Sentence examples for yeshiva from inspiring English sources

Israel, which conquered it 65 years ago, handed it to a yeshiva, a Jewish religious seminary.Israelis point out that Arabs have been bad at looking after Jewish holy places.

A parliamentary committee, boycotted by the haredi parties, has drawn up proposals for new legislation under which only the best Talmud students to be selected by the yeshiva deans would continue to receive generous state support and remain exempt.Goodbye to the life of contemplationFor Mr Netanyahu, anxious not to forfeit his long-time alliance with the haredim, that plan is too radical.

A couple of thousand have taken that path, but that number has stalled and does not match the demographic growth in this group.The army is bending over backwards to accommodate yeshiva students.

First, most men leave the yeshiva by about the age of 25; only in certain hardcore sects was a lifelong "society of learners" ever considered the ideal.

A family of Orthodox Jews are making their way from London to the yeshiva (seminary) town of Gateshead for the Sabbath.

The case is complicated by forgeries on the Jewish side and contradictions in the Palestinian's account.One night in March last year, in what Israel's High Court of Justice called a quasi-military operation, some 150 students at a yeshiva (a school for Jewish religious study) took over the building on behalf of the settler association.

In 1915 two small yeshivas, Etz Chaim and Rabbi Isaac Elhanan Theological Seminary, merged and undertook a program of further growth, adding Yeshiva College of secular studies in 1928 and becoming Yeshiva University in 1945.

"He was a loving son, nephew and cousin, who was very community minded," his parents said in a statement to Yeshiva World News.

According to the Innocence Project, a non-profit legal clinic attached to Yeshiva University in New York, DNA evidence has so far helped to exonerate 194 people in the United States who were wrongly convicted, and who spent an average of 12 years in prison before being released.

Two psychologists have now given his ideas some substance, by showing that people do indeed often fail to notice when the conversations they are engaged in descend temporarily into nonsense.Bruno Galantucci of Yeshiva University in New York and Gareth Roberts of Haskins Laboratories in New Haven, Connecticut, are interested in how and why languages evolve.

"The United States is a place in which there is obviously tremendous interest in the history of Judaism and Christianity," said Lawrence Schiffman of the New York based Yeshiva University, a special consultant to the exhibition.