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JUNE 2005

INCLUDES THE JCA 2004 ANNUAL REVIEW AND SUPPORTERS GUIDE

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Prime Minister to receive JCA inaugural Friendship & Commitment Award

Prime Minister to receive JCA inaugural Friendship & Commitment Award

Everyone associated with the JCA,

whether an executive member, key worker,

host or supporter, would have to agree that

June is our most exciting month. At this time

each year, we are literally ‘counting down’

to the launch of another JCA Campaign

which will in turn bring to fruition months

of painstaking work and planning by our

professional staff and the hundreds of

dedicated JCA volunteers who support

their efforts.

For me, personally, this year’s Campaign

is of special significance as it will be my first

as JCA Appeal Chairman. That prospect is

both exhilarating yet daunting and many

challenges lie ahead if we are to achieve

this year’s Campaign target which has been

set at $10 million.

I am delighted to announce that the

Prime Minister, The Hon John Howard MP,

has accepted our invitation to attend the

CBD dinner where he will be presented

with the JCA’s inaugural Award for

Friendship and Commitment to the NSW

and ACT Jewish communities. His presence

alone should truly make this occasion a

night to remember.

I am equally delighted that the Federal

Treasurer,The Hon Peter Costello MP will be

joining us once again by agreeing to address

our Major Donors division dinner.

I am confident 2005 will see the JCA

continue spiralling to success as our coming

campaign has so much to offer by way of

speakers,entertainment,and other activities

which will command the Community’s

attention and interest.

Our principal guest-speaker is David

Harris, the Executive Director of one of

America’s leading and most effective

representative organisations, the American

Jewish Committee. In April this year I had

the pleasure of meeting David for the first

time when I visited New York, and spent a

fascinating hour or so conferring with him

at his office in mid-town Manhattan.

David Harris possesses all the qualities

one would expect to find in a modern day

international Jewish leader and lobbyist who

has walked the world’s stage for more than

two decades - he is sophisticated, highly

intelligent and politically savvy. David is a

man of both ideas and action and I believe

that the freshness of his views in relation to

Jews, Judaism and the Jewish World will

stimulate this community enormously.

He will speak at four separate JCA

fundraisers later in the month,

commencing with the Prominent Leaders’

Supper on 19 June and I urge you to make

every effort to hear him at the appropriate

JCA function.

Apart from fundraising during the

campaign itself, I want to emphasise how

important JCA’s Specified Funds program is

as a means of assisting the JCA to build-up

its designated funding base to the level

required to sustain our communal needs.

Increasing this program will, in effect, give

the community its own form of

superannuation and make us less

dependent on the Annual Appeal which is,

of course, subject to the ebbs and flows of

the general economy.

For me, our new campaign theme “We

are Family” sums up what the JCA is all

about - one big warm extended Jewish

family whose members all work together to

help each other for the benefit of the

Family as a whole. During the months of

Campaign that lie ahead, I look forward to

personally welcoming you, as I would a

family member, at one or more of the many

JCA events that we have planned, and I

know that together we can make 2005 one

of JCA’s best Campaign years ever.

Peter Ivany

Appeal Chairman

meetingwith family

contentsJCA Award to John Howard 1

David Harris to launch 2005 Campaign 2

Campaign 2005 Functions & Speakers 4

2004 Corporate Sponsors 7

Pat Evans: An honorary Jew 8

Facing up to an aging future 9

2004 Annual Review 11

2005 JCA Leadership Team 15

2004 Gold Supporters 16

2004 Campaign Supporters 18

Jewish children with special needs 22

Meet the dedicated JCA team 24

Liberation! 60 years remembered 32

Will your grandchildren be Jewish? 33

The Simcha Fund:2004 Special Donations,Legacies & Honour Roll 34

JCA Specified Funds Honour Board 35

Family memories preserved 36

Sabina van der Linden:The importance of teaching the young 37

Front cover illustration:What a line-up of speakers!Kicking off this years campaign withPeter Costello, Federal Treasurer at our Major Donors dinner our ‘A list’of family speakers for the 2005 JCAFundraising Campaign will includeBruce Wolpe, Sam Lipski AO, PhilGreen, Henri Szeps and David Harris(the current energetic head of theWashington-based American JewishCommittee). Don’t miss meetingthem... function details on page 3.

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Peter Ivany has announced that the PrimeMinister, the Hon John Howard MP, will bepresented with a unique honour duringthis year’s Campaign, revealing that MrHoward will receive the JCA’s inauguralAward for Friendship & Commitment to theJewish Community at its annual CBD Dinner.

“This special JCA accolade to Mr Howard reflectsthe close, warm and enduring relationship he hasenjoyed with the Jewish Community during his longand distinguished career in Australian public life,”Mr Ivany said.

“Mr Howard’s record of sensitivity and support onissues which affect the quality of life and specialneeds of the Jewish community - like Jewish day-school education and the need to combat racismand anti-Semitism - is without peer among hisParliamentary colleagues. We are most fortunatethat these unique qualities have been evidentthroughout his 31 year career as the FederalMember for Bennelong.

“Throughout his time in office, Mr Howard’scommitment and steadfast support for Israel hasnever wavered. Indeed, he is one of the very fewWestern political leaders who has, over decades,displayed an ongoing and deeply held understandingof the existential issues Israel has faced, and continuesto face.

“During his time in Parliament, the Prime Ministerhas visited the Jewish State on at least threeoccasions, both in Government and Opposition.

“More recently, he has shown great courage injoining the international war on terror which hasfurther confirmed his reputation as a major playeron the global political stage,” Mr Ivany added.

“I can think of no more deserving recipient of this prestigious inaugural award for Friendship andCommitment to our Community than the Prime

Minister,” Mr Ivany said.John Howard’s involvement and life-long association

with the Sydney Jewish Community began in the late1950s. Then, as a Sydney University Law student, hewas employed as an Articled Clerk,working under theguidance and supervision of the legendary Sydneysolicitor and communal personality, Myer Rosenblum.

Mr Howard went on to complete his articles withRosenblum & Co and as part of his professionalduties he was required to deliver legal documentsto the offices of the Australian Jewish WelfareSociety (now JCA constituent JewishCare), situatedin the Jewish Community Centre in Darlinghurst.

It was during these visits that a young JohnHoward often came into close contact with manypost-war Jewish refugees, most of whom wereHolocaust survivors.

This award to Mr Howard will not be the firstoccasion on which he has received formal recognitionof his major and continuing contribution to thewellbeing of the Jewish people. In January 2002, hewas presented with the American Jewish Committee(AJC)’s most valued international award, its AmericanLiberties Medallion, at a special ceremony held inNew York City.

Interestingly, David Harris, the AJC’s ExecutiveDirector, who will be the Guest Speaker at the CBDDinner in Sydney, was present at that ceremony inNew York and spoke in tribute to the Australian PrimeMinister on that occasion.

The special presentation of the Friendship &Commitment Award to Mr Howard will be made byJCA Honorary Life Governor and Past President, HalGoldstein AM OBE and Mr Peter Wise, President, JCA.

Prime MinisterJohn Howardreceives JCA’shighest honour

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David Harris, the Executive Director of theAmerican Jewish Committee and one ofAmerican Jewry’s most distinguished anddynamic leaders will launch this year’s JCA campaign.

During his visit he will address four separate Campaignfundraisers including appearances at ProminentLeaders, Metro, CBD and North Shore events.

Since his appointment in 1990 as the professionalin charge of America’s most prestigious and powerfulJewish representative organistaions, David Harris hasoperated at the cutting edge of the internationalpublic affairs arena, formulating policy and buildingpolitical alliances which best serve his constituency.

