, she has participated in invited juried exhibitions in museums around the world. She received her B.A. and M. Architecture from Yale University, and combines her studio work with teaching in college art and art history departments.
The program will take place at The Elysa Fisher Women's LifeCenter on Monday, November 16 at 7:30 pm. The center is located at 118 Skokie Blvd. in Wilmette. To RSVP, call 847.256.9400.
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Sponsor Breakfast
 What could be 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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CJHS Salutes Our Veterans
Lt. Daniel Fisher, formerly of the U.S. Navy, spoke to our students in honor of Veterans Day. Fisher grew up in a Washington DC suburb, attended MIT on a Naval ROTC Scholarship, and served in the navy for six years before earning an MBA from Kellogg. He currently resides in Highland Park with his wife and sons, where he is a member of Moriah Congregation and proud son-in-law to our own science department chair. He is pictured above in a joyous reunion with his wife Rachel, née Levinson.
Mr. Fisher spoke on the importance of defending our country as well as defending our right to worship freely as Jews. He shared his experiences both as a naval officer as well as a Jew in the armed forces. Mr. Fisher's presentation was well received and most impressive. |
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Straddling Heaven and Earth
 The opening reception for the photography class's exhibit "Straddling Heaven and Earth," was enjoyed by Gidwitz residents, and our students, parents and teachers. The exhibit will be hanging in the gallery at Gidwitz until January 6, 2010.
Mrs. Snyder would like to thank Arlene Minzer and
Eve Brownstone at Gidwitz for all their help and support. |
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Lost and Found, Gemara-Style
 Be careful with what you leave lying around in the hallway! Mrs. Susnow's 10th grade Intro to Talmud class has been learning about what to do when you find a lost object. The Mishnah in Masekhet Bava Metziah teaches us that if one finds a lost object and there are no distinguishable or identifiable marks, the finder can legally keep the object! Only when the object can be easily identified and the owner would most likely be looking for it do we have the obligation to try and find that owner. To see this in more realistic terms, Sarah Chiren, Madi Cogan, Steve Edelman, Josh Ferri, Tziporah Ladin-Gross, Jake Levine, Nic Levy, Ilana Lieberman, Josh Perry and Gabby Shusterman took to the hallways to find and photograph "lost" objects of their fellow schoolmates and determine, according to the Mishnah, what they should do with that item. From bags to water bottles, from key chains to siddurim, many objects were "found" and many of those objects technically could have been kept by the Talmud class!
Lesson to be learned: put your name on your stuff and don't leave things lying around the hallways! Thank you, Intro to Talmud for that practical Talmud tip. |
Special Auction to Benefit CJHS
CJHS is auctioning off a six-night stay (December 18-24) at a villa located in Orlando. The villa, located on a Sheraton property, brings charm and comfort for up to four guests. You'll find furnishings and every amenity expected in a vacation home to help you relax and enjoy vacation time with friends or family. The villa includes a balcony/patio, washing machines, kitchen, phones with dataport lines, and a full sofa bed. The auction will end on December 7. Bidding will start at $500.00. To bid on the villa, simply go to http://cjhsypi.blogspot.com. Click on the "Comments" link below. Write your name, e-mail, and bid in the comment box. Click "Post comment." Be sure to view previous comments to see where the bidding has reached. If you have any questions, or would like to make an additional donation, please contact Bobbie Wolk at rwolk@cjhs.org. |
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Alumni Day is Coming Up!
Come one, come all--students, alumni, families and friends! Shoot some hoops against our current women's and men's teams! Watch the teacher tug of war! Participate in the CJHS trivia game! Get your groove on with our special guest DJ! The 2009 Alumni Day is sure to be a blast! |
 Tigers Welcome...
CJHS welcomes Zachary Erlichman, who transferred into 9th grade from Fremd High School in Inverness, IL. Glad to have you on board!
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Former Faculty in the News
 CJHS sends its warmest regards to former Rabbi in Residence Robyn Fryer Bodzin, now a pulpit rabbi at the Israel Center for Conservative Judaism in Queens, NY. Rabbi Fryer Bodzin was featured prominently in the New York Jewish Week magazine, headlining an article describing the revitalization of Conservative Jewish congregations in Queens. Read all about her efforts here. A highlight of moving to New York, Rabbi Fryer Bodzin says, has been the opportunity to see many of her former CJHS students! |
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Sports Omission
The winter is coming, and our winter athletes are training hard! We congratulate our swimmers on their first meet of the season at Lake Forest Academy last Thursday. Go Tiger Sharks!
E-News would also like to recognize cross-country runner Chaya Moskovits, whose name was mistakenly omitted from the list of runners at the end of the season. |
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Science Opportunities
The Summer Science Program allows gifted students to complete a challenging, hands-on research project in celestial mechanics. By day, students learn college-level astronomy, physics, calculus, and programming. By night, working in teams of three, they take a series of telescopic observations of a near-earth asteroid, and write software to convert those observations into a prediction of the asteroid's orbit around the sun. Stimulating guest speakers and field trips round out the curriculum. This year's sophomores can now apply for the summer of 2010. Click here for more information. Applications are due by March 15. |
Exciting News From Model U.N.
After completing our first year at the international New York Model United Nations Conference last year, the excellence of our work there was recognized by the governing body of the conference when last week our 20 student delegates were assigned to represent the Czech Republic on a majority of General Assembly, EcoSoc Committees. Additionally, our delegates were awarded most coveted and prestigious positions on five highly specialized committees, on which we will represent Senegal, Spain and the Russian Federation. Newer schools are almost never given spots on these specialized committees and the fact that we were assigned to five of them speaks volumes about how well regarded CJHS has become at the conference. Dr. Gary Auslander and Mrs. Myra Loris could not be prouder of our team and their ongoing pursuit of excellence in the attempt to wrestle with the most complex of the world's problems. GO MUN! |
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Sponsored Breakfast
Happy birthday to Avi Hass. Many thanks to his family for sponsoring breakfast in his honor.
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 Kislev is Coming...
Candlelighting this Friday will be at 4:09 p.m. Let's go learn a lot this week! | |
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