Yeshivah Centre

March 20, 2020, 12:15 pm

A third case of coronavirus has been confirmed at Melbourne’s Yeshivah-Beth Rivkah Colleges, with a student, teacher and community member all testing positive for COVID-19.

By Rebecca Davis

November 14, 2019, 11:36 am

Shock at Yeshivah

Waks: 'Goldhirsch is now effectively back in charge of the safety and wellbeing of children, which is a disgrace and yet another slap in the face to victims/survivors'.

By Joshua Levi

October 16, 2019, 10:00 am

Cyprys to be released today

The AJN understands that David Cyprys will be banned from the Yeshivah Centre, and that security guards will be told not to allow him on the campus.

By AJN STAFF

Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Telsner. Photo: AJN file

August 22, 2019, 12:12 pm

Rabbi Telsner’s tenure ends at Yeshivah

YEARS of controversy surrounding Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Telsner’s employment at Melbourne Yeshivah Centre have finally come to an end today (Thursday).

By Joshua Levi

June 6, 2019, 12:00 am

Rabbi Telsner’s days numbered?

ALMOST four years after Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Telsner, senior rabbi of the Yeshivah Centre, announced he was resigning he may finally be taken off its payroll.

By Joshua Levi

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".

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

June 15, 2017, 12:00 am

Another ‘significant milestone’ for the Yeshivah Centre

Nechama Bendet’s decision to leave the Yeshivah Centre has been met with cheers by victims of child sexual abuse, who believe she should have left years ago.

By Joshua Levi

March 23, 2017, 12:00 am

Alleged abuser says sorry

Alleged child sexual abuser Velvel Serebryanski has apologised to one of his alleged victims.

By Joshua Levi

November 17, 2016, 12:00 am

Abuse victim suing Yeshivah Centre

A child sexual abuse victim of Rabbi David Kramer has gone public for the first time, claiming his negotiations with Yeshivah Centre have hit a roadblock.

By Joshua Levi

November 11, 2016, 12:00 am

Yeshivah, Yeshiva recalled to Royal Commission

The Yeshivah Centre, Melbourne, and Yeshiva in Sydney have been recalled to the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.

By Joshua Levi

October 14, 2016, 12:00 am

Apologetic Yeshivah is reborn

The new Yeshivah Centre has been officially reborn more than 18 months after the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.

By Joshua Levi

February 11, 2016, 12:00 am

Question marks over Yeshivah structure

THE Governance Review Panel’s (GRP) proposal for the restructure of the Yeshivah Centre would only be possible if trustees and Interim Committee of Management (ICOM) members were to break their promise to the community.

By Joshua Levi

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

January 7, 2016, 9:46 am

Community mourns Nathan Werdiger

MORE than 1000 people attended the funeral of Holocaust survivor, communal philanthropist and family man Nathan Werdiger, who passed away on his 93rd Hebrew birthday on December 27.

By Joshua Levi