Egg Drop 2014

20 Kislev, 5775 December 12, 2014

This Week at CJHS

Egg Drop

Holla for Challah

Chanukah Plans

Mathletes Compete

DEAP Helps Out

This Week in Sports

CJHS Community Night

Baruch Dayan Emet

Sponsored Breakfast

Alumni Trivia

A Taste of Torah

Save the Date

Egg Drop

Stirring John Williams music resounded in the

Sunday, Dec. 14

ACT Monday, Dec. 22 -

Friday, Jan. 2 Winter Break Sunday, Jan. 4 - Friday, Jan. 23 Senior Israel Experience

Monday, Jan. 12 - Friday, Jan. 16 Winter Exams

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P.O. Corner

The P.O. is pleased to offer the gift card or "Scrip/Gelt" program, designed to help families earn money to apply towards their students' Shabbatonim, Junior Class trip, and Senior Israel Experience. By purchasing gift cards through the school for vendors where you ordinarily shop (groceries, gas, household items, etc), a percentage of what you spend each time will be placed in your family's account to be used for these trips. Gift card orders are placed every Thursday. Please contact Sheri Sandrof at ssandrof@cjhs.org or 847.324.3723 with any questions.

halls as Mrs. Eliaser's twelve teams of physics

students proudly

marched their designs

to the testing balcony.

The three physics

classes have been hard

at work all month using

their knowledge of the

impulse-momentum

theorem and collisions

to design protective

cases that would allow

their eggs to survive

the 24-foot drop from

the second floor

balcony. Juniors Sarah

Gilman, Ari

Rosenthal, and Maya Resnick built a spiked

cube which successfully impacted upon

landing. Seth Wein, Julia Mati, and Zach

Becker built a nest of double-suspended

cubes which kept their precious egg well away

from the landing zone. Arthur Sredni, Jorie

Dayan, and Jordan Rosenfield watched in

great frustration as their carefully-designed

cube executed a complete 180-degree turn in

midair, landing upside-down with a midline

crack. The team theorizes that more weight

lower down and centered would prevent such

a spill on a second go-round. Congratulations

to all the students who participated!

Holla for Challah

This week marked the emergence of a new

Grandparents and Special Friends Association

Help us get in touch with some very special people in your students' lives! Please reply here with the names, addresses, and emails of their grandparents and/or special friends so we can forward them a membership form to join our "Grandparents and Special Friends Organization". If you provide an email address, they can also begin receiving CJHS e-news. Contact Sheri Sandrof at 847.324.3723 or ssandrof@cjhs.org with any questions.

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 $180 (10x chai), bagels, cream cheese, and orange juice will be served to everyone. Announcements will be made in Tefillah and in the dining hall, and the occasion will also

be listed in our weekly E-News and on the school announcement board. If you have any questions, please call 847.324.3713 or email dzidman@cjhs.org. Order forms are available online here.

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group at CJHS,

Holla for Challah.

Conceived,

organized, and

brought to life by

the dynamic

freshman duo of

Lucy Cohen and

Lisa Klein, Holla

for Challah is a

space for students

to come together

and have fun

baking challah. For

the inaugural

session, Rabbi

Silver taught the

group in attendance

- freshmen, sophomores, juniors, seniors, and

even a couple staff - about the mitzvah of

hafrashat challah ("separation of the challah").

Students then braided dough, put on toppings,

and, a few hours later, were able to take their

warm, school-made challot home with them.

Holla for Challah is off to a sweet start!

Chanukah is Coming...

2014-2015 Dates

:: 847.470.6700

Math Team Competes

Our stalwart mathletes traveled to Libertyville

High School to compete against

Deerfield, Highland Park, Libertyville,

and Warren in the North Suburban Math

League's third meet of the year. Despite stiff

competition, our sophomore team brought

home second place ribbons. Congratulations to

Sara Behn, Sarah Comar, Leora Calamaro,

Gaby Ecanow, Benji Fishbaum, Jonah

Glick-Unterman, Talia Gorstein, Rayna

Gorstein, Hadar Halivni, Elan Karoll, Lexi

Levin, Ranan Vales, and David Weisskopf.

Alumni Trivia

Which

CJHS

bridge

building

and egg

drop

science

champion is now studying pediatric neurology

before applying to med school next year?

