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 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
In the beginning years of the "teshuvah movement," it was not uncommon for parents to seek the guidance of professional "cult-busters" and "deprogrammers" in order to obtain the "release" of their children from yeshivos.
A rabbi at the yeshivah noticed that the student was depressed and suggested that he take up a sport in his spare time.
When they leave yeshivah they will be more independent in their studies, will have a wider choice of classes to attend, and will be more proficient in their prayers and blessings.
www.ohr.org.il /special/books/atr/yeshiva.txt   (2054 words)

  
 Statement of Aims - The Commentator - YUdaica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The aim of the Yeshivah College is to afford a harmonious union of culture and spirituality, to bring into the field of American education the contribution of the spiritual values of Judaism, of the Jewish ideals of education of the Jewish perspective upon learning and knowledge.
The Yeshivah College will dedicate its energies to the education of a small number of American Jewish young men of promise, introducing them to the cultural attainments of all mankind in the fields of art, physical science, and social science.
The Yeshivah College aims to foster this harmonious growth, in which the bases of modern knowledge and culture in the fields of art, science and service will be blended with the bases of Jewish culture, to develop informed and devoted sons in the undying spirit and faith of Israel.
www.yucommentator.com /news/2004/08/30/Yudaica/Statement.Of.Aims-702711.shtml   (966 words)

  
 Yeshivah   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The Yeshivah was organized in 1993 by Welwel Lozinsky.
The Yeshivah administration seriously maintain the atmosphere at school and in the dormitory.
Yeshivah mustn't remind the atmosphere of the regular Soviet orphanage house.
jew.dp.ua /english/eshiv.htm   (329 words)

  
 The Lithuanian Yeshivot   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
After 1879 the yeshivah was in a constant struggle with the Czarist government, who closed the institution several times on account of its refusal to include secular subjects in its curriculum.
While sharing the yeshivah's tradition of precise logical analysis, he made a special contribution in his broadening of the curriculum to include the entire Babylonian Talmud, and in his commentaries to early Rabbinic texts like the Sifré and the She'iltot.
The survival of the yeshivahs and their religious values in Israel and America is described in a separate document.
www.ucalgary.ca /~elsegal/363_Transp/Orthodoxy/Lithuania.html   (482 words)

  
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In 1994 the Yeshivah institutions in Melbourne were facing bankruptcy and the Commonwealth Bank was threatening to foreclose on the mortgage.
He concluded that as far as he was concerned the Yeshivah was no more than a client, and a particularly bad client at that.
If the Yeshivah couldn't pay what it owed, he was going to wind it up just like we would any business in default.
www.blogger.com /email-post.g?blogID=9787145&postID=110411406156703149   (1450 words)

  
 Bialik, Haim Nahman (1873-1934)
Convinced by a journalistic report that the yeshivah of Volozhin in Lithuania would offer him an introduction to the humanities as well as a continuation of his talmudic studies, Bialik persuaded his grandfather to permit him to study there.
In the summer of 1891 Bialik left the yeshivah for Odessa, the center of modern Jewish culture, in southern Russia.
When Bialik learned, early in 1892, that the yeshivah of Volozhin had been closed, he cut short his stay in the company of the writers of Odessa, and hurried home in order to spare his dying grandfather the knowledge that he had forsaken his religious studies.
www.jafi.org.il /education/100/people/bios/bialik.html   (999 words)

  
 Jewish Professionals Institute (JPI) - Holocaust Thesis Chapter 6
In the climate that existed in the post-war era, he nurtured his yeshivah dedicated to Torah learning to the exclusion of all other secular studies be they on the secondary or tertiary level.
With its 250 students and faculty it was one of the oldest of Europe's yeshivahs.
We were sent by the Almighty to replant the Yeshivah of Telshe in America." In the span of forty years the yeshivah grew to become one of the world's "great Torah centers and stands as a living monument to the dedication and vision" of Rabbi E. Bloch and Rabbi C. Katz.
www.jpi.org /holocaust/hlchp6a.htm   (8266 words)

