Gateshead Jewish Academy for Girls
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| Gateshead Jewish Academy for Girls | |
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Tyne and Wear, England, UK | |
| Coordinates | 54°57′14″N 1°36′25″W / 54.954°N 1.607°W grid reference NZ252621 |
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| Established | 1998 |
Gateshead Jewish Academy for Girls (Hebrew בית חיה רחל), is a two-year post-secondary school college, or "seminary". It was founded in Gateshead, England in 1998; its principal is Rabbi Avrohom Katz, an author and columnist.
It is an Orthodox Jewish college, attracting Haredi students from all around the world, with a dormitory and all long-term in-living accommodations. Most students come from the United Kingdom but significant numbers come from other European countries.[1] Students range in age from 16 to 21.[1]
The academy aims to provide students with an education in the Torah to "guide and support them in their role as orthodox Jewish women in adult life".[1] See Midrasha#Seminaries, for further discussion of this educational approach.
The academy also provides students with opportunities to take a range of AS/A Levels, GCSE and vocational qualifications in partnership with a local FE College.
It is also commonly known by most people as "Gateshead New" (or just "New") due to another seminary that opened earlier in Gateshead and is referred to as "Gateshead Old".
Jewish Teachers' Training College, Gateshead
[edit]The Jewish Teachers' Training College, Gateshead (also known as Beth Midrash Lemoroth),[2] is a school whose students were described by The New York Times as "teen-age girls."[3] It is located on Bewick Road.[2] It was founded by Avraham Dov Kohn in 1944,[4][5] then headed by Rabbi Mordechai Miller (1921[6]-2001)[5] and subsequently run by Kohn's son Rabbi Simcha Kohn.[7] In 2019 they began expanding their building behind their Bewick Road facility.[8]
The course, which runs for three years, has been described as largely staffed by experienced rabbis.[7] The vision for this school was described by Miller's son as coming from Rabbi Eliyahu Eliezer Dessler.[6]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Gateshead Jewish Academy for Girls[permanent dead link], SIS 2019 report.
- ^ a b "Beth Midrash Lemoroth – Jewish Teachers' Training College, Gateshead, Tyne".[permanent dead link]
- ^ Bernard Weinraub (24 March 1971). "Orthodox Jews' Center Grows in North England". The New York Times.
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GateheadTyne.JVLwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ a b Rabbi Mordechai Kamenetzky (20 November 2001). "Rav Mordechai Miller Principal of Gateshead Seminary". Yated.
- ^ a b Yisroel Besser (14 January 2019). "Watchtower on the River Tyne". Mishpacha.
- ^ a b "Gateshead old seminary info". 27 September 2010.
- ^ Herbert Soden (28 January 2019). "Jewish Teacher Training College plans for extra classroom to be built". ChronicleLive.
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