Nick Seemann (Chair) has been a board member since 2005. He is an architect working in the field of social and community building work. He has particular expertese in aged care, homeless persons and employment service work. His experience in Jewish organisations goes back to his involvement as a student activist at university. Since that time he has been a board member of Temple Emanuel Woollahra, represented the Sydney Jewish community at the NSW Council of Christians and Jews and taught Jewish classes at high schools.

You can contact Nick at nick.seemann@mazon.org.au

Emeritus Rabbi Richard Lampert is one of the founders of Mazon Australia. He retired as Senior Rabbi of North Shorte Temple Emanuel (NSTE) in 2003 after twenty six years. Rabbi Lampert was born in Johannesburg, South Africa. After spending five years in a printing company, he studied at the University of Witwatersrand and the Leo Baeck Rabbinical College in London. Before taking up the position at NSTE, Rabbi Lampert was the Rabbi of Temple Emanuel, Johannesburg for twelve years.

You can contact Rabbi Lampert at rabbi.lampert@mazon.org.au

Rabbi Jeffrey B Kamins has been a board member of Mazon Australia since 1991. He was born in Los Angeles, California in the 1950s and attended Stanford University, where he was Phi Beta Kappa and received a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature. He then received his Juris Doctor from Boalt Hall (the University of California at Berkeley) and worked one year as a corporate lawyer in Los Angeles before pursuing his rabbinical studies. He studied at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion from 1984-1989, receiving his Masters of Arts in Hebrew Letters in 1987 at the Los Angeles campus and his rabbinical ordination in 1989 at the Cincinnati campus. He arrived in 1989 as assistant rabbi at Temple Emanuel in Sydney (TEW) and became associate rabbi in 1992. He was appointed senior rabbi in 1999. In that year, Rabbi Kamins joined the Rabbinical Assembly, the association of Conservative rabbis. Rabbi Kamins has been widely involved extensively in communal affairs. He serves on the executives of the New South Wales Board of Deputies and the board of the Shalom Institute. He was one of the founding teachers of the Florence Melton Adult Mini-School in Sydney in 1993 and still teaches in that program. Rabbi Kamins also serves as chaplain for the Australian Army.

You can contact Rabbi Kamins at rabbi.kamins@mazon.org.au

Rabbi Jeremy Lawrence is senior rabbi and chief minister of the Great Synagogue, Sydney and he joined Mazon Australia as a patron Rabbi in January 2007. In addition to his duties as rabbi, he serves as registrar on the Sydney Beth Din. Rabbi Lawrence has an MA (hons) in Jurisprudence from St Catherine’s College, Oxford University. Rabbi Lawrence qualified as a rabbi in Jerusalem attending Yeshivat Knesseth Beth Eliezer and Yeshivat Hamivtar on a Stanley Kalms Fellowship. He also graduated the Shaal & the Rothschild Foundation training courses for Diaspora rabbis. After University he served for three years as the National Executive Director of the Association of Jewish 6th Formers. In this capacity he was a coordinator of the informal sixth form program at the Jewish Free School in London. After his semicha, he served for two years as deputy head of Jewish Studies at Carmel College boarding school. Among his various activities in London he was on the Education Committee of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, led five study tours to Israel and in his student days was co-ordinator of the Oxford campaign for Soviet Jewry. He was also secretary of the Oxford University Criminology & Penology Society and a member of the Oxford Union. Rabbi Lawrence has wide-ranging interests from computers to environmental issues and Gilbert and Sullivan operettas. Before arriving in Sydney, where he took over the Great Synagogue pulpit from Rabbi Raymond Apple, Rabbi Lawrence was senior rabbi of the Auckland Hebrew Congregation for seven years. He was a founder member of the Auckland Interfaith Council; he established the Kosher Kiwi Licensing Authority in New Zealand and has produced a wide range of publications and guides to Jewish life. His role with the Auckland community has included close involvement with Kadimah College, liaison on a variety of issues with the New Zealand Government, interfaith work, public speaking and broadcasting.

Lance Nurick has been a board member of Mazon Australia since 2004. He is an IT consultant working in the field of Data-Warehousing and Business Intellingence. He is experienced in managing and executing the implementation of large-scale Information Systems and has decided to put these skills to good use by volunteering his time for Mazon.

You can contact Lance at lance.nurick@mazon.org.au

Rebecca Greengarten has been a member of Mazon since 2005. She works at RedBalloon Days in the corporate reward and recognition team doing business development.  Rebecca has extensive volunteer experience including- teaching English in East Timor; Being selected to participate in interfaith dialogue programs in Sydney and Griffith University, Brisbane as well as organising an interfaith program in Sydney between Jewish and Muslim students in 2006; being chosen to represent the Jewish Community at a Cross-Cultural Mediation Conference in Arnhem Land, Northern Territory and working with elderly members of the community through St. Luke’s Private Hospital. Rebecca is a people person who enjoys the experience of meeting, caring and helping people.

You can contact Rebecca at rebecca.greengarten@mazon.org.au