In the course of his extensive career in Jewishcommunal service, he has travelled throughoutEurope, the Middle East, Africa, Asia, and Latin Americato monitor the condition of Jewish communities,combat anti-Semitism, advance Israel’s diplomaticstanding, and promote international human rightsand interreligious and interethnic understanding.

David Harris’ lifetime commitment to Jewishcauses commenced in the 1970s when he came toplay a crucial role in the international campaign tofree Soviet Jewry. His involvement at that time tookhim, at great personal risk, to the Soviet Union onseveral occasions during which he was twice detainedand later expelled by the Soviet authorities.

However, his efforts were instrumental inultimately allowing more than one million Soviet Jewsto emigrate to freedom in Israel and elsewhere.

In the mid 1980s David Harris also played acrucial diplomatic role in the negotiations which led the historic rescue to Israel of the remnant of the ancient Ethiopian Jewish community in whatwas known as “Operation Moses” when over 20,000members of this deprived minority were airlifted tosafety in the Jewish State.

While treading the global stage in advocating thecause of Israel and World Jewry, David Harris regularlymeets with World leaders like George W Bush, ArielSharon, Jacques Chirac and Vladimir Putin.

In January 2002 David Harris met with the Prime

dynamic US leader tospearhead 2005 JCA campaign



Minister, John Howard and later spoke in tribute ofhim when the Australian Prime Minister waspresented with the American Jewish Committee’smost prestigious award, its American LibertiesMedallion, at a specially convened Gala Luncheon inNew York.

Mr Harris is a member of the US Council onForeign Relations and his academic career includespostgraduate studies at the London School ofEconomics, Oxford University and a stint as a VisitingScholar at John Hopkins University in Washington DC.

He is the author of five books including a threevolume autobiography entitled “In the Trenches”and often publishes articles in leading American

newspapers including the New York Times andWashington Post, as well as appearing regularly as a media commentator on US radio and television.

JCA supporters should not miss this rare opportunityto hear, in person, from one of World Jewry’s mostgifted, articulate and inspirational spokesmen.

Apart from his keynote address at the CBD Dinner,David Harris will appear at three other JCA Campaignevents - the Prominent Leaders’ Supper, the MetroDivision Supper and the North Shore Division Supper.

The musical entertainment at all these functionswill feature the multi-talented cantorial duo of DovFarkas and Brett Kaye.

Many other outstanding guest speakers are alsoscheduled to take part in 2005 Campaign eventsincluding the Treasurer, the Hon Peter Costello, at theMajor Donors’ Dinner and Bruce Wolpe, CorporateRelations Director of Fairfax Media, who will addressthe Young Major Donors’ cocktail reception.

top right: David Harris andPrime Minister John Howard

top left: David Harris and Prime Minister Ariel Sharon

above: David Harris, ShimonPeres and George W. Bush

right: Joschka Fisher,Foreign Minister of Germany and Harris

2005 functionsGENERAL CAMPAIGNMajor Donors DinnerWednesday, 1 JuneSpeaker: The Hon Peter Costello MP

Prominent Leaders SupperSunday, 19 JuneSpeaker: David Harris, Executive Director,American Jewish Committee

Metro SupperMonday, 20 JuneSpeaker: David Harris, Executive Director,American Jewish Committee

CBD DinnerTuesday, 21 JuneSpeaker: David Harris, Executive Director,American Jewish Committee

North Shore FunctionWednesday, 22 JuneSpeaker: David Harris, Executive Director,American Jewish Committee

Prominent Leaders BrunchSunday, 26 JuneSpeaker: Henri Szeps

YOUNG ADULT CAMPAIGNYoung Major Donors CocktailsThursday, 9 JuneSpeaker: Bruce Wolpe, Corporate AffairsDirector, John Fairfax Limited

Young Leadership DinnerTuesday, 21 JuneSpeakers: Phil Green and David Harris,Executive Director,American Jewish Committee

Connections (25-34 yrs)Saturday, 3 SeptemberSpeakers: Cheryl & Nikki Bart

Young JCA (18-24 yrs)Sunday, 11 September

WOMEN’S CAMPAIGNGold SupportersDate: TBCSpeaker: Sam Lipski AO

WC BrunchMonday, 22 AugustSpeaker: Marie Brenner

WC Night OneTuesday, 23 AugustSpeaker: Marie Brenner

WC Night TwoWednesday, 24 AugustSpeaker: Marie Brenner


Apart from David Harris, theExecutive Director of the AmericanJewish Committee,who will appearas guest speaker at four JCACampaign events, the 2005 Appealwill feature a wide array of equallyinteresting speakers.

Our events program will commenceauspiciously with the appearance of theFederal Treasurer,the Hon Peter Costello MP,as guest speaker at the JCA’s Major Donors’Dinner to take place on Wednesday,1 June.

Mr Costello, who was elected toParliament in 1990, has served as theDeputy Leader of the Federal Liberal Partysince 1994 and appointed Treasurer in 1996and has since then brought down arecord 10 Federal budgets. Peter Costelloretains a long-standing, warm and closerelationship with the Jewish Community.He first visited Israel as a student leader inthe mid 1970s and recently he undertooka formal parliamentary visit to the JewishState in September 2003.

Well-known communal leader andbusiness identity Phil Green, ManagingDirector of investment banking houseBabcock and Brown, will formally launchthe 2005 Campaign on Sunday 5 June.

Mr Green is a former Chairman of the JCA’s Allocations Committee andfittingly the function will be held at theheadquarters of Sydney City Lexus, one ofJCA’s principal corporate sponsors.

On Wednesday 9 June, Bruce Wolpe,the Corporate Affairs Director of Fairfaxmedia organisation, will address theYoung Major Donors’ cocktail reception.

Mr Wolpe who has a special interest inJewish affairs and Israel, is a formerAmerican who worked as a Congressional

campaign promisesfascinating line-up of advocates

David Harris

The Hon Peter Costello MP

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aide in Washington prior to coming to Australia. Heoften appears on radio and television as an expertcommentator on US foreign policy and world affairsand now also writes a monthly column for theAustralian Jewish News.

Adding further spice to our eclectic mix ofCampaign speakers, Henri Szeps, one of Australia’sbest known and most popular Jewish actors, willappear at the Prominent Leaders Brunch on Sunday,26 June. Henri came to fame in the long-runningABC TV comedy series “Mother and Son”and has alsoappeared in many stage musicals including “Cabaret”.

The JCA Women’s Campaign will be launched byMr Sam Lipski AO, the Chief Executive Officer of thePratt Foundation whose contribution to Australiansociety has been exemplary. Mr Lipski, will be theguest speaker at the Gold Supporters’ Luncheon tobe held on Monday 1 August. The speaker for theWomen’s Campaign Brunch and evening functions

to be held from 22-24 August will be US writer at large,Marie Brenner.

Towards the end of the Campaign, Cheryl andNikki Bart, the mother-and-daughter mountaineeringteam who have not only conquered Mt Everest but many other world peaks, will recount theirfascinating exploits and tales of heart-stoppingadventure at the JCA Connections event to be heldon Saturday, 3 September.

Variety is the spice of life and, judging by thediverse list of speakers the JCA has assembled forthis year’s Campaign, we must have something onoffer for everyone.

Phil Green

Bruce Wolpe

Henri Szeps

Sam Lipski AO

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JCA Women’s Campaign Chairman HesterGreenfield has announced that Americanbest selling author, academic and journalistMarie Brenner has been confirmed to appearas the key note speaker for the 2005 Women’sCampaign functions to be held from 22-24August this year.

Marie Brenner is a writer at large for Vanity Fair andthe author of five books including the bestselling GreatDames:What I learned from Older Women (Crown,2000)and has a particular interest in women’s developmentand empowerment issues.

