March 1, 2013 / 19 Adar 5773 Happy Purim, Tigers! In This Issue Purim Day Costume Contest Purim Spiels Community Service YPI for Shalva IHSA Regional Champions Mooseheart's Big Challenge David Vs. Goliath CJHS in the News Security Updates Candid Camera The Best Week of the Year
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March 1, 2013 / 19 Adar 5773
Happy Purim, Tigers!
In This Issue
Purim Day
Costume Contest
Purim Spiels
Community Service
YPI for Shalva
IHSA Regional
Champions
Mooseheart's Big
Challenge
David Vs. Goliath
CJHS in the News
Security Updates
Candid Camera
The Best Week of the Year
From The Editor
Save the Date
Tuesday, March 5 -
Sunday, March 10
Model U.N. Trip
Thursday, March. 14
Pi Day
Friday, March 15
Friday 2:45 Dismissal
Begins
Monday, March 25
Pesach Break Begins
P. O. Corner
Gelt Program The P.O. is pleased to once again introduce the gift card "Gelt program" to our families and we have made it much easier (look for upcoming email with details on how to register). Faculty and
staff can also buy Gelt that 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 Sheri Sandrof at [email protected] or call her at 847.324.3723.
Community News
and Events
Moriah Welcomes Rabbi
Harold Kushner
What day is it when cookies come
first and praying comes second, when
Mr. Baumstark is present and punctual
at tefillah while you don't come
lounging in until 9 a.m.? When Ms.
Gleicher-Bloom's baby is better
behaved than you are? Well, here at
CJHS, we call it MONDAY--I mean,
we call it Shushan Purim!
The ruach was flowing as Rachel
Rubinstein sped us through
shacharit with a dozen different funny
voices--not counting the restrained little whimper when
half a dozen masked mimes converged on the bimah with every sign of intimidation.
The faculty took over the Torah service in the annual
rebellion against student leadership, with Ms. Frankel's
fiercely patriotic "O Canada" rendition of the leyning
complemented by Rabbi Feinsmith's "Fiddler on the Roof"
cantorial style. And as the shaliach tzibbur was tackled by
her little brother and carried from the amud, Shushan Purim services came to a rousing conclusion.
Sunday, March 10 5:00 p.m. Moriah Congregation 200 Taub Dr, Deerfield Rabbi Kushner is the author of more than a dozen books including the bestseller When Bad Things Happen to Good People. For tickets, bio of Rabbi Harold Kushner, and additional information visit www.moriahcong.org or call 847.948.5340.This event is co-chaired by CJHS parents Jennifer and Stewart Flink, as well as Sheri and Neil Cooper.
American Friends of
Israeli War Disabled
Presents...
"Everything Is Illuminated" Sunday, March 17 2:00 p.m. Noyes Cultural Center 927 Noyes Street, Evanston
The Next Theater Company's upcoming production is Jonathan Safran Foer's Everything is Illuminated, adapted for the stage by Simon Block. It chronicles a young Jewish man's journey as he struggles to unlock the secrets of his past. It follows the quirky journey of Jonathan scouring the rural Ukraine landscape in the search of a woman who may have saved his grandfather from the Nazis, accompanied by an old man haunted by memories of the war, an amorous and excitable dog named Sammy Davis Jr. Jr., and an irreverent translator with a unique grasp of the English language
Join us at 1:00 p.m. before the show for an hour of light refreshment and camaraderie at the Noyes Cultural Center in the studio right next door to the theater entrance. The play begins at 2:00 p.m. Advance copies of the script will be available and we are invited to a
Since Deerfield was not a walled city in the time of Joshua,
we do not read the
Megillah on Shushan
Purim. Instead,
SuperFeinsmith treated
us to the Purim Hillbilly
Jamboree, as composed
and performed by Rabbi
Feinsmith and his cadre
of pantomiming,
shimmying rabbi
dancers. If you thought
last year's Jib-Jab show was funny, you ain't seen nothing
yet; many thanks to pirate king Arthur Sredni and fairy
queen Maddy Mynatt for contributing funny hats to the performance.
special post-show discussion with members of the cast and artistic team.
The cost for this wonderful afternoon is only $36.00 per
person. Make your checks out to AFIWDF.
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. 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 [email protected]. Order forms are available online here.
Opa: CJ Style!
Roll into school, head to tefillah
at 8:05, Sign in at the front desk 'cause I
didn't get here on time... Makin' this a habit is upsettin' to
the rabbi, But for sleep, I need those extra
five!
