Beth Rivkah Ladies College

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Beth Rivkah Ladies College is an Orthodox Jewish day-school on Balaclava Road in Melbourne, Australia run by the Chabad-Lubavitch movement's Yeshivah Centre. The school runs from kinder through to Year 12. By including a comprehensive secular curriculum it is geared in its approach to accommodating children from a non-religious background whose parents would otherwise not agree to enrol their children there. It also serves the purpose of providing an Orthodox Jewish day-school to Orthodox parents who also value a secular education. Indeed, most of its students come from non-Chabad families.

The main entrance to the high school

The school is under the official auspices of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the Lubavitcher Rebbe. The school, as a branch of the Yeshiva Centre umbrella, is under the administration of Rabbi Yitzchok Dovid Groner, and Mr. Shmuel Gurevitch is the principal of the high school.

Although the students at the school are mostly Ashkenazi Jews, with a large element of Hasidim and other Haredim, Mr. Gurevitch introduced that when Hebrew is spoken it should follow the Sefardic or Modern Hebrew pronunciation. He claimed that this would make the school more attractive to as yet non-observant or minimally-observant Jews, who he thought would identify more with that form of pronunciation.

The school is part of the larger network of facilities of the Yeshivah Centre, which include a youth movement, Jewish studies classes, day camps, and many other positive initiatives that benefit Melbourne's wider Jewish community.

The school is known for its academic excellence.