JCA honours volunteers
More than 250 volunteers have been honoured at the 2010 Jewish Communal Appeal Gala Event held at Sydney’s Hordern Pavilion this week.
Supported by the leadership of their organisations as well as 1100 fellow community members at the event, their dedication and support for the community has been recognised.
Opening the event, Peter Philippsohn, Appeal Chairman of the JCA spoke on the definition of a community highlighting the key factor as being those taking common ownership of the people around them, this being the foundation of our Jewish community and of our JCA.
David Balkin Photo: Giselle Haber
David Balkin, JCA President talked about the challenges ahead in the next few years being dayschool affordability, building yiddishkeit into our homes, combating antisemitism and engaging the next generation of donors and leaders. He said, “These are major challenges and they are coming at us with speed. We must address them, but we must also attend to the ‘here and now’ needs of our community’s least fortunate. How we do this is a measure of our community’s compassion and cohesiveness which are pre-conditions for the kind of Jewish continuity we all want. That is why we should all be proud of the outstanding care that the Montefiore Home, Wolper Hospital, JewishCare, and COA provide to our most vulnerable. But more generally, the extraordinary work of all of our members and their volunteers, enabled with your money, allow us to sleep well at night knowing how well our community looks after its own.”
Ronni Kahn and Peter Phillipson Photo: Giselle Huber
In the formal recognition process, 22 organisations (including the JCA) gathered on the stage with their designated leadership and representative volunteers. Guest speaker Ronni Kahn (2010 Australia Local Hero) spoke of her inspiring journey, setting up food rescue organisation OzHarvest. Expanding the organisation, which now delivers over 185 000 meals to those in need each month, Kahn suggested people “listen to that little voice inside you” that encourages us all to try and make a difference.
Philippsohn closed the event saying that,”the heart of a volunteer is not measured in size, but by the depth of the commitment to make a difference in the lives of others.
Slideshow below – images: Giselle Haber
J-Wire publishes a full list of the organisations and their volunteers:
Academy BJE – NSW Board of Jewish Education
Marian Appel
Darren Blumberg
Rita Borman
Ilana Cohen
Ray Goldin
Myra Kaplan
Charlie Marshall
Florrie Marshall
Eve Peskin
ACT Jewish Community
Miriam Gellibrand
Veronica Leydman
Avi Solomon
Australian Jewish Historical Society
Stella Marshall
Jeanette Tsoulos
B’nai B’rith
Gerda Buckwalter
Anna Marks
Kathy Valer Gordon
COA Sydney
Hetty Angel
Anne Brandon
Eric Chodos
Monty Fivelman
Lala Gershonowitz
George Glasel
Eva Glaser
Ellen Glass
Sara Gresham
Alan Joffe
Molly Joffe
Adam Lubowski
Frances Melkman
Herman Melkman
Hannah Meyer
Lita Nadel
Wolf Pollak
Linda Skorupa
Rona Stander
Melanie Wolf
Communal Security
Darren Krug
Emanuel School
Melanie America
Saul Brandt
Anna Buch
Cheryl Feigen
Nettie Grant
Rose Grunstein
Ralph Hirst
Avril Janks
Jeremy Kahn
Deborah Klein
Robert Klein
Robert Kummerfeld
Linda Morton
Michael Morton
Mike Schapiro
Tracey Waxman
Jewish Communal Appeal
Jonathan Caplan
Harry Cromer
Ruth Cromer
Thomas Cromer
Jeremy Dunkel
Gary Eckstein
Susie Gold
Hester Greenfield
Ashne Grill
Steven Gross
Ruth Guth
Paul Kaplan
Susie Klein
Karen Kosmin
Aubrey Krawitz
Dorit Krawitz
Shula Krimhand
Nadine Levin
Harold Milner
Sheila Philippsohn
Evelyn Platus
Rita Prager
Helene Rome
Julie Rosenberg
John Roth
Richard Scheinberg
Roma Shell
Judy Simons
Carole Singer
Samuel Steif
Jack Stern
John Temple
Rose Temple
Peter Wise
John Wittenberg
Jewish Folk Centre
Sam Goodrich
Aviva Kogus
Shula Pilosof
Alan Rubel
JewishCare
Mina Alesinski
Shirley Baram
Cara Been
Lilian Bendelstein
Heinz Bohm
Dorothy Clarke
Sharon Cowen
Maya Dinaburg
Judy Doobov
Natalia Golub
Aileen Hurwitz
Seth Itzkowitz
Lola Janks
Miriam Kluger
Barbara Lazarus
Esther Reich
Linda Reitzin
Edith Ryba
Albert Salinas
Eve Salinas
Lilly Skurnik
Esther Solomon
Efim Solovei
Fanya Tesler
Paul Winter
Maccabi NSW
Shmuel Abrahams
Scott Altman
James Beecher
Gaby Berger
David Davis
Estelle Davis
Michael Evans
Anthony Faust
Peter Foltyn
Bernie Garden
John Gering
Danny Glattstein
Sidney Glick
Steven Goldberg
Peter Goldman
Karen Goodman
Anthony Goodridge
Peter Grunfeld
Jeff Houseman
Phil Jaffe
Martin Knespal
Malcolm Kofsky
Robert Kohn
Julius Lambert
Daniel Lemish
Anthony Milner
Jonathan Milner
Ruth Nissim
Martin Passman
Evelyn Rose
John Rosen
Sharron Rosenberg
Ian Sandler
Suzanne Small
Harry Stein
Jacqueline Sternfeld
Susan Sznajer
Colin Tow
Sylvia Walters
John Wineberg
Myer Zamek
Masada College
Tzipi Avioz
Richard Bleier
Diana Bloch
Dina Coppel
Karen Ezrock
Izette Felthun
Felice Fingleson
Monica Fiorentini
Nikky Florence
Leanne Glasser
Robyn Goldin
Michele Graeve
Elly Guth
Nadine Joel
Miriam Joffe
Janet Kalmin
Renee Kanowitz
Lee-Anne Kitay
Cherrise Levitan
Susan Lipman
Desray Maltz
Joanne Marx
Lynne Michel
Jackie Milch
Steven Munitz
Simone Rutovitz
Daniel Segal
Anne Sheinbar
Julia Shofer
Robyn Smith
Sherna Teperson
Alix Toynton
Sue Werner
Helen Zatz
Bernice Zworestine
Moriah College
Eli Alster
Trevor Amoils
Rami Baron
David Benchoam
Simon Benstock
Harry Bernfield
Lynne Berson
Zelene Bloom
Sue Cassrels
Robyn Chester
Sharon Cohen
Lauren Ehrlich
Tara Ende
Jeff Engelman
Angela Epstein
David Epstein
Stephen Feldman
Lauren Fink
Dana Fuzi
Lisa Gaitz
Peta Gam
Valerie Geller
Mark Gold
Jenny Goldberg
David Goldman
Lynne Goldschmidt
Igor Gris
Jeff Hauser
Dawn Herman
Howard Herman
Chaim Hirsch
Rosalie Hirsch
Sandra Hochberg
Nanette Horak
Jonathan Kahn
Patti-Lou Kahn
Sara Karpin
Graeme Katz
Kevin Krost
John Kupferman
Eli Lees
Sherel Levy
Naomi Liskowski
Natalie Lobelson
Darron Lonstein
Judy Lowy
Raveena Marks
Arlene Mazabow
Linda McCarthy
Heidi Mirels
Joel Moss
Dani Nathanson
Avron Newstadt
Tamara Pollak
Ivy Puterflam
Peter Reichman
Antony Resnick
Nicole Resnick
Glenn Rosen
Anthony Rubin
Michelle Serebro
Ingrid Shakenovsky
Gil Sher
Michele Silver
Linda Tate
Gill Taylor
Dianne Vesely
Simone Volanakis
Sharon Wahlhaus
Debi Weiss
Robert Wicks
Judy Wilk
Jenny Wohl
Peter Wohl
Graham Wolf
Michael Woods
Carolyn Ziegler
Tammy Zwi
Mount Sinai College
Maurice Finberg
Zoltan Grunstein
Joel Liebovitz
Eric Meyer
David Milston
Leon Rosenthal
Steve Seidman
Yaffa Taibel
Naomi Winton
National Council of Jewish Women
Diana Bahar
Anne Biner
Dinah Danon
Kate Feigen
Karen Fried
Phyl Glasser
Sonia Gold
Sadie Grant
Josephine Holland
Rosa Israel
Susan Levy
Anne Reid
Ralene Reuveny
Nona Rosenbaum
Lilian Selby
Jan Shedlezki
Vicky Steigrad
Adrienne Swarts
Laura Taitz
Ruth Turner
NSW Board of Progressive Jewish Education
Carolyn Davey
Brian Green
Alan Taylor
Joan Taylor
NSW Jewish Board of Deputies
Andrew Casey
Michael Jaku
Yair Miller
Sandra Rothman
Jennifer Symonds
Uri Windt
Sir Moses Montefiore Jewish Home
Ruth Bender
Helen Bloom
Ken Bloom
George Bluth
Shirley Cohen
Janice Goldman
Marcelle Grolman
Leon Portrate
Daryl Schaefer
Naomi Thaler
Sydney Jewish Museum
Estelle Adamek
Racheline Barda
Miriam Bauer
David Benedikt
Lucy Chipkin
Sue Denenberg
Les Devenyi
Diane Drexler
Ruth Eckstein
Yvonne Engelman
Alexander Ferson
Magda Forbath
Herbert Freeman
Vera Goldberg
Helena Goldstein
Madeline Goodman
Renee Goodman
Stanley Grosman
Gael Hammer
Margot Hilton
Olga Horak
Valerie Hosek
Judith Indyk
Edward Jaku
Gerty Jellinek
Vera Kertesz
Jeanette Kidron
Ruth Leiser
Litzi Lemberg
Barbara Linz
Lina Lipton
Sylvia Maehrischel
Robyn Manoy
Shirley Margolin
Spike Meyerson
Alexandra Minc
Rachel Moses
Shmulek Moses
Judith Nachum
Peter Nash
Sonia Sankey
Judy Solomon
Amalia Sonnabend
Peggy Sorger
Helen Staub
George Sternfeld
Bettina Streimer
Beate Stricker
Margot Tischmann
Peter Wagner
Frank Wood
Charlotte Zettel
Mary Ziegler
Helga Zwi
The Burger Centre
Fay Adler
Ruth Rosen
The Shalom Institute
Evelynne Cherny
Judy Diamond
Alan Gold
Joe Hersch
Shirley Hersch
Lisa Jackson Pulver
Heidi Melamed
Diane Seeto
Merril Shead
Anne Sowey
Wolper Jewish Hospital
Harry Guth
Leigh Reading
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