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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Simmons was a Hasidic Orthodox Jew from Israel who found a new faith one fateful day while exiting the yeshiva.
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Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 5 June 2025
What if, as Kagan asked, a Hasidic community wants its charter yeshiva to be free to teach Talmud without having to comply with curriculum requirements imposed on other charters?
—Ruth Marcus, New Yorker, 5 May 2025
My colleagues Eliza Shapiro and Brian M. Rosenthal write that the move is one that many Hasidic leaders — and even critics of the yeshiva system — doubted the state would ever take.
—James Barron, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2025
Natasha Cohen, who lives around the block from where the vandalism took place, is also accused of leaving a brick with a swastika drawn on it atop the Tesla outside a yeshiva on Ditmas Ave.
—Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 12 Apr. 2025
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Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 5 June 2025
What if, as Kagan asked, a Hasidic community wants its charter yeshiva to be free to teach Talmud without having to comply with curriculum requirements imposed on other charters?
—Ruth Marcus, New Yorker, 5 May 2025
My colleagues Eliza Shapiro and Brian M. Rosenthal write that the move is one that many Hasidic leaders — and even critics of the yeshiva system — doubted the state would ever take.
—James Barron, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2025
Natasha Cohen, who lives around the block from where the vandalism took place, is also accused of leaving a brick with a swastika drawn on it atop the Tesla outside a yeshiva on Ditmas Ave.
—Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 12 Apr. 2025
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“Yeshiva.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/yeshiva. Accessed 12 Jul. 2025.
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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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