  
 Horse-Shoe Bendet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Only a well-to-do father could afford to take a yeshivah student as a husband for his daughter, and support the young couple and their family for a number of years.
Thereupon, the Rosh Yeshivah introduced Bendet to the gentleman from Lemberg, who was well-known as a scholar and pious man, a man of considerable means and of a very generous nature.
Bendet agreed to the proposition, and immediately an official betrothal was celebrated in the yeshivah, and an agreement was signed, whereby the future father-in-law pledged to support his son-in-law-to-be and his family for many years, promising, besides, costly gifts and a handsome dowry.
www.tzivos-hashem.org /storytime/storyteller/st1703.htm   (1852 words)

  
 Commentary Magazine - The Yeshivah World   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
...Talmud study alone, particularly of the kind that is enshrined in the Lithuanian yeshivah tradition, with its uncompromising appeal to the intellect at the expense of the emotions, is simply too specialized a curriculum for the general run of yeshivah students today...
...The typical yeshivah student today, however, is more likely to be the son of a businessman or professional whose own formal Jewish education ended on the elementary or highschool level, and who, very much in the American tradition, wants his offspring to enjoy the opportunities that he himself was denied...
...The yeshivah, as the primary institutional setting for organized study of Torah, dates back to the *Yeshiva University's Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS) in New York City is not properly in- cluded among the yeshivot since it is a professional school that trains men for the pulpit rabbinate...
www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V62I4P72-1.htm   (2856 words)

  
 Jewish Professionals Institute (JPI) - Holocaust Thesis Chapter 8
Hence the birth of yeshivahs as primary transmitters of the Torah heritage.
For the traditional yeshivah in the modern era, education began in early childhood, continued through adolescence, into manhood, which should have ideally been carried over by the graduate into married life, middle age, and down to the last days of life.
Schiff states that yeshivah education has shown that young children can master a foreign language, cope with a dual program of study, and be exposed to greater abstract and creative thinking much earlier than is generally assumed.
www.jpi.org /holocaust/hlchp8a.htm   (8283 words)

  
 JewishGates.org   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Yeshivah students were getting lax in their Talmud studies and were even secretly reading secular books.
At the age of 12, he went to the yeshivah of Tzvi Hirsch Broida in Salant, and his reputation there was such that his teacher referred to him as "the little Alfasi".
Instead, he founded his own yeshivah with the intent of instilling ethical moral habits as part of the students' training.
www.jewishgates.com /file.asp?File_ID=355   (680 words)

  
 Also: Kuk, Abraham Isaac
While Kook thought of the chief rabbinate in Palestine as the first step toward the revival of the Sanhedrin, the majority of the rabbis were concerned with the preservation of the traditional patterns of rabbinical authority.
Emphasis would be placed on the development of a lucid style in both writing and speaking, for Kook hoped that the graduates would become teachers and spiritual leaders in their communities.
With the influx of European yeshivah students during the late 1930s, this advanced talmudic institute was organized on a more formal basis as the Hekhal Rabenu Hayim Halevi and Yeshivath Torath Israel.
shekel.jct.ac.il /~green/kook-solov.html   (12229 words)

  
 Responding to a Death   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Wolowelsky is Dean of the Faculty at the Yeshivah of Flatbush
The yeshivah might also have to assume responsibility for daily minyanim at the shiva house; this too will require rescheduling classes, tests, etc. Even if the school is not responsible for arranging the minyanim, it should assure that some students and faculty members attend each service.
A yeshivah, no less than any other school, should have both a staff of trained counselors who are themselves committed to the school's philosophy, and an up-to-date list of experts who can provide guidance to the school and to whom outside referrals can be made.
www.lookstein.org /articles/response_yeshiva.htm   (3722 words)

  
 A Little Bit About Me
The average yeshivah in Brooklyn teaches the religious curriculum in the mornings, until around 2 or 3 o'clock, and then teaches the secular curriculum until around 5 or 6 o'clock.
Yeshivah Chaim Berlin is a well-known non-Hasidic yeshivah.
Stoliner Yeshivah is an atypical Chassidic Yeshivah, in that they study in the Litvisher method, though without going to the extremes for which some yeshivas are noted.
www.beingjewish.com /misc/aboutme.html   (1428 words)

