Rabbi Yehoshua Smukler
The old and the new: John Hamey (left) and Rabbi Yehoshua Smukler.
December 7, 2018, 12:01 am
Moriah’s new principal
RABBI Yehoshua Smukler is returning to Moriah College, where he previously held teaching and administrative roles, to take up the role of principal in ­mid-2019.
Outgoing Moriah College principal John Hamey (left) and incoming principal Rabbi Yehoshua Smukler.
December 3, 2018, 12:54 pm
From Beth Rivkah to Bondi
From left: Rabbi Chaim Tzvi Groner, Menachem Vorchheimer, Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Telsner. Photo: Peter Haskin
August 23, 2018, 12:01 am
A turning point for Yeshivah?
YESHIVAH publicly has finally apologised to child sexual abuse victims advocate Menachem Vorchheimer and in the same week has revealed that several letters alleging child sexual abuse, which were handed to police, were "simply frivolous and/or malicious".
January 21, 2017, 8:30 pm
Community mourns ‘happy and bubbly’ Thalia
THE Jewish community is in mourning following the death of 10-year-old Thalia Hakin, who was killed in Friday’s car ramming attack in Melbourne.
Nimrod Shapir from Bialik College received an ATAR of 99.9. The school earned first place in Victoria based on 2016 VCE results.
December 22, 2016, 12:00 am
Bialik College tops state
Bialik College’s remarkable VCE results have earned the school first place in Victoria for 2016 based on median, and percentage of study, scores over 40.
By Phoebe Roth
December 16, 2016, 12:00 am
Yeshiva, Chabad boards urged to take action
The new boards of Yeshivah-Beth Rivkah Schools Ltd and Chabad Institutions Victoria Ltd were urged this week to “act decisively" in relation to the findings of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.
By Peter Kohn
The Yeshivah Centre in Melbourne. The final report of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse found that 15 of the 25 Jewish victims that spoke to the Royal Commission in private hearings were abused at Yeshivah in Melbourne or Yeshiva in Sydney.
November 25, 2016, 12:00 am
Yeshivah elections chaotic
The Yeshivah-Beth Rivkah Schools Limited election is quickly descending into chaos after three candidates nominated for the board dropped out.
By Joshua Levi
The Yeshivah Centre in Melbourne. The final report of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse found that 15 of the 25 Jewish victims that spoke to the Royal Commission in private hearings were abused at Yeshivah in Melbourne or Yeshiva in Sydney.
August 11, 2016, 12:02 am
Yeshivah slammed over response to victims slur
Yeshiva leaders have sparked fury by vehemently defending a rabbi who came under fire in an email exchange but not victims of child sexual abuse.
Yitzchak Rosen with his wife Jacqui and their four children.
January 14, 2016, 12:00 am
Community rallies for ‘a true mensch’
THE wife of Yitzchak Rosen, who died on Monday after a tragic accident while on holiday on the Mornington Peninsula, has thanked the community for its unbelievable outpouring of support.
By Joshua Levi
Top VCE students 2015. From left: Mendel Jacks (Yeshivah), Asher Reisner (Bialik), Gabriel Strum (Yavneh), Eden Stone-Eilam (King David), Lital Weizman (Beth Rivkah). Photo: Peter Haskin
December 18, 2015, 12:00 am
VCE success for Jewish schools
AS Australian Tertiary Admission Rank (ATAR) scores were released on Monday morning, it became apparent that Melbourne’s Jewish schools were once again among the top of the class.
By Phoebe Roth
Rabbi James Kennard
September 10, 2015, 12:00 am
Armed guards stationed at Scopus
AS of this week, armed guards are for the first time employed by a Jewish school in Melbourne.
By ZOE KRON
July 10, 2015, 12:00 am
New Yeshivah COM pledges to engage with community
YESHIVAH’S new interim Committee of Management (COM) is “100 per cent” behind the school’s principal Rabbi Yehoshua Smukler.
By Joshua Levi
April 2, 2015, 1:30 pm
Yeshivah principal’s future in doubt
By Joshua Levi
February 5, 2015, 12:00 am
Community leaders slammed for absence
By Joshua Levi
September 18, 2014, 12:00 am
Jewish schools too expensive? Not any more
IF the prospect of exorbitant fees is deterring you from sending your kids to a Jewish school, think again. That’s the message from Melbourne’s Yeshivah-Beth Rivkah (YBR) Colleges which this week launched what they hailed as a “revolutionary approach” to school fees “making Jewish education an affordable and sustained reality”.
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