yeshiva
yi shee vuh
- n an academy for the advanced study of Jewish texts (primarily the Talmud)
- The massacre in the nationalist yeshiva revives the goals of the settlers and raises the specter of Hamas' old terror tactics.
- Rabbi Ovadia Yosef's Saturday night sermons to a few dozen black-hatted yeshiva seminarians in an obscure Jerusalem synagogue have become a spectator sport, although it's more like .
- In a series of raids following tip-offs from victims' relatives, neighbors and hospital workers, the police have arrested ultra-orthodox wives, husbands and yeshiva students.