yeshiva
noun
ye·shi·va
yə-ˈshē-və 
variants
or less commonly yeshivah
plural yeshivas or yeshivot
yə-ˌshē-ˈvōt
-ˈvōth
1
: a school for talmudic study
2
: an Orthodox Jewish rabbinical seminary
3
: a Jewish day school providing secular and religious instruction
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Another rabbi, Ethan Tucker, the head of Hadar, a yeshiva in Manhattan, noted that the Jews’ history of persecution includes not only massacres, expulsions, and forcible conversions but also prohibitions on converting people to Judaism, sometimes on pain of death.
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Jeannie Suk Gersen, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2024
During that campaign, Zeldin leaned into his Jewish background to rally Orthodox communities, telling voters in Brooklyn about how his grandfather founded a synagogue and how his mother taught at a Brooklyn yeshiva.
—Luke Tress, Sun Sentinel, 20 Nov. 2024
The Israel Defense Forces has committed to recruiting only 3,000 yeshiva students next year, according to the attorney general's office – although the court's ruling said that about 63,000 ultra-Orthodox students are eligible.
—Harriet Marsden, theweek, 3 July 2024
Interestingly enough, today the building is a yeshiva.
—Sarah Pachter, Sun Sentinel, 27 June 2024
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Jeannie Suk Gersen, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2024
During that campaign, Zeldin leaned into his Jewish background to rally Orthodox communities, telling voters in Brooklyn about how his grandfather founded a synagogue and how his mother taught at a Brooklyn yeshiva.
—Luke Tress, Sun Sentinel, 20 Nov. 2024
The Israel Defense Forces has committed to recruiting only 3,000 yeshiva students next year, according to the attorney general's office – although the court's ruling said that about 63,000 ultra-Orthodox students are eligible.
—Harriet Marsden, theweek, 3 July 2024
Interestingly enough, today the building is a yeshiva.
—Sarah Pachter, Sun Sentinel, 27 June 2024
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yeshiva
noun
ye·shi·va
variants
also yeshivah
plural yeshivas or yeshivot
-ˌshē-ˈvōt(h)
: a Jewish school especially for religious instruction
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