Development Officer

70^th Speedo NSW Jewish Swimming Championships 

This will be held this coming Sunday 16 February 2020.

Maccabi NSW Jewish Swimming Club President, Emanuel parent Anthony Goodridge described the annual swim meet in last week’s AJN as “the longest continually running Jewish community event in Australia,” with swimmers as young as six right up to 50+ taking part. The main race of the meet will be the 100m freestyle Australian Jewish News Cup, with the men’s and women’s winners to receive trophies and prize money, and there are flash new medals that will be up for grabs. 

A large group of Emanuel students, past students and parents are taking part in this event:

Gabriella (Gabi) Goodridge (Year 12) will defend the women’s 100m freestyle – Jewish News Cup which she won for the first time in 2019. Her siblings, Aden (Year 9) and Mia (Year 4) are also racing, along with mum, Daniella whilst their father Anthony is on the organising committee.

Jared Elbourne (Class of 2019) will be dipping his toe back in the water after completing the HSC last year.

Other parent/child combinations include Sanne Nathan (Year 5) and her brother Neik (Year 7) along with their father Mark; Rebecca (Becky) Salamon (Year 5) and her twin brothers Max and Sam (Year 7) along with their father Robert.

Siblings competing include Jack Kessel (Year 6) and his brother Noah (Year 4), Xander Keller (Year 6) and his sister Zara (Year 4) as well as Emily Seeman (Year 5) and her twin sister Gabrielle (Gaby) Year 5.

Yoni Levy in action. Photo by Ofer Levy

Another swimmer/parent combination participating in this event is Jonathan (Yoni) Levy (Year 7) who will be swimming whilst his father, Ofer, takes the photos!  We look forward to sharing some of Ofer’s amazing action shots at this competition in next week’s issue. 

Good luck to everyone participating in this event on Sunday.

For more information email: nswswimming@maccabi.com.au

Healing Stories 

Sunday 16 February 2020 2.00 pm – 3.30 pm, Double Bay Library

Rikki Stern (Class of 2016) is one of two speakers at this event where she together with Alison Jones a mother of five children, will both share their experiences as cancer survivors. They talk about their journeys, why they chose to tell their stories, and how the community came together to support them.  $10 of each ticket will go to Pink Hope and the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre.  For more information and to book tickets: www.shalom.edu.au

Adamama – Shalom’s emerging Jewish Urban Farm

Alumnus Mitchel (Mitch) Burnie (Class of 2011) heads this amazing new project at Hakoah, White City, 30 Alma Street, Paddington. A community of volunteers together with Mitch have created Sydney’s first Jewish urban farm. If you would like to sign up for a working bee spot: https://signup.com/go/RxEzLvR

Mitch Burnie

Check out more photos here.

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