Kosher Pub Quiz for Emunah
Are you a whizz at pub quizzes? If so come to Emunah’s Pub Quiz at 7.30pm on Sunday 19th February 2012 at The Castle, 452 Finchley Road, Golders Green, London NW 11 8DG. Tickets are £20 per person and include a meaty pub supper and a drink. Book your tickets by calling 0208 203 6066 or click here to contact us via the web. Funds raised will help us feed children whose own families cannot afford to provide food for them.
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Read MoreTen make finals of Emunah Young Musician of the Year 2012
Ten talented youngsters, aged 10 to 18, will perform in the finals of the Emunah Young Musician of the Year competition at the Royal Academy of Music on Sunday 4 March, held in conjunction with the Jewish Chronicle. This is the second year for the competition which attracted entrants from all over the country via schools, communal organisations, music groups, Facebook and Twitter.
The finalists were announced at a ceremony and feedback session after the heats on 22 January – also held at the Royal Academy of Music. Strings: Leon Keuffer (violin), 17, was the class winner; runner-up Annoushka Sharp (cello), 12. Piano: Nathan Dean, 14, was the class winner; runner-up Annabel Lawrence, 14. Solo Voice 1: Jonathan Garcia, 18; Runner-up: James Harvey, 14.
Solo Voice 2: joint class winners: Brady Isaacs Pearce, 11 and Louis Patterson, 17. Woodwind & Brass: Daniel Hilton (saxophone), 14 was the class winner; runner-up Toby King-Cline (oboe), 10.
Guy Oberlander was highly commended in the Piano category, with Channie Fine, Georgia Barnett and Zoe Hillman Highly Commended in the Solo Voice Categories.
Event chairman Michelle Hirschfield said the idea for the competition was two- fold. “It’s an opportunity to showcase the wonderful talent in our community and give young people a chance to perform in concert to a large audience. Secondly, and importantly, it enables us to raise funds to help children who have had the most tragic lives, and endured horrific experiences, and give them the care and attention they desperately need.”
The event is organised by a volunteer committee which includes highly experienced musicians. The independent adjudicators for the Heats were Maurice Chernick ( Chair), Teresa Cahill, Maureen Smith, Pamela Kolirin and Ivor Goldberg.
This year’s contest will support the newly-established Lord and Lady Sacks Music Therapy Programme at Emunah centres. “Music is extremely important to us both and we fully appreciate the significance of music therapy in the treatment of emotionally disturbed children in Emunah’s care,” said the Chief Rabbi, Lord Jonathan Sacks together with Lady Sacks.
The overall winner will be announced at the end of the Emunah Young Musician of the Year Showcase Concert, which takes place on Sunday 4 March at 4pm. Adult tickets £20/£25 (premium); Children (under 16) £8; Family ticket (2 adults, 2 children) £45. Tickets are subject to availability.
Call 020 8203 6066 or email www.emunah.org.uk See www.emunah.org.uk
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Click here to see the Showcase Concert flyer
Read MoreEmunah Men’s Event – Whisky Tasting Evening in Edgware
Calling all male Emunah supporters! Steven Resnick invites you to an Emunah Men’s Event: A Whisky Tasting Evening at 8pm on Thursday 16th February 2012 in Edgware.
Highlights of the event will be:
- 4 fine single malts per guest
- Entertaining/ educational presentation on whisky, different types, history & how best to use it for medicinal purposes!
- Professional presenter who has hosted over 100 events throughout Europe to 10,000 guests
- the presenter will be available all evening to chat and answer questions.
In addition, Shlomo Kessel, Director of the Emunah Sarah Herzog Children’s Centre, Afula will give a brief overview of his role and will explain how the home is funded. The Children’s Centre is facing their toughest financial crisis yet, with the state not providing sufficient funds for their running costs.
The Afula Children’s Centre houses more than 100 children ( aged 5-18) with another 100 attending on a daily basis because their families are not able to look after them. Meals are provided for these children who would otherwise not have a substantial meal each day.