Ms. Brenner is considered a sharp observer onanti-Semitism in France and Europe and how itaffects America. Her 2003 investigation of the rise ofanti-Semitism in France France’s Scarlet Letter madeinternational news and won her 6th Front Page Award.It has been recently republished in Those Who Forgetthe Past: The Question of anti-Semitism, edited by Ron Ronsebaum (Random House) along with essaysof other distinguished writers from Cynthia Ozick toFrank Rich.

She has recently returned to France to surveyrecent developments in the Jewish community of Parisand to investigate the complicated lives of FrenchMuslim women Daughters of France, Daughters ofAllah, published in Vanity Fair, April 2004.

Ms. Brenner has spoken on anti-Semitism at the2004 San Antonio Lion of Judah fundraising dinnerand was recently featured at the International Lionof Judah Conference in Washington. She has lecturedon women’s issues at major colleges, includingBrown University and was a featured speaker at

empowerment conferences sponsored by Proctorand Gamble and United Health of Iowa.

She is also the author of the bestseller House ofDreams: The Bingham Family of Louisville (RandomHouse 1989) which received a Kappa Tau Alpha andFrank Luther Mott award as the best book on ajournalism subject.

At the lecture podium, Ms. Brenner brings anaudience deep inside the lives of the leadingwomen of the era such as Jacqueline KennedyOnassis, Claire Boothe Luce and Judge ConstanceBaker Motley, who helped rewrite civil rights law.She has recently returned from Afghanistan whereshe is researching the lives of Muslim women afterthe Taliban, for a new book. She has a particularinterest in women in peril around the world.

Commenting on the upcoming visit, HesterGreenfield said “we are delighted to have secured a speaker of the calibre of Marie Brenner. This will be her first visit on behalf of the Sydney Jewishcommunity and we urge you to diarise these datesin anticipation of what I believe will be highlystimulating and entertaining events.”

Marie Brenner,writer at large,for women’scampaign

Marie Brenner


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It all started in 1981 when the JCA ExecutiveDirector at the time, Pauline Moody, metPat Evans at a dinner party.

Pat was looking for a new focus in her life andPauline was looking for someone to help out at theJCA - predominantly to oversee the reorganisationof the NSW Jewish War Memorial Building inDarlinghurst and to manage the hiring out of theEta Saunders Room for functions. “There were somany Greek couples who booked that room forwedding receptions, that I would turn up for workon Monday morning to find doves flying around theceiling,” Pat recalls fondly.

Now, 24 years down the track and havingorganised countless JCA events, Pat is the JCA’sCampaign Director and has embraced the JewishCommunity as her adopted family. “I didn’t knowanyone who was Jewish, and I don’t think that I wasever really conscious of what ‘giving’ really means,before I joined the JCA,” Pat explains.

“I have the utmost respect and admiration for the many, many volunteers, the people who give so generously and those who I work with, who giveso much time and commitment to the Community.

I can honestly say that some of the most wonderfulpeople that I have ever met in the world have walkedthrough our office door.”

Her job is certainly not an easy one.Always workingat least a year ahead and meticulously coordinatingevery minute detail to ensure that each campaignfunction and event is a success, often sees Pat still ather desk into the wee hours, but she says that withall the tension and anxiety comes a great deal ofpassion and excitement.

Since Pat first started, the JCA’s volunteer basehas tripled and the organisation has broadened the number and scope of its constituent members.Pat is well aware of the continued need forCommunity support.

“The needs of our members increase every yearas do the demands on the JCA’s resources. It’s alwaysvery exciting to get a campaign up and running andit makes it all worthwhile when the fundraising is a success. Working with the JCA has taught me thetrue meaning of Tzedakah,” Pat says.

And for the future? Pat laughs as she contemplatesthe next 24 years! Right now, a long-awaited trip toIsrael is high on the agenda.

Pat Evansan honorary Jew if ever there was one




Demographic trends show that the fastestgrowing sector of the Community is the75+ population. Consequently, this ishaving a major impact on the demands foraged care and communal health services ingeneral. The JCA is working closely withJewishCare, the Montefiore Home andWolper Jewish Hospital, to ensure thatplans are in place to meet the future healthneeds of both the elderly and theCommunity as a whole.

The growth in demand for JewishCare’s agedservices has increased dramatically over the last 12 months.

The biggest challenge, according to ChiefExecutive Officer, Mark Schlosser, is to manage anaging population with chronic problems while,overwhelmingly, older people want to live at home.Currently, JewishCare provides 6-8 hours of in-homeassistance to 140 people each week. It’s predictedthat this will increase by 15-20 per cent over thenext few years with each person needing 10-12hours of care per week.

Helping family carers to find the support servicesand programs they need is one area that JewishCareis working on. This includes, offering respite for carersand reassessing volunteer programs with a view toimproving recruitment, training needs and support.

“With demand increasing, and not being in a

facing up to an ‘aging’ future

Rabbi David Rogut OAM, Montefiore Home Spiritual Dean (right) with resident Zoltan Schwartz Tali Fisher, Recreation Activities Supervisorwith resident Dora Tanner



Harry Aizenberg, CEO of Wolper Hospital Mark Schlosser, CEO of JewishCare Robert Orie, CEO of Montefiore Home

position to count on government funding to supportthe services we provide, the only people we can relyon is ourselves and the community” says Mark,adding: “The money that is provided to us by theJCA is well spent and you can count on us to workwith other organisations within the community tomake the best use of communal resources”.

Statistics from the Montefiore Home support thetendency for elderly people to want to remain intheir own homes as long as possible. Now,the averageage for entering hostel care - the Home’s lowestlevel of care - is 83, a trend that brings with it, a hostof new demands for the future.

“Because they are coming to Montefiore at anolder age, we have many more residents with higherclinical needs. This means that we have to havemore registered nurses in hostel-level care and italso leads to greater demands on our resources andfacilities at higher levels of care” explains ChiefExecutive Officer, Robert Orie.

Supporting a clearly identified demographicneed, the Montefiore’s new campus in Randwick,which is due to be completed early next year, willoffer 280 residential rooms with world classamenities and facilities. In addition, there will be amajor focus on dementia specific care, which hasbeen identified as a growing area of concern.

Several projects are being undertaken to ensurethe organisation can maintain the highest level ofaged care services into the future. These include a

research project with the University of New SouthWales on Clinical I.T. in Aged Care, and a liaison withthe Nursing Faculty at the University of Technology,Sydney, helping to develop programs and runningclinical modules at the Home.

Expanding community health services is alsohigh on the agenda for Wolper Hospital. Throughtheir own resources the hospital is intensifying itscommitment to screening for conditions that areuniquely threatening to our Community by addingtesting for four additional genetically inheriteddiseases to it’s well established Tay Sachs testingprogram which is conducted through the Day Schools.

As Chief Executive Harry Aizenberg explains:“wecan now test for Cystic Fibrosis, Fanconi Anaemia,Familial Dysautonomia and Canavan Disease andthe other big bonus is that it’s all done through one saliva sample. In cooperation with Academy BJEwe will also be sending out information to Jewishstudents in the State High Schools and inviting themto come to Wolper to be tested.”

This year, the Wolper is embarking on a fully self-funded initiative - the Wolper Cancer GeneticsProgram - which involves sponsoring the Institute ofOncology at Prince of Wales Hospital and providingnew laboratory testing, the establishment of asupport group, information evenings and bookletson cancer genetics including bowel cancer and inparticular breast and ovarian cancer.

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JCA 2004annual review &

supporters guide

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On behalf of the Board of Governors of the Jewish Communal Appeal (JCA) it gives me pleasure topresent a summarised review of the affairs of the organisation for the financial year ended 30 April 2005.

