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toward the religious studies found in the yeshiva, rather than secular academic ... In 1915, Yeshiva College (later Yeshiva University) and its Rabbi ...

students, such as at New York's Yeshiva University, study some elements ... The entrance requirements for an Orthodox yeshiva include a strong ...

disciple, Rabbi Chaim Volozhin, founded a yeshiva at Volozhin in 1803, which ... Rabbi Chaim Volozhin, founded the first yeshiva in his home town of Volozhin ...

He returned to Troyes and founded his own yeshiva in 1067, where his reputation ... of the time, he then went to learn in the yeshiva of Rabbi Yaakov ben Yakar ...

dubious historicity. Gershom established a yeshiva in Mainz, Germany, which ... for the Jews of the European diaspora. His yeshiva became the leading center ...

active in Prague, where he established a yeshiva and became known for his ... work, the Gur Aryeh, on a branch of the yeshiva he headed in New York during ...

hero, rabbi, writer, speaker, Rosh Yeshiva, father, grandfather, husband ... Meir Kahane received rabbinical ordination from the Mir Yeshiva in ...

1907, where his father became head of the Yeshiva. After the Yeshiva-building ... * Yentl the Yeshiva Boy (1983) (basis for the movie Yentl) ...

Jews' College and London's Etz Chaim Yeshiva. ... *Professor of Jewish Thought, Yeshiva University, New York (announced ...

*Rosh yeshivah—The head and chief lecturer of a yeshiva. *Mashgiach of a yeshiva—An expert in mussar (ethics) who oversees ...

pursue Talmudic studies in the town's Yeshiva. His father Shlomo, who ... Proceeds from this work go to support a yeshiva in Israel established by ...

Manoel Dias Soeiro (1604 - November 20, 1657), better known by his Hebrew name Manasseh ben Israel (also spelled "Menasseh"), was a ...

and by five mastered the Torah. He went to a yeshiva in Piatra Neamţ, eastern Romania at age ten and at 13 studied with one of the major Talmudic ...

* Rosner, F. 1986. Modern Medicine and Jewish Ethics. New York: Yeshiva University Press. ISBN 0881250910 * Zohar, N. J. 1997. Alternatives in ...

Jewish education. In 1950, Potok graduated from Yeshiva University with a B.A., summa cum laude, in English Literature. After receiving a master's ...

Zalman Baruch Melamed, [http://www.yeshiva.org.il/midrash/shiur.asp?id=4115 "The Anniversary of Rachel's Death,"]. Yeshiva.org ...

Eliezer Dessler, a student of the Kelm mussar yeshiva and later Mashgiach (spiritual supervisor) of Ponevezh yeshiva. Although he never formally organized ...

one of the leaders of Modern Orthodoxy and Rosh Yeshiva of the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, totally opposed giving semicha to women: ...

ranging from Cambridge (1960) to Yeshiva University, NY. He is especially popular among those who value his reconciliation of science and faith ...

4. New York: Michael Scharf Publication Trust of Yeshiva University Press, 1999. ISBN 9780881254402. *Rabinowicz, Tzvi. The Encyclopedia of Hasidism ...

contains educational institutions, a grocery, a yeshiva, sports fields, a pool, and several synagogues, one scale-modeled to the ancient Tabernacle. The ...

not afford to enroll him at Jerusalem's yeshiva. Hill wanted to study so badly that in the winter he climbed up to the roof to observe the lesson ...

The term diaspora (in Ancient Greek, διασπορά – "a scattering or sowing of seeds") refers to any people or ethnic population ...

of the Philosophy of Martin Buber. New York: Yeshiva University. * Friedman, Maurice. 1955. Martin Buber. The Life of Dialogue. Chicago: Routledge ...

Halakha (Hebrew: הלכה, also spelled Halacha) is the collective corpus of Jewish religious law, including biblical law (the 613 biblical commandments ...

place in a central location such as a synagogue, yeshiva, or place of study. Food and drink are served in an adjoining sukkah. Live bands often accompany ...

New York: Belfer Graduate School of Science, Yeshiva University. OCLC 537128. (Much of this book deals with quantum mechanics in curved space-time.) ...

had him study the Talmud. He thus attended a yeshiva under the erudite rabbi of Smyrna, Joseph Escapa. On the other hand, he was fascinated by mysticism ...

Beersheba ( בְּאֵר שֶׁבַע , Be'er Sheva, Birüssebi ) is the largest city in the Negev desert of southern Israel, often referred ...

In the 1980s, Richard Weisberg of Yeshiva University's Benjamin Cardozo Law School advanced a reading of the novel based on his careful ...

Talmud study and it is a central component of Yeshiva curriculum. The regular study of the Talmud among laymen has been popularized by the Daf Yomi ...

* Yeshiva University, New York, 1954 (Hon. L.H.D.) * Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts, 1960 (Hon. D.Lit.) * American International College ...

Types of Prayer in Different World Religions] The Yeshiva World. *[https://www.beliefnet.com/faiths/prayer/essential-prayers-of-world-religions ...

scholarly publications within the modern yeshiva world. ... and study of Kabbalah. He established a yeshiva (a Rabbinic academy) for ...

Bronx, the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University is a major academic center. Brooklyn also hosts one of the country's leading ...

Carnegie Mellon, City University of New York, Yeshiva, Northwestern, Technion, Tel Aviv, Weizmann Institute of Science, Baruch College of New York, Williams ...