Volume 31 Issue 35 11 Nov 2022 17 Heshvan 5783

Fashion Forward

Sonia Newell – Development Officer – Alumni & Community Relations

Shabbat Project Sydney – this weekend

Remington Owen, Coordinator of Music Events and Music Teacher, Years 5 -12 at Emanuel and past student, Ben Adler, are performing tomorrow at “After Glow – the biggest Havdalah in the Southern Hemisphere” to end this year’s The Shabbat Project in Sydney.

Fashionable and Charitable

Sharon Aaron and Nicole Katz – Fashion Forward

Emanuel parent, Sharon Aaron, and her good friend Nicole Katz, both share a love of fashion, community and the environment. As the second wave of COVID hit, Sharon realised she had a wardrobe full of lovely clothes but nowhere to go to wear them. She wanted to do something that would help other women and so together with Nicole and her great social media skills and similar thoughts as Sharon, they formed “Fashion Forward”, a social enterprise with a conscience, designed to find new homes for preloved designer fashion. Over the past two years, they have saved an enormous amount of clothing from ending up in landfill, whilst raising more than $120,000.00 for Jewish Houses’s crisis care for women and children who are victims of domestic violence. Funds raised help these women and children for the first three months, to help pay for accommodation, social services and food. “Fashion Forward” was previously located in Kensington for 18 months until a few weeks ago when they moved to a pop-up shop at 97 Glenayr Avenue, Bondi which is open on Thursdays and Sundays from 12.00 pm – 4.00 pm. Sadly they are only at this shop until January and would love to find another site in Bondi after that – if any of our readers hear about such a site, please get in touch as they want to continue raising these much-needed funds. To ensure total transparency, Sharon and Nicole collect and then sell the clothes, with 100% of all monies from sales paid directly to Jewish House to help these women and children in need, irrespective of their religion.

You can also shop online on Instagram at 7.30 am on Wednesdays and Fridays.  As Sharon says, this initiative has allowed them to combine having fun with friends and new customers who also love to own beautiful clothes but cannot afford to buy them at the full retail price, at the same time as knowing that they are providing funds to support women and children in crisis.

If you have preloved designer labels such as Scanlan Theodore, Camilla & Marc, Sass & Bide, Bianca Spender, Jak + Jak, Bassike or Isabel Marant to donate, please contact Sharon directly on 0402 761 813 to arrange collection. Happy shopping!

Art For All Ages – Head On Photographic Festival 2022

Finalists in the Head On Student Awards, Bondi Promenade
Friday 4 November 2022 – Sunday 4 December 2022

Some of our readers may have already been down to Bondi Beach Promenade and seen some of the amazing entries in this year’s festival. In a message from Emanuel parent and organiser of Head On, Anita Schwartz, she says “Exhibitions are up, the Festival Launch is over, and winners have been announced.

Here are the details of the three Emanuel student finalists and their images:

Tamar Granot (Year 6) – Self Portrait – The Garden of Eden

Tamar says “Being selected for the Head On Photo Festival has been amazing! I am so proud as the only Primary student, that my photo is hanging there on the Bondi Promenade. All the other kids are in High School so that’s pretty cool. My photo is a self-portrait which I took a while ago, when my mum got a new phone. It was part of a series of photos I took during lockdown. Looking back now, I feel that I was so young and innocent when I took this photo, which inspired the name Garden Of Eden. I have always loved all kinds of art – I feel so lucky to have this experience!”

Daniel Zipser and Dylan Vitek (Year 8) – Find my heart

The image captures the iconic landscape of Clovelly Beach in Sydney just after dawn. The water is almost as flat and still as the concrete that borders it. The straight lines formed by the landscape and painted on the concrete resemble pathways. In the top left corner is a blue heart resting on the ground. The early morning swimmers are out, each in their own world, each out there to tend to their body and mind, and spirit. This is where they find their peace, their heart.

Dylan says “we found out about Head On from Daniel’s mother but the organisers daughter, Noa Rosenzveig is in our year. Clovelly Beach is a local beautiful natural location which we enjoy swimming in and wanted to capture its essence in our photograph. We took this photo as part of a collection which we can send you if you would like to see more”. The boys are pictured here standing alongside their photograph which is on display at Bondi Beach Promenade until Sunday 4 December 2022.

Other exhibitions including the Head On Portrait Awards are on at Paddington Reservoir Gardens Saturday 5 November 2022 – Sunday 20 November 2022, 10.00 am – 5.00 pm. The full program is online. 

ARTHOP 
Saturday 19 November 2022 – Sunday 20 November 2022

Emanuel past parents, Ruth Levine and Lia Klugman, are joining forces again with some other local artists for this year’s ARTHOP.   

Lia has come back to School on numerous occasions over the years to supervise ceramics activities with our Primary students, including to help create the mezuzzot on some of the classroom doors in the LINC building.

When you grow your hair long and keep playing the music you love

Three members of the band Before The King are Emanuel alumni – Gabriel Jammy, Daniel Radomsky and Dean Smuskovitz – all good mates from the Class of 2016 who played music together whilst still at school and continue doing so. They have just released dates for more of their concerts up until March next year.

Head Madrich and a 20-year reunion

The Class of 2002 held their 20-year reunion last Sunday afternoon with a wonderful turnout of 36 past students. Head Madrichim Lara (Shneier) Shein and Ari Shammay, a current parent, along with everyone else spent hours reminiscing about their school-days and life beyond the Waxman Gates. Next year we will welcome to more members of this year group back to School as new parents with their own children starting here in Year K, whilst a number of others have their children on the waiting list for subsequent years.

Jewish Food and Farm Festival
Sunday 27 November 2022

Adamama Farm Manager, alumnus Mitch Burnie and everyone else at the Farm are getting very excited about this inaugural event.

  • Learn about Fermentation with world renowned fermented guru Sandor Katz
  • Healthy food relationships with Lyndi Cohen – The Nude Nutritionist
  • Get baking with Lisa Goldberg and past parent Merelyn Chalmers
  • Understand the farm to table exeprience of shakshuka with the married couple “The Gals” 
  • Start thinking about the future of food and its ethics with Joanne Fedler, a past Emanuel parent and Laura Dalrymple, co-owner of Feather & Bone and author of The Ethical Omnivore.

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Call-out for Teen Volunteers for Friendship Circle (FC) Day Camp 
Monday 16 January 2023 – Friday 20 January 2023

For those who do not know, FC offers amazing programs for teens and young adults with disabilities and many of our senior students and alumni have been volunteers with this organisation for many years. We also have families in our own community whose children attend the camps as participants. The January week-long camp, based at Moriah College, will be packed with lots of fun activities, and a mix of incursions and excursions. This is a great opportunity to build on existing relationships and make new friends while having lots of fun during the school holidays.

As spots for both volunteers and participants fill quickly if your children are interested in volunteering, please tell them to register soon to avoid disappointment, and if you know families with children who would like to be participants, please pass these details on.

Teen Volunteers (ages 13-18 and in Years 7-12): click here to register
New volunteers: please also complete our Teen Volunteer Application

Participants
Juniors (ages 5-11): click here to register
Teens (ages 12-18): click here to register
New families: please also complete our Family Expression of Interest Form

Please email our Day Camp Coordinator Sophie Malek with any questions about Camp.

We look forward to sharing our news and yours, so if you have photos and/or news you would like to share with us, please send to Sonia Newell.  

Shabbat shalom, stay safe and have a great weekend.