GOVERNANCEJCA is the cooperative fundraising venture of the constituent organisations who together make upthe JCA family. It is constituted by way of a Trust Deed, with its day to day activities governed byprofessional staff and a number of lay leadership committees. Ultimate governance and authority lies in the hands of theconstituent organisations themselves, with each of their Presidents making up the Trustees of the Board of Governors.The financial information contained in this review is summarised from the unaudited operating accounts as at 30 April2005, with the formal audited accounts subject to Trustee approval later in the year. The Trustees recently appointedBorough Mazars as auditors following the retirement of Einfeld Symonds Vince who had served JCA well for many years.

INCOME AND EXPENDITUREThe year under review was again a busy and productive one and it is pleasing to report that the trend towards increasingdonor numbers and income has continued. Total income from all sources including donations, sponsorships, endowments,bequests, interest and unrealised gains on investments amounted to $14.382 million; and the number of donors supportingthe JCA totalled almost 7,000, an all time record. Fundraising activities were chaired by Barry Smorgon until late 2004 andJCA is indeed grateful to him for his many years of active involvement; and to the Appeal Executive for the excellent resultsthat they have delivered. After several years heading up the Major Gifts Division, Peter Ivany has now assumed theimportant role of Appeal Chair.

It is important to recognise that JCA income now falls into two distinct and separate categories.

Total expenditure for the period under review was tightly controlled and ended the year well within acceptable fundraisingbenchmarks and within JCA’s own budget. It should be noted that in addition to the fundraising activities, expenditureincludes amounts expended on communal planning and other activities undertaken on behalf of constituent organisations.

ALLOCATIONSAs the scale of JCA has increased, so too have the increased requirements of the constituent organisations. As a consequence,the process of allocating Annual Campaign Funds has become even more detailed and exhaustive and JCA is thankful to Phil Green, the 2004 Allocations Committee Chairman, and his committee for its dedicated work. The 2005 chairman is David Lowy AM.

The difficult question with allocations is not only determining how the annual campaign funds will be allocated; but alsodetermining which programs or activities will miss out because of a lack of funds.

Our President Reports


Peter Wise,President

Annual Campaign FundsThese are funds that arise from the annual communalcampaign and include sponsorships and investment income.After accounting for JCA’s operating expenditure andallowing for timing differences, these funds are distributedto constituent organisations annually through the JCAallocation process. There is no long term accumulation of Annual Campaign Funds.

Gross income from all sources for the year ended 30 April 2005 was $9.508 million.

Specified FundsThese funds are distinct and separate from annual campaignfunds. They facilitate the gifting of major additional fundsprimarily for specified activities undertaken by JCA constituentorganisations. There are a number of separate SpecifiedFunds, each with their own characteristics which ofteninclude donor designated components that are notavailable for immediate distribution.

Gross income from all sources for the year ended 30 April 2005 was $4.874 million.

It should be noted that timing plays an important part in the allocation process as JCA is only able to allocate funds thathave been physically received. Amounts pledged by donors but not yet paid are not taken into consideration by theAllocations Committee.The allocations paid during the financial year under review are summarised in the following table:

Allocation by Sector - $000’s Annual Campaign Funds Specified FundsWelfare, Health, Family & Aged Services 2,308 380Jewish Day Schools 2,470 10Education Boards 862 0Adult & Young Adult Programs 413 0Communal Services & Security 1,715 0Total Allocations Paid 7,768 390

INVESTMENT COMMITTEEThe investment of funds is undertaken by the JCA Investment Committee in accordance with conservative policies set bythe Trustees. Under the current policy funds are invested both in managed funds and in term deposits. The committee ischaired by the Treasurer, who was Ron Ferster for most of the financial year. The incoming Treasurer is Stephen Green. Thecommittee comprises representation from the Trustees as well as other senior JCA personnel and co-opted members fromoutside the JCA organisational structure.

PLANNING AND PRIORITIES In recent years JCA has found itself more deeply involved in communal planning than was envisaged when the first tentativesteps were taken a decade ago to deal with some of the broader structural issues within our community. The planningfunction is seen by many as one of the key ingredients for an improved communal future.

Ably chaired by David Balkin who works closely with Jillian Segal and a small dedicated team, the activities of the Prioritiesand Planning Committee have accelerated during the last year as the complex issues surrounding the welfare, family andaged services sector have come under the microscope. At the same time, a review of the education sector has commenced,with a view towards bringing greater coordination, benefits and efficiencies to the education of our young. Other mediumand long term planning issues, including communal security, are also coming into focus.

CAPITAL AND BUILDINGRichard Scheinberg chaired the Capital and Building Committee during the year, assisted by Peter Philippsohn during theChairman’s absence overseas. This committee is charged with the responsibility of constantly reviewing the property andother physical assets held by constituent organisations together with their associated debt levels and proposals for buildingimprovements and additions. This committee also makes recommendations to the Trustees about which organisation (ifany) should be granted the right to conduct a Capital or Building Fund Appeal in the forthcoming year.


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The Allocations Committeebegins its determination in July of each year.A recommendation is tabledfor Trustees considerationin November of each year.

Welfare, Family and Aged Services - 29.7%

Day Schools - 31.8%

Education Boards - 11.1%

Adult & Young Adult Programs - 5.3%

Communal Services - 22.1%

Annual Campaign Funds - Allocation by Sector

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$8,000,000

$6,000,000

$4,000,000

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Net Income Allocations Paid

Annual Campaign - Net Income vs Allocations Paid


STATUS COMMITTEEThe Status Committee is chaired by Joachim Schneeweiss AM and is constituted primarily for the purpose of consideringapplications by organisations that wish to become parties to the JCA Trust Deed; and thus become JCA constituent members.Whilst JCA is desirous of broadening its base, it imposes rigorous conditions on organisations who wish to join, includingstrict standards of governance and financial management. No organisations were admitted during the year althoughthree organisations made formal application to become constituents and others have informally signalled their intentions.

COORDINATING COMMITTEE The snowballing and successful activities of the JCA have brought with them attendant complications in coordinatingthe diverse and important work of the various committees. The establishment of the JCA Coordinating Committee duringthe year, chaired by the President, has gone some way towards streamlining the various activities. Attended by the Chairsof the various committees together with key officeholders, the President of the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies, andexecutive staff, the committee has rapidly become a forum for new and innovative thinking.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSThe JCA Board of Governors acknowledges and thanks all lay members of its committees and sub-committees for theirdedicated work, together with the large army of volunteers and hosts who together make JCA a unique, dynamic andsuccessful organisation.

JCA also acknowledges and thanks all of its executive staff, led by the CEO Lawrence Jackson, who together with his teamhas shown extraordinary commitment and dedication to the organisation.

CONCLUSIONUnder the unique JCA communal fundraising model, our constituent organisations participate in a cooperative venturein which they join together - and work together - to jointly run an annual combined communal appeal. Over nearly fourdecades JCA has grown, developed and refined what it does and how it does it.

Its success today is a testament to those few who originally had the vision and the foresight; it is a testament to thosecountless numbers who have so willingly devoted their time and their energy, and it is in no small part a testament tothe thousands of members of our community who year after year continue to support the JCA - thus recognising that by doing so they are playing an instrumental part in the betterment of our Jewish way of life.

