Yeshivah College, Australia
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- This article is about the high school in Melbourne. For the college in New York City, see Yeshiva College (Yeshiva University).
Yeshivah College is an Orthodox Jewish day school on Hotham Street 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 day-school to Orthodox parents who also value a secular education. Indeed, most of its students come from non-Chabad families.
The school is part of a worldwide network of schools named after Rabbi Joseph Isaac Schneerson, the previous Lubavitcher Rebbe, and continues to run under the offical auspices of his successor, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson. The school, as a branch of the Yeshiva Centre umbrella, is under Rabbi Yitzchok Dovid Groner, and Rabbi Avrohom Glick is the current acting principal of the high school.
The school includes a separate stream (known as Mesivta, which means "academy") for full-time Torah study beginning from Year 9 for children from Chabad families, allowing disciples of Rabbi Schneerson to fulfill his oft-repeated directive that their children not study secular studies if at all possible.
Well known graduates of the college include: Rabbi Mordechai Gutnick, Rabbi Bentzion Milecki, Rabbi Chaim Tzvi Groner, mining magnate Mr. Joseph Gutnick, and comedian John Safran.
In previous years Yeshivah has scored the top result for a non-selective boys school in Victoria.
The Yeshivah school is part of a 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 Melbourne Lubavitch community is part of a larger Haredi community based in Melbourne.
[edit] See also
- Hasidic Judaism
- List of schools in Victoria, Australia according to 2005 VCE results
- Torah study
- Yeshiva
- Yeshiva College (disambiguation)
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