Yeshivah Centre, Melbourne
- Yeshivah Centre, Melbourne
The Yeshivah Centre is an Orthodox Jewish umbrella organisation in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia that serves the needs of the Melbourne Jewish community. It is run by the Chabad-Lubavitch movement, until recently, under the direct administration of Rabbi Yitzchok Dovid Groner. Rabbi Zvi Telsner has been brought as the new Dayan (rabbinical judge) of the Centre and Lubavitch community.
Brief history
The Yeshivah Centre was established by a group of Jewish migrants in the late 1940s in response to a massive postwar influx of Jews to Melbourne. In 1949, Yeshivah Centre opened a Jewish day school with only 3 full time students. This led, in 1954, to the purchase of the Yeshivah College campus at 92 Hotham Street. This was followed by the purchase of the Beth Rivkah Ladies College campus on 14 Balaclava Road in 1959, and 16-20 Balaclava Road in 1969. In 1958, Rabbi Y.D. Groner arrived in Melbourne as an emissary of the Lubavitcher Rebbe in order to take up the position of full time Director of the Yeshivah Centre, and appointed honorary officers to assist him in operating the organisation. The first matriculation of students took place in 1965 with a class of 8 boys.
Facilities
The centre comprises a network of educational facilities that include:
*Yeshivah College, a boys' school;
*Beth Rivkah Ladies College, a girls' school;
*the Yeshiva Shul;
*Kollel Menachem Lubavitch, an outreach-focused full-time Kollel;
*Ohel Chana, a girls' seminary (post-high school full time Torah study);
*Chabad Youth, an outreach organisation;
*Mivtzoim Melbourne, another outreach organisation;
*a network of creches, and others.
It should be noted that not all Chabad institutions in Melbourne are officially under this organisation, e.g., the Yeshivah Gedolah Zal (an academy of advanced Talmudic studies for young men). It should also be noted that although the Yeshivah Gedolah is not "officially" under this organisation, it is still closely tied, and they coordinate activities with Chabad Youth, Mivtzoim Melbourne, and private classes, especially with children from Yeshivah College.
ee also
*Hasidic Judaism
*List of VCE providers according to 2006 results
*Torah study
External links
* [http://www.ybr.vic.edu.au/ School Site]
* [http://www.ohelchana.edu.au/ Ohel Chana website]
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