Model UN Takes NY By Storm

12 Adar II, 5774 March 14, 2014

This Week at CJHSModel U.N. Second in Nation

Math Team Victorious

Tigers Close Out Season

Basketball Shabbaton

Contemporary Judaism

ISACS Exit Report

Wagner Institute

STAND UPdate

A Taste of Torah

Alumni Trivia

Save theDate Monday, March 17Shushan Purim Sunday, April 13ACT at CJHS

Model U.N. Team Takes Second Place in theNation

It's summertime for the award-winning CJHS Model U.N. Team! Forthe third year in a row, we have brought home the silver forthe second-best Model U.N. team in the worldwide meeting!

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Monday, April 14 -Sunday, April 27Pesach Break

College Visits

NativMarch 27, 10:52 a.m.

Vanderbilt UniversityApril 10, 9:56 a.m.

P.O. Corner

The P.O. is pleasedto continue the gift card "Gelt"program. This program is designedto help families earn money towardtheir children's junior year Panimprogram and/or the Senior IsraelExperience. Faculty and staff canalso buy Gelt to support programsprovided for the school by the P.O.By buying things you ordinarilypurchase anyway, you can earnmoney which will be credited toyour family or class for designatedschool trips. Contact Sheri Sandrofat [email protected] or call her at847.324.3723.

P.O. Recommends Kol Isha:Voices ofWomen in theBibleMonday March17, April 7, April 28, and May 12,9:15- 11:30 a.m. at CJHSAward winning educators Dr. BetsyKatz and Fran Alpert are teaching aspring course open to the CJHScommunity! Topics includeEsther and Ruth, Women inthe Egypt Narrative, Women in theBook of Judges, Women in KingDavid's Life, andArcheology and the Bible, andmore! To register, please mail a$100 check made out to Betsy Katz,744 Laurel Ave, Highland Park,60035. Questions? Contact Betsyat [email protected]. The YoungWomen's Board ofthe Jewish UnitedFund PresentsSpring Forward!Monday, March 17,7:30 p.m.Doubletree Hotel,SkokieJoin fellow Chicago area Jewish Dayschool moms as we learn the latestspring trends in home decor.

This year's conference in New York brought a record number ofattendees: 3,200 high school students from 210 different high schools in27 different countries.

We are also thrilled to announce the many individual awards broughthome by our talented and involved delegates. Seniors Rachel Smalland Ari Spellman brought home awards for their input to the HistoricalSecurity Council on the situationin Afghanistan in 1998. CJHSwas also proud to contribute awhopping seven speakers at theplenary sessions! MayaResnick and Sarah Levin forUNICEF; Melissa Levin spokeat UNEP (U.N. EnvironmentalProgram) on air pollution inChina; Ariel Efergen and ZevMishell spoke at UNODC (theU.N. Office on Drugs & Crime) on fraudulent medicines; Noa Gordon-Guterman and Jason Taitz presented on discrimination andstigmatization against people with AIDS, and Ruli Warner-Rosenspoke for the United Nations Industrial Development Organization. Eachspeaker, chosen by the chairperson, reported to the entire conference

attendees on their committee'sresolution to resolve the issuethat the committee had workedon for three days. A hearty chazak u'varuch to ourintensely hardworking andeloquent delegates: freshmenJonathan Liss, Felix Rosen,and Arielle Small, sophomores:Julia Mati, Josh Pliskin, and

Ranan Vales, juniors Joe Cohen, Rina Zell, and David Steinberg,and seniors Josh Aaronson, Adam Taitz, Dana Levin, CharlotteKamin, and Shira Harris. They represented our school in the highestfashion and made us proud!


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Rebecca Pogonitz of GoGo DesignGroup will present tips on how torefresh your home with upcomingspring trends while Melissa Novack,LCSW and Co-Founder of Inpower,will share some insight into how tolive healthier, happier, and overallmore well balanced lives as we jumpinto spring. Any questions, contactRachel Gruenberg, Liz Geifman orDiane Halivni. Registration is nowopen, so please register online byclicking here. JUF's JewishDay SchoolNightTuesday, April 1,2014 - 7:15 p.mOpen to parents, teachers andboard members.Dessert reception at The HolidayInn North Shore5300 W Touhy Ave, Skokie

Featured speaker Dr. Rona Novickwill address the issue of Bully,Bullied or Bystander: The Roleschildren Play. Dr. Novick is anationally acclaimed expert onbullying and author of BRAVE thebullying prevention program for usein schools throughout the country.Watch for a reminder card comingshortly in the mail!

