Yeshivah College, Australia

This article is about the high school in Melbourne. For other schools of the same name, see Yeshiva College (disambiguation).

Yeshivah College
Location
East St Kilda, Victoria, Australia
Information
Type	Independent, Single-sex, Day school
Denomination	Orthodox Jewish
Established	1955
Key people	Rabbi Y. Shmuckler, Rabbi Glick, Mrs. Rosen, Mr Karas
Enrolment	385 (K-12)
Colour(s)	Navy Blue & Gold
Slogan	Educating for life
Website	www.ybr.vic.edu.au

Yeshivas Oholei Yosef Yitzchok Lubavitch, known more commonly as Yeshivah College, is an independent, single-sex, Orthodox Jewish day school for boys, located in St Kilda East, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

The school is run by the Chabad-Lubavitch movement's Yeshivah Centre, and caters for students from kindergarten through to Year 12.

Administration

The school is part of a worldwide network of schools named after Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok Schneersohn, the sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe. The school is as a branch of the Yeshiva Centre umbrella, and Rabbi Mordechai Berger was the principal of the high school, having replaced Rabbi Avrohom Glick at the start of the 2008 school year, however, Rabbi Glick stepped in as Interim Menahel when Rabbi Berger left at the end of the 2009 school year. Rabbi Glick ended his term as Interim Menahel at the end of term two, being succeeded by Rabbi Yehoshua Smukler from Sydney, Australia.

Curriculum

The Mochkin Building, which serves as the entrance to the Yeshivah primary school.

Yeshivah College has two educational tracks. One is a dual curriculum including both religious studies and general education studies. The other is a religious studies only curriculum known as Mesivta (Hebrew for "academy"), for Year 10 students and above. Every year a group of five shluchim (emissaries) are sent from Ohlei Torah Rabbinical College to assist the teacher's and mashpia's of the school in setting an example for today's students. They do so by instituting mivtzos (programs) which encourage the practice of Chassidic life and a connection to the Chabad Lubavitch Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson. In 2012, the Shluchim are Yossi Chanowitz, Mendy Goorevitch, Avrohom Yitzchok Posner, Meir Lerman, and Aryeh Goodman.

In the community

In previous years Yeshivah has scored the top VCE result for a non-selective boys only school.^{[citation needed]}

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 initiatives for Melbourne's wider Jewish community.

The Melbourne Lubavitch community is part of a larger Haredi community based in Melbourne.

Sexual Abuse Scandal

In 2011, Victoria Police launched a formal investigation into allegations of sexual abuse at the school. Whilst the investigation initially focused on former teacher David Kramer and alleged sexual assaults between 1989 and 1993, it has spread to include other alleged perpetrators operating on the grounds. The matter has been widely reported in the mainstream press including The Age; The Australian; Herald Sun; and The Australian Jewish News.

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.

Notable alumni

• David Filmore - writer, director, producer and venture philanthropist
• Rabbi Mordechai Gutnick
• Rabbi Bentzion Milecki
• Rabbi Chaim Tzvi Groner
• Joseph Gutnick - mining magnate
• Harvey Silver - original producers of the Footy Show
• John Safran - award winning comedian
• David Solomon (writer) - noted international Jewish historian and author

See also

• List of schools in Victoria
• List of high schools in Victoria
• Victorian Certificate of Education
• Hasidic Judaism

External links

• Yeshivah College Website