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Save the Date
Wednesday, January 27
All-School Beit Midrash
Friday, February 12
Adarama
Tuesday, February 15
No School: President's Day
Thursday, February 18
Studio Art Show
Monday, March 1
Shushan Purim Celebration
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P. O. Corner
Mark your calendar for our next Parent Education program on Wednesday, January 27! The topic is Getting to God and features Rabbi Marc Belgrad of the CJHS faculty. Click here for more details.
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.
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. |
Community News and Events
LIMMUD Chicago!
Limmud is a Jewish communiversity, a festival of learning. It is a pan-denominational, multi-generational and truly transformational experience. From early in the morning until late at night, there are several concurrent sessions about everything from Archaeology to the Zohar. There are lectures, discussions, performances, hands-on crafts, film screenings, singing, dancing, workshops and meditation.
 On February 14, 2010, Limmud will take place at Oakton Community College in Des Plaines. We continue to seek volunteers to help with logistics, marketing, fundraising, and presenting. To learn more about Limmud Chicago, click here. At the Limmud Chicago site you can learn more about what will be happening on February 14, sign up to participate (and volunteer) for the day, and even sign up to be a presenter.
Deerfield Summer Jobs
Deerfield Park District has a wide range of seasonal positions with a variety of work hours available! We're looking for...
* Day camp site directors
* Camp counselors
* Lifeguards
* Swim instructors
* Park personnel
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Sponsor Breakfast
 What's better than a birth
day cele-bration 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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Chicagoland Jewish High School
::1095 Lake Cook Rd ::
:: Deerfield, IL 60015 ::
:: 847.470.6700 ::
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Tu B'Shevat Celebration
Tree-planting children replaced basketball-playing high schoolers at CJHS yesterday as the school hosted a community-wide Tu B'Shevat celebration. In CJHS's gym-turned-forest, children enjoyed taking part in myriad activities focused on Israel and the environment. Planned and coordinated by the Jewish National Fund and many other co-sponsors, including the
JCCs of Chicago, the Environmental Protection Agency and the United States Forest Service, the event featured tree-themed arts and crafts run by Jewish schools, camps, and businesses. Kids were also treated to a Krav Maga demonstration, live storytelling, performances by Jewish childrens' choirs including the longstanding Shining Lights, and Israeli food by Mizrahi Grill, Zelda's, and Garden Fresh. |
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CJHS is proud to host such events, thereby building the Chicago community even as it builds its own. Many thanks to all our hardworking support staff for coordinating this event.
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Friendship Circle
Congratulations to sophomores Halyse Cole and Jillian Merrick, who were chosen to represent the Illinois Chapter of Friendship Circle at the National Convention in Detroit, MI on January 1 0in The purpose of the Convention is to provide the volunteers with an opportunity to connect with each other and learn new ways to interact with their special friends. A second mazal tov to Halyse Cole for being elected vice president of the international teen board of directors, following her impassioned speech,"Never forget that TEENS CAN CHANGE THE WORLD!"
Friendship Circle has been providing assistance and support to families of children with special needs worldwide since 1994 and recently won $125,000 through a Facebook runoff sponsored by Chase Bank. Thanks to all CJHS students who volunteer for the Friendship Circle and everyone who stopped by to vote! |
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Basketball Feeder League
Do you want to be a junior Tiger? Girls and boys grades 6-8, come join our feeder league!
The program runs from February 23 to May 2. The girls' league practices Tuesday evenings from 7:00 to 8:30, and plays games on Sunday afternoons, while the boys' league practices Thursday evenings from 7:00 to 8:30 and also plays its games on Sunday afternoons. CJHS varsity coaches will provide instruction and run practices and will be assisted by CJHS varsity basketball players. Students and parents can stay up to date with the program though the Jr. Tigers' interactive league website, which posts schedules, scores, statistics, standings, and other updates.
