yeshiva

Jewish college of religion; in Orthodox Judaism, a day school providing religious and secular instruction. On average, college students will attend yeshiva for five years, studying the Hebrew Bible, the Talