Rabbi Chaim Tzvi Groner
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".
Rebbetzin Devorah Groner.
June 1, 2018, 12:01 am
‘Modest, dedicated and devoted’
THE Jewish community is mourning Rebbetzin Devorah Groner, who passed away on Sunday at the age of 92.
Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Tenser.
August 31, 2017, 12:01 am
Rabbi Telsner to stay
MORE than two years after Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Telsner resigned from the Yeshivah Centre after admitting his conduct towards victims of child sexual abuse was not acceptable, he was officially given a new contract this week.
By Joshua Levi
Rabbi Chaim Tzvi Groner.
April 20, 2017, 10:28 am
Police probe rabbi’s commission testimony
The Australian Federal Police (AFP) is assessing an allegation that Yeshivah board member Rabbi Chaim Tzvi Groner knowingly gave false or misleading testimony at February’s hearing of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.
By Joshua Levi
Rabbi Chaim Tzvi Groner.
March 30, 2017, 12:00 am
Groner ‘not aware of shunning’
Rabbi Chaim Tzvi Groner, who is a member of all three Yeshivah Centre boards, told the Royal Commission that he was unaware of any victims of child sexual abuse that are still shunned by the Yeshivah community.
By Joshua Levi
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
Rabbi Shimshon Yurkowicz.
December 8, 2016, 12:00 am
Rabbi resigns from roof bodies
Malvern Chabad’s Rabbi Shimshon Yurkowicz has resigned from RCANZ and RCV after a complaint that he acted in a way that hurt victims of child sexual abuse.
By Joshua Levi
Yeshiva Centre in Melbourne.
September 27, 2016, 12:01 am
New Year, new Yeshivah … finally
YESHIVAH parents will soon be able to vote for their board of management for the first time.
By Joshua Levi
The Yeshivah Centre in Melbourne.
April 22, 2016, 12:00 am
New Yeshivah structure revealed
YESHIVAH–BETH Rivkah Colleges (YBR) will be governed by parents under the new structure that will be announced by the Governance Review Panel (GRP).
By Joshua Levi
The Yeshivah Centre in Melbourne.
February 4, 2016, 12:00 am
Chabad HQ objects to Yeshivah restructure
THE educational arm of Chabad Headquarters in New York has written to the trustees of the Yeshivah Centre objecting to its proposed restructuring.
By Joshua Levi
June 19, 2014, 12:00 am
Melbourne prays for kidnapped teens
IT was standing room only at Caulfield Shul on Monday night as the community banded together to show solidarity with the three Israeli teenagers reportedly kidnapped by Hamas last week.
By adam kamien
March 21, 2014, 12:00 am
Fury over rabbis support for anti-draft rally
TWO leading Chabad-Lubavitch rabbis have come under fire after they threw their support behind a gathering of ultra-Orthodox Melbourne Jews protesting new conscription laws in Israel that will force members of the Charedi community to serve in the army.
By adam kamien
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