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Gibraltar Hebrew School. Gibraltar Hebrew School, also Talmud Torah Hebrew School, is a government school in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar.The foundation stone of the school, designed by Samuel Levy, was laid on 3 September 1895 in a ceremony attended by the Rabbi of Gibraltar and the local Jewish community. [1]
The years between 2008 and 2011 were remarkable for a nearly 25% increase in the size of Gibraltar's Jewish community. Mark Benady, vice president of Gibraltar's Jewish community, is of the opinion that the area's infrastructure, including its four synagogues, could support a community of 2,000. [8] [21]
The regrowth of the schools can be assigned to Mary Ann Rule who was the wife of William Harris Rule a newly arrived Methodist missionary in Gibraltar. They had both learnt Spanish and Mary was asked to teach one child to read. She was joined by her brother and then other Catholics and then Jewish children.
This is a list of synagogues in Gibraltar, a British overseas territory of the United Kingdom. The congregations of all four synagogues in Gibraltar, worship in the Orthodox Jewish tradition. List
This is a list of schools in Gibraltar. Gibraltar has fifteen state schools (eight first schools, six middle schools and two comprehensive schools), one MOD school, two private schools and one language school.
The Great Synagogue of Gibraltar (Ladino: Esnoga Grande), also known as Kahal Kadosh Sha'ar HaShamayim [a] (Hebrew: קהל קדוש שער השמיים, lit. 'Holy Congregation Gate of Heaven'; Ladino : Esnoga Sha'ar Hashamayim ), is an Orthodox Jewish congregation and synagogue , located in the British overseas territory of Gibraltar .
The majority of the Spanish population in Gibraltar (about 5000), with few exceptions, left Gibraltar when the Dutch and English took the city in 1704. The few Spaniards who remained in Gibraltar in August 1704 were augmented by others who arrived in the fleet with Prince George of Hesse-Darmstadt, possibly some two hundred in all, mostly Catalans.
Hebrew school can be either an educational regimen separate from secular education similar to the Christian Sunday school, education focusing on topics of Jewish history and learning the Hebrew language, or a primary, secondary or college level educational institution where some or all of the classes are taught in Hebrew.The first usage is more ...