There will be an appeal on the night.
Please confirm your attendance at this event and get details of the exact venue by phoning Steve Resnick on 020 8958 7558 or 07803 163551 or call Emunah Head Office on 020 8203 6066 to book your place.
Read MoreEmunah Gala Dinner – A Musical Soiree
A 300-strong crowd pledged their support at Emunah’s largest fundraising event of the year, a Dinner and Musical Soirée, held at Guildhall. The audience were visibly moved when Shlomo Kessel, director of the Emunah Sarah Herzog Centre spoke of the challenges of looking after nearly 200 children, many of whom had come to the charity’s home in Afula in heart-breaking circumstances. This is one of 36 centres supported by British Emunah. They also heard from British schoolboy Nathan Weinstein, 17, who volunteered at the Emunah home in Afula while on a Bnei Akiva scheme.
Guests, including Lady Elaine Sacks, were welcomed by Michelle Hirschfield, dinner co-chairman with Esther Lee.
Appealing for funds, Shlomo Kessel said: “It’s not always easy – when children come to us they are angry, feeling pain and rejection, abandoned like unwanted clothing. One father brought his five children to us, saying: ‘I don’t want a family.’ Others, four beautiful children, had to be removed from their homes due to horrific mistreatment. Thanks to the high calibre of our professional staff we can care for them and it is our privilege to look after them. They are also tutored in basic skills – reading, writing and arithmetic. Some had not been to school regularly for years.
“Your support is imperative and we are depending on the British Jewish community – I’m here as a messenger, a voice for the children who need so many things that my children take for granted. For example, we need a clothing budget, so they look nice and can feel good about themselves, not like poor children. It’s a costly business and the Israeli government cannot provide the necessary funds.”
Michelle Hirschfield noted the uncertainties of the world economy and stressed the importance of supporting Israel at “a very precarious time. Some of our children sleep in shelters on a regular basis due to the rocket fire from Gaza and one recently landed close to our home in Neve Landy. This has raised the level of trauma in the lives of children who are already deeply disturbed by personal problems that brought them into our care.”
Providing the entertainment were Israeli opera singer Yotam Cohen and the Master Quartet, and violinist Liam Shinar, Emunah Young Musician of the Year 2011.
Speaking at the event, Emunah national chairman, Camille Compton, said: “This is our largest, most spectacular event of the year and it’s been a superb evening with harmonious music. But sitting in this magnificent hall we are distancing ourselves from the realities of life in Israel and it is our duty always to help Israel. No words are sufficient to thank Shlomo for his continued love, support and dedication to the children in our care.”
Michelle Hirschfield later added: “It was a very successful evening and we have netted £160,000 for children at British Emunah projects in Israel. The challenge remains for us to raise the rest of our annual commitment of £750,000.”
The Emunah dinner committee are Michelle Hirschfield and Esther Lee (co-chairman), Shirley Davis, Helen French, Vera Garbacz, Shoshanna Jaffe, Zahava Kohn, Merle Kreditor, Angela Leigh, June Lewis, Rosalyn Liss, Hilda Marks, Hilary Pearlman, Rochelle Selby and Rosalind Shapiro.
Read MoreYoung British volunteers spend a week at Afula
This year, Emunah launched a new partnership with Bnei Akiva whereby twenty-four 17 year olds volunteered at Emunah’s Sarah Herzog Children’s Centre in Afula for a week over the summer, running activities for the children there, as part of Bnei Akiva’s Kaytana programme.
Rafi Saltman, Bnei Akiva’s Israel Worker, said, “Kaytana is an amazing programme which puts Bnei Akiva’s ideology into practice, by helping Israeli society first-hand where it needs us most. Our Madrichim (leaders) returned inspired, having forged a unique connection with the children at the Emunah Centre”.