DEAP Helps Out

DEAP's direct service had their first service

opportunity December 3. Four students went

to Northwestern University's Campus Kitchen

to make peanut butter and jelly sandwiches

that will be served to families all over the

Chicagoland area. Junior Seth Wein says,

"We had a fun time, while feeling as though

we were making an impact on our

community." Direct Service will continue their

partnership with Campus Kitchen, and will

hopefully return in two weeks. If anyone is

interested please contact anyone on the direct

service board.

This Week in Sports

For the second year

in a row, the men's

varsity basketball

team defeated

Dundee-Crown High

School--a 4A school

with an enrollment of

3,000! Josh

Newlander led the

way with 31 points

and 7 rebounds in the

38-30 victory. Coby

Drexler, Jonah Karoll, and Joe Cohen each

had crucial baskets down the stretch. Eli

Schrayer added in 5 rebounds. The team

played North Shore Country Day on

Wednesday and is all set to battle Providence

St. Mel before

Chanukah.

The women's

basketball

team played

Tuesday at

home against

Chicago Hope

Academy! Co

ach Mark

Forde reports,

"Even though

we lost, you

could feel the excitement in the crowd! The

girls are getting better each game!" The

women's basketball team will also be playing

Providence St. Mel and Beacon Academy next week.

SUSHI AND SAKE TOO:

2nd Annual

Chicagoland Jewish High School Community Event

Reconnect with old friends, meet new

ones and see what's happening in the

halls of CJHS

Saturday, January 17, 2015

27 Tevet 5775

7:30 p.m.

Suggested Couvert: $50 per person

RSVP to Michelle Friedman by January 9.

Baruch Dayan Emet

We are saddened to announce the passing of

Dianne Hoffman, mother of executive director

Inez Drazin. Shiva is being held at the home of

Inez and Jerry Drazin, 3741 Mission Hills Road,

#109 in Northbrook, Saturday from 6-9 p.m.

and Sunday from 1-9 p.m.

Hamakom Yinachem Etchem B'toch Sh'ar

Avalei Tziyon V'Yerushalayim. May God's

presence comfort Inez and her family among

the mourners of Zion and Jerusalem.

Sponsored Breakfast

Happy birthday to Natalie

Ecanow! Many thanks to her

family for sponsoring

breakfast.

Many thanks also to the kind

parents of the P.O. for

sponsoring an all-school morning feast on

Monday to kick off the Chanukah festivities!

Alumni Trivia

Lauren Steinberg ('12)

is a biology major at the

University of Wisconsin,

minoring in global health

and leadership. Lauren

reports, "I have been

researching for a year and a half in the

neurology department under a pediatric

neurologist. We studied the effect of soy foods

on seizure rate in infants with Fragile-X

Syndrome (genetic autism). Now, we are

studying the over prevalence of APP protein on

motor function and memory in Alzheimer's. I

also volunteer weekly at the Children's

Hospital in the Bone Marrow Transplant unit,

where I have formed incredible relationships

with the kids who are there. It's really

inspired me to pursue pediatrics." Lauren is an

active member of Alpha Epsilon Delta (AED),

the pre-med honors society, through which

she shadows a surgeon to observe in the OR

and follow her mentor's rounds with

patients. Lauren works as a supervisor at

Camp Young Judaea Midwest and is also the

Social Chair of the Chabad student board,

which, Lauren reports, is a ton of fun!

A Taste of Torah: Vayeshev

During a week of dreams in Parashat Vayeshev, we offer a modern poem of dreaming from CJHS

alumni parent, David Silverman, proud father of Jessie Silverman Gandea ('05), Matthew Silverman ('07), Reby

Silverman ('10), and Josh Silverman ('14).

Upon Seeing My Children's Newly Built

School for the First Time

For the founders and builders

of Chicagoland Jewish High School

We are dreamers of outlandish dreams,

diggers of holes, movers of earth.

Sinking pillars into bedrock, we aspire

to permanence in an impermanent world

and though, in time, all man-made things

crumble, the outlandish dream survives.

For we will bring the inanimate to life,

fill empty rooms with words and song,

splash walls with color, open windows

to let in the sweet, invigorating breeze.

We do this not for fame, not for fortune,

not even to leave behind our names.

We do this because it is what we can do.

To fill the void. To articulate the grand vision.

To create, as we were created.

Oh, to dream outlandish dreams! --Mr. David Silverman Congratulations to David on publishing his first book of poetry, It's the Little Things.

Shabbat Shalom

Candlelighting this week is at

4:01. Shabbat shalom!

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