Yeshivah Centre, Melbourne

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The Yeshivah Centre is an Orthodox Jewish umbrella organisation in Melbourne, Australia that serves the needs of the Melbourne Jewish community. It is run by the Chabad-Lubavitch movement and under the direct administration of Rabbi Yitzchok Dovid Groner. The organisation is under the offical auspices of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the Lubavitcher Rebbe.

1 Brief history
2 Facilities
3 See also
4 External links

[edit] Brief history

The Yeshivah Centre was established in the late 1940s in response to a massive postwar influx of Jews to Melbourne, Australia, by a group of Jewish migrants. 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 at 92 Hotham Street. This was followed by the purchase of the Beth Rivkah Ladies College campus on 14 Balaclava Road in 1959, and 16-20 Balaclava Road in 1969. 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. Since then, the Yeshivah Centre has enjoyed tremendous growth and success and has become one of the largest and most respected Jewish organisations in the Southern Hemisphere.

[edit] Facilities

It comprises a network of educational facilities that include:

The main entrance to the Yeshivah College complex, via the Shul

Yeshivah College, a boys' school;
Beth Rivkah Ladies College, a girls' school;
the Yeshiva Shul;
Kollel Menachem Lubavitch, an outreach-focused Kollel;
Ohel Chana, a girls' seminary (post-high school full time Torah study);
Chabad Youth, an outreach organisation,
a network of creches, and others.

It should be noted that not all Chabad institutions in Melbourne are officially under this organization, e.g., the Yeshivah Gedolah (an academy of advanced Talmudic studies for young men). It should also be noted that although the Yeshivah Gedolah is not officially under this organization it is still closley, tied including connections with Chabad Youth, Mivtzoim Melbourne and private shiurim.