WHAT A BIG WEEK FOR GESHER ACTIVITIES!

Wednesday last week saw the third annual Emanuel E-Zone careers event for our Year 11 and 12 students organised under the banner of Gesher with Claire Pech, Careers Advisor.  This year for the first time, we trialed a new format whereby the students selected four out of ten different career choices, with each presenter giving a brief overview of their journey and current professional life, followed by a Q&A session. It was amazing to see the caliber of all the speakers, seven of whom are Emanuel graduates – some had not been back on campus since leaving Year 12 but they were all keen to ‘give back’ to the School that had given them so many opportunities when they were students here. 

For more details on this event, see Careers report.

On Wednesday this week, we held our Bondi Junction Networking Breakfast at The Little Space.  This event, attended by close to 30 parents and grandparents, was an opportunity to meet other like-minded members of our School community as well as hear Claire Pech speak about career opportunities for our senior students, whilst current Year 11 student Ari Regan-Lacey then gave a very moving and emotional account of the March of the Living (MOTL) trip earlier this year followed by Pnina Hagege on her experiences on the 2015/2016 Year 10 Chavayah trip to Israel.

Next Wednesday, 31 August we will be holding our CBD Networking Breakfast with the same format.

Ari Regan Lacey, Pnina Hagege, Dan Glass, Nicki Pittorino and Peter Goldberg

Yael Grunset and Shaun Greenblo

Mikayla Sacks, Sophie Doctor and David Mizrahi

Max Woolf, Head Madrich, Simon Masnick and Jordana Blackman

More Community Announcements

A community exhibition co-presented by Jewish Arts Inc and Shir Madness Jewish Music Festival includes a number of Emanuel families. Titled “my place + your place = a better place”, Tikkun Olam a multicultural exhibition, is on until 7 September at the Waverley Library Gallery, 32-48 Denison Street, Bondi Junction. Free admission. 

Curator of this event Estelle Rozinski, is a past parent.  Other Emanuel School Community members involved in this exhibition include alum Anastasia Uricher (Class of 2015 and Estelle’s daughter), alum Jean Kearney (Class of 2011) and her father Keith Kearney; past parent Lia Klugman and alum David Asher Brook (Class of 1998).  You may recall David and his wife Hanna were the instigators of the beautiful collaborative artwork created by the individual brushstrokes of Emanuel School’s staff and students in celebration of the opening of the Kleinlehrer LINC Building just over a year ago!

Alum AJ America (Class of 2012) would like to thank everyone who supported her recent Sydney concert with Luminescence Chamber Singers. AJ is also passionate about music education for young people and is in the process of establishing a children’s choir.  She would love to see members of our community at the Sydney concert on 21 September, which will probably be at Paddington Uniting Church (venue to be confirmed).

Luminescence Chamber Singers launched in 2013, with a goal to provide Canberra with its first professional chamber choir. Channel J met the group and talked to their director, AJ America:

www.facebook.com/utschannelj/videos/1037517339675058/

Luminescence is touring with acclaimed artistic director Gordon Hamilton (of The Australian Voices) in September to Sydney, Port Macquarie and Newcastle.  luminescencesingers.wix.com/luminescence

Alum Ben Wilheim (Class of 2008), one of our recent nominees for the B’nai B’rith/JNF Jewish Changemaker Awards has just finished designing the new website for ‘Remember September’, to raise awareness and funds for pancreatic cancer, the dreaded disease that took the life of his father and his 32 year old cousin: rememberseptember2016.gofundraise.com.au/

Fully endorsed and supported by Cancer Council of NSW, Remember September is now in its third year, with an ever-growing team of supporters, many of whom are Emanuel alumni. Ben would love more members of our Emanuel Community to join them.  He says: “Amazingly we have already raised $900 and September hasn’t even begun!”