Pesach around the schools Masada College NSW schools held demonstration seders last week. Students were filled with the spirit of Pesach after singing songs from the haggadah and, of course, eating lots of matzah. Compiled by Nicole Breskin
The Australian Jewish News · Friday 6 April 2007 · page 8
Kayla Fingleson reclines at her model seder. Hannah Roth with her seder plate. Photos: Masada College…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Seders around the schools
The Australian Jewish News · Friday 6 April 2007 · page 4
MORE than 1000 students participated in demonstration seders across Sydney last week. Masada College’s Greg Mart is pictured with his seder plate…
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The Australian Jewish News · Friday 6 April 2007 · page 8
Gabriel Sebban plays the part of the Pharaoh. Year 3 student Daniel Kantorovich recites a blessing at an assembly. Photos: Emanuel School…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →been & seen Moriah coffee club Parents of Year T students at Moriah College got acquainted at an event organised by the school’s P&F committee on March 16
The Australian Jewish News · Friday 6 April 2007 · page 12
Photos: Liza Glass Andrea Halas (left), Laura Lees. From left: Ariane Fuchs, Camilla Feldman, Michelle Fischl. From left: Jacki Pillemer, Amber Schwartz, Claire Berman…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Antisemitic taunts mar school soccer match
The Australian Jewish News · Friday 13 April 2007 · page 3
AN antisemitic flare-up during a Masada College soccer match has sparked renewed calls for mandatory Holocaust studies in state schools…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Saving animals at the Emanuel School
The Australian Jewish News · Friday 13 April 2007 · page 9
THE Emanuel School Animal Club won $2500 after it won the runner-up prize for raising awareness and money for animal welfare in a national competition run by Voiceless. Animal Club members taught other students how to look after animals and to care for injured animals, and raised money by selling dog tags at school…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Rabbi, Aussie wife build school in Russia
The Australian Jewish News · Friday 20 April 2007 · page 8
JUST a few months ago, Rabbi Levi Stiefel was studying at Chabad’s kollel in Melbourne. But since December 2006, he has…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Yom Ha’aztmaut 2007 Nearly 2000 Jewish day school students celebrated Israel's 59th birthday at Moriah College on Tuesday. They enjoyed live music, food stalls and dancing throughout the day. The event - which is the first of its kind to bring together the students from Sydney's Jewish schools for the celebration - was organised by the NSW State Zionist Council
The Australian Jewish News · Friday 27 April 2007 · page 8
Photos: Ingrid Shakenovsky From left: Pnina Kraus, Jacqui Hurwitz, Lara Horak, Dana Gilden and Natalie Hirsh…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Around Australia Minister Visits Adelaide School
The Australian Jewish News · Friday 11 May 2007 · page 10
ADELAIDE - Federal Minister for Immigration and Citizenship Kevin Andrews recently toured Adelaide’s Massada College to learn how immigration affects…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Blackboard Emanuel School
The Australian Jewish News · Friday 11 May 2007 · page 9
EMANUEL School students assisted the Montefiore Home with ANZAC Day ceremony by attending the service with one of the school’s life governors and founders,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Time to do away with school homework There is no evidence to prove that school homework is of any academic benefit, and students have much better things to do with their time. PARTISAN
The Australian Jewish News · Friday 11 May 2007 · page 18
IT’S just a month since the Australian reported on something that’s been bugging me for more than 30 years: homework. I’m…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Indigenous school thanks Sydney Jewish community
The Australian Jewish News · Friday 18 May 2007 · page 10
CHARITY fundraising not only helps the disadvantaged in what it provides; it also reminds them that there are…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Blackboard Lag b'Omer around the schools
The Australian Jewish News · Friday 18 May 2007 · page 9
SYDNEY’S Jewish schools celebrated Lag b’Omer in festive style last week with Israeli dancing and face painting…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Academy BJE Bnei Akiva madrichim visited Academy BJE students at St Ives North Public School to celebrate Yom Yerushalayim late last month
The Australian Jewish News · Friday 1 June 2007 · page 9
St Ives North Public School Academy BJE students (from left) Jake Bortz, Brad Rosenheim and Brad Paikin with Bnei Akiva madrichim Marissa Poliak (second from right) and Dina Friedman…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Blackboard Sydney schools celebrate Shavuot Jewish schools across Sydney celebrated Shavuot by making paper flowers, singing and dancing, and donating food to Oz Harvest, a charity that has delivered more than one million meals to the hungry, needy and homeless
The Australian Jewish News · Friday 1 June 2007 · page 9
Kesser Torah College Prep K class painted and decorated baskets with hand-made paper flowers to celebrate Shavuot To celebrate Shavuot,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Labor's school pledge on the money ANALYSIS
The Australian Jewish News · Friday 8 June 2007 · page 6
THE campaign to keep Battleship Danby moored in Melbourne Ports has begun in earnest Parliament’s only Jewish MP has…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Jewish schools bid for campus chaplains
The Australian Jewish News · Friday 8 June 2007 · page 5
SIX Jewish schools across Sydney and Melbourne are competing for a limited number of government funding grants to prop up their chaplaincy…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Emanuel School
The Australian Jewish News · Friday 8 June 2007 · page 9
EMANUEL School primary students attended the inaugural Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA) Million Paws Walk at Sydney Olympic Park recently. The Animal Club students gathered, with their four-legged friends, for a relaxing walk through the parkland and water fountains…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Labor flags Jewish school security aid
The Australian Jewish News · Friday 8 June 2007 · page 1
LABOR has flagged a plan to provide funding for security at Jewish schools in a bid to alleviate the cost of community safety…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Emanuel School
The Australian Jewish News · Friday 15 June 2007 · page 9
EMANUEL School Year 4 students were given tanachim at a ceremony held last week. Parents and grandparents inscribed the…
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