Find the CJHS P.O. on Facebookhere.

Community News andEvents

Sounds of Faith

Anshe Emet SynagogueSunday, April 63:00 - 5:00 p.m.

Alumni Trivia

Yasher koach to Model U.N. on another fabulousseason! Which two CJHS M.U.N.representatives brought home our secondback-to-back Awards of Merit from the Big Apple,and where are they now? (Hint: chemistry, math,business, and an all-cello rock band!)

Math TeamVictorious! The Twitter feedswere buzzing at lastThursday'sconcludingchallenge for thestalwart CJHSmathletes! Ourbrave trigonometryTigers finishedfourth in our12-team NSMLdivision. Withinour division, ourseniors came infirst place, ourjuniors came inthird place, andour oralists finished third. Benji Fishbaum and David Weisskopf

had perfect papers on thejunior and sophomorecontests, respectively! Jonah Glick-Unterman and BenjiFishbaum came inthird place in orals. Three cheers forfreshmen Sara Behn,and David Weisskopf,sophomore Sarah


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Tickets are $20 per adult; $10 perchild ages 10 - 18. Click here topurchase your tickets online or callMolly Schlemmer at 773.281.1423.Group sales (10% discount)available for 10 tickets or more.

Rumbula's Echo

Holocaust Film Work-in-ProgressScreening with CJHS ConnectionRumbula's Echo is a newdocumentary that shows how ahuge mass shooting of the Holocaustchanged a family, a country and ourworld today. The internationallyfilmed documentary includesseveral stories with a localconnection. Among those featuredare Glenview survivor SiaHertsberg, U of C professoremeritus Edward Anders andChicago's Lieber family. The filmopens with the genealogy search fora CJHS student's namesake, whichalso plays into the ending of themovie. The documentary's centralevent is the mass shooting of25,000 Jews in two days in theRumbula forest in Latvia. The film,which is still being finished, hasbeen test screening "rough cut"material to international acclaim. AChicago work-in-progress screeningis being presented Sunday March23, 11 am to 1 pm, at the ClaudiaCassidy Theater, 77 W. Randolph.Afterwards, survivor Sia Hertsbergand filmmaker Mitchell Lieber willanswer questions, moderated byLoyola Holocaust professor Dr ElliotLefkovitz. Advance tickets only.This event is presented with theassistance of the Illinois HumanitiesCouncil. Click here for more details.

SponsorBreakfast

What's better than a birthdaycelebration with friends? Celebrateyour student's birthday or othermilestone with a special breakfast atCJHS.

Comar, juniors LeoraCalamaro, JonahGlick-Unterman,Rayna Gorstein, andBenji Fishbaum, andseniors Maya Behn,Joe Kupferberg, Evan

Gorstein, and Talia Canter! In other math news, ownvery own BenjiFishbaum qualified totake the AmericanInvitational MathematicsExamination (AIME) byscoring in the top 5% ofall students who took theAmerican MathematicsCompetition in February.He represented CJHS inthe 3-hour AIME onThursday, March 13.Way to go, Benji!

Tigers Close Out Amazing Season

After a truly thrilling season and an even more thrilling road trip, theTigers lost 50-35 to Mooseheart in the IHSA Sectional championshipgame. Thank you to the seniors who transformed the CJHS basketballprogram, bringing it tounprecedented heights--twoSweet 16's in a row! Every seniorplayed hard and contributed toSaturday's well-fought game.Jeremy Goodman had 6points, Hillel Schwartz had 5,Evan Gorstein 3, NathanielMoses 2, Joshua Silvermanhad 2 rebounds, and JonathanChasin collected a rebound;even Avidan Halivni, out for


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medical reasons, was able tocheer on his bro's while proppedup on the bench. The Tigersfinished with a 15-9 record! Many thanks to all the students,families of students, staff,assorted relatives, roommates,and road trippers who trekked outto the wilds of Serena on Saturdaynight to cheer on our Tigers! It was truly a night to remember. Thanksalso to Coach Dello, Coach Newlander, and Coach Cohn for anotherincredible season!