For and on behalf of the JCA Board of Governors

Peter Wise President

The Allocations Committee from L-R:Stephen Chipkin (JCA Allocations Committee Deputy Chairman);David Lowy (JCA Allocations Committee Chairman);Greg Shand (JCA Allocations Committee Member)


BOARD OF GOVERNORS

Peter Wise (President)Barry Smorgon (Vice-President)Peter Ivany (Appeal Chairman)Stephen Green (Hon Treasurer)Peter Wertheim AM (Hon Secretary)David Lowy AM (AllocationsCommittee Chairman)David Balkin (Priorities & PlanningCommittee Chairman)Richard Scheinberg (Building &Capital Appeal Committee Chairman)Dr Joachim Schneeweiss AM(Status Committee Chairman)Alex AbulafiaBill ArnoldSophie Caplan OAMStephen ChipkinCarin CohenAlex Di VeroliGraham EinfeldEva Fischl OAMDavid FreemanRobert GavshonRichard GelskiJeffrey GrantAndrew HavasGeoffrey HirshGiora HoffmanMichael JassyDavid KnollIlona LeeLen Levy SCPeter PhilippsohnJohn RothHon Justice Stephen RothmanJillian SegalGreg ShandDiane Shteinman AM

HONORARY LIFE GOVERNORS

Hal Goldstein AM OBE (Hon Life President)Leslie Caplan AMBarry SmorgonPeter Wise

HONORARY SOLICITOR

Simon Singer - David Landa Stewart

AUDITOR

Borough Mazars

APPEAL BOARD

Peter Ivany (Chairman)Dina CoppelChaim FarkasStephen GreenHester GreenfieldJonathan KlugJohn Landerer AM CBEJudy LowyBarry SmorgonMorris SymondsLouise Thurgood

APPEAL COMMITTEE

Emma CohenJeremy DunkelHester GreenfieldChaim FarkasPaul KaplanStephen KatzRonnie KesslerJonathan KlugKaren KosminNadine LevinRoz LevinJudy LowyNick RaphaelyLindi Rosen

Roma ShellJudy SimonsJudy SolomonRose TempleLouise ThurgoodMonica Saunders-Weinberg

ALLOCATIONS COMMITTEE

David Lowy AM (Chairman)Stephen ChipkinGreg Shand

CO-ORDINATING COMMITTEE

Peter Wise (President)David BalkinStephen ChipkinStephen GreenPeter IvanyDavid KnollDavid Lowy AMPeter PhilippsohnHon Justice Stephen RothmanRichard ScheinbergJillian SegalGreg ShandBarry Smorgon

BUILDING AND CAPITAL COMMITTEE

Richard Scheinberg (Chairman)Richard GelskiMurray LandisPeter Philippsohn

PRIORITIES AND PLANNING COMMITTEE

David Balkin (Chairman)Richard ScheinbergJillian SegalConsultantsRichard Gelski

David Gonski AOPeter PhilippsohnEx-OfficioStephen ChipkinPeter IvanyDavid KnollDavid Lowy AMGreg ShandPeter Wise

STATUS COMMITTEE

Joachim Schneeweiss AM(Chairman)Len Levy SCHon Justice Stephen RothmanDiane Shteinman AM

INVESTMENT COMMITTEE

Stephen Green (Chairman)Robert GavshonRussel PillemerJohn RothAlan SchoenheimerBarry SmorgonPeter Wertheim AM

IT COMMITTEE

Peter Philippsohn (Chairman)Darron Lonstein

EXECUTIVE STAFF

Lawrence Jackson (ChiefExecutive Officer)Pat Evans (Campaign Director)Gary Katz (Accountant)Aubrey Krawitz (Director,Fundraising)Tanya Oziel (Marketing &Development Manager)

2005 JCA leadership team

J C A 2 0 0 4 - 2 0 0 5 A N N U A L R E V I E W

JCA President, Peter Wise; JCA CEO, Lawrence Jackson; JCA Appeal Chairman Peter IvanyA recent meeting of the JCA Board of Governors held on 18 April 2005


Each year more people are being diagnosedwith Autism, putting enormous pressure onfamilies which struggle to provide the levelsof support and care needed. JewishCareand day schools are is stepping in to help.

“Many families are facing crisis situations and arepushed to the point of putting their children in the few facilities which have block beds and offer24-hour care.

“I would like to see JewishCare being able toprovide the Community with a facility whereparents can have a well-deserved break and feelconfident that their children are having fun as well,”Edward Birt, JewishCare’s Disability ServicesManager explains.

JewishCare supports families by undertakingcomprehensive needs assessments, identifyingwhere the gaps are, such as overnight care, andproducing a goal specific plan to fill the gaps.

Some of these gaps are filled by the day schoolsthrough individual learning programs. Thanks to aspecial JCA funding allocation of $85,000, a SpecialNeeds Centre has been set up at Moriah College,and the Emanuel School, Mt Sinai College, MasadaCollege and Academy BJE are all now equipped tooffer specialised care and services to children withspecial needs.

JewishCare runs successful group therapyprograms for parents where issues such asmanaging behaviour, education, medication andoptions for the future can be openly discussed in asupportive environment. The greatest need now isto find the resources to give more support to theparents of these children.

“In a world where people find parenting skillsdifficult in general, it is even more difficult to learn

how to cope with a child who has special needs,where previously there was a sense within theCommunity of ‘we can look after it ourselves.’Families are now opening up and it’s moreacceptable to ask for help. That’s one of the reasonswhy there is more demand for JewishCare’s servicesin this area,” Brit says.

Jewish children with special needsan area of urgent needin our community

Matzah Bakery, Moriah College

Design & Technologytextiles at Moriah College


membersof our

wide Jewishfamily

The Jewish Communal Appeal reaches into just about every corner of the Jewish communitiesof New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory.

The JCA family of communal organisations in turn deliver over 60 programs via 16 service organisations.

In real terms this translates into JCA dollars helping thousands of Jews from every sector of thecommunity, every day.

Thank you in anticipation for your support.


Sydney JewishMuseum

Academy BJE - NSW Board of

Jewish EducationAustralian Jewish Historical Society

B’nai B’rith *

Committee forJewish Higher

Education

Emanuel School

JewishCare

Jewish Folk Centre

Masada College

Moriah College

Mount SinaiCollege

National CommunityCentre, Canberra

National Council *of Jewish Women

NSW Board ofProgressive Jewish

Education

NSW Jewish Board of Deputies

Sir Moses Montefiore Jewish Home

The Shalom Institute

Wolper Jewish Hospital

* Now beneficiary members


meet the JCA team who

Peter Wise President, Honorary

Life Governor

Barry SmorgonVice-President,

Honorary Life Governor

Hal Goldstein AM OBE Honorary Life

President

Leslie Caplan AMHonorary Life

Governor

Peter IvanyAppeal Chairman,

Governor

Stephen GreenHonorary Treasurer,

Governor

Peter Wertheim AM Honorary Secretary,

Governor

Lawrence Jackson Chief Executive

Officer

Pat EvansCampaign Director

Aubrey Krawitz Fundraising Director

Gary KatzAccountant

Tanya OzielMarketing and

Development Manager

Aviva KogusOperations Manager

David Lowy AMAllocations Committee

Chairman, Governor

David BalkinPriorities & Planning

Committee Chairman,Governor

Richard ScheinbergBuilding & Capital

Committee Chairman,Governor

Dr Joachim Schneeweiss AM

Status CommitteeChairman, Governor

Simon SingerHonorary Solicitor

Alex AbulafiaGovernor, CBD Host

Sophie Caplan OAMGovernor, CBD Host

Stephen ChipkinAllocations Committee,

Governor

Alex Di VeroliGovernor,

Metro Host

Eva Fischl OAMGovernor

Robert GavshonGovernor

Richard GelskiGovernor, CBD Host

Jeffrey GrantGovernor, Prominent

Leaders Host

Geoffrey HirshGovernor

Giora HoffmanGovernor

Michael JassyGovernor, Prominent

Leaders Host

David FreemanGovernor

Graham EinfeldGovernor, CBD Host

Ilona LeeGovernor

Len Levy SCGovernor

Peter PhilippsohnGovernor, IT Committee

Chairman, CBD Host

Jillian SegalGovernor, CBD Host

Greg ShandGovernor, AllocationsCommittee, CBD Host

The JCA Family

comprises 18

organisations

providing the

safety-net for

education,

welfare,

community

services and

aged care needs

of every Jew,

right here

where we live.

