Abraham Rabinovitch was a well-respected pioneer of the Sydney

Sydney

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 Jewish community, in particular as a founder and philanthropist of Sydney's full-time Jewish education

Jewish education

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al institutions. Rabinovitch was born in Russia

Russia

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 in 1889, and died July 1964 in Sydney

Sydney

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Accomplishments

Rabinovitch founded two large educational institutions, the Yeshiva Centre and Moriah College

Moriah College

Moriah War Memorial College is an independent, Modern Orthodox Jewish, co-educational, day school in Queens Park, an eastern suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia....

. He also built New South Wales

New South Wales

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' first mikvah

Mikvah

Mikveh is a bath used for the purpose of ritual immersion in Judaism...

 at 117 Glenayr Avenue Bondi

Bondi, New South Wales

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