Basketball Shabbaton 2014

Shabbat happens wherever there are Jews to celebrate it. This pastweekend, that location was Ottawa, Illinois. In order to allow ourbasketball team enough time to get to the Sectional Final in Serena, ourbasketball team, many basketball families and CJHS students and fansjoined together for a festive Shabbat. This Shabbat featured theopportunities and privileges that we have as Jews to craft a dynamic


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Jewish life filled with all of the opportunities in both the Jewishcommunity and the wider modern world. Shabbat dinner (Garden Fresh on strategically wired hotplates) was notonly delicious, but also featured Shabbat singing, typical of every CJHSShabbaton. Ranging from old favorites to new verses for "Mipi El" madeup on the spot by students and teachers, songs carried on throughout theweekend. Saturday morning, we continued in prayer and a full Torahreading. Pioneer parent David Silverman, father of senior JoshuaSilverman, Reby Silverman ('10), Matthew Silverman ('07), andJessie Silverman ('05), gave a beautiful dvar Torah that everyone inattendance will remember for a long time. Weaving together thecontextual understandings of the sacrifices in Vayikra with midrashimand 20th century poetry, Mr. Silverman also reflected on the temporalnature of sacrifice, the passing of time in hidden ways, and his lastmoments on the court as a CJHS basketball dad. After the traditional huggy circle of CJHS Havdalah, a caravan of carsfollowed in procession behind the team bus to the Serena Gym--a littlelike Friday Night Lights! Our mission as a school is to live a vitalJudaism, which simultaneously engages the opportunities of the modernworld and celebrates our particular legacy as Jews. This weekend, we livedthis to the fullest.

Contemporary Judaism

On Friday March 7, the junior level Contemporary Judaism class taughtby Rabbi Silver and Rabbi Belgrad welcomed Rabbi David Wolkenfeld ofAnshe Sholom B'nei Israel Congregation to speak on Orthodox Judaism. The class is exploring different contemporary Jewish denominations byinviting a guest speaker from each denomination to share his/her beliefsand outlook.

Rabbi Wolkenfeld spoke about the role of halakhain the life of the Orthodox community; the reciprocalnature of authority, between rabbi and congregation;a trend in the Modern Orthodox community towardsmore engagement with social issues that cannotnarrowly be defined as "Jewish," e.g., immigration;and issues surrounding both women's participationand the place of homosexuals within the Orthodoxworld. He then answered questions from thestudents and engaged them in thoughtful dialogue.

ISACS Report On Wednesday, the co-chairs of our ISACS accreditation team, Dr. RayLevi and Rabbi Eric Grossman, delivered their long-awaited exit report tothe faculty, which opened with these words:

"A senior who will be studying engineering and businessin college tells us that one of his most meaningful projectsinvolved comparing the writings of Albert Camus to RabbiSoloveitchik. We see him next period performing akeyboard riff in the jazz band."

"A transfer student shares that she has neverencountered such an 'independent, welcoming, lovinggroup of people.' Another student says that 'I'm reallyconnected to teachers who I can talk to about everything. There aren't two separate teacher and student worlds. The teachers come to events and are even in on the jokes.' And yet another voice offers, 'If you advocate and are


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passionate, administrators will support and encourageyou.'"

"These words are not isolated examples. Rather theycapture what the ISACS Visiting Team experiencedthroughout our time at CJHS, a remarkably engaged andengaging student body, articulate, welcoming, andreflective. From the joyful singing during tefillah to thequiet assistance provided for a friend finishing math workduring lunch, each of us was overwhelmed by reflective,and loving young men and women who are attuned totheir own developmental arcs as learners and members ofthe social community, who live the mission of thisschool."

The ISACS team specifically commends Chicagoland Jewish High Schoolfor:

Bringing its mission to life by fostering critical thinking,relationship building, and engaging with the complexity of what itmeans to be a Jew in the modern world.

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Fostering a familial climate in which students feel safe andsupported and are celebrated for the broad range of interests thatthey bring to the community.

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Cultivating confident student leaders who are articulateself-advocates and program initiators.

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Deeply caring faculty members who build strong and enduringrelationships with students and who serve as role models by livingthe values of the school.

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Building a collaborative leadership team that is anchored by theschool's mission and by thoughtful approaches to addressing thedaily challenges of school life.

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An engaged Board that is passionate about the school's missionand deeply committed to securing its future.

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An Admissions Team that works to counter demographic andnational trends through creative efforts in reaching out tonontraditional communities.

