AJN MAY 22, 2020 2 IYAR 28, 5780 NEWS AJN BACK TO SCHOOL MELBOURNE OFFICE Level 1, 589 Glenhuntly Road Elsternwick 3185 Students set to return from Monday Telephone: (03) 8531 8900 Facsimile: (03) 8531 8955 REBECCA DAVIS out the distance learning period,” SYDNEY OFFICE said KDS principal Marc Light. Level 1, 55 Grafton Street MELBOURNE’S Jewish schools Meanwhile, Yeshivah-Beth Bondi Junction 2022 have announced various plans in Rivkah Colleges have devel- Telephone: (02) 8383 0800 order to see students gradually fill oped a five phase plan towards Facsimile: (02) 8383 0855 classrooms again with the aim of onsite learning. From Monday to Website: www.jewishnews.net.au having all pupils back to on-cam- Thursday, year levels will be on Advertising enquiries: pus learning by Tuesday, June 9. campus with the exception of years [email protected] Following the Premier’s 3-9. The following week, another Email: [email protected] announcement and advice of the year level will return each day. By Victorian Chief Health Officer last June 9 all students and creche chil- Publisher: Robert Magid week, Mount Scopus, Bialik and dren are anticipated to be back in CEO: David Redman Leibler Yavneh Colleges will shift the classroom. Editor: Zeddy Lawrence back to face-to-face learning in “Our school community rose to Deputy editor: Gareth Narunsky staged phases. On Monday, prep- the challenge of virtual learning. Digital editor: Evan Zlatkis year 2, and years 10-12 will return Now we all look forward to com- Sports editor: Shane Desiatnik Year 1 Sholem Aleichem student Shelly Yomtovyan is ready to resume to school campuses, while years ing back to school,” said principal Features editor: Rebecca Davis regular learning. 3-9 will continue with remote Dr Shimon Waronker. Religious affairs editor: Yossi Aron leaning until June 9. Skewes concurred, adding, “The will also begin at The King David Prep to year 2 students at Commercial editor: Belle Kwan Mount Scopus principal Rabbi health and wellbeing of our staff School (KDS) on Monday, it will Sholem Aleichem College will VIC arts editor: Danny Gocs James Kennard said, “With meas- and students together with the take a different form with year NSW arts editor: Sophie Deutsch return to school next week, with Senior journalist: Peter Kohn ures in place such as extra cleaning, continuity of learning remain our levels attending school on alter- year 6 to join on June 3, and years Photographer: Peter Haskin appropriate social distancing, stag- priorities.” nating days. Distance education is 4-6 on June 9. Subeditors: Michelle Perl, gered recess and lunch and much In a letter sent to parents, due to be phased out by the end of Enthused Sholem principal Rebecca Alford more, we will be ensuring that Bialik College principal Jeremy next week, with all students set to Helen Greenberg, “We are com- Advertising: (Melb) Barbara Sacks, students can return to a happy and Stowe-Lindner and president Kate return to their normal timetable as mitted to rebuilding a sense of Deborah Maybloom, Eli Teshuva, safe environment, which is where Beaconsfield said, “We are count- of June 1. community, looking after the Sharon Krawitz, they belong. The corridors have ing the days to welcoming all of our “We could not be prouder of emotional wellbeing of students (Syd) Joyce Wainstein, Yakov Moses been silent for too long.” children back to their Bialik home.” our students who have shown great and staff as we reintegrate into Client manager: Yavneh principal Cherylyn While on-campus education resilience and flexibility through- class based learning.” Marina Yuksel Art director: Stephen Fretwell BNEI AKIVA STANDS IN SOLIDARITY WITH ETHIOPIAN JEWS Production manager: Glenda Steckoll Multimedia development manager: ‘We are one nation, one people’ Ren Rizzolo Production: Vivienne Napolitano, REBECCA DAVIS five years. Still, more than 7000 unteered in the Gondar Jewish Adriana Alvarez, Tiffany Morris-North, await immigration. community, and reflected, “It was Samantha Oakley MELKAMU Demalesh has a Mungistu Endeshaw lives in a shock to me that there is a whole Administration: Maureen Scott, dream – “with God’s will, to come Addis Ababa and is currently stud- community in Ethiopia for whom Olivia Smith, Margi Fain, Estelle Miller, to Israel, and to become a jour- ying computer science in Israel on Israel is in their blood. They are Rhonda Cashmore nalist”. The 18-year-old Jewish a tourist visa. He shared details on even more Jewish in their practices The Australian Jewish News does not Ethiopian shared his story on the long and arduous journey faced than so many of us. guarantee the kashrut of any restaurant, Tuesday evening in the first ever by many Ethiopian Jews as they “These are Jews who are part of caterer or product advertised. Bnei Akiva solidarity event aim- migrated to Israel on foot. His our nation and should be allowed The Australian Jewish News is printed ing at bringing awareness to the great uncle was a guard of the con- to immigrate to Israel.” Mungistu Endeshaw addresses the by Australian Community Media, VIC remaining Jewish community in voy, and he recalled his recollec- The event was moderated and and Spotpress, NSW. Bnei Akiva Zoom event. Ethiopia who await immigration tions: the journey was long, there organised by Nat Parry, a new olah Printpost: No 100007670 to Israel. “a fish out of water, unable to fully was little to no food, and they were from Perth, who also volunteered ABN: 54618993967 More than 120 attendees experience the day until he will be walking alongside dangerous ani- in Gondar last year – “an incredi- The Australian Jewish News is published by including all Bnei Akiva chapters a fish back in water as a Jew living mals. Due to the difficulties many bly powerful experience”. Polaris Media Pty Ltd. in Australia and New Zealand in his homeland”. Jewish people died along the way “The community in Ethiopia is To advertise call: (03) 8531 8900 joined the Zoom event which was The history of the Ethiopian and were given no proper burial. made up of people who have been To subscribe call: 1800 010 171 held ahead of Jerusalem Day and Jews (also known as Beta Israel) “I am 21 years old and have waiting over 20 years to make Social notices: [email protected] Memorial Day for Ethiopian Jews dates back over centuries. Following been waiting 21 years to be aliyah – and for me it only took a who perished on their way to Israel. long-time widespread religious allowed to immigrate to Israel. few months. With this realisation, LIKE US ON FACEBOOK: Demalesh, who is a leader persecution, thousands came to Many of us don’t have work even came the responsibility to try and www.facebook.com/australianjewishnews of Bnei Akiva in the north- Israel in operations throughout if we graduate. We can’t work do something within my power.” FOLLOW US ON INSTAGRAM: ern Ethiopian city of Gondar, the 1980s, ’90s and early 2000s. on Shabbat, so either I work on She said, “We hope to create a @jewishnews_au explained that while the group In 2015, a Knesset cabinet res- Shabbat and I have a job or I don’t connection between the youth in FOLLOW US ON TWITTER: learns the weekly Torah portion, olution was passed which called work on Shabbat and I get fired,” Australia and those in the Jewish @aus_jewishnews the law and Hebrew songs, when it for the remaining 8000 Ethiopian said Endeshaw. community in Ethiopia. We are comes to Yom Yerushalayim, he is Jews to be brought to Israel within Israeli Zohar Wasserman vol- one nation, one people.”

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