Word: yeshivas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After graduating from high school, Geller spent a year in an all-boys religious school--or "yeshiva"--in Israel where he studied Talmud from 6:30 a.m. to midnight...
...there was "pressure for [Geller] to go to a Jewish college or stay for another year," he was never tempted to remain isolated in the religious world. Contrary to the wishes of his rabbis in Israel, he decided to go to Harvard rather than continue his studies at the yeshiva...
...spells his name weird: My great grandfather spelled it that way. But no one outside my family knows that, so it's caused a lot of confusion regarding my identity. Like when I wrote to Yeshiva University, an all-male school, asking for an application, they instead sent me an application for the Stern College for women. I sent them back a letter saying that "while I certainly wouldn't mind going to Stern, or at the very least living in their all-girl dorms, I thought you should know that I'm a male...
Schrecker, the Yeshiva University historian whowrote No Ivory Tower, says the Universitywas uncooperative in giving her access todocuments that were 40 or even 45 years...
...says a soldier on duty in Hebron. "Trouble waits around every corner." In a Palestinian community that tends to be deeply traditional and highly religious, Hebron's settlers move among their four compounds heavily armed. Especially visible among the 450 Jewish residents are 150 students of the Shavei Hebron Yeshiva: in pairs or threes they patrol the roads connecting the settler enclaves, assault rifles slung over their shoulders. As they saunter through the streets, Arab merchants grow anxious. The yeshiva boys frequently overturn their stalls or bash their cars. "It's a daily business the trouble they make," says shopkeeper...