  
 Dreaming of S/Zion   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The yeshivah environment and study pattern has an adverse affect on one's diet and exercise (and that's putting it nicely).
Furthermore, the yeshivah is in constant flux with students from various countries arriving and leaving.
Such a question ignores the fact that a yeshivah schedule is built on the principle that a bakhour [student] should not have much free time.
tsarphati.blogspot.com /2004_05_02_tsarphati_archive.html   (1838 words)

  
 rabbimirskybylifshitz
At the age of 14 he studied in the Yeshivah of Mir with the old Gaon R. Chaim Leib; when he was 16 he was accepted to the Slobodka Yeshivah named after R. Yitzhak Elkhanan.
From the Slobodka Yeshivah he later went back to the Mir Yeshivah where the head of Yeshivah was the great Gaon R. Eliahu Baruch of Tchekhnovtsa.
He went on with studies in the new Yeshivah of Maltz at the great Gaon R. Zalman Sander kahana, father of the Rabbi of Kovno.
www.zabludow.com /chosenpagesmirskybyliftshitz.html   (504 words)

  
 Unheeded Cry Text of Chapter One
While he was still a yeshivah student, Rabbi Weissmandl had an outstanding knowledge of the very complicated laws of mikva’ot (ritual baths which must be constructed according to exceedingly complex and rigorous rules) and of mathematical formulas required in order to build a mikvah (ritual bath).
He had been in Vienna prior to the meeting, so the governors of the yeshivah sent him a message requesting him to return for the meeting and to prepare himself to tell the gathered students about the serious financial difficulties the yeshivah was facing.
A new rural Jewish township was created around the yeshivah and then, after all the intensive activity invested in the project, the local authorities wanted to confiscate the entire property because the taxes on it had not been paid on time.
www.weissmandl.org /TheUnheededCry/UnheededCryText.htm   (6001 words)

  
 Jewish and Israel News from New York - The Jewish Week
Yeshivah of Flatbush, Magen David Yeshivah, some public schools, and many other yeshivahs only offer the option of a Regents diploma.
Elaine Agassi, an English teacher at the Yeshivah of Flatbush high school, believes that part of the problem may be the ambiguous language used on the test.
For teachers, the task may be even harder than it is for the students struggling to pass the test.
www.thejewishweek.com /bottom/freshink_content.php3?artid=227   (1268 words)

  
 detroit.jewish.com - The Lure Of Israel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
With the end of the school year approaching, seminary and yeshivah students are packing their bags and saying goodbye to what has been their home for the past nine months.
Danny Romanoff, on the other hand, is only now completing his first year of yeshivah and has chosen to stick around for shana bet (“second year”).
She left high school after the 11th grade and is in the Bat Zion program at Michlelet Orot, a women’s college located in the West Bank town of Elkana.
detroit.jewish.com /modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=432   (856 words)

  
 Is Yeshivah Education Accomplishing What It Should? · Chaim Eisen
While the vast majority of yeshivah faculty undoubtedly devote themselves heart and soul to their work, we need critically to consider whether we are providing our charges with what they need most.
In particular, we must emphasize the distinction, in yeshivah instruction, between a “melamed” and a “mechanech.” The former, from the root l.m.d.
Yet, an internationally renowned rosh yeshivah informed him that he was not welcome in the study hall of the latter’s yeshivah; working invalidated him.
www.aishdas.org /avodah/faxes/teaching.htm   (6978 words)

  
 Welcome to Shmais News Service
The Yeshivah Centre, located in Melbourne, Australia- the world’s most liveable city, - is seeking to employ a Principal for the Yeshivah College Boys School.
Under the auspices of Chabad, Lubavitch, the Yeshivah Centre is one of the largest Jewish organisations in Australia providing a holistic range of community services including Child Care Centres, Primary and Secondary Colleges, Kollel, Women’s Seminary, Shuls, Mikvehs, Kashrut, Youth Programs, libraries, welfare and outreach programs.
The Yeshivah College caters to over 500 students from Kindergarten to Year 12, and offers excellence in Jewish and General education in addition to a Mesiftah Program.
www.shmais.com /pages.cfm?page=archivenewsdetail&ID=23002&continue=news   (313 words)