The human face

of JCA is made

up of hundreds

of volunteers

and staff who

work tirelessly

for the

community

through the

Jewish

Communal

Appeal.

Space doesn't

allow us to

pay tribute

to everyone

involved.

Here are some

of the committed,

smiling, caring

people who

help to make

it happen.

Thank you to each

and every one of

our keyworkers.



give more to the community

Gary EcksteinHonorary

Demographer

Bill Arnold Governor

John RothGovernor, CBD Host

David KnollGovernor, CBD Host

Diane Shteinman AMGovernor

Dina CoppelAppeal Board,

North Shore Host

Jeremy DunkelAppeal Board, Young

Major Donor Host

Chaim FarkasAppeal Board, Young

Major Donor Host

Jonathan KlugAppeal Board

Member, Metro Host

John Landerer AM CBEAppeal Board

Judy LowyAppeal Board,Women’s

Gold Chairman

Louise ThurgoodAppeal Board, Young

Adult Executive Chairman

Emma CohenConnections Co-chariman

Hester GreenfieldAppeal Board, Women’sCampaign Chair, Brunch

Co-ordinator

Paul KaplanYoung Major Donors

Co-chairman

Stephen KatzNorth Shore Division

Chairman

Ronnie KesslerYoung JCA

Co-chairman

Karen KosminMetro Division

Chairman

Nadine LevinCBD Division Co-chairman

Roz LevinCBD Division Co-chairman

Nick RaphaelyYoung Major Donors

Co-chairman

Lindi RosenYoung JCA

Co-chairman

Judy SimonsProminent Leaders

Brunch Co-chairman

Judy SolomonB’nai B’rith

Coordinator

Rose TempleTelephone CampaignChairman, CBD Host

Monica Saunders-Weinberg, Connections

Co-chairman

Nancye GoldsteinCBD Host

Anya Goodrich OAMProminent Leaders

Brunch Host

Mervyn BasserabieCBD Host

Sharon IvanyCBD,

Women’s Gold Host

Nola Braude OAMProminent Leaders

Brunch Host

Alex SeligProminent Leaders

Brunch Host

David LevinCBD Host

Harold MilnerCBD Host

Herman EisenbergCBD Host

Hon Justice Stephen Rothman

Governor, CBD Host

Rita PragerWomen’s Campaign

Host

Sam SteifProminent Leaders

Host

Estelle SternProminent Leaders

Host

Lauren FinkCBD Host

Sue InbergProminent Leaders

Women’s Division Host

Milton WhitmontCBD Host


This year is the 60th Anniversary of the endof WWII and the liberation of theconcentration camps in Europe. To markthis important event, the Sydney JewishMuseum has commissioned a commemorativefilm and created several temporaryexhibitions, which are being featured at theMuseum throughout the year.

The film - Liberation, Life and Lamingtons - wasrecently launched at a function held at MoriahCollege for survivors and their families. Organisedby the Museum in partnership with the Associationof Jewish Holocaust Survivors, the aim of thefunction was to bring families together andcelebrate the resilience of Jewish people, which isevident in today’s vibrant Sydney community.

Producer Robyn Gerber and Director MarkRadomsky created a magnificent documentarywhich takes the viewer through a rollercoaster ofemotions, from cringing to laughing and crying - butmost of all, it honours the human spirit. The title ofthe film says it all - Liberation, from the camps, Life,in Australia and Lamingtons, to show how much theAustralian icons represent freedom and democracyfor survivors.

The JCA’s Allocations Committee made a specialallowance of $50,000 to help co-fund this projectand ensure its success, thanks to the support andgenerosity of our donors.

The film was also the focus of the Museum’sparticipation in the Discovery After Dark Project.Organised by the NSW Premier’s Department, theproject involved major cultural institutions inSydney, staying open on a night in April from 7pmuntil midnight - over 400 people visited the SydneyJewish Museum that night.

On 8 May, NSW Premier Bob Carr opened anexhibition at the Museum called Through AustralianEyes.This exhibition features the works of Australianartist Alan Moore, who was present at the liberation

of Bergen-Belsen and the haunting drawings, neverbefore on public display, of daily life in a camp byBernard Slawic.

A series of letters written by Muriel Knox Doherty- an Australian nurse who was responsible for settingup a hospital at Bergen-Belsen after liberation arealso on display. Now aged 90 and living in Melbourne,Alan Moore was present at the opening where heand was reunited, after 60 years with Olga Horak,a survivor of the infamous camp and now aMuseum guide.

The Long Journey to Freedom is an exhibition thatwas launched on 29 May and highlights the personalstories and experiences of survivors who made thedecision to leave Europe and come to live in Australiaafter liberation. Homeless and stateless,many survivorsfelt like they didn’t belong anywhere. Through letters,documents, artifacts, postcards and photographs,this exhibition commemorates the emotional realityof liberation, the physical journey, and the firstreactions to a new home.

According to Sydney Jewish Museum President,John Roth,“The Museum ensures that the historicallessons of the Holocaust are passed on from generationto generation by being the public face of the NSWJewish Community in educating tens of thousandsof non-Jewish school children and adults each yearabout the ever present dangers of racial andreligious intolerance and prejudice.”

CEO Norman Seligman extended the SydneyJewish Museum’s thanks by saying,“we are grateful tothe JCA and its donors for making available additionalfunding towards our numerous activities andexhibitions commemorating the 60th anniversary of Liberation and Life in Australia. It is vital for thecommunity to support the JCA and thereby theimportant work of its constituents such as theSydney Jewish Museum.”

Liberation!60 yearsremembered

John Roth, President,Sydney Jewish Museum

Marika Weinberger OAM,Vice-president of SydneyJewish Museum and Marie Bashir, Governor of New South Wales at the ‘Liberation, Life andLamingtons’ event



Following an approach from the JewishPeople Policy & Planning Institute (JPPPI)which operates under the auspices of theJewish Agency in Jerusalem, the JCA hasagreed to fund a study specifically relatingto Jewish eduction and continuity. Thesurvey will target parents of year five andsix school children attending secular andJewish schools in Australia.

The survey is currently being undertaken incooperation with Jewish day schools and Boards ofJewish education. Other communal groups are alsosupporting a drive to reach all eligible familiesthroughout the Jewish community.

It will provide essential data on the quality andrange of Jewish education currently available in the community as well as identifying barriers toattendance at Jewish day schools and the role beingfulfilled by these schools within the widereducational context.

The survey will also provide significant qualitativedata on the relationship between the type ofeduction received and its subsequent effect onintermarriage and long term participation in Jewishcommunal activities.

The JCA’s involvement in this pilot project willprovide the JCA and its constituents with much neededinformation to assist in fostering Jewish continuityand communal development. Similar surveys arealready underway in South Africa and Canada.

The data gathered will be analysed by Dr GaryEckstein,the JCA’s honorary demographer.Consolidatedresults will be shared with the schools and othereducational institutions who have assisted with theproject as well as the JPPPI in Jerusalem.

Involvement and funding of this survey by the JCAis yet another tangible application of its growing rolein communal research, planning and development.

The specially convened JCA committee which isoverseeing the survey and pilot study comprises Dr Gary Eckstein, Peter Philippsohn, Justice StephenRothman,Richard Scheinberg and JCA Chief ExecutiveOfficer,Lawrence Jackson. Brian Fine,Managing Directorof market research company JD Power Australia, is alsoproviding pro bono assistance.

