Word: yeshivah
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Lenzenweger received his undergraduate degree from Cornell. After completing his graduate work at Yeshivah University, he returned to Cornell to teach...
Three years ago he belonged to the Anshe Emeth Congregation (Jewish Centre) in Cleveland. Its original members had immigrated in the 1880's from P'selvah, Polish village near Vilna. There most of them had been Yeshivah Buchers (religious students). They and most of their descendants in Cleveland are vigorously Orthodox...
...massive buildings in an Americanized Byzantine manner- rigid facades; a squatty dome; ornate yet severe decoration. They represent the first independent stand on education ever taken by Jewry in the 2,000 years of its exile. Out of the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary has grown the Yitzchok Elchanan Yeshivah, in which there will be the first Jewish college ever established in the U. S., equipped to grant "the same academic degrees as other American colleges in a background thoroughly Jewish and thoroughly American in spirit...
Another speaker at the Bankers' Club gathering-met to discuss a music festival to be held this month in Madison Square Garden to raise a fifth of the five millions needed to build the Yeshivah- was Adolph Lewisohn, one of the most intelligent and effective workers on human relationships in the U. S. He referred to the Yeshivah as "the salvation of Judaism," where Jews could acquire a college education in Jewish surroundings and without breaking the Sabbath and other holy days. He said that his own grandsons had been excluded "by one of the East's largest...
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