However, David E. Fishman, professor of Jewish History at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, states that, whereas the heder and yeshiva, the organs of Jewish education, " were banned by virtue of the law separating church and school, and subjected to tough police and administrative actions ," circumcision was not proscribed by law or suppressed by executive measures.

His father, Rabbi Charles Kahane, studied in Polish and Czech yeshiva religious schools and was involved in the Revisionist Zionism movement, he was a close friend of Zev ( Vladimir ) Jabotinsky.

When Rabbi Yaakov died in 1064, Rashi continued learning in Worms for another year in the yeshiva of his relative, Rabbi Isaac ben Eliezer Halevi, who was also chief rabbi of Worms.

Scholars believe that the commentary which appears under Rashi's name in those books was compiled by the students of Rabbi Saadiah of the Rhine, who incorporated material from Rashi's yeshiva.

During the 12th century, Rouen was probably the site of a yeshiva.

Did not head his own yeshiva, but was a regular participant in the discussions at the Yeshivot of Sura and Mahuza.

With financial assistance from the Hanover Jewish community, Herschel was sent to a yeshiva ( rabbinical seminary ) in Frankfurt, where he studied Hebrew and Torah: he was by all accounts more religious than his parents.

All official business of the yeshiva was conducted in the name of its Gaon, and all correspondence to or from the yeshiva was addressed directly to the Gaon.

In this regard, the Gaon of a yeshiva was seen as the highest judge on all matters of Jewish law.

These would serve as a go-between for the local congregation, and the larger yeshiva it was attached to.

Each congregation was expected to follow only one yeshiva to prevent conflict with different rulings issued by different yeshivot.

The yeshiva of Jerusalem was finally forced into exile in Cairo in 1127, and eventually dispersed entirely.

Although the Volozhin yeshiva was closed some 60 years later in response to demands by the Russian government, a number of yeshivot opened in other towns and cities, most notably Slabodka, Ponevezh, Mir, Brisk, and Telz.

It was headed by Zecharias Frankel, and was eventually viewed as the first yeshiva associated with Conservative Judaism.

His yeshiva was attended by a great many students preparing for the ministry, and many of them became leaders of Orthodoxy.

Yitzchok ( Isaac ) Hutner ( 1906 – 1980 ) was an American Orthodox rabbi and rosh yeshiva.

As a teenager he was enrolled in the Slabodka yeshiva in Lithuania, headed by Rabbi Nosson Tzvi Finkel, where he was known as the " Warsaw Illui " (" prodigy ").

Together with the dean of the Yeshiva Torah Vodaas, Rabbi Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz, a charter to set up a combined yeshiva and college was obtained from the New York State Board of Regents.

A Conservative movement-affiliated institution that does not grant rabbinic ordination but which runs along the lines of a traditional yeshiva is the Conservative Yeshiva, located in Jerusalem.

Mesivta Ateres Yaakov is a yeshiva located in Lawrence.

These were named for the cities in which they were located: Jerusalem, Sura, and Pumbedita ; the yeshiva of Jerusalem would later relocate to Cairo, and the yeshivot of Sura and Pumbedita to Baghdad, but retain their original names.

Two people can be considered to have spearheaded the kollel philosophy and outgrowth in today's world-Rabbi Aharon Kotler, the founder of Beth Medrash Govoha, America's largest yeshiva located in Lakewood, New Jersey, and Rabbi Elazar Shach, one of the most prominent leaders of the Jewish community in Israel until his death in 2001.

The yeshiva was located in the Lithuanian town of Slabodka, adjacent to Kovno ( Kaunas ), now Vilijampolė, a suburb of Kaunas.

Yeshiva of Far Rockaway ( also known as Yeshiva Derech Ayson () and Derech Ayson Rabbinical Seminary ) is a Haredi yeshiva located on 802 Hicksville Road, Far Rockaway, Queens in New York City.

On 25 May 1973 the Yeshiva of Far Rockaway — then located on Virginia Street — was sued by Stanley A. Ginsberg for violating the residential covenant of the neighborhood by establishing its yeshiva building on a non-commercial block in 1971.

Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin or Yeshivas Rabbeinu Chaim Berlin, () is a Haredi Lithuanian-type yeshiva located in Brooklyn, New York.

After serving as Rosh yeshiva at Yeshiva University for several years, Rabbi Lichtenstein answered Rabbi Yehuda Amital's request in 1971 to join him at the helm of Yeshivat Har Etzion, located in Gush Etzion, and moved to Jerusalem.

