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Word: yeshiveh (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Before them was a sallow, gangling youth of 21, a candidate for ordination in the Baptist ministry. It was their privilege and duty- like stringy-bearded rabbis in a yeshiveh-to probe the secret depths of this young man's immortal soul and determine whether or no he was fit to serve their God as a toiler in His vineyard. An hour passed as they plied their searching questions-on the perilous issues between Fundamentalism and Modernism; on social service work, missionary endeavor, charity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Son-of-a-Pastor | 8/2/1926 | See Source »

None so humble and strict in her pieties as hollow-breasted Leah, penitent Jewess. The wicked willows saw her live black hair hacked off. Come Yom Kippur, she fainted with fasting. After a year, pale, pious Eli from the yeshiveh (seminary) brought her to peace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Atonement* | 8/10/1925 | See Source »

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