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ICJA News Weekly ICJA NewsletterBrowse through our weekly e-newsletters by clicking below. Listen Up! Donates A Cappella Songs to ICJA Students  Download four Listen Up! songs from their album, "Day Job," here. Songs are for ICJA students only and have copyright. Click to listen or right click to download the songs. Lo Alecha, Kah Ribon, Tov L'Hodot and Chai.Students Observe Yom HaShoah On the heels of the historic opening of Skokie’s Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center, Ida Crown Jewish Academy students and faculty gathered on Holocaust Memorial Day, Yom HaShoah v’HaGevurah, to hear from Mr. Walter Reed of the museum’s speakers’ bureau. Reed, of Wilmette, spent more than an hour describing his personal story, as part of the kinder transport to Belgium, and the story of the heroes he encountered. Read more... ICJA Earns NCA Accreditation  ICJA is proud to announce that the school received renewed accreditation from the North Central Association Commission on Accreditation and School Improvement (NCA CASI), an accreditation division of AdvancED. This action was taken at the AdvancED Accreditation Commission meeting held in March 2009. NCA CASI provides nationally-recognized accreditation, the purpose of which is continuous school improvement focused on increasing student performance. To earn accreditation, schools must meet NCA CASI’s high standards, be evaluated by a team of professionals from outside the school, and implement a continuous process of school improvement. Gabi Elkaim Wins Jerusalem Science Contest  Congratulation to Gabi Elkaim (second from right) on winning the Jerusalem Science Contest - Chidon HaMada HaYerushalmi - a program of the Walder Science Laboratory and Learning Center of the Foundation for Learning and Development! The The Chidon HaMada HaYerushalmi is offered to all Jewish high school juniors and seniors attending Jewish High Schools, with participants coming from 11 schools from across the US. Approximately 80 registrants across America took the Entrance (Qualifying) Exam in the fall, and 35 students completed the whole four month curriculum of study. Gabi wins a full tuition scholarship to the Jerusalem College of Technology. We are so proud of you! Eimatai  Nine girls and Mrs. Jaffe spend March 1-3 in Baltimore, MD for the Eimatai leadership conference for Jewish day school students. Students, grades 9-11, learned leadership and organizational skills, along with fundraising programming skills. The ICJA team planned a new school club, the ICJA Chesed Club, which will assist local Gemachs each quarter. This quarter's Gemach is the Chicago Chesed Fund.Aces Win Wittenberg Invitational  Congrats to the Aces wrestling team on winning first place in the season’s final tournament at Yeshiva University over President’s Day weekend! Read more...Strong Aces Showings in Houston Tournament Congrats to the Aces Basketball Team on their wins in the Houston Tournament. The Lady Aces won the Championship and the Aces fell in the championship game to HANC to capture 2nd Place. The Lady Aces went 4-0, Aces were 3-1 Our basketball program was well represented with a 7 and 1 record, the best in the tournament. The Lady Aces scores: Lady Aces 21 Kushner 14 Lady Aces 34 Yeshiva Atlanta 17 Semi Final Game: Lady Aces 40 Yavneh (Dallas) 31 Championship Game: Lady Aces 30 Beren Academy 18 All Tournament Team Selection: Ashley Bokor Tournament MVP: Tara Cooper Welcome to Our New Director of Development We are thrilled to welcome our new Director of Development, Carol Levenberg, to the ICJA staff. Carol has more than 25 year's experience in fundraising with work in Jewish communities from Virginia Beach to Phoenix to Toronto and many stops in between. Gaining clients by word of mouth, her consulting business served Jewish day schools, synagogues, Federations and JCC's throughout North America for more than 17 years. Most recently, Carol was raising funds for a coalition of environmental groups working to reduce the impact of global warming. Carol's son, Jonah Levenberg, graduated from the Academy in 1998. Carol lives with her dog, Poochie in Morton Grove.ICJA Receives Two Grants We are thrilled to announce that the Academy recently received two grants. A Picturing America grant is a free initiative from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) that helps teach American history and culture by bringing some of the country's great art directly to classrooms and libraries. ICJA will receive 40 large, high-quality reproductions of great American art and a comprehensive teachers resource book to facilitate the use of the works of art in core subjects. Picturing America's resources are designed to allow each work of art to enhance the study of American history, social studies, language arts, literature, and civics. In addition, ICJA once again received an AVI CHAI Foundation grant to encourage continuation from Jewish middle schools to Jewish high schools. The grant will allow Admissions to continue running our popular recruitment events for sixth through eighth graders through the spring of 2009. Illinois State Scholars Congrats to the 23 seniors who were recognized as Illinois State Scholars: Talia Alter, Sarah Bernstein, Hallie Dobkin, Gabriella Elkaim, Joel Feigenbaum, Benjamin Gliksberg, Sara Goldberger, Ari Gordon, Ariel Johnson, Jessica Kadish, Sharon Layani, Jacob Lewis, Raphael Lowenstein, Elisheva Matanky, Sarina Miller, Tzvi Morgenstern, Seth Near, Shayna Otis, Natan Rosenberg, Scott Rosenfield, Alaina Rothstein, Eric Silberman and Shulamit Towb. Winners rank in the top ten percent of the state's high school seniors. Students were selected based on SAT, ACT and/or class rank at the end of the junior year. Madigan Visits ICJA  Illinois Speaker of the House of Representatives Michael Madigan visited ICJA on a visit to the Orthodox Jewish community. Many thanks to the Agudath Israel for bringing him. Read about his visit.
Congratulations to senior Eric (Ricky) Silberman on being selected as a Semifinalist in the 2008-09 Siemens Competition in Math, Science and Technology. With its high academic standards, rigorous judging process, and emphasis on authentic scientific research, the Siemens Competition is regarded by the most prestigious universities as the leading science and mathematics research-based competition for high school students. Eight Recognized by National Merit Program Mazal tov to eight ICJA seniors who were recognized by the 2009 National Merit Scholarship Program. Shayna Otis, Sara Goldberger and Eric Silberman are National Merit Semi-Finalists. Talia Alter, Jacob Lewis, Sarina Miller, Natan Rosenberg and Netanela Weiss-Faratci are all Commended Students. We are so proud of you! Who Was Ida Crown? Watch a video from Lester Crown at last year's ICJA Scholarship Dinner to find out about Ida Crown a"h, the matriarch of Chicago's Crown Family. Twelve Students Pass Jerusalem Exam Congratulations to 12 of last year’s Ida Crown Jewish Academy graduates who passed the prestigious Jerusalem Exam from Hebrew University. Results were just released from the exam, which is the most prestigious international Hebrew language examination. All the Academy students who took the test passed, including: Elana Goldberg, Yael Gluck, Kenneth Dvorin, Rachel Daniels, Josh Lowenstein, Rebecca Lis, Moshe Matanky, Donny Silberman, Leora Perlow, Noam Zuckerman, Rachel Kirshenbaum and Michelle Kaplan. Seniors Attend JUF Annual Meeting  While the boys were already loaded on the bus, senior girls paused for a photo before heading downtown to the JUF/JF Annual Meeting. ICJA seniors attend the meeting and luncheon annually to demonstrate the Academy's support for Federation. Crown Essentials Winter 2008 Newsletter Spring 2008 Newsletter Winter 2009 Newsletter Spring 2009 Newsletter |
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