Sonia Newell – Development Officer

Mazal Tov to “our” amazing photographer Ofer Levy

Ofer, whose son Jonathan (Yoni) is in Year 6, spends many hours at Emanuel School taking photographs of our students at various events each year ,and for that we are truly grateful. As much as he loves photographing the human species, Ofer has a passion for photographing wildlife and his image of Little Red Flying Foxes won the Highly Honoured recognition in one of the world’s largest and prestigious wildlife photography competition. There were 25,000 entries from 63 countries and 123 finalists. Wow, well done Ofer!  

Remember September 2019

Please help alumnus Ben Wilheim (Class of 2008) who, together with family and friends, is raising awareness and funds for the fight to cure pancreatic cancer: https://rememberseptember.gofundraise.com.au/

Friendship Circle Walk (FCW) – 1 September 2019

Only two days to go before the big walk on Sunday morning. There will be lots of opportunities to have fun, relax and celebrate for all ages and abilities.  We hope you will join us for the Walk – make sure you keep an eye out for the five fun things below and see if you can spot them all!

Please head to sydneyfriendshipcircle.org.au/walk for more information, to register or to donate, and follow us on Facebook for our daily countdown to the Walk: click here.

Australian Jewish News (AJN) Rosh Hashanah Card Competition – calling children aged 5 to 12

I hope your children are getting their entries in for the annual AJN Rosh Hashanah card competition. The brief is to create a design that captures the spirit of Rosh Hashanah and the winning entry becomes the newspaper’s official new year card, sent to a host of VIPs both locally and overseas, including the Prime Minister of Australia and the President of Israel. Entries should be submitted on an A4 sheet of paper, with the entrant’s name, age, school and contact details written on the back to: Rosh Hashanah Card Competition, PO Box 1000, Caulfield South VIC 3162. The closing date for entries is Friday 6 September 2019. 

Good luck!

Gift of Life

Still looking for a bone marrow match for a young woman in our community.  Help us to help carry on the amazing work started by the late Shula Endrey-Walder OAM, who was one of our Emanuel School grandparents. 

Primary Grandparents and Friends Day – Monday 16 September 2019

Our Years K-6 students are getting very excited as this special day fast approaches. We look forward to seeing grandparents and special friends at this very special morning, where they will share Rosh Hashanah celebrations with the children. See invitation for details. 

Alumni news

Mitch Burnie

Alumnus Mitch Burnie (Class of 2011) is currently in Connecticut, USA, for 3 months on an amazing course in preparation for Sydney’s first Jewish Urban Educational Farm starting up next year. You can follow his new instagram page @adamama_farm and checkout what he is learning. Did you know cherry tomatoes are an Israeli invention?

Movie Time

If you were down at Bondi Beach earlier in the week, you may have noticed movie cameras and action for the filming of a new movie which started shooting in Sydney this week. Rafe Spall, whose credits include “The Big Short” and “Shaun of the Dead,” leads the cast of romantic comedy “Long Story Short.” 

The movie is written and directed by Josh Lawson, who was Oscar nominated last year for short film “The Eleven O’Clock.” Lawson’s first feature, “The Little Death,” premiered at the Toronto Film Festival in 2014, won the SXSW Audience Award the following year, and was released in more than 30 territories. It has been remade in four languages, most notably in Spanish as “Kiki Love to Love,” which did more than one million admissions in Spain. Emanuel alumnus Jamie Hilton (Class of 1997) is producing this latest film alongside Michael Pontin and Isabel Stanfield for See Pictures, marking a second collaboration with Lawson after “The Little Death.” www.seepictures.net

The ensemble cast of “Long Story Short” includes Zahra Newman (“Wentworth”), actor/comedian Ronny Chieng (“Crazy Rich Asians”), Noni Hazlehurst (“A Place to Call Home”), Dena Kaplan (“Dance Academy”) and Lawson (“Anchor Man”). The story follows Teddy (Spall), who wakes up the morning after his wedding to discover that every few minutes he’s jumping forward to the next year of his life. He must use every precious moment wisely to keep from losing the love of his life, and to learn to love the life he’s losing.

Speaking of movies and alumni, accomplished actor Anneliese Apps (Class of 2011), appears in a movie with Larry Emdur, his first film “LARRY TIME” screening in official competition at the Short and Sweet Film Festival on Wednesday 4 September 2019 at 7.00pm in Surry Hills.  For tickets and more details: https://shortandsweet.org/festivals/shortsweet-film-festival-sydney-2019

If you have photos and/or news to share, please send to: snewell@emanuelschool.nsw.edu.au