Yeshiva Centre

October 16, 2019, 2:33 pm

Updated 2.22pm, Thursday October 17: David Cyprys is behind bars in NSW after being extradited from Victoria to face a sexual assault charge.

By Joshua Levi

September 12, 2018, 12:01 am

Extradition request expected to be issued

VICTORIA Police are expected to issue a warrant for the arrest of alleged child sexual abuser Velvel Serebryanski, who is now living in New York.

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.

Premiers Gladys Berejiklian and Daniel Andrews joined Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull to announce NSW and Victoria were signing up to the redress scheme. Photo: AAP Image/Dean Lewins

March 16, 2018, 12:01 am

Most schools wait to join

KESSER Torah College (KTC) in Sydney is the only Jewish organisation that will definitely join the National Redress Scheme for survivors of child sexual abuse that was announced by the NSW, Victorian and federal governments last week.

By Shane Desiatnik

In happier times at Yeshiva . . . Harry Triguboff (centre front) flanked by Rabbi Dovid Slavin on his right, Rabbi Pinchus Feldman on his left, and Rabbi Yaakov Lieder at the back.

April 20, 2017, 10:02 am

Feldman, Triguboff saga continues

FOUR weeks after Rabbi Yosef Feldman appeared to compare Yeshiva major donor Harry Triguboff to the Nazis, his father, Rabbi Pinchus Feldman has finally distanced himself from the comments.

By Joshua Levi

April 6, 2017, 12:00 am

End of an era for Flood Street

Rabbi Pinchus Feldman will leave the premises of the Yeshiva Centre in Flood Street, Bondi in any official capacity for the final time in less than two weeks.

By Joshua Levi

March 30, 2017, 12:00 am

Feldman ‘dropped the ball’

Rabbi Pinchus Feldman admitted last week that he had “dropped the ball” because he still didn’t know the details of Sydney Yeshiva Centre’s child protection policies.

By Joshua Levi

Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Telsner at the Royal Commission.

March 23, 2017, 12:00 am

Telsner still being paid ‘regular salary’

More than 18 months after Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Telsner resigned as the Yeshivah Centre’s senior rabbi, admitting that his conduct towards child sexual abuse victims and their families was not in line with the values of Yeshivah, he is still being paid “his regular salary”.

Rabbi Dr Dovid Slavin, who has implemented new policies at the Yeshiva College in Sydney.

March 9, 2017, 12:02 am

Major upgrades to Yeshiva Centre

The Yeshiva Centre, in Sydney's east, is receiving a $3 million makeover to improve the integrity and the usability of the site.

By Yael Brender

May 13, 2016, 12:00 am

New Yeshivah will cover claims

THE leadership of the Yeshivah Centre has reassured victims of child sexual abuse that its new structure will not be used to deflect legal claims against the school for historical cases of child sexual abuse.

By Joshua Levi

Yitzi Tuvel (centre) walking from
Bondi to Lakemba
Mosque accompanied
by (from left) Mazen
Zraika, Yehuda
Aharon, Nathan
Simmon, Ayman Abu
Farha, Rabbi
Zalman Kastel and Yanky Klein.
Photo: Noel Kessel

October 29, 2015, 12:00 am

A walk for peace

A JEWISH student walked for eight hours from the Yeshiva Centre in Bondi to the Lakemba Mosque on Sunday to deliver a message of peace and reconciliation.

By Gareth Narunsky

June 1, 2015, 12:00 am

Council chasing old Yeshiva debt

By Gareth Narunsky

June 12, 2014, 12:00 am

Suspended sentence for Hayman

DANIEL “Gug” Hayman’s religious Jewish upbringing may have led to the sexual assault of a 14-year-old boy in the late 1980s.

By Joshua Levi

May 29, 2014, 12:00 am

Abuse victim ‘bullied’ at shul

A VICTIM of child sexual abuse has told a Sydney court that he feels bullied, intimidated and harassed at synagogue. The man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was sexually assaulted when he was 14 years old at a camp in the late 1980s by former Yeshiva director Daniel “Gug” Hayman, who was a camp supervisor at the time.

By Joshua Levi

May 23, 2014, 12:00 am

‘There are more Hayman victims’

NSW Police are hoping to bring further child sexual abuse charges following the guilty plea of Daniel “Gug” Hayman (pictured) to indecent assault by a person in authority last week.

By Joshua Levi