Yeshivah

Then again, I did not have the advantage of a yeshivah education so I could be mistaken. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Then again, I did not have the advantage of a yeshivah education so I could be mistaken.yankevQuote ❋ Unknown (2010)

A formidable scholar, he was Orthodox and yeshivah-trained, but in the early 1960s fell foul of the Chief Rabbi in a renowned case; the Masorti movement (to which the mother of the child in the JNF dispute belongs) evolved out of "The Jacobs Affair". phil ❋ Unknown (2009)

Her father, Avrom Punsky (1906 – 1977), born in Visoki Dvor (today Aukstadvaris), Lithuania, where he received a traditional Jewish education (heder and yeshivah), emigrated to Mexico in 1924 and earned his living as a merchant. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Since the entire thrust of yeshivah training had always been to produce Talmudic scholars, that highly valued goal had to be continued in America. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Although Yeshiva pioneered a comprehensive modern yeshivah educational system for men, it paid, through 1945, scant attention to the needs of Orthodox Jewish women. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Practically, that meant that female yeshivah graduates were restricted to the types of studies their female ancestors were exposed to — with Bible being the most advanced subject — although they would learn their Torah with greater intensity and sophistication. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Kibbutzniks, yeshivah students, academics and soldiers — people of all ages, religious orientations and political persuasions — were among her avid fans. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Beginning in 1932 she served as director of the Dance Education Department of the Bureau of Jewish Education, which sought to augment Jewish education with non-yeshivah type activities such as music, dance and crafts, in order to promote Hebrew as a modern language. ❋ Unknown (2009)

By 2000 79 percent of Jewish children were enrolled in some type of Jewish school, about 50 percent in a part-time or once-a-week format and 29 percent in a day school or yeshivah. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Because they were thus exposed to systematic English-language and secular training, the pace of acculturation of daughters from the most religious downtown families was far greater than it was for the small number of male scholars who were sent to Etz Chaim and its other yeshivah counterparts that were established around the turn of the twentieth century. ❋ Unknown (2009)

At the elementary yeshivah Or Ha-Hayyim which belongs to the Maguen David community, boys and girls study together until third grade, after which they separate into single-sex classes. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The ultra-Orthodox schools prepare young women for their role not only as mothers but also as breadwinners, while their husbands devote themselves to Talmud study in a yeshivah. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Because a Jewish education was considered more important for boys, many Jewish boys were sent to special Jewish schools, the heder and the yeshivah, while their sisters were sent to the “inferior” Polish schools where they learned Polish literature, customs, songs, prayers and manners, along with their colloquial Polish. ❋ Unknown (2009)

This rising influence was fed by the euphoria of the Six Day War, the massive transition to extensive settlement activity throughout Judea and Samaria (which was highly esteemed in religious Zionist circles) and the impressive development of religious education in Israel, with the establishment of the Bnei Akiva yeshivah system, the Hesder yeshivot (incorporating military service with traditional studies), seminaries for high-school girls, and pre-military academies. ❋ Unknown (2009)

As Schenirer saw it, the best young men were still under the safe influence of the yeshivah. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Educational opportunities for women under Orthodox auspices grew enormously in the postwar period as the varying styles of day school or yeshivah schooling for girls and boys became an expanding norm within that community. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Beginning in the late 1960s, this ethic of modesty changed significantly, due to the increasing influence on the religious Zionist society of the Merkaz ha-Rav school (after the yeshivah by this name). ❋ Unknown (2009)

In a work incorporated in a book by Josef ben Gershom of Rosheim (1478 – 1554), Johanan Luria described Rabbanit Miriam as a teacher who “sat in the yeshivah behind a curtain and taught the law to some outstanding young men.” ❋ Unknown (2009)

Freed from, or denied, the burden or opportunity of studying Talmud all day, female yeshivah students became more exposed to their American environment. ❋ Unknown (2009)