Jews Down Under An online magazine for Australian Jews
25 November 2014
AGM Celebrates a Strong Past Year and Impressive Future
Jewish Care’s Annual General Meeting, held at Monash University, Caulfield in the presence of more than 100 people, highlighted the impressive achievements of the organisation over the past financial year. These include supporting over 4800 clients across all services, delivering 18,640 hours of respite care to people with a disability, providing 124,000 hours of home and personal care, adopting a 5 year disability plan and seeing an increase of 13,000 hours of voluntary service.
Looking ahead, Jewish Care President Mike Debinski spoke proudly about the organisation’s progress on its ‘Growing. For Our Community’ capital campaign, which will see Jewish Care invest over $180 million across 6 projects, over the next 10 years.
The AGM also hosted a panel of experts to present on the topic of “Contemporary Intergenerational Challenges in Post Holocaust Melbourne”. The panel was led by Magalí Kaplan, Program Manager, Holocaust Survivor Support, and included distinguished experts Dr Anita Frayman, Dr George Halasz and Dr Esther Jilovsky, all of whom provided the audience with deep and insightful views on such an important topic.
Special guest, Dr Madeleine Tress, Policy Advisor at the Claims Conference in America, also attended.
The Life Governor Award was presented by Jeffrey Appel OAM to Mr Joseph Fröhlich West. He and his late wife Helen have been ardent supporters of Jewish Care for many years, and have been responsible for a Therapy Centre, the gifting of a Sefer Torah, the dedication of a Succah and the upgrading of lighting in the shule at Gary Smorgon House.
Changes to the Board of Governance included the retirement of Bruce Rosengarten and Sally Genser, while Lisa Kennett, Immediate Past President of Mount Scopus College, was welcomed as a new Director and Michael Schoenfeld and Andrew Schwartz, who have previously been Jewish Care Directors were welcomed back.
Media contact:
Ayal Tusia, Manager Marketing & Communications
Tel. (03) 8517 5701 Mob. 0434 376 424
Email. atusia@jewishcare.org.au
