Community Connections – Gesher
Sonia Newell – Development Officer
‘Family’ returning home
Emanuel School certainly has that strong family feel – we are an amazing community with so many connections and so much history in the 35 years since the School first opened in 1983. It is wonderful to see many past students coming back to School, this time as parents!
These photos below show just some of the 12 Year K students with a parent who was a student here during their own school-days! Twelve out of 40 Year K students – that’s 30% – what an amazing statistic! Some of these parents completed Year 12 here whilst others did not, but how wonderful it is to welcome them back and likewise to all the other past students who have also joined us this year as new parents at Emanuel School. It also means we have gained lots of new Emanuel grandparents who now see the School from a different perspective to the one they did many years ago when they were parents here, and likewise the many wonderful new facilities we now have on campus.
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- Ari Shammay (Class of 2002, Head Madrich and Dux) is pictured here with sons Nathan who moved this year from Kornmehl to Year K and Isaac, Year 3.
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- Jacob Kaplan was a student here from 1983 when the School first opened until 1989, the end of his Primary School years, and he now returns as the parent of Claudia in Year K and Joshua in Kornmehl. Another Emanuel connection for Jacob is his mother-in-law, Nitza Lowenstein. She was a teacher here from 1984 for a number of years, and now returns to School as a grandparent.
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- Rebecca Pal (nee Hardie) was Dux of 1992 and now has her three sons here at Emanuel. She is pictured here with Dylan Year K, whilst Aaron just started in Year 3 and Jordan in Year 5.
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- Jacob Clark and mum, Anita Clark (nee Silver, Class of 1999). Her sister Monika Silver (Class of 1998) has son Ethan Czeiger in Year 1.
The 1986 Year 6 class photo above (by definition, the Class of 1995) has 5 students who are now current parents: Anna-Lisa Palmer and Adam Berger who both join us as new Year K parents this year, along with Nikki Strous (Ross), Sil Malki and Lisa Michel (Ross) whose children started here in previous years. Nikki and Lisa’s brother, Andrew Ross (Class of 2000) and his wife Lynn (nee Shakenovsky), also a past student, join us this year as Emanuel parents – their daughter Bianca has just started at Kornmehl.
I am sure there are many more stories to tell about the connections past and present, and they truly enrich the history of our School. If you are also a past student and have a recent photo of you with your Emanuel children, we would love to see it too! Please send your photos to: snewell@emanuelschool.nsw.edu.au
Journey inside the Sydney Jewish Museum – This event is sold out.
If you have news you would like to share with us, please send it to: snewell@emanuelschool.nsw.edu.au