Registration is open until February 12 and is just $100 per participant. It includes a team uniform, eight games, and the awards banquet. To register for the feeder league, visit the CJHS website at www.cjhs.org and click on "Athletics Registration" on the left. For more information, contact CJHS athletic director Tim Cohen at (847) 423-5491. |
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Team Lifeline - We Only Need $1,000 More!
For the past two years, the CJHS community has sponsored senior Jeremy Hipps as he represented CJHS as part of Team Lifeline in the Miami Marathon. This year, junior Jake Levine is joining Jeremy as CJHS's new Team Lifeline representative. Jake is now trying to raise a minimum of $3,600 for Chai Lifeline in honor of the 13-mile race. Jake and Jeremy continue to run in honor of Yali Derman (CJHS '09), our own cancer survivor, as well as several of Jake's close relatives whom he has lost to cancer.
Chai Lifeline is an international organization that provides year-round emotional, social, and financial support to more than 3,000 children and their families every year. To learn more about Chai Lifeline, visit its website, www.chailifeline.org. To contribute to Jake's cause, please visit his team web page at the Team Lifeline site or send a check made payable to Chai Lifeline to Jake Levine at 1095 Lake Cook Rd., Deerfield, IL 60015. |
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Welcome Back, Seniors!
CJHS welcomes back its senior class, fresh off the plane from Israel! Look for our Israel-themed edition next week, as well as the senior internships which also took place. |
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Admissions News
Next year's financial aid deadline is coming up! Families interested in tuition assistance should submit an application by Friday, February 5. Click here for an application, and don't be late! |
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Alumni Trivia
 Which student-run club, founded in 2004 and now part of the Va'ad Tikkun Olam, featured a multigenerational membership, including several staff members and the sitting Head of School? |
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QuarkNet
 Why is our sun that lovely peach color that artless astronomers refer to as G2? And what would happen to our sun if it were a just a little bigger? Ask Aliza Small, Jordy Shapiro, Aaron Cohn, Jonah Harris, Zach Spellman, Alex Krule, Erik Howden, and Adam Schneider, and they'll tell you that its internal pressure would blow it to Kingdom Come. All stars share very similiar dimensions for reasons of pressure and stability, club advisor Dr. Josh Burton told our team this past Friday as we delved into astrodynamics. Come join us in February as we continue our exploration of the stars! |
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Bowling Invitational
Join the Ten-Pin Tigers this Thursday for a round of bowling at Brunzwick Zone in Deerfield. Bowling team members enjoy showing their improved skills and knowledge of the game and have fun at the same time. This is the concluding bowling event for the team and will be followed by a bowling banquet at Mizrahi Grill on Tuesday, February 2. |
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Alumni Trivia
 It's the Crocheting Club! Founded by Esther Bier and Elli Cohn, CJHS '09, during their freshman year, the club has donated dozens of handmade hats to childhood cancer patients. As a separate club, Crocheting Club boasted the most diverse membership within the school including girls and boys, seniors and freshmen, mothers and grandmothers who all loved to knit. Club founder Esther Bier is now doing tikkun olam in Israel on Workshop with Habonim Dror, and Elli Cohn is volunteering at the Bnai Brith community house at Muhlenberg College, where she is a freshman. |
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Baruch Dayan Emet
It is with sadness that we announce the passing of Alan Dworkin, father of Bradley (Judith) Dworkin, grandfather of freshman David Dworkin. Donations in Alan Dworkin's memory may be directed to the Cancer Wellness Center.
We also regert to announce the passing of Leon Schneider, grandfather of senior Eli Mogul, father of Dr. Karen (David Mogul) Schneider. May God comfort the Mogul, Schneider, and Dworkin families with all the other mourners of Zion and Jerusalem.
Hamakon y'nanchem etchem b'toch sha'ar avlei tzion v'Yerushalayim. |
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Sponsored Breakfasts
Happy birthday to Miriam Maltsman--who would rather you not sing. Many thanks to her family for sponsoring breakfast in her honor.
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 Tu B'Shevat is Coming...
Candlelighting will be at 4:43 p.m. on Friday. This Saturday is Tu B'Shevat. Let's go learn a lot this week!
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