Sonia Newell – Development Officer – Alumni and Community Relations

Where are you now?

Please join us for our first online Guest Speaker session next Thursday evening – 6 August 2020. We look forward to sharing alumna Hannah Beder’s amazing journey since finishing Year 12 here in 2012. Hannah is the NSW Young Woman of the Year 2020 and late last year she won the 2019 Young Urban Inspirational Women’s Award “established to recognise women and young women who best exemplify Rotary’s motto of Service Above Self (i.e. community service the individual performs above and beyond their normal role”.  rotarydarlingharbour.org.au

If you and other family members or friends would like to be part of this exciting session, please RSVP to: snewell@emanuelschool.nsw.edu.au  by Monday 4 August so we can send you the link.

Julia Sussman, Co-Founder Youth HEAR julia@youthhear.com

NSW Jewish Board of Deputies

The recent NSW Jewish Board of Deputies (NSWJBD) elections saw members of our School community elected, including alumna Julia Sussman (Class of 2014). Julia sits on our Gesher committee and she is co-founder of Youth HEAR (Holocaust Education And Remembrance), an organisation launched in 2018 dedicated to bridging the gap between Australian youth and the memory and awareness of the Shoah. Visit Youth HEAR on Facebook.

B’nai B’rith & JNF Jewish Changemaker Awards 2020

Nominations are now open and can be made online. Nominate someone in the Jewish community who is making the world a better place. Age categories are Youth (under 18) and Young Adults (ages 18 to 35). At Emanuel School we have seen many of our students and alumni nominated for these awards over the years, since they started in 2013. We had three winners in last year‘s competition – the 2019 youth contribution to Australian Society winner was Emanuel student, Elia Gil-Munoz now in Year 11, whilst Miriam Itzkowitz now in Year 12, won the youth award for Contribution to the Jewish community. 

Ben Wilheim

Remember September

Alumnus, Ben Wilheim (Class of 2008), won the Young Adult category, Contribution to Australian Society, for his efforts to raise awareness and funds for education and research into a cure for pancreatic cancer. His organisation, Remember September,  was created in 2015 by Ben and his brother David, following the death of their father Danny and their cousin Danielle (who was only 33), from this disease. 

Visit the Remember September website.

The challenge is to drink only water for the month of September, and together with close friends, many of whom are also Emanuel alumni, Ben and his supporters have to date, raised over $230,000 for pancreatic cancer research. September is only around the corner and any support we can provide for this worthy cause would be much appreciated.

Friendship Circle (FC) Walk 2020

Our extended School community has strong connections to FC through a variety of ways – it might be through volunteering efforts and/or having children with special needs who attend the amazing events organised by FC for children and young adults of Sydney with disabilities. FC looks forward to our support for this year’s virtual walk here.

If you have photos and/or news to share, please send to: snewell@emanuelschool.nsw.edu.au

Shabbat Shalom.