Sonia Newell – Development Officer

Gamechangers

The annual B’nai B’rith/JNF Jewish Changemaker Awards recognise emerging young leaders within our community and this year’s ceremony was held last Sunday evening at UNSW. Year 12 Emanuel School students Chloe Corne and Sage Ziman were both nominated by Rabbi Danny Siegel, Head of Jewish Life, in the Youth: Age 14 to 18. Although neither were winners in their respective categories, they were both very worthy nominees.  Alumnus Daniel Brockwell (Class of 2015) was nominated for the B’nai B’rith Award for Leadership in the Young Adult: Ages 18 to 35. We wish them all Mazal Tov and Kol Hakavod for the volunteering work they all do.

I know we have many more students and alumni who volunteer their time for so many very worthy causes and I strongly recommend you nominate for these awards next year.  Anyone can nominate – you can even nominate yourself!

Competition for all ages

Sean Bloch and family

As I am sure you are all aware by now, we have 18 current Emanuel students who have just headed off to participate in the upcoming 20th Maccabiah Games in Israel next month. Perhaps what you do not know, however, is that we also have a number of parents and alumni as members of the various sporting teams as well.

The Australia Team Captain and Flag Bearer is Emanuel parent Sean Bloch. Mazal Tov – what an honour and how proud are we of Sean and the whole Australian team!  Did you know that Sean competed in two track cycling events at the 1992 Summer Olympic Games in Barcelona representing South Africa, before emigrating to Sydney? Sean is also Team Manager for the Cycling Team for Maccabiah.

Other Emanuel community members in the Australian contingency include:

Parents: Mike Evans (Football – Masters), Trevor Sidley (Golf – Open Men), Phillip Behr (Swimming – Masters, Men), Daniella Goodridge (Swimming – Masters, Women);

Alumni: Satchel Kolt (Football – Open Men), Robbie Ezekiel and Bradley Sarif (Futsal – Open Men), Shaun Jankelowitz (Rugby) and Joshua Zwi (Swimming – Open Men).

Emanuel parent Adriano De Melo is Coach, Futsal – Junior Boys, 2001-2002. This is his son Ethan’s team along with fellow Emanuel student member Joel Epshteyn, whilst parent Karen Spielman is Team Manager, Football – Junior Girls (1999-2002). This team includes her daughter Lara Joffe and other Emanuel students Nadia Coburn, Lara Rutstein, Isabella Schulz and Jordan Weizman. Anthony Goodridge is junior swimming coach!

In case you missed seeing the names of our 18 students participating in Maccabiah listed by Anne Hastings in her report in last week’s Ma Nishma, here they are again:

Oskar Beck, Nadia Coburn, Jared Elbourne, Amy Collins, Lara Joffe, Gabriella Goodridge, Ethan De Melo, Jake Hyman, Gina Seligsohn, Isabella Shulz, Danielle Rutstein, Joel Epshteyn, Lara Rutstein, Shai Stern, Jordan Weizman, Reece Berelowitz, Justin Sarif and Leo Lipman.

We look forward to hearing Maccabiah news and hope the Australian contingency comes home with lots of medals!

Breakfast with Emanuel  

Wednesday 2 August, The Little Space, Bondi Junction

Wednesday 9 August, KPMG, Barangaroo

Join us for one of these sessions where you will meet other like-minded parents and hear from presenters including our new High School students leaders as well as David Camp, Head of English who will speak about teaching English at Emanuel.

If you have news to share with our Community, please send to: snewell@emanuelschool.nsw.edu.au

Wishing you all a safe and happy term break and look forward to an exciting Term 3.