Commenting on this initiative, JCA GovernorPeter Philippsohn, who is currently overseeing themanagement of this project said “this is a uniqueopportunity for parents of school age children tohave a say on what they want to see in their children’seducation and for our community to respond.”

will yourgrandchildren be Jewish?


$65Mr & Mrs N Goodman in honour of 65 years

of marriage.

$25Mrs Dale Kessler in honour of Gaby & Irene Meltzer’s

50th wedding anniversary.

$150In honour of Darron Lonstein’s 40th birthday:

Lawrence & Shelly Jackson;

Dion & Nadine Shapiro

$150In honour of Edith Aramaty’s 73rd birthday: Ginette

Matalon; Michael & Evelyn Freeland; S M Heman

$610In honour of Jeff Rubenstein’s 60th birthday:

Mark & Tessa Rohald; Mark & Janine Krok;

Neville & Bernice Segall; Dan & Liora Novick

$2030Special donations from NSW Maccabi Golf Inc.

$35Danny & Anne Silvers in honour

of Brian Gold’s birthday.

$1465In honour of Peter Palan’s 60th birthday:

Reva Rosmarin; George & Robyn Pal; Peter & Giza

Fletcher; Susie Phillips; Paul & Emilie; Chris Evans;

Irving & Robyn Weinberg; Ian & Beverly Pryer;

Robert & Sharon Sharpe; Lawrence & Margaret

Kresner; Barry & Carol Pryer; Ruth Krochmalik; Peter

& Julie Slezak; Victor & Carol Grynberg; Robert &

Katja Grynberg

$10Hilton & Kim Sandler in honour of Harold Savitz’s

50th birthday.

$50David & Shirley Prag in honour of Rosh Hashana for

Peter & Shirley Kalish & Family.

$30Amber Sceats in honour of Sheira Said’s

40th birthday.

$100Ashley & Brigid Goldberg in honour of Avron & Sue

Grossberg’s 40th birthdays.

$25Sally Davis in honour of Mr & Mrs Sernack’s 60th

wedding anniversary.

$1731In honour of Noelleen Rosen’s 50th birthday: Abe

& Lesley Greengarten; Gillian Dar; Geoff & Joanne

Lunz; Mervyn & Hilary Levine; Sammy & Frances

Bousqila; Morris & Felicity Segal; Diana Perla; Ronald

& Michelle Belz; Paul & Diane Drexler; Barry & Mimi

Teeger; Paul & Agi Brandon; David & Vivienne

Conway; Peter & Michelle Giesser; Mike & Linda

Bloomfield; Leo & Paula Gothelf; John & Anita

Ingster; Jack & Belinda Frisch; David & Michelle

Moddel; Leon & Tracey Waxman; Peter & Leonie

Vickers; George & Caroline Bensen; Colin & Susan

Mendelsohn; Michael & Susane Binetter; Robert &

Linda Deutsch; David & Leah Port; John & Nikki Cohen

$100Steve & Joanne Glanz in honour of David Selig’s

50th birthday.

$50Aubrey & Dorit Krawitz in honour of Harry Jacob’s

75th birthday.

$50Eva Binder in honour of the birth

of her great grand-daughter.

$100Martin & Nadia Bloom in honour of Joe Hersch’s

60th birthday.

$50Alan & Celeste Krowitz in honour of

Joel Kahan’s birthday.

$100Barry & Sandra Smorgon in honour of

Harold Shapiro’s 60th birthday.

$50Edward & Hayley Baral in honour of Russell

Whitmont’s 85th birthday.

$230In honour of Ken & Tammy Wolpert’s 30th

anniversary: Tammy & Reuben Wesek;

Vernon & Merle Sachs

$50Mayer Family in honour of David Burger for Pesach.

$40David & Marilynne Mill, Brendan & Illana in honour

of Michael & Hester Greenfield for Pesach.

IN MEMORIAM GIFTS$100Mrs J Katz in honour of her late mother, Minnie Orkin.

the simcha fund2004 campaign special donations

legacies andbequestsThe Jewish Communal Appeal honours the memory of those who have fulfilledthe true spirit of Tzedakah by rememberingtheir fellow Jews through their bequests.

1989 Walter Blum, David Leopold Ovedoff,Cyril Rosenbaum, Herbert Tauber

1990 Gizelle Fetter, Karl Lazar,Sini Sophia Vecht

1991 E Alexandre, Pola Kluger,Herbert Joseph Wolmers

1992 Edith Baer, Amalia Brecher

1993 A.S Block, Leonard Dryen, CecilleFeder (In memory of Cecille & John),Bernard Ferster, Alice Gonda

1994 Lily Ezekiel, Victoria Lords,Nora Plotke

1995 Gustav Menkes

1996 Karl Bittman, Gizelle Fetter,Herta Herz, Charlotte Kristian

1997 Raissa Darin, Walter Ginsburg

1998 Doris Susan Berliner, Julia VivienneBlanks, Margarethe Schiller, HeinrichSchlosser, Jenny Sevitt, H Siegler

1999 Abraham Davis, Martin Hall,Anne Heller, Meyer Musleah

2000 Thea Baum, Piri Bergsman, RachelDe Jong, Maria Fischer, RoseGestetner, Maurice Joseph, HarryKellerman OBE, Ephim Lesagorsky,Gertrude Levin, Piroska Major

2001 Agnes Bauer, Rosalia Gostin,Nadia Gurvich, Harold Hertzberg

2002 Felicia Einhorn, Maurice HermanKellerman, Norbert Lewinnek,Trudl Meller, Eric Sommers

2003 Eric Dreikurs, Carol Goldberg,Masza Goldenberg, Joseph Ingster,Stella Jordan, Norbert Lewinnek,Hilde Lightstone, Philipp Strahl,Eva Waxman OAM

2004 Lothar Cohn, Bobby Evans,Erwin Kauders, Arnold Samuelson



Several years ago, in a major initiative, the JewishCommunal Appeal launched a new fundraisingconcept that foreshadowed a growing trend inAustralian philanthropy, when it established itsSpecified Funds Program.

By utilising the unique facility which Specified Fundsoffer, additional contributions to a special purpose orproject that falls within the broad framework of servicesprovided by the JCA family of organisations can be made.

Those who choose to endow the JCA’s Specified FundsProgram have the satisfaction of seeing a specific causeprosper or a particular project brought to fruition, whilestill being able to enjoy the tax benefits associated withtheir gift.

The flexibility of these schemes can accommodate anyspecial interest a JCA donor may have or may wish to developin relation to a particular JCA-funded communal organisation.

It is intended that Specified Fund endowments bemade in addition to the donor’s contribution to annualJCA campaigns and represents a separate commitmentfrom the donor to the Appeal.

The establishment and management of Specified Fundswill allow the JCA to accrue a substantial pool of fundingwhich can be disbursed over a significant period of time orin perpetuity, which will greatly assist in securing the long-term viability of the Jewish community and its vitalinfrastructure through the constituency of the JCA.

If you require any information on how to create a JCASpecified Fund, please contact JCA CEO, Lawrence Jackson,on (02) 9360 2344.

The JCA currently administers the followingSpecified Funds:

JCA ABEL FAMILY FUNDThe JCA Abel Family Fund was established by theAbel Family to provide support for welfare, familyand aged services, as well as the development ofwomen in the community. To date $1,200,000has been endowed.

JCA MICHAEL FAKTOR LEADERSHIP FUNDThe JCA Michael Faktor Leadership Fund wasestablished in memory of the late Michael

Faktor to provide support for youth andyoung adult leadership development and programs. To date, $135,000 has been endowed.

