yeshivah


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an academy for the advanced study of Jewish texts (primarily the Talmud)

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Ofsted bosses said that while some youngsters speak English as their first language at home, all lessons at Yeshivah are taught in Yiddish.
Yaakov Mordechai Hirschensohn (1822-1889), a Rabbinic scholar and head of a yeshivah, as well as one of the leading rabbis of Safed and later of Jerusalem.
CPEX was also recognized by Magen David Yeshivah High School in Brooklyn as "Employer of the Year" for a demonstrated commitment to providing opportunities for Magen David students.
Female students at the Yeshivah of Flatbush--an Orthodox Jewish day school--are outraged that two monitors (non-Jews) were hired this school year to patrol hallways as the school enforces a new, stricter dress code.
Although the two protagonists--Leo Tzuref, director of the Yeshivah of Woodenton and Eli Peck, the lawyer brought in to close the school on account of zoning regulations--seem to be in agreement over the potentially reparative function of the law, they could not be more opposite in their perspectives.
Reading was critical to both the academy and the tradition and could become a bridge from the religious and the sacred to the secular, from the critical world of the university to the traditional world of the yeshivah.
In every renowned rabbinic academy, or yeshivah, the student sought out as worthy of marriage into the dean's family was not the one who could best parrot the dean's views, interpretations of scripture, and intricate rabbinic passages.
There are also references to him having been a member of a small Protestant church for a time and of visiting "the Yeshivah bookshop in Gateshead ('Lehmann's') to find some obscure Midrashic texts".
Coming from a Yeshivah world, that is something that is just not done.
Having adopted the Hebrew name of Abraham Israel Ben-Rosh, Barros Basto began a tenacious national and international campaign to search and convert the descendants of Portuguese Jewish Marranos, known as the "Work of Redemption of the Marranos." He did it with such commitment and conviction that the English historian Cecil Roth called him the "Apostle of the Marranos." From 1921, in Porto, Barros Basto began a profound revitalization of the local Jewish community, building the synagogue of Porto, Mekor Haim, founding the newspaper Ha-Lapid and a theological institute (Yeshivah).
Detective Senior Constable Lisa Metcher "accused members of the Yeshivah community of lying to police and trying to cover up sex abuse claims," according to The Age, an Australian newspaper.
Wolowelsky is dean of the faculty at the Yeshivah of Flatbush and an associate editor of Tradition.
From the Department of Pathology, Montefiore Medical Center (Drs Auerbach and Fineberg) and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine (Dr Fineberg), Bronx, New York; and Epidemiology and Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshivah University, Bronx, New York (Dr Kim).
Born in Brooklyn, Wasserstein briefly attended the Yeshivah of Flatbush before switching to an exclusive Manhattan private school for girls.