Definition of "yeshiva"
yeshiva
/jəˈʃiː.və/
noun
plural yeshivas or yeshivot
(Judaism) An academy for the advanced study of Jewish texts.
Quotations
Last month, the Forward reported, a former student at Mechon Hadar—a co-ed egalitarian yeshiva in New York—emailed the school's listserv with a plea for the institution to cut ties with [Leslie] Wexner in light of the unspooling allegations against [Jeffrey] Epstein.
2019 August 7, Marissa Brostoff, Noah Kulwin, “The Right Kind of Continuity”, in Jewish Currents