Happy 35th anniversary

Welcome to the start of the new school year. I hope you have all had a relaxing and safe holiday and I look forward to sharing school community news with you throughout 2018.

Did you know, 53 students enrolled at the School when it first opened its doors at Temple Emanuel Woollahra (now Emanuel Synagogue) in February 1983?  From then until 1999, the School was known as The Emanuel School (TES) and since 2000 we have been known as the condensed version – Emanuel School. 

Below is the first official school photograph. By the time it was taken towards the end of 1983, enrollments had grown to 74, with the students in Years K to 6 only at that stage. Three of these students, David Hirst, Nadine Ben-Mayor (Weinberger) and Ronnie Aron, have been current Emanuel parents for some years and this year we welcome back 2 more past students who appear in this 1983 Emanuel School Family photograph, Jacob Kaplan and Jonathan Hirst, whose children have just started at the school. We also have many more past students join us this year as new parents, and I look forward to highlighting these new second generation Emanuel students in coming issues of Ma Nishma.

Mazal tov on Australia Day Awards

Professor Anthony (Tony) Weiss AM

No doubt you have already heard the wonderful news about Aron Kleinlehrer’s Australia Day Award of an OAM – we wish him all the best for his well-deserved award, and likewise to past parent and past Board President Alex Abulafia who was also awarded an OAM. A third member of our Community, past parent Professor Anthony (Tony) Weiss, was recognised as a member of the Order of Australia (AM) for significant service to Science in the field of Biotechnology, as an academic, researcher, author and mentor, and through executive roles with scientific institutions.  He has been McCaughey Professor in Biochemistry at University of Sydney since 2015 and that same year he received a grant of $1 million as the Wellcome Trust Translation Fund Award for his research work in synthetic skin. Tony’s 3 children are all Emanuel alumni – Michael (2004) who now lives in London and works in Finance and Strategy at BT, the largest telco in the UK, Jessica Segail (2006), a primary teacher at Mount Sinai College and Robbie (2009) who together with his wife, alumna Charlotte (nee Lewis), recently moved to Boston, Massachusetts.

On tour with the Grandparents Committee  

Jjoin our Emanuel School Grandparent Committee for their guided tour of the newly refurbished Sydney Jewish Museum on Monday 5 March, followed by lunch (optional). Please note, RSVP is required by 19 February.  See booking details on the poster below. For more information about this event, please email: snewell@emanuelschool.nsw.edu.au

This page provides a wonderful opportunity to highlight achievements and other activities of members of our extended Emanuel School Community, so if  you have some news you would like to share, please get in touch: snewell@emanuelschool.nsw.edu.au