Yeshiva

//jəˈʃiː.və//

Synonyms for "yeshiva" (2 found)

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Related words (1)

Noun(1 words)

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Translations

15 translations across 12 languages.

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Aramaic

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  • מְתִיבָה noun (academy for the advanced study of Jewish texts)

Esperanto

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  • jeŝivo noun (academy for the advanced study of Jewish texts)

French

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  • yeshiva noun (academy for the advanced study of Jewish texts)

German

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  • Jeschiwa noun (academy for the advanced study of Jewish texts)

Hebrew

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  • יְשִׁיבָה noun (academy for the advanced study of Jewish texts)

Hungarian

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  • jesiva noun (academy for the advanced study of Jewish texts)

Italian

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  • Yeshivah noun (academy for the advanced study of Jewish texts)

Ladino

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  • yeshiva noun (academy for the advanced study of Jewish texts)

Polish

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  • jesziba noun (academy for the advanced study of Jewish texts)
  • jesziwa noun (academy for the advanced study of Jewish texts)
  • jeszybot noun (academy for the advanced study of Jewish texts)

Russian

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  • еши́ва noun (academy for the advanced study of Jewish texts)
  • иеши́ва noun (academy for the advanced study of Jewish texts)

Turkish

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  • yeşiva noun (academy for the advanced study of Jewish texts)

Yiddish

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  • ישיבה noun (academy for the advanced study of Jewish texts)

Sample sentences

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He attended Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University in New York from 2001 to 2004.

Source: tatoeba (8485574)

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.

Source: wiktionary

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.

Source: wiktionary

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.

Source: wiktionary

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