The Review Panel will call for community input from all stakeholders.

At the conclusion of their review process, the Review Panel will deliver their recommendations to the Members and the Interim COM (see further).

It is anticipated that the Members will adopt the recommendations of the Review Panel before the end of 2015. This will enable a new Committee of Management to be appointed with effect from the beginning of 2016.

In the interim, The Yeshivah Centre are pleased to announce that a new Committee of Management has been appointed to govern the immediate affairs of Yeshivah Centre until the end of 2015.

This interim Committee is comprised of a broad group of people with particular skill sets to manage Yeshivah Centre’s immediate affairs.

They are:

• Mrs Leah Balter
• Mr Yechiel Belfer
• Mr Yossi Franck
• Mr Joel Gerschman
• Mr Craig Goldberg
• Mr Shmuley Goldberg
• Mr Raphael Goodman
• Mr Meir Moss

Committed to proactively engaging with various community stakeholders to better understand its goals for the Yeshivah Centre and the School, as well as its concerns, the Interim CoM is committed to communicating regularly to update everybody on their progress.

In a letter to the Yeshivah Centre community, members said “We feel privileged to be in a position to serve our community and help the Yeshivah Centre through its current challenges and onto strong and vibrant growth.

We recognise the responsibility that this role entails; we are passionate about the Yeshivah Centre and will work tirelessly to serve you over the coming months. We are a diverse group of people with relevant professional skills and backgrounds, and we are confident that we can use this expertise to effectively oversee the management of the Yeshivah Centre and enable you to regain trust in the systems and processes in place and the institution overall.”

With respect to the upcoming Governance Review the CoM have stated that “The scope of our role does not extend to making long-term strategic decisions that haven’t been approved by an elected board.”

The CoM has also stated that its priorities for the remainder of the year, until the AGM, are:

• Facilitating the implementation of recommendations made by the Governance Review Panel;
• Working with the Principal of Yeshivah Beth Rivkah Colleges and other heads of school, to best support the running of the schools;
• Working with the various Yeshivah Centre organisations to best support their programs and ongoing success;
• Financial Management of the Yeshivah Centre;
• Responding to the issues raised during the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse noting, that they have already begun to open dialogue with victims of child sex abuse and committed to providing them and their families an open door and support;
• Facilitating urgent Capital Projects required to accommodate the fast growing numbers of YBR students; initiating longer term projects will be left to a future elected committee; and
• Establishing necessary sub-committees with oversight of key organisational functions within the Yeshivah Centre. Rabbi Faivish Pink and Mrs Genia Janover have accepted our offer to act in an advisory capacity to the interim COM on educational, school structure and personnel issues.

The Yeshivah Centre want to unequivocally encourage that anyone who has any information regarding any allegations of child sexual abuse whether as a victim/survivor, their family member or friend, staff, volunteers or anyone else to go directly to the police (contact the Moorabbin SOCIT unit on 9556-6124) or for support, to organisations including Tzedek (1300 TZEDEK or 1300 893 335) or “another body that you trust.”