I smell breakfast near, Hope it's sponsored by someone,
I got my bagel here, I'll grab three so you get none,
Got my favorite shmear, the cream cheese with the onion,
Gonna spread it on... the cinnamon raisin.
And there goes Bruce on the
speaker, "You're all world class!
You're fabulous!" And there goes Bruce on the
speaker,
hapless Evan Gorstein and some truly original commentary
from Mrs. Eliaser who is certain to be fired for this as soon
as the administration finishes laughing off Rabbi Robkin's
Vashti dance.
Happy Purim, you big, bad Tigers!
Costumed Concepts
According to Tractate Megillah 47c,
every member of the community is
required to sport a fantastic costume
on whichever day Purim is
celebrated in school. Rabbi Eliezer
states that a costume consists
minimally of a humorous paper sign;
Rabbenu Zechariah says that street
clothes are acceptable if it is made
perfectly clear that you are dressed
as someone else. Yoni Gabel says
that bigdei Shabbos are acceptable
as long as you hide behind a camera and take pictures of
everyone else's costumes, but the chachamim do not
permit this.
2013 was the Year of the Brigade! Into morning shacharit
Isaac Johnston for knowing all of world history except
the invention of the almighty necktie. Rabbi Robkin's last-
period class has stopped bringing their seforim completely
in hopes that their rebbe will just give up and teach them
niggunim instead, and it's business as usual at CJHS.
SNL Shorts: The Junior Spiel starring Charlotte Kamin
and Baye Miller provided musical interludes (APUSH in a
Box, starring Avidan Halivni as Mr. Danko and Hillel
Schwartz as Mr. Marchenko), drama (wheelie-toting, all-
powerful mavens of cool The
Lakeview Community), and
comedy (That Shtetl Show).
Commercials advertised
Freshmanz--that wonderful new
line of blond Jewish dolls--and
cautioned the girls of CJHS against
Stranger Danger, e.g. the senior
boys lurking in the shadows,
waiting to hit on them. Intrepid
explorer Adam Taitz (1996-2013)
braved the harsh winter terrain of
the CJHS wind tunnel in the Man
Vs. Wild snippet, where
biting winds and bitter child
pits human survival against
the 200 feet of sidewalk
leading from the parking lot
to the front door. And
Where in the World is Mrs.
Eliaser? starring Maya Behn
showed what the
evanescent physics
teacher is really doing
when overwrought
juniors are scouring
the halls for her--if she
isn't practicing her Jedi
skills in the workout
room, she's stuck in
the checkout line
poring over which giant
water bottle is really "the
thing." No students were
harmed in the making of
these films, except that
Maya actually drank all the
water in that huge bottle
and spent half the morning running to the ladies' room.
Meanwhile, the seniors are running their Keep the Spiel
Alive event despite students' continual need to dash off to Va'ad meetings...
Elan: Mr. Frank, the juniors and seniors want open campus.
Mr. Frank: Not going to happen.
Elan: How about a muzzle for Michael Jacobson?
Mr. Frank: That we can work with.
...or A.P. Chemistry:
Nate: Mrs. Levinson, I must very respectfully accuse you of having senioritis.
Mrs. Levinson: What makes you say that?
Nate: I have tracked a second-order relationship between the number of days left in second semester and the number of anecdotes you tell about your adorable grandchildren.
Mrs. Levinson: They are so smart, aren't they? I bet they'd do better on the AP exam than you would.
Mr. Griffith beat out Nate Swetlitz
and Ceren Maeir for the title of CJHS'
Most Jewish; Nat Moses' backpack
was finally located on his back;
ostentatious rapper Jonathan "Lil JT"
Tupper took on Evan "DJ Eliyahu"
Gorstein, and it was time for a
splendid Purim seudah breakfast before
the student body chewed their own feet off... or wet themselves laughing!
Community Service
After 30 minutes in the bathroom to wash off the green
face-paint and an impromptu "Stairway to Heaven" sing-
along, the students of CJHS fanned out into the community
to do some good. Juniors
learned about
homelessness and
canvassed El stations with
the Chicago Coalition for
the Homeless, while
freshmen took over the
Purim festivities at Gidwitz
Place for Assisted Living
and CJE SeniorLife Adult
Day Services in Evanston, where they ran carnival games,
played Bingo, passed out hamantaschen, and led the holiday singing.
The sophomore class headed to The ARK for their
community service program. The students met with staff
and clients in The ARK's Intensive Day Program for adults
with chronic mental illness, took a tour of the facility and
the various clinics, and sorted food in the pantry. The
afternoon was fun and productive, and The ARK's food