Senior Leadership Team

The Senior Leadership Team at Immanuel College strives to ensure that the aims of the College are expressed fully in the way that it operates and develops.

The 2009-10 Senior Management Team consists of:

Philip Skelker, the College’s Head Master since September 2000 was educated at St. Catherine’s College, Oxford, where he was an Open Scholar and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. He has taught English at the Watford Grammar Schools, the Hasmonean School and Eton College. He was previously head of King David High School, Liverpool and Carmel College. In June 2001, Mr. Skelker was awarded the Max Fisher Prize for his contribution to Jewish education.

Richard Felsenstein, Deputy Head Master, was part of the group of teachers entrusted with planning the opening and initial years of operation of Immanuel College. Initially head of history and head of pastoral education, he has been deputy since 2000. Previous to his appointment at Immanuel, Mr. Felsenstein, a law graduate, taught at Kingsway and Paddington Colleges of Further Education. In the academic year 2001 – 2002, Mr. Felsenstein was a UJIA Ashdown Fellow in Educational Leadership.

Millan Sachania, Deputy Head Master (Second), gained a Double First in Music and a doctorate from the University of Cambridge where he was lately Bachelor Scholar and a tutor in musicology at Christ’s College.  As music scholar and editor, Dr. Sachania was editorial co-ordinator of a complete new edition of Chopin's music, and his publications include over thirty editions of music by Poulenc, Stravinsky, Godowsky, Philip Glass, and many others. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

Raymond Domnitz has been the College Bursar since August 2006. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants and an Israeli Certified Public Accountant. He has worked at director level for multinational companies, primarily within the media and healthcare industries in the UK, Israel, South Africa and Germany. He is equipped with a wealth of financial and managerial experience that is supplemented by communal work. He is the Clerk to the College Governors and with his team he is responsible for most of the non-teaching aspects of the life and organisation of the school.

Beth Kerr, who joined Immanuel College in September 2001 as Head of Physical Education, took up the position of Director of Pastoral Education in September 2005.  Mrs. Kerr is a graduate of Loughborough University and a former member of the Welsh national netball team. She has a deep interest in the promotion of healthy eating and good nutritional knowledge among young people. Her commitment to all forms of fitness is reflected by her completion of the 2003 London Marathon.

David Riffkin, the Director of Judaism at Immanuel College is responsible for all aspects of Jewish education at the school. He studied full-time for four years in Modern Orthodox yeshivot, taking his semicha (rabbinical diploma), whilst in the Kollel at Yeshivat Hamivtar. He took his first and second degrees at Jews’ College, London, before gaining a PGCE in Religious Education at the Institute of Education. Rabbi Riffkin has taught previously at Carmel College and at Herzlia High School in Cape Town, where he was Head of Jewish Studies.
 
Ruth Solomons is responsible for individual and whole-staff professional development. She is a graduate of University College, London in Zoology, has a masters’ degree in Educational Studies from the University of London Institute of Education and an MBA.  Mrs. Solomons was Head of Science at Immanuel from 1997 to 2002 and prior to this she was Head of Biology and a head of year at a large maintained Catholic secondary school. In addition to her masters’ degree, Mrs. Solomons’ own professional development has included five years’ part-time study of counselling skills at Westminster Pastoral College and Middlesex University.