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1. JudaismeducationAn academy for the advanced study of Jewish texts.

   Nonetheless, in 1976, after graduating with a B.A. in religious studies, he entered Yale's doctoral program in the same department. A year later, he left Yale to study Talmud in a Manhattan yeshiva.

   1995 May 21, Steven Levy, “The Unabomber and David Gelernter”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 06 Nov 2020

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   Ultra-Orthodox Jews who don’t send their kids to the public schools control the majority of seats on the local school board. And the families who do send their kids to the public schools say the board members favor the private yeshivas in the district at the expense of the public schools.

   2014 April 22, Josh Nathan-Kazis, “Is Hasidic Board To Blame for Gutting Public Schools in N.Y. Town?”, in The Forward, archived from the original on 20 Apr 2021

   Shalom grew up in an Orthodox family in Stamford Hill. His father, who ran an office-furniture business, intended him for a synagogue cantor, and when Shalom finished school he was sent to the yeshiva.

   2015, Will Self, ‘Diary’, London Review of Books, vol. 37 no.5

   Last month, the Forward reported, a former student at Mechon Hadar—a co-ed egalitarian yeshiva in New York—emailed the school's listserv with a plea for the institution to cut ties with [Leslie] Wexner in light of the unspooling allegations against [Jeffrey] Epstein.

   2019 August 7, Marissa Brostoff, Noah Kulwin, “The Right Kind of Continuity”, in Jewish Currents, archived from the original on 08 Aug 2020

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1. Alternative letter-case form of yeshiva.