Class Highlights, Photos and Videos
Please click here to access our curricular overview, class highlights, regular schedules & photo/video collection for 2024-2025 (revised April 10, 2025). Please click here to access a separate webpage with photos and videos related to classes, the SJS Community Gatherings, the Purim Megillah Reading and the recent JEA Event.
We need your help. In order to make SJS on school days to operate more smoothly please follow these procedures:
1. If you student will be absent from school, please email or text Mr. Sherman to let him know: csherman@amyisrael.org or 847-708-1805
2. This is very important to ensure your students safety, please let us know if a family member or friend other than a parent will be picking up at the end of SJS.
Family Programming Team
We are forming a new group dedicated to planning engaging and innovative family programming for Am Yisrael, building on the success of the recent Purim Carnival. If you are passionate about contributing your ideas and shaping the present and future of our community, we invite you to join us.
Please contact Mr. Sherman if you are interested in participating.
Dear Am Yisrael Families,
As you know, Am Yisrael holds Shabbat Services every Friday evening and Shabbat morning. There are some services that are geared more toward our families.
We invite all families with K-12th grade students at SJS or our local Jewish Day Schools to join us for special Shabbat services on Friday, April 25th. We’ll be honoring families with English readings, and students and madrichim will have opportunities to help lead these family-friendly services. Services begin at 6:00 p.m. and will conclude by 6:50 p.m.
If you previously RSVP’d for the April 4th and/or April 25th services, you do not need to RSVP again.
Please click here to RSVP for April 25th Shabbat Service.
Saturday, April 19th
Join us for Better Together Family Shabbat/7th Day of Pesach, a wonderful opportunity for K–12 families (and younger siblings) to connect and celebrate Jewish life, prayer, and learning. We warmly invite you and your loved ones to a family-friendly Shabbat service featuring intergenerational Torah reading, followed by a Kiddush lunch. Families are encouraged to arrive by 10:30 AM. Send message to Cantor Rosenblatt and/or Mr. Sherman to receive one or more Torah verses to chant. Please click here to RSVP to attend.
AMUSY Lounge NightOur next social get together for 4th-12th Graders is happening on Wednesday, April 23 from 6:30 p.m.-8:30 p.m. Please RSVP here or via the QR code in the flyer.Please contribute $18 to cover the cost of our kosher dinner either via Zelle (through your bank), entering this special email address: (deposit@amyisrael.org Memo: AMUSY Lounge), by check (made out to Am Yisrael) or with cash (envelope to Mr. Sherman’s attention).
Family Shabbat Dinner
Friday, May 9
You’re invited to a delightful Shabbat dinner at Am Yisrael on May 9th immediately following our 6 p.m. Shabbat Services. Enjoy a delicious meal and the warmth of our community. Please RSVP via this link by Friday, May 2nd at 5:00 p.m.Our Shabbat Dinner is being subsidized by anonymous generous donations.We look forward to sharing this special evening with you!
Services will start at 6pm with the Hillel Conservative Minyan and dinner will be at 7pm. Teens can sign up to lead different portions. Our own Shayna Kamm will be delivering a D’var Torah.
Teens will have the opportunity to talk with the university students over dessert.
To RSVP click here
CHUSY Regional Executive Board Applications
Join the CHUSY Regional Executive Board (REB)!Plan and lead engaging programs Shape CHUSY’s future
Grow your leadership and teamwork skills
Make lifelong friendships and connections
CHUSY End-of-the-Year Celebration at Six Flags – May 18th!
Join us for th CHUSY End-of-the-Year Celebration on Sunday, May 18th, from 1:00 PM to 8:00 PM at Six Flags Great America!
Open to all 5th-12th graders!
Registration is now open – don’t miss out!
Volunteer Opportunity:
9th-12th grade teens interested in earning volunteer hours by staffing 5th-7th grade groups should contact CHUSY Community Director, Parker Weber, at pweber@uscj.org.
Sign up today and celebrate an amazing year with CHUSY!
Dear Am Yisrael Community,
As many of you know, Sandra Mieli Kamm, our dear teacher and youth director, and her family are navigating an extremely challenging period. Her family has created a Meal Train to coordinate support, and we want to share that with you: https://www.mealtrain.com/trains/v2wr0y.
As she works through her treatment plan, Sandra and the family would appreciate the help to take care of some of their meals. Meals or gift cards are appreciated so the family can concentrate on Sandra’s treatment. This meal train will be fluid, and dates will be added and adjusted as needed. If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact Andrea Berlow 847-757-6122. Gift Cards Can be sent to SBMieli@aol.com.
Please consider contributing a meal or gift card. Sandra is diabetic, so we are asking for carb sensitive meals. The Kamm family keeps Kosher-style. Please do not mix milk and meat or send shellfish or pork.
Your support will mean so much to Sandra and her family during this time.
Sincerely,
Charlie Sherman
Tzedakah Donations and Tikkun Olam Opportunities for 5785
Please remember to bring $1 or more for Tzedakah every Sunday morning and every Wednesday afternoon. So far, we’ve collected a total of $1,160.09!
Supporting Joaquin Fox’s Mitzvah Project
We are currently collecting for SPCA, an animal shelter in Israel, with the incentive of a kosher donut party for the class that raises the most. Here is a link to the organization Joaquin’s is passionate about collecting for in Israel:
Please click here to order a bracelet to support our Tzedakah initiatives and learn about how we can support Family Promise.
Tzedakah Donations and Tikkun Olam Opportunities for 5785
Please remember to bring $1 or more for Tzedakah every Sunday morning and every Wednesday afternoon. So far, we’ve collected a total of $1,095.09!
Please click here to order a bracelet to support our Tzedakah initiatives and learn about how we can support Family Promise.
Please click on this link to order a bracelet to support the people of Israel. Thank you to the Gesher Leadership for their continued phenomenal work in supporting our beloved Jewish homeland.
2024-2025 SJS, Families w/Children & USY Calendar (revised 4-10-25): Click here
Please click here to be added to populating Google Calendar.
Families with Young Children (0-4): Torah Tots Program: Link
School of Jewish Studies (SJS) Mission Statement, B’Yachad (Havurah) Program and Involvement of Jewish Day School Students: Link
Featured Family & Intergenerational Programs & Services: Link
Family Shabbat Services: Link
Audios/Texts for Chanukah Blessings, Songs & Tefillah Practice: Link
Growing Spotify Playlist of SJS Musical Tefillah: Link
Please click here for the Passover Guide, Services and Selling Hametz
Please click here for information on Women’s Network Shabbat
Please click here for information on Behind the Headlines – Israel News Update
Please click here for information on No Shame U
Mr. Charlie Sherman (he/him), MAEd, CJE
Head of School
Am Yisrael Conservative Congregation
4 N. Happ Road
Northfield, IL 60093
847-708-1805 (mobile)
*Please note that I will not view and respond to emails on Mondays and over Shabbat (Friday evening to Saturday evening). Thank you for your understanding.
Mr. Sherman’s Blog 