Chabad of Venice is a Chabad House located in Venice, Italy, also having a yeshiva in the main square of the ancient Venetian Ghetto, a pastry shop and a restaurant named " Gam Gam " at the entrance to the ghetto.

Ponevezh Yeshiva, often pronounced Ponevitch Yeshiva, () is a world renowned yeshiva located in Bnei Brak, Israel.

* Kollel Avreichim — located on the grounds of the yeshiva in the Ohel Kedoshim building ; intended for married students who have graduated from the yeshiva.

* Grodno Yeshiva-Beer Yaakov — an additional yeshiva located in Beer Yaakov.

* Grodno Yeshiva-Ashdod, also known as Ponevezh Ashdod — an additional yeshiva located in Ashdod.

( Current incarnations of the yeshiva are located in Brooklyn, New York and Jerusalem.

The yeshiva is located in Monsey, New York on a campus which includes a beit midrash and a residence facility.

* Pacific Torah Institute, a Canadian yeshiva high school, located in Vancouver, British Columbia

The Talmudical Academy of Central New Jersey ( also known as Adelphia ) is a Jewish orthodox yeshiva high school and rabbinical college located in Howell Township, New Jersey.

In 1926, at age 17, Shimon enrolled in the yeshiva in Telshe yeshiva located in Telšiai, Lithuania, where he studied Talmud intensively for three years, and afterwards spent one year and a half in the Mir yeshiva.

After the yeshiva relocated to Far Rockaway, New York in the 1960s, Miller resigned from his position due to the difficulties a daily commute from Brooklyn entailed.

The agreement would grant exemption to a quota of yeshiva ( religious seminary ) students and to all orthodox women from military service, would make the Sabbath the national weekend, promised Kosher food in government institutions and would allow them to maintain a separate education system.

In 1987, Kahane opened a yeshiva ( HaRaayon HaYehudi ) with funding from US supporters, for the teaching of " the Authentic Jewish Idea ".

Agudah unites many rabbinic leaders from the Hasidic Judaism wing with those of the non-Hasidic " yeshiva " world.

Rashi took concise, copious notes from what he learned in yeshiva, incorporating this material in his commentaries.

The most violent episode occurred on the 2 May 1980 when 6 yeshiva students died, on the way home from Sabbath prayer at the Tomb of the Patriarchs, in a grenade and firearm attack.

Since rabbinical studies typically flow from other yeshiva studies, those who seek a semicha are typically not required to have completed a university education.

Today, there exist many autonomous communities in places such as Borough Park, Williamsburg, and Crown Heights in Brooklyn, as well as more recently the yeshiva centered community of Lakewood, New Jersey, with their own economies, educational systems ( yeshivos ) welfare institutions and gemachs ( free-loan funds for everything from money to household items to tools, clothing, books and services ), medical services ( such as the Hatzalah ambulance corps ), and security ( the Shomrim neighborhood patrol ).

Hyman strongly opposed Krusty's wish to become a clown and make people laugh, believing that it would distract him from his religion, wanting the boy to go to yeshiva instead.

Students came from all over Europe to enroll in his yeshiva, and later dispersed among various communities in Germany and beyond which helped spread Jewish learning.

He reportedly forbade his students from attending any lectures given by Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik while at the same time appointing Soloveitchik's younger brother, whom he had tutored in Warsaw, Rabbi Ahron Soloveichik ( later to head his own yeshiva in Skokie near Chicago, Illinois ) as head of his own Yeshivas Rabbi Chaim Berlin.

He did initiate a number of changes in Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin that differed greatly from the mussar yeshiva practice in Slabodka.

" He graduated from Brooklyn's Edward R. Murrow High School, and while visiting Israel spent time in an Orthodox yeshiva, an experience that later informed his movie Pi.

He grew up on 54th and 14th Ave in Borough Park, Brooklyn, across from Public School 103 ( now a yeshiva ).

Rabbi Eliezer Berland, rosh yeshiva of Yeshivas Shuvu Bonim in the Muslim Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem, has also brought thousands of Jews from secular backgrounds closer to Orthodox Judaism and Breslov.

Beitar Illit was established in 1984 and initially settled by a small group of young families from the religious Zionist yeshiva of Machon Meir, including that of Rabbi Reuven Hass ( now of Beit El ).

In August 1975, Yeshivat Ma ' alot, a Hesder yeshiva, was established, attracting students from all over the world.

In 1894, both rabbis started teaching in the famed Slabodka yeshiva, which was not far from Kovno.

Headed by rosh yeshiva Rabbi Moshe Mordechai Epstein, the Alter's yeshiva was known as the Slobodka yeshivah from 1881.