Lag b’Omer celebrations Lag b’Omer was celebrated at Jewish schools across Sydney last
Kesser Torah Year 6 student Chaim Lever with teacher Rabbi Shmuel Levy. Kesser Torah Year K pupils…
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BLACKBOARD New school board at Mount Sinai
ALEX Di Veroli stepped down on Tuesday night as president of Mount Sinai College after five years at the helm of the school. Steve Seidman was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Advertisment The Yeshiva Centre launches after school Cheder
As part of its ongoing commitment to the enhancement of Jewish education in the Sydney community, The Yeshiva Centre has commenced an after school Cheder…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →At school with Academy BJE Academy Board of Jewish Education (BJE) held a Siddur presentation at Central Synagogue last Sunday. Fifty-six children, who attend Sunday classes and Jewish Education at School club programs run by Academy BJE, were presented with their first Siddur
Frank Levy (left) presents a Siddur to Jessica Meskin. Eden Blair (left), Paris Freed…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →BLACKBOARD Schools celebrate Yom Yerushalayim
JEWISH students across Sydney celebrated Yom Yerushalayim in a variety of different ways. Hineni madrichim visited Rose Bay Public School, Emanuel students made replicas of the Western Wall, and Year 6 Kesser Torah students took the stage during the primary school assembly for a presentation on Israel…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Shavuot at Carme Carmel School celebrated Shavuot with a special assembly last week. Students from Year 1 also visited the Maurice Zeffert Memorial Centre for the Aged
Year 1 student Talia Blumberg (left) with Alyce Breazeale. Prep students Natalie Olender and Steven Kaye…
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Year 1 students at Kesser Torah did a craft exercise to help them learn about Shavuot. The festival celebrates the harvest of wheat and fruits, and marks the bringing of the first fruits to the Holy Temple as an expression of thanksgiving. It is a universal Jewish tradition to eat dairy foods…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Outlook As assimilation rates rise, fertility rates drop, families drift to the eastern suburbs and —perhaps most pertinently —local state schools attract increasing numbers of Jewish students, Masada College, the fulcrum of north shore Jewry, faces testing times. Mark Franklin reports
DINA Coppel was 12 years old the night her parents drove her brother, sister and herself to a small…
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JEWISH dayschools celebrated Shavuot across Sydney with activities, presents and food…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Danby: Government Not Delivering on Jewish School Funding
A 2001 election promise has oeen resurrected as part of an attack on the latest Federal budget by Labor’s member for Melbourne Ports Michael Danby, who…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →kids' stuff At school with the Board of Progressive Jewish Education (BPJE)
BPJE students, who come to classes from as far as Wollongong and the New South Wales central coast, as well as those who come after school from their Sydney public schools, created artworks and spent…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Five fantastic things to do these school holidays 1. Become an athlete
Kids in the Park - the school holiday program on offer at Sydney Olympic Park - features activities and entertainment for all the budding Cathy…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →At school with Emanuel
Year 2 students have been busy learning the Hebrew alphabet, so to celebrate their mastery of block letters, they prepared a tasty baked treat: cookies in the shape of…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Opening Night Scholars debate clashing values
THE “clinking of clashing values” is a beautiful sound to the ears of Israeli academic Dr Fania OzSalzberger…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →At school with Masada College
MASADA College hosted its annual Year 6 fete last month and managed to raise $3000 towards buying something special for the school. Year 6 students set up different stalls including a jewellery…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Virtual teachers in a cyber classroom
EMANUEL School graduate Ricky Friedlander has designed a new virtual English classroom complete with teachers, practice essays and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Pupils learn to cook at Mount Sinai
MOUNT Sinai pupils from year K to 6 have been spending their school holidays…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Carmel stages musical In a first for Carmel School, Year 8 art, drama, media and music students joined forces for a performance of the musical You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown last month
Cast members (from left) Roy Joseph, Alexia Robinson, Jake Weiner, Talya Silberstein, David Lazarus and Estee Todres. David Lazarus (front) plays Charlie Brown in one of the scenes from the musical. Sammi Berman as…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →BLACKBOARD Academy BJE doesn’t stop for school holidays Joshua Levi jlevi@jewishnews.net.au
FOR most schools, holidays are a quiet time when teachers and students are away. It is a time when everyone catches their breath; but…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →[?]t school with Moriah College
YEAR 1 students have been busy learning about animals and how they shelter themselves. After a visit to…
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