Gateshead Jewish Academy for Girls (Hebrew

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 בית חיה רחל), is a two-year post-secondary school college founded in Gateshead

Gateshead

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, England

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 in 1998. Its principal is Rabbi Avrohom Katz

Avrohom Katz

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, an author and columnist.

It is an Orthodox

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 Jewish college attracting strictly Orthodox Jewish teenage girls as students from all around the world with a dormitory and all long term in-living accommodations.