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Mount Scopus Memorial College is a Jewish private school
Private school

Private schools, or independent schools, are schools not administered by local, state, or national government, which retain the right to select their student body and are funded in whole or in part by charging their students tuition rather than with public funds....
 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
t Scopus Memorial College opened on St Kilda Road in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia in 1949, taking its name from Mount Scopus
Mount Scopus

Mount Scopus is a mountain in northeast Jerusalem, Israel. Overlooking Jerusalem, Mount Scopus has been strategically important as a base from which to attack the city since antiquity....
 in Jerusalem
Jerusalem

Jerusalem is the capital of Israel and its List of Israeli cities in both population and area, with a population of 747,600 residents over an area of if Positions on Jerusalem East Jerusalem is included....
, which remained under Israel
Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
i control after the 1948 Arab-Israeli War
1948 Arab-Israeli War

The 1948 Arab-Israeli War, known by the Israelis predominantly as War of Independence and War of Liberation , and by Palestinians as the Catastrophe , was the first in a series of wars fought between the Declaration of Independence State of Israel and its Arab neighbours in the long-running Arab-Israeli conflict....
. Mount Scopus was the first co-educational Jewish day school in Melbourne, originally serving a student population of 143.






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Mount Scopus Memorial College is a Jewish private school
Private school

Private schools, or independent schools, are schools not administered by local, state, or national government, which retain the right to select their student body and are funded in whole or in part by charging their students tuition rather than with public funds....
 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

History

Mount Scopus Memorial College opened on St Kilda Road in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia in 1949, taking its name from Mount Scopus
Mount Scopus

Mount Scopus is a mountain in northeast Jerusalem, Israel. Overlooking Jerusalem, Mount Scopus has been strategically important as a base from which to attack the city since antiquity....
 in Jerusalem
Jerusalem

Jerusalem is the capital of Israel and its List of Israeli cities in both population and area, with a population of 747,600 residents over an area of if Positions on Jerusalem East Jerusalem is included....
, which remained under Israel
Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
i control after the 1948 Arab-Israeli War
1948 Arab-Israeli War

The 1948 Arab-Israeli War, known by the Israelis predominantly as War of Independence and War of Liberation , and by Palestinians as the Catastrophe , was the first in a series of wars fought between the Declaration of Independence State of Israel and its Arab neighbours in the long-running Arab-Israeli conflict....
. Mount Scopus was the first co-educational Jewish day school in Melbourne, originally serving a student population of 143. It was established to meet the educational needs of the influx of Holocaust survivors to the Melbourne community. The college moved to a larger campus in Burwood in 1953. There are also campuses in East St Kilda and South Caulfield. Until 1996 there was a branch in Kew. Scopus is known for outstanding VCE (matriculation) results, not just compared with other Jewish schools, but throughout Victoria. It is routinely listed as one of the top schools in the state. The principal of Mount Scopus Memorial College is Rabbi James Kennard, who replaced Hilton Rubin in 2007. Previous principals have included Abraham Feiglin, Alexsander Ranoschy, Dr. Steven Lorch and Rabbi William Altshul.

Sherut Leumi and ulpan

Mount Scopus was the first of the Melbourne Jewish Day Schools to take part in the Sherut Leumi
Sherut Leumi

Sherut Leumi is an alternative voluntary national service in Israel for those that cannot or do not wish to serve in the Israel Defense Forces....
 program. Every year, 4 Israeli girls are sent to Mount Scopus as part of their Israeli National Service. They are a major component of Scopus's informal Jewish Studies team. Mount Scopus offers an ulpan program in which 10th graders travel to Israel for 5 weeks. In 2007, more than half of the school's 10th graders took part in this program.

Notable alumni

  • Mark Regev
    Mark Regev

    Mark Regev is an Australian born Jew who migrated to Israel. He is the spokesman for the Prime Minister of Israel of Israel and an advisor on foreign press and public affairs, a position he has held since 2007....
     - Spokesman for the Israeli Prime Minister.
  • Lara Sacher
    Lara Sacher

    Lara Sacher is an Australian actor who played Serena Bishop on the Australian soap opera Neighbours from 2003 to 2005, when the character went missing after a plane crash along with her mother, Liljana Bishop and father, David Bishop ....
     - Former Neighbours
    Neighbours

    Neighbours is a long-running multiple Logie Award-winning Australian soap opera, which first aired in March 1985. The series follows the daily lives of several families who live in the six houses at the end of Ramsay Street, a short cul-de-sac in the fictional middle-class suburb of Erinsborough....
     actress.
  • Solomon Lew
    Solomon Lew

    Solomon Lew is an Australian Jewish businessman, living in Whernside Avenue, Toorak, Melbourne and is one of Australia's richest men. His principal commercial activities involve importing apparel, toys and other goods into Australia from China and share market investments, principally in retail companies....
     - Business mogul
  • Michael Klinger
    Michael Klinger

    Michael Klinger is a first-class cricketer with Southern Redbacks. Before the 2008?09 season, Klinger played for Victorian Bushrangers and for St Kilda Cricket Club in Premier Cricket....
     - Southern Redbacks
    Southern Redbacks

    The Southern Redbacks, are also known as the West End Rebacks with their sponsorship agreement with local brewers West End, are an Australian First-class cricket cricket team based in Adelaide, South Australia....
     Cricketer & former Australian Under 19's cricket captain.
  • David Zalcberg
    David Zalcberg

    David Zalcberg is a left-handed Australian table tennis player....
     - Australian table tennis player.
  • Peter Alexander
    Peter Alexander

    Peter Alexander is an Austrian singer and actor, who became popular in the 1950s and 1960s with his numerous roles in German musical films.During World War II, Alexander was a Luftwaffenhelfer and member of the Reichsarbeitsdienst before being drafted into the Reichsmarine....
     - Of Peter Alexander clothing brand.
  • Alan Finkel
    Alan Finkel

    Dr Alan Simon Finkel is a neuroscientist, entrepreneur and philanthropist. In 2007, he was appointed as the new Chancellor of Monash University, a position he officially commences from January 1, 2008....
     - Chancellor of Monash University
    Monash University

    Monash University is a public university based in Melbourne, Australia. It is Australia's largest university with about 55,000 students.The University has a total of eight campuses: six in Victoria, Australia , one in Monash University Malaysia Campus and one in Monash South Africa....
     in Victoria
    Victoria (Australia)

    File:Map Victoria Aboriginal tribes .jpgVictoria is a States and territories of Australia located in the southeastern corner of Australia. It is the smallest mainland state in area but the most Population density and urbanised....
    , *Australia.
  • Louise Adler - Melbourne University Press publisher.
  • Rachel Berger - Comedienne and Entertainer.
  • Michael Danby
    Michael Danby

    Michael David Danby is an Australian politician and has been an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives since October 1998, representing the Division of Melbourne Ports, Victoria ....
     MHR - Federal politician, Member for Melbourne Ports.
  • Natalie Bloom - 'Bloom Cosmetics' creator and design innovator.
  • Samuel Berkovic - World-renown leader in Epilepsy research.
  • Nechama Patkin - Concert pianist and musical training innovator.
  • Leon Sterling - Professor of Software Innovation and Engineering, University of Melbourne.
  • Steven Prawer- Professor of quantum computing and nanotechnology,inaugural Director of the Special Research Center for Quantum Computer Technology and co-founder of The University of Melbourne Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology.
  • Deborah Sinclair(née Prawer) - Executive Director of Mandel Institute of Jewish Studies of the Hebrew University, Israel.
  • Eva Orner - Film Producer, winner of a Hollywood Oscar (Academy Awards)for "Taxi to the Dark Side".
  • Michael Hirsh - Television and Film Producer, director Working Dog group (The Castle, The Dish, Thank God You're Here, Frontline, The Panel etc).
  • Michael Koppel - Concert Promoter and Music Entrepreneur.
  • Pip Mushin - Actor and Film Director.
  • Michael Gudinski
    Michael Gudinski

    Michael Solomon Gudinski Order of Australia is an Australian entrepreneur and businessman currently based in Melbourne who is a leading figure in the Australian music industry....
     - Music Industry and Entertainment Entrepreneur.
  • David Grace - leading Criminal Lawyer, first solicitor to be appointed Senior Counsel in State of Victoria from outside the Bar.
  • Sandra Davis (née Heifetz)- Judge of the County Court of the State of Victoria.
  • Lee Liberman (née Slonim) - Photographer-publisher and Philanthropist.
  • Jeff Wassertheil (passed away in 2008) - Pioneering innovator in Emergency Medicine treatment systems in Australia.
  • Ashley Browne- national editor of the Australian Jewish News
  • Mark Leibler AC - Leading corporate and tax lawyer, Senior Partner of the law firm Arnold Bloch Leibler, Co-Chair of Reconciliation Australia, National Chairman of Australia/Israel and Jewish Affairs Council, Chairman of World Board of Trustees of Keren Hayesod- United Israel Appeal, executive member of the Jewish Agency for Israel, Governor of both Tel Aviv University and University of Haifa in Israel.
  • Bram Presser - Lead singer of Jewish punk band 'Yidcore', community activist,lawyer,lecturer, journalist and marketer.
  • Eva Presser - Business, television and media proprietor.
  • Ralph Stanton - Perth-based visual artist and architect.
  • Jeff Meltzer - Prominent New Zealand insolvency accountant.
  • Carol Schwartz AM - Chair of "Future Melbourne" Reference Group; President of Melbourne International Arts Festival;board member of the Sydney Institute, Social Ventures Australia, and Trawalla Foundation; former National President of The Property Council of Australia, and former board member of numerous arts organisations.
  • Professor Ashley Bush - Pioneer in drug development research in Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.
  • Robert Gould - Art dealer.
  • Leon Kempler - CEO Australia-Israel Chamber of Commerce.
  • Paul Israel - CEO Israel-Australia Chamber of Commerce.
  • Naomi Milgrom - CEO and executive chair,and owner of Sussan Group with 500 retail stores in Australia and New Zealand; chair of the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, director of the Howard Florey Institute of Experimental Physiology and Medicine, and chair of the L’Oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival.


  • Chaim (Keith) Freedman - Internationally-recognised Jewish genealogist,historian and author; editor of Jewish Personal Names.
  • Joshua Frydenberg
    Joshua Frydenberg

    Joshua Frydenberg is an Australian banker and political aspirant. He was a candidate for Liberal Party of Australia preselection for the Victoria, Australia seat of Division of Kooyong for the Australian federal election, 2007....
    - Banker-lawyer and political aspirant.
  • Professor Gregory Rose - Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law,University of Wollongong, Director of Research for the Centre for Transnational Crime Prevention,Specialist in international law, focusing on both terrorism and environmental issues.
  • Dr Colin Rubenstein AM, political scientist. Executive director of the Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council.
  • Nathan Crafti (deceased) - barrister and legal aid activist; and General Counsel of the Office of Public Prosecutions of the Northern Territory.
  • Simon Watt - ABC TV and Radio program and series producer, presenter, and panelist.


See also

  • List of schools in Victoria
    List of schools in Victoria

    A list of schools in Victoria , Australia....
  • List of high schools in Victoria
    List of high schools in Victoria

    This is a list of high schools, also known as secondary colleges, in the state of Victoria , Australia. The list includes Government, Private, Independent and Catholic schools....
  • List of schools in Victoria, Australia according to 2006 VCE results
    List of schools in Victoria, Australia according to 2006 VCE results

    The table is a list of the highest-rank schools based on Victorian Certificate of Education results as published by Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority....
  • Victorian Certificate of Education
    Victorian Certificate of Education

    The Victorian Certificate of Education or VCE is the credential awarded to secondary education students who successfully complete high school level studies in the state of Victoria , Australia....


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