Sunrise Walks
Sonia Newell – Development Officer – Alumni & Community Relations
It’s been a busy week and it’s going to get even busier with so much on in Sydney!
Sculpture by the Sea
Ends this Monday 7 November 2022
Sunrise is a great time to walk the famous Bondi to Bronte route and see all the sculptures at the same time, without the crowds. If alumnus Joel Adler’s sculpture “Lens” (sculpture #24) is your favourite, or likewise for your children, please vote for it for the EY People’s Choice Award or the Kids Choice Award or on the Sculpture by The Sea App.
Shabbat Project Sydney
Friday 11 November 2022 – Saturday 12 November 2022
The Shabbat Project Sydney is the local organising committee for The Shabbat Project global initiative. Founded here in 2015, they have been creating an annual program engaging the community building unity, identity and continuity through the common thread of Shabbat, with opportunities for all levels of religious observation or affiliation. There will be a number of communal Challah Bake events next week, including at Coogee Synagogue and Maroubra Synagogue plus “After Glow – the biggest Havdalah in the Southern Hemisphere”:
Art for all ages – Head On Photographic Festival 2022
Opens this weekend
Founder and Creative Director of this international photographic festival now in its 13th year, Emanuel parent Moshe Rosenzweig OAM, and his wife Anita Schwartz, would love to see members of our School community young and old, come visit the festival which starts this weekend.
Venues for this festival include Bondi Beach Promenade and Paddington Reservoir Gardens as well as numerous other sites across Sydney.
…and he taught the canaries to sing
Waverley Library Gallery, Bondi Junction
On until Wednesday 16 November 2022, this is a project of animated vignettes celebrating Jewish life in Poland before 1939. Curator and artist, past parent Estelle Rozinski together with artists, current parent Steven Durbach and alumnus David Asher Brook, provide a series of engaging animations to explore the normalcy, fun and poignancy of everyday life before the Holocaust. Check out here for opening hours or phone 9083 8777.
A reminder about Kristallnacht Commemoration
Wednesday 9 November 2022
Kristallnacht – The Night of Broken Glass – marked the onset of the Holocaust. On 9-10 November 1938, Nazi forces set fire to or destroyed over two hundred synagogues, damaged 7,000 Jewish-owned business arrested 30,000 Jews, and murdered 91 Jews in Germany, Austria and the Sudetenland.
The Sydney Jewish community’s annual ceremony commemorating Kristallnacht will be held on Wednesday 9 November at 6.45 pm for a 7.00 pm start (in person only). The theme for the event is Nazis Uncovered, and the keynote speaker will be Nick McKenzie, award-winning investigative journalist who uncovered the inner workings of Australia’s biggest neo-Nazi cells. McKenzie’s investigation was featured on 60 Minutes and the Stan documentary Revealed: Among Us – Neo Nazi Australia.
The commemoration will also honour Michael Samaras – the former Wollongong councillor who uncovered Wollongong’s major art donor as a Nazi collaborator.
Book your seats.
You will receive confirmation of the venue closer to the event.
Enquiry here.
ARTHOP 2022
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.
ORAH 2022
Emanuel alumna and current parent Emma Grojnowski says “together with three other Emanuel mums Andy Aronstan, Simone New and Jackie Elias, we are experiencing the trip of a lifetime. We are currently in Israel on a journey that empowers Jewish mums to connect and engage with Israel and 600 other Jewish mums from around the world. We are pinching ourselves!”. This heavily subsidised program includes nine days in Israel followed by a year of monthly face-to-face inspired learning sessions, community volunteering and social activities. A number of other Emanuel mums have participated in this program over the years too, with the last one held in 2019, before Covid. If you are interested in participating in next year’s program, you can check it out here.
ORAH 2022
Boxing Competition
Don’t be fooled that boxing is for men only. Emanuel alumna Jade Gomez (Class of 2009) whose day job is a Social Worker with Spinal Injury patients, took up boxing to improve her fitness and she loves the opportunities that have come her way since doing so. She competed in an event a few months ago raising funds for Camp Quality, an organisation that gives kids facing cancer the chance to be kids again, providing them, their siblings and their parents with fun experiences, education, specialised cancer care, counselling and a supportive community.
Jade came back to Emanuel last year as part of our Careers Space event, to talk to our Years 11 and 12 students but boxing was not part of that conversation at the time. She is training hard at the moment, as she prepares for her upcoming fight at The Paddo Punch-On5, Amateur Fight Night in mid-November.
If your children are interested to know more about boxing, Jade is happy to have a chat with you and/or them and I can pass on your contact details: snewell@emanuelschool.nsw.edu.au.
Jewish Food and Farm Festival
Sunday 27 November 2022
This inaugural event at Adamama Farm will include workshops, food stalls as well as a cooking demonstration by Monday Morning Cooking Club (MMCC) members Lisa Goldberg and Emanuel past parent Merelyn Frank Chalmers. See the full program and register here.
Call-out for Volunteers
In a message from Emanuel past parent Vivienne Radomsky, Marketing Manager B’nai B’rith NSW, she has asked if any members of our School community might have some time to spare and would like to volunteer to join their in-store Bargain Bazar team at the new site recently opened in Maroubra, which raises funds for local charities. If so, please call on 9321 6300.
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.