JCA SYDNEY JEWISH MUSEUM FUNDThe JCA Sydney Jewish Museum Fundwas established by the late JohnSaunders AO to provide a basis for thecontinued growth and development ofthe Museum.

JCA CHAI RELIEF FUNDThe JCA Chai Relief Fund was established by Frank LowyAC and Shirley Lowy OAM, to provide poverty relief for theneedy in the Jewish Community. Its funds are used tocontinue the poverty relief work administered by the ChaiFoundation. To date, $1,585,000 has been endowed.

JCA LOTBEN FUND - THE LOKTA & BERNARD FERSTER FUND The JCA Lotben Fund was established by Felicia Huppert,Alexi Ferster Marmot and Renee Ferster Levy in memory oftheir parents the late Lotka and Bernard Ferster to supportinter-generational and inter-communal activities andprograms. To date, $315,000 has been endowed.

JCA WILKENFELD FUND The JCA Gittel, Berta and Nissan Wilkenfeld ShoahEducation Fund was established by, David and YasminWilkenfeld in 2002 to provide assistance for school andtertiary students to participate in Shoah education andremembrance programs. To date,$170,000 has been endowed.

JCA HABERMAN AND KULAWICZ FUNDThe JCA Haberman and Kulawicz Fund was established bySabina van der Linden, to provide financial support forprograms that assist underprivileged Jewish students,Jewish teenagers and youth. It seeks to develop Jewish-based programs for young Jewish adults and teenagers.To date, $200,000 has been endowed.

For further information please contact JCA CEO Lawrence Jackson, on (02) 9360 2344.

honour boardJCA specified funds

The late Michael Faktor

The late John Saunders AO

Renee Ferster Levy and her sisters FeliciaHuppert and Alexi Ferster Marmot, createda JCA Specified Fund - the Lotben Fund - topreserve the memory of their parents,Lotka and Bernard, in a way which wouldrepresent the values they passed on totheir children.

A very loving and giving family, Tzedakah andJewish traditions were always a strong part of theirlives and the Ferster children were taught to respectand appreciate other cultures and religions. Lotkaand Bernard were also fantastic communicatorsbetween generations and were always very much infavour of intergenerational projects.

In 2004, the JCA Lotben Fund was used tofinance Academy BJE’s Project Heritage Program. Acomprehensive and incredibly rewarding programwhere year six and seven students are introduced to a ‘Living Historian’ and then put together a projectbased on that Historian’s life.

The students chose from a variety of mediathrough which to present their work such as an essay,artwork or drama presentation. Thanks to the FersterFamily’s generosity, participation in the ProjectHeritage Program in 2004 was increased from 4 to20 schools, and Academy BJE is setting up a webcomponent to benefit children in remote areas andolder historians who are unable to travel.

Renee Ferster Levy says: “It’s very exciting to seethat this fund in our parents’ name is ensuring thepreservation of stories and the intercommunicationof generations and I would encourage others to createspecial funds that they would find equally rewarding.”

The JCA Michael Faktor Leadership Fund wasoriginally set up to promote and develop Jewishleadership. Now the fund is used to sponsor the full-day JCA-Network Michael Faktor LeadershipConference, which is held annually at Shalom College.

Attracting over 100 attendees, the conferenceprogram is designed to foster all sorts of leadership

training and workshops, from issues such as mediarelations and website development to Israeli politicsand Yiddishkeit.

“All of the applicants have demonstrated someform of involvement in leadership programs,”explainsRoni Faktor, daughter of the Late Michael Faktor.“Most of them are in their early to mid 20s, alreadyhave an affiliation with a community related groupor project and are seeking to promote and developtheir leadership skills. The conference has a pluralisticfocus and brings together youth from all sections ofthe community. We believe that by investing in theadvancement of the leadership skills in our youth,they in turn will re-invest their expertise in thecommunity and we will all reap the benefits”.


family memoriespreserved

top: Academy BJE ProjectHeritage Coordinator HayleyFreedman (left) and OralHistorian Esther Udovich withyear 6 students at LindfieldEast Public School, 2004

above: Selwyn Sack, BJE Headof Jewish Studies togetherwith BJE teachers Aidel Bloom(back)and Leanne Prissman(right) visit CentralSynagogue with year 6students from Bellevue HillPublic School as part ofProject Heritage, 2004



As German researcher Ulrich Baumann siftedthrough 2,500 documents and pictures atthe Holocaust Museum in Washington, hestumbled across a set of striking photosand testimony given to Steven Spielberg’sShoah Foundation.

The photos and testimony belonged to Sabinavan der Linden (formerly Wolanski), a Polish-bornHolocaust survivor he tracked down to Sydney.

Dr Baumann was working on an informationcentre associated with a memorial to the six millionJews murdered in the Holocaust, unveiled in Berlinlast month. Fifteen countries were to be representedat the centre and he wanted to include Mrs van derLinden’s family.

“I was very moved. I was amazed that that wasgoing to happen and my family would be includedin this information centre,” Mrs van der Linden said.

The controversial memorial has been six years inthe making. On 25 June,1999 the German parliamentpassed a resolution to build a “Memorial to theMurdered Jews of Europe”.

Last month that became a reality. Designed byNew York architect Peter Eisenman, the memorialcomprising 2,750 concrete pillars, was erected in thecentre of Berlin near the Brandenburg Gate.

When it was officially dedicated on 10 May,Mrs vander Linden was the only Holocaust survivor to addressthe crowd, her husband, children and grandchildrenin the audience.

When she was told in January she would be the only survivor to speak at the opening, she saidshe was “absolutely overwhelmed” and she toldorganisers it would be a great honour.

Among the victims commemorated in the memorialare Mrs van der Linden’s parents and brother.

She was just 12 when her mother perished in theBelzec death camp.

“My father and brother were executed by firingsquad two years later,” Mrs van der Linden said. “Iwas 12 when I lost my mother and 14 when I lost mywhole family.”

After liberation, family friends took her in and

she went to school in the then Soviet Union. By1948 she had married and was living in Paris beforeimmigrating to Australia 55 years ago.

Over the years, Mrs van der Linden has returnedto Germany several times. She was a key witness forthe prosecution in the trial of SS men charged withexecuting her father and brother in 1967.

Mrs van der Linden does not hold the currentgeneration responsible for their predecessors’ evilacts. But in the past decade, as the number ofHolocaust survivors continues to dwindle, Mrs vander Linden has made a point of discussing herhistory in the hope that it is never repeated.

She is a member of the NSW Jewish Board ofDeputies’ speaker service and a generous benefactorof the JCA. In 2003, she created the JCA Habermanand Kulawicz Specified Fund in honour of her lostrelatives. She had a particular interest in supportingunderprivileged Jewish students and to developprograms for Jewish teenagers and young adults.

“My generation is dying out,”she said.“I’m 74 yearsold. What happens after we have gone? It’s extremelyimportant that we teach the young people. I’ve alwaysfelt very strongly about it. Hopefully it will preventother terrible things happening.”

the importance ofteaching the young

Sabina Van Der Linden and her son, Phillip Wolanski

The Jewish family that surrounds us comprises some very talented members who recognise that welfareand continuity of future generations starts with a commitment today... through practical giving. The JCA

is a member of this wider family. We are here to support and nurture the growth of every individual inthat family. The 60 services we fund are there when you need them... education, aged care, welfare, cultureand heritage... all because JCA is an efficient fundraiser, effective planner, responsible investor and rigorous

allocator of family funds each year. Only possible because ‘family supporters’ give generously.

And like every family the needs never cease, they simply grow as the family does.

We invite you to be a part of this family. Reach for your chequebook and show you care. Pledge today by calling 9360 2344 and ask for ‘Uncle JCA’. You can give on-line at www.jca.org.au

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