Moriah College

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Moriah College is an independent, co-educational modern Orthodox Jewish school located in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It prides itself on providing the highest standard of Jewish education. Offering Preschool, Primary, Middle and High School education, Moriah aspires to achieve consistently excellent academic standards. They consistently achieve some of the best marks in NSW in the HSC (Matriculation Exams).

1 Values
2 Motto
3 History
4 Famous Alumni
5 See also
6 External links

[edit] Values

Moriah College embraces the belief that education does not stop at academic learning. A knowledge of Jewish traditions, ethics and family values, a positive commitment to modern Judaism and a love for the State of Israel help to ensure its students become caring, active, responsible members of the community.

[edit] Motto

The school's motto is To Learn, To Heed, To Act, signifying the school's stress on not just learning but acting on the information imparted upon a student, the motto also embodies the schools attachment to Orthodox Judiasm as the motto originally referred to the Torah and its lessons, although it has now become broader.

[edit] History

Abraham Rabinovitch envisaged a Jewish school in Sydney to rival any in the wider community – a school where every child, regardless of academic aptitude or financial standing, would have access to both an excellent general and comprehensive Jewish education.

From its beginnings in 1942 with a single class in Glenayr Avenue, North Bondi, to its current home on the spacious Queens Park campus, Moriah College has most probably exceeded even Rabinovitch's expectations. The school has continued to grow and prosper and has consolidated all the campuses with the Moriah family of students from Years K – 12 under one roof at Queen’s Park. The new primary school building was officially opened on Sunday November 26, 2006.