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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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...

Republican Mitt Romney would appoint an ambassador-at-large to prevent nuclear terror if elected president, arguing that avoiding a terrorist attack with unsecured nuclear weapons should take on heightened urgency in the United States.The Republican candidate, in a speech planned for Thursday night at Yeshiva University...

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