Moriah College
| Moriah College | |
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| Location | |
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Queens Park, New South Wales Australia |
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| Coordinates | 33°53′58″S 151°14′38″E / 33.89944°S 151.24389°ECoordinates: 33°53′58″S 151°14′38″E / 33.89944°S 151.24389°E |
| Information | |
| Type | Independent, day school |
| Motto | To Learn, To Heed, To Act |
| Religious affiliation(s) | Modern Orthodox Judaism |
| Established | 1942 |
| Founder | Abraham Rabinovitch |
| Principal | John Hamey |
| Teaching staff | ~260 |
| Grades | K – 12 |
| Gender | co-educational |
| Enrolment | ~1,800 (2012) |
| Campus type | Urban |
| Colour(s) | Navy Blue & Sky Blue |
| Website | www |
Moriah War Memorial College (or more commonly, Moriah College) is an Australian independent, Modern Orthodox Jewish, co-educational, day school that is located in Queens Park, an eastern suburb of Sydney, New South Wales. The college provides education from kindergarten to Year 12, and has affiliations with preschool providers sympathetic with Modern Orthodox Judaism.
The college is a member of the Jewish Communal Appeal, and the Junior School Heads Association of Australia (JSHAA).
Founded in 1942 by Abraham Rabinovitch, Moriah College started as a small school located in Glenayr Avenue, Bondi; still in use today as an affiliated kindergarten. Harold Nagley, the first principal of Moriah, traveled door to door in an attempt to gain pupils. In 1952 Rabinovitch purchased an 1.5 acres (0.61 ha) Bellevue Hill property from the estate of the late Mark Foy for A£30,500 for use by the college. Following renovations, the college opened at the Bellevue Hill site in 1953 with 57 students. Further renovations were completed in the mid-1960s and, by 1967 the King David School in Edgecliff, formed by the New South Wales Jewish Board of Deputies in 1960, merged with Moriah College. The King David School relocated to a property in Dover Road Rose Bay purchased from another school and the Bellevue Hill site was used as a high school. From 1975 the college experienced rapid expansion from 500 to 800 students and additional properties were acquired in Bellevue Hill to allow for planned expansion. Yet college officials had reservations that the site would not accommodate future growth. By the early 1980s the NSW Government decided to amalgamate two public schools in Dover Heights and sell the unused campus. Moriah College made an offer for this campus; however, the Premier Neville Wran rejected the offer following a public campaign organised by the NSW Teachers' Federation. Wran offered the college a lease over land located in Queens Park on the site of the old Eastern Suburbs Hospital and construction of a new high school began. Amid cost overruns and delays, by late 1993 the college decided to also relocate the primary school to the site and sell all land held at Bellevue Hill. Over A$12 million was realised from the sale of the college's Bellevue Hill properties.
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