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A remarkably robust development effort that yields impressivefunding from generous donors for the annual budget and alsobuilds endowment funds that can stabilize the school's financialposition over time.

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Offering a broad range of extra-curricular activities that form thecore of student engagement with the school community andbeyond.

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Building a curricular program that prepares students well for theirpost-secondary educational experiences in selective colleges andgap year programs in Israel.

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Once reviewed by the ISACS Evaluation Review Committee and adoptedby the ISACS Board of Trustees, the full written report of the ISACS team,with both commendations and recommendations, will be presented toCJHS for review and implementation. The CJHS administration againoffers its thanks to our students, faculty, staff and Board and to the manyother participants in this important process of improvement and growth.

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STAND UPdate Senior Shira Harris reports, "In the Central African Republic's capital,fewer than 1,000 Muslims remain after the current conflict which hascaused over 99,000 Muslims to flee from the capital city. The head of aglobal alliance of churches recommends tackling the conflict as a political,rather than religious conflict, with the intention to bring the Muslimsback to their homes. This conflict began as mainly Muslim rebels toppledthe Christian government, causing the Christians to create an equallybrutal militia. After ethnic cleansing of Muslims and a mass exodus fromBangui, CAR's capital city, as well as other cities in CAR, UN EmergencyRelief Coordinator says that less than 1% of the city's Muslims remain inthe capital. Muslims continue to flee from these cities, while others aresheltered in churches, as the conflict continues. We pray for a peacefulresolution to the conflict to be reached soon."

A Taste of Torah This week, I had the opportunity toexperience and be a part of joy in itspurest form. My friends Rabbi Davidand Rebecca Russo gave birth to theirfirst child, Natan Adir. Holding theirchild was a remarkable miracle thatalso happened in the mundaneness ofa living room, on the very same couchI had fallen asleep on for so manyShabbatot. Rabbi David Hartmanconsiders:

On Purim we make contactwith the child's unselfconsciousjoy of life. And in makingcontact with this child-like joy of life...we discover a sensitivity to the needsof others born of the celebration of life. On Purim, the poor experience theresponsiveness of a world not dominated exclusively by the exploits ofHaman. On Purim, the poor may renew their Messianic hope as a result oftheir experiencing the outstretched hand of human compassion liberated bythe joy of life....Purim signifies the dream that one day we will live in a worldin which the passion for life will make us responsive to all human beings andthat in place of their cynical demonic yearnings for power, men will accepteach other's differences and affirm their common love of life per se with joy.

Purim does not ask us to be children. But it necessitates that we look to the worldwith heightened sensitivity to every human we interact with, as children so often

do. It necessitates that we care for all life in the sameway that we do when a child can be held in onearm. During a holiday where we read the one book ofthe Bible that does not mention God, we honor God'spresence in every human by interacting with everyhuman we encounter on the day. On this day, anyonewho puts out a hand asking for change, we must giveto him/her. On this day, we must give gifts to friends.On this day we must have a festive meal. There is great wonder in our every day interactions.This week, holding new life made me that much moreconscious of this. Ritually on Purim, we will be askedto do the same.

--Rav Beit Sefer Zach Silver

Alumni Trivia

Naomi Michael ('12) won an Award of Merit in2012, and is currently majoring in ChemicalEngineering and Business at Washington Universityin St. Louis. Naomi says, "I am an engineering mathtutor for the university, and I work at a lab on


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campus that works on converting biomass into fuel.I am also planning on studying abroad in CapeTown, South Africa next spring. I am also a member in Kappa KappaGamma (a social fraternity) and Phi Gamma Nu (a business fraternity)."Good for you, Naomi!

Benji Fleischacker ('12) also brought home aM.U.N. Award of Distinction that same year, alongwith Maor Gordon-Guterman ('13) and currentsenior Nathaniel Moses. Benji was able to drop byNew York and look in on this year's team on his wayto L.A. to perform with "Low Strung," his all-cellorock band. In addition to on-campus concerts, thisgroup of Yalies performs at restaurants, nightclubs,art galleries, and other venues. Benji is deciding on amath major at Yale.

Sponsored Breakfast Happy birthday to Erin Miller. Many thanks to herfamily for sponsoring bagels.

Shabbat Shalom

Candlelighting this week will be at 6:38 p.m., andPurim begins Saturday night! Shabbat shalom, andchag Purim sameach!

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