Academies for the training of *rabbis. Since the time of the *Enlightenment, traditional *yeshivah training has been regarded as less than adequate as a preparation for the modern rabbinate. In 1829, the first rabbinical seminary was founded in Padua....

Talmudic academy, also called BET...

YESHIVAH. In contemporary usage, the Hebrew term yeshivah refers to an academy for the advanced study of Jewish religious texts, primarily the Talmud. Since the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE, the yeshivah has been one of the most important...

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Heilman, Samuel Forward 06-02-2000 Subsidizing the Yeshivas In the Knesset and in the public square, Israelis are debating the legitimacy of continuing to allow fervently Orthodox men, and in particular those who are enrolled full time in a yeshiva, to be exempted...

Elizabeth Llorente, Record Staff Writer The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 01-13-1991 YESHIVA IS TO BE RAZED -- WESTWOOD ACTING AFTER NINE YEARS By Elizabeth Llorente, Record Staff Writer Date: 01-13-1991, Sunday Section: PASCACK VALLEY YOUR TOWN RECORD Edition: All Editions -- Sunday ...

A dominatrix was arrested on prostitution charges at a suburban estate that she leased from the rabbinical school next door, and school officials on Thursday began clearing the property of whips and chains.But that's not all the work that must be done."Once everything is out,...

Poland's small Jewish community celebrates another step in its revival Sunday: the reopening of a synagogue in a yeshiva that before World War II was a major center of Jewish learning.Poland's chief rabbi, Michael Schudrich, will lead ceremonies in Lublin, in eastern Poland _ before...