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Greetings!
Wishing you and your families a Shana
tovah u'metukah!
Check out our NEW WEBSITE at
www.icja.org!
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College Rep Visits
Following are the upcoming College Rep
Visits. Visit the website
for more information.
Oct. 2: Brandeis University
Oct. 31: Barnard College
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ICJA Receives $113,483 Grant from JUF
The Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago
has taken a great leap forward in supporting
Jewish day-school education with a 43%
increase in funding from the Jewish Day
School Guaranty Trust Fund (JDSGTF) to the 15
Federation supported day schools this past
July.
We are happy to announce that ICJA's portion
of the $1,532,868 distribution was $113,483.
This is in addition to the Federation's
annual allocation of $471,511.
This increase highlights the success of the
major initiative, announced over two years
ago, to reinvigorate community support for
Jewish day-school education. The Fund's
endowment and commitments to it have
skyrocketed to more than $27.5 million.
Distributions to the schools will continue in
perpetuity, and as the Fund grows, the
distributions will continue to grow.
Gifts to the Trust Fund, which is part of the
Federation's Centennial Campaign, are over
and above the donors' annual gifts to the
Jewish United Fund and to the individual day
schools they may support. For more details
on the Jewish Day School Guaranty Trust Fund
program, contact the Federation's Legacies
and Endowments Department at 312/357-4853 or
email deborahsamuels@juf.org.
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Good & Welfare
Mazal Tov
Orlit (Zaret) and Freddy Goldman on the birth
of a son, Itiel Chaim.
Rabbi and Mrs. Fliegelman on the birth of a
baby boy born to Yael and Gilad Itzhaki.
Send Good & Welfare news to
icjanews@icja.org or submit
your news on our website.
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Boys from Mr. Robinson's senior Gemara class
are pictured learning with members of the new
YU Torah Mitzion Kollel of Chicago. Since the
beginning
of the school year, classes have
regularly joined the kollel fellows in the
Beit Midrash for chavruta and chabura learning.
Freshman girls enjoyed Parsha & Popcorn, a
unique weekly shiur given by Mrs. Elyse
Litwack, mechanechet at ICJA. Parsha &
Popcorn combines interactive Torah learning
with a positive socializing experience for
ninth grade girls.
The Academy is thrilled to incorporate SMART
Boards into the classrooms this year, thanks
to a grant from 
Senior girls in Mrs. Jaffe's AJSP course went
to the Emily Oaks Nature Center in Skokie
today in honor of the 25th of Elul, the
birthday of the world. In addition to
celebrating the birthday, the girls learned
about appreciating nature in order to enhance
their tefillah on Rosh Hashanah.
Following Sukkot, Monday and Friday will be
dairy days in the cafeteria and Tuesday,
Wednesday and Thursday will be meat days.
