A Lion with a big heart

Sonia Newell – Development Officer – Alumni & Community Relations

A Lion with a big heart

Mazal tov to Bettina Mucsnik, member of our Gesher Committee

Bettina, whose three children are all Emanuel alumni, was recently awarded the 2020 Coogee Local Woman of the Year Award. She has been a member of Coogee Lions Club for seven years, most of that time as their secretary. She says “being a Lion is different from other clubs – it’s an international organisation recognised throughout the world with a seat on the UN, and aims to help local charities as well as charities intrastate, national and international. Apart from that I was a member of the Emanuel Parents & Friends Committee for over 10 years as secretary when my children were students at the School and I have been a member of the Gesher committee for a number of years now, as a representative of past parents. I was previously also involved with the Parents & Friends at Randwick Public School for several years”.

Online Speaker Series

Please join us on Wednesday 9 September 2020 at 7.30 pm for the second session in our Gesher Online Speaker Series, when we interview alumnus Mitch Burnie (Class of 2011), Manager of Adamama Farm, the first Sydney Jewish urban farm.

Please book here by Monday 7 September 2020. If you have any queries about the event please contact Sonia Newell.

Surviving the Death Railway

Emanuel parent, Simon Fonteyn, and his brother David, recently donated a rare treasure to the Sydney Jewish Museum (SJM) – their late father Guus Fonteijn’s war diary, written in a water-damaged exercise book and on pieces of tissue paper. Simon and David shared the motivation to translate the diary, written in Dutch, and to give the original to the Sydney Jewish Museum for safe-keeping for future generations to see, to foster more awareness about what Jews went through in South East Asia during World War 2. It was published by SJM’s Community Stories Department in a book called Surviving the Death Railway.

Remember that September starts next Tuesday

Remember September is about challenging yourself in honour or memory of a loved one. The campaign has raised over $270,000 since it began in 2015 and this year is breaking records and plans to be huge! Over 250 challengers have signed up so far and there is still time to register before September begins. You have four challenge options to choose from. Emanuel alumnus Ben Wilheim, (Class of 2008), founder of this most worthy annual event to raise funds in the fight to find a cure for pancreatic cancer says “we thank the Emanuel School community for past support and hope you will join us again this year – we encourage you to get involved by signing up as an individual, a team of friends or even a family using the Team functionality during registration”.

For more information and to register, visit Remember September here

B’nai B’rith & JNF Jewish Changemaker Awards 2020

Online nominations are now open for these prestigious awards. Emanuel School has so many students both past and present, who volunteer their time to an array of worthy causes/organisations, and who doesn’t love to recognise such wonderful volunteering efforts. Anyone can nominate – parents, staff and even the nominees themselves. It would be amazing to see some of our students and alumni nominated again this year.

Friendship Circle (FC) Walk 2020 – 13 September 2020

Our extended School community has strong connections to FC through a variety of ways including volunteering efforts and/or having children with special needs who attend the amazing events organised by FC for children and young adults of Sydney with disabilities. FC looks forward to our support for this year’s virtual walk on Sunday 13 September 2020.