  
 Parsha
Once the yeshivah was firmly established and off the ground, the secular leaders of the community decided to tamper with the yeshivah's curriculum.
They threatened that if their changes were not implemented, they would drive the yeshivah from its building, which was owned by the community.
When the wicked government sought to introduce secular studies into the curriculum of the famed yeshivah of Volozhin, several gedolim of the time considered giving into the demands, given that Volozhin was the central and oldest yeshivah of the country.
www.shemayisrael.co.il /parsha/aram/archives/kisisa60.htm   (3706 words)

  
 Dreaming of S/Zion   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Reduced income, job prospects for the future, and some frustrations with yeshivah study all came to a head.
Certainly my yeshivah, which has had an internet presence for years, and which even has an office dedicated to computer operations, should be prepared to give me some guidance.
The yeshivah world was far out of my mind by now; by now my 'havroutha (study partner) and maggid shiour were trying to call me on my portable phone, but I could not deal with them -- couldn't deal with the guilt, and couldn't give explanations until something was accomplished.
tsarphati.blogspot.com /2004_06_13_tsarphati_archive.html   (2915 words)

  
 THE MARTYRS of HEBRON   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
I had intended, when I returned from the Yeshivah of Hebron not only with a wondrous new understanding of the study of Torah but with unforgettable impressions of the Land of Israel in the making and of the Children of Israel who are making it, to write a different sort of book.
ONE of the youngest students in the Hebron Yeshivah was Aaron David, the son of Rabbi Ephraim Epstein of Chicago and the nephew of Rabbi Moshe Mordecai Epstein, the Dean of the Yeshivah.
ZALMON WILANSKY was secretary of the Yeshivah in Hebron.
www.hebron.org.il /pics/tarpat/martyrs.htm   (10488 words)

  
 Targum Press - Excerpt from Dancing through Time   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
On one occasion he invited a rosh yeshivah from the States who was staying with him to give the shiur.
In the course of his shiur, this rosh yeshivah told us that he had been at school with someone who also went on to become a rosh yeshivah.
The answer the rosh yeshivah received from his friend when he challenged him about neglecting the artistic gift of Hashem was that he hadn’t abandoned it at all.
www.targum.com /excerpts/dancing.html.backup   (1457 words)

  
 Rabbi Haim Moussa Douek   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
With the establishment of the new synagogue it became possible to teach Torah to laymen, and to train prospective hazzanim (cantors), shohetim (kosher slaughterers), and rabbonim (rabbis).
At the same time, he was appointed rabbi at "Ahaba ve Ahva" with responsibility for teaching Talmud, and he retained this position until 1957 when the government closed down the yeshivah.
The entrance lobby wall at the Ahaba ve Ahva yeshivah at East 7th Street in Brooklyn, NY, was dedicated to his memory.
www.hsje.org /rabbi_haim_moussa_douek.htm   (1877 words)

  
 Har Bracha, a religious settlement on Mount Grizim
This Yeshivah Gedolah is a Yeshivat Hesder where yeshivah students combine advanced Torah study with their military service in the Israel Defense Forces.
The Yeshivah is a branch of the world-renown Ha'idra Hesder Yeshivah in the Jewish Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem which was founded by former Chief Rabbi and Brigadier General Shlomo Goren z"l.
A new Yeshivah building is presently under construction and is expected to be completed soon.
www.geocities.com /m_yericho/bracha.htm   (547 words)

  
 Rabbi Scheinerman's Home Page
On the edge of the town where the yeshivah was located, there was a woodsy area, where an old tzaddik, a miracle-working rebbe, had built a little hut.
One day, the Rosh Yeshivah, the head of the yeshivah, the chief rabbi himself, decided to visit the tzaddik and to open his heart to him.
When the Rosh Yeshivah had first told them the tzaddik's teaching, they put their minds to work trying to figure out who the tzaddik was.
scheinerman.net /judaism/sermons/davidow-2.html   (976 words)

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