Deborah Nathan, Director of British Emunah praised the volunteers, “It is wonderful that young people in the UK can make a real difference in Israel through social action of this kind. The children at our residential centre in Afula come from very troubled backgrounds and they benefitted greatly from the excellent programme that Bnei Akiva organised. British Emunah looks forward to working in partnership with Bnei Akiva again after the success of this year’s programme.”
Read MoreEmunah Young Musician of the Year 2012
Enter our national competition for talented 11-18 year olds who will perform at the Royal Academy of Music. The competition is open to amateur, solo performers only who must have achieved grade 4 or above or the equivalent standard. Closing date Thursday 12 January 2012
Registration is £30 per class – Brass, Piano, Solo Voices, String, Woodwind and Percussion – and participants will perform in the heats on Sunday 22nd January, 12 noon to 6pm. Not only will they have the excitement of performing at this prestigious venue but they will receive constructive feedback from professional adjudicators.
Finalists will take part in a Showcase Concert on Sunday 4th March, 4pm to 6.30pm and the judges will include Malcolm Singer, director of the Yehudi Menuhin School of Music.
Proceeds will support the Lord and Lady Sacks Music Therapy Programme to support children from backgrounds of abuse-ill health, poverty and violence. The competition is being held in conjunction with the Jewish Chronicle.
For full details, please download the registration pack or call 020 8203 6066.
Click here for information on how Emunah uses Music Therapy at our centres in Israel
Emunah Mother and Daughter Tour 2011
Organised by Emunah Chairman Camille Compton, this year’s Mother and Daughter Tour was a resounding success. 38 mums and daughters (aged 11 – 15) took part in this year’s Tour. Based in Jerusalem, the tour participants enjoyed a packed 5 day itinerary which included sifting through 2000 year old artefacts on an archaeological dig, painting wooden artefacts at Kakadoo, visiting the Michal Negrin factory to see how the jewellery is made and spent a morning learning at the Matan centre in Raanana. They found out what it feels like to be blind by visiting ‘Dialogue in the Dark’ at the children’s museum in Holon and experienced kibbutz life at Ein Shemer. Throughout the tour Jewish heroines were celebrated and a highlight of the trip was the personal account of the life of Esther Callingold, a 23 year old woman from London who died in 1949 in Israel’s War of Indepenence when she was involved in the defence of Jerusalem, which was told to the group by Asher Callingold, Esther’s brother. The mothers and daughters visited two Emunah centres: the Neve Landy Children’s Village in Even Shmuel and the Sarah Herzog Children’s Centre in Afula where the girls on the tour took part in arts and craft activities with the residents of the two homes, while the mums got a chance to see round the centre and to find out more about what Emunah does to help disadvantaged and neglected children.
Emunah Gourmet Israel Tour
Participants of Emunah’s recent Gourmet Israel Tour enjoyed a wide range of culinary activities including making delicious chocolates and preparing and then eating (and enjoying) a seven course meal with an Israeli chef. The food themed tour continued with the dedication of the new Dining Room and Kitchen at the Emunah Sarah Herzog Children’s Centre in Afula, which was officially opened by Michal Herzog, representative of generous donor, the Maurice and Vivien Wohl Philanthropic Foundation. Further dedications took place at three other Emunah Centres as well as the official opening of British Emunah’s newest project, named after Lady Amelie Jakobovits z’l. The Lady J Family Support and Day Care Centre, in Akko, Northern Israel will provide a haven for children in the area who might otherwise be taken into care. Parenting skills, counselling and therapeutic support are provided to help strengthen family relationships as well as excellent day care provision for children aged 0 – 4 years old. Rabbi Jakobovits, (Rav and Lady Jakobovits’ son) affixed the mezuzah on the front door, and spoke warmly of his mother’s special qualities and her support of Emunah’s work helping vulnerable families and children in Israel.
Emunah Gourmet Israel Tour participants ( L – R) Rochelle Selby, Anne Shaya, Vikki Shields, Pearl Dale, Hilary Pearlman and Emunah Chairman Camille Compton preparing part of a seven course meal.
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