It is run by the Chabad-Lubavitch movement, until recently, under the direct administration of Rabbi Yitzchok Dovid Groner.

[4] Victoria Police advised the Melbourne Magistrates Court in April 2012, that it intends to seek to extradite a former teacher at Yeshivah College, David Kramer, from the United States over a child sex abuse scandal that was allegedly covered up by the school.

[4] The centre has been accused of covering up claims of sexual abuse at their institution[5][2] and of retaliating against whistleblowers and victims.

[5] Several Chabad rabbis were accused of publicly sermonizing that it was religiously forbidden to report child sex abuse to the police.

He noted, however, that Rabbi Chaim Tzvi Groner in Melbourne has the authority to authorise the restructure that Chabad in NY is "powerless to stop any changes.