The Jewish Teachers' Training College, Gateshead (also known as Beth Midrash Lemoroth)[1] is an all-girls school on Bewick Road in Gateshead, England.[1][2]
It is also commonly known by most people as "Gateshead Old" due to another seminary that opened later in Gateshead which is referred to as "Gateshead New".
History
editIt was founded by Avraham Dov Kohn in 1944,[3] then headed by Rabbi Mordechai Miller (1921[4]-2001)[3] and subsequently run by Kohn's son Rabbi Simcha Kohn.[5] Kohn described the vision for the school as coming from Rabbi Eliyahu Eliezer Dessler.[4]
In 1971, the school offered a three‐year program which trained girls to become teachers. Subjects included women in the Talmud, marriage, Israeli geography, and kashrut.[2]
The course, which runs for three years, has been described as largely staffed by experienced rabbis.[5]
In 2019, they began expanding their building behind their Bewick Road facility.[6]
Notable alumni
edit- Omer Yankelevich, Israeli politician
References
edit- ^ a b Egor Eremeev. "Beth Midrash Lemoroth – Jewish Teachers' Training College, Gateshead". smapse.com.
- ^ a b Bernard Weinraub (March 24, 1971). "Orthodox Jews' Center Grows in North England". The New York Times.
- ^ a b Rabbi Mordechai Kamenetzky (November 20, 2001). "Rav Mordechai Miller Principal of Gateshead Seminary". Yated.
- ^ a b Yisroel Besser (January 14, 2019). "Watchtower on the River Tyne". Mishpacha.
- ^ a b "Gateshead old seminary info". Yeshiva World News. September 27, 2010.
- ^ Herbert Soden (28 January 2019). "Jewish Teacher Training College plans for extra classroom to be built". Evening Chronicle.