Yeshivah Centre, Melbourne
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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.
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. This was followed by the purchase of the Beth Rivkah Ladies College campus in 1959. 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.
In 2011, Victoria Police launched an investigation into alleged sexual abuse at Yeshivah College between 1989 and 1993 and the consistent failure of the school leadership to report the matters to police.
In September 2011, David Cyprys a former student and employee at the Yeshivah College was charged 13 counts of gross indecency with a child and 16 counts of indecent assault with a child between 1984 and 1991. The youngest of his 12 alleged victims was aged 7 at the time.
The investigation by Victoria Police into allegations sexual abuse at the Yeshivah is ongoing.
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). 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.
Orthodox Judaism
Orthodox Judaism , is the approach to Judaism which adheres to the traditional interpretation and application of the laws and ethics of the Torah as legislated in the Talmudic texts by the Sanhedrin and subsequently developed and applied by the later authorities known as the Gaonim, Rishonim, and...
Jewish
Judaism
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umbrella organisation in Melbourne
Melbourne
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, Victoria
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, Australia
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that serves the needs of the Melbourne Jewish community. It is run by the Chabad-Lubavitch
Chabad-Lubavitch
Chabad-Lubavitch is a Chasidic movement in Orthodox Judaism. One of the world's larger and best-known Chasidic movements, its official headquarters is in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, New York...
movement, until recently, under the direct administration of Rabbi Yitzchok Dovid Groner
Yitzchok Dovid Groner
Rabbi Yitzchok Dovid Groner , was the most senior Chabad rabbi in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, and the director of the Yeshivah Centre, which includes the Yeshiva Shul, the Kollel Menachem Lubavitch, a boys' school known as Yeshivah College, a girls' school known as Beth Rivkah Ladies College, a...
. Rabbi Zvi Telsner has been brought as the new Dayan (rabbinical judge) of the Centre and Lubavitch community.
Brief history
Jewish day school
A Jewish day school is a modern Jewish educational institution that is designed to provide Jewish children with both a Jewish and a secular education in one school on a full time basis, hence its name of "day school" meaning a school that the students attend for an entire day and not on a part time...
with only 3 full time students. This led, in 1954, to the purchase of the Yeshivah College campus. This was followed by the purchase of the Beth Rivkah Ladies College campus in 1959. 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.
In 2011, Victoria Police launched an investigation into alleged sexual abuse at Yeshivah College between 1989 and 1993 and the consistent failure of the school leadership to report the matters to police.
In September 2011, David Cyprys a former student and employee at the Yeshivah College was charged 13 counts of gross indecency with a child and 16 counts of indecent assault with a child between 1984 and 1991. The youngest of his 12 alleged victims was aged 7 at the time.
The investigation by Victoria Police into allegations sexual abuse at the Yeshivah is ongoing.
Facilities
The centre comprises a network of educational facilities that include:- Yeshivah College, a boys' school;
- Beth Rivkah Ladies CollegeBeth Rivkah Ladies CollegeBeth Rivkah Ladies College or Beth Rivkah Lubavitch is a single-gender girls' K-12 Orthodox Jewish day-school on Balaclava Road, East St Kilda in Melbourne, Australia run by the Chabad-Lubavitch movement's Yeshivah Centre. The school runs from kinder through to Year 12...
, a girls' school; - the Yeshiva Shul;
- Kollel Menachem Lubavitch, an outreach-focused full-time KollelKollelA kollel is an institute for full-time, advanced study of the Talmud and rabbinic literature. Like a yeshiva, a kollel features shiurim and learning sedarim ; unlike a yeshiva, the student body of a kollel are all married men...
; - Ohel ChanaOhel ChanaOhel Chana is an Orthodox Jewish girls' seminary on Balaclava Road in Melbourne, Australia run by the Chabad-Lubavitch movement's Yeshivah Centre. It is administered by Rabbi Levi Tenenbaum....
, a girls' seminary (post-high school full time Torah study); - Chabad Youth, an outreach organisation;
- MivtzoimMitzvah CampaignsMitzvah Campaigns, or Mivtzo'im is a term coined by the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, leader of the Chabad movement, to refer to his various initiatives calling his followers, and all Jews, to reach out to less affiliated Jews and encourage them to undertake specific...
Melbourne, another outreach organisation; - a network of crecheDay careChild care or day care is care of a child during the day by a person other than the child's legal guardians, typically performed by someone outside the child's immediate family...
s, and others.
Not all Chabad institutions in Melbourne are officially under this organisation, e.g., the Yeshivah Gedolah Zal
Yeshivah Gedolah Zal
Yeshivah Gedolah "Zal" , Yeshivah Gedolah, The Rabbinical College of Australia and New Zealand, or colloquially, Y.G., is a government accredited yeshiva, an academy for young Orthodox Jews to devote themselves to full-time rabbinical studies. It is located in St Kilda East, Victoria, Melbourne,...
(an academy of advanced Talmudic studies for young men). 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.
See also
- Hasidic JudaismHasidic JudaismHasidic Judaism or Hasidism, from the Hebrew —Ḥasidut in Sephardi, Chasidus in Ashkenazi, meaning "piety" , is a branch of Orthodox Judaism that promotes spirituality and joy through the popularisation and internalisation of Jewish mysticism as the fundamental aspects of the Jewish faith...
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- Torah studyTorah studyTorah study is the study by Jewish people of the Torah, Hebrew Bible, Talmud, responsa, rabbinic literature and similar works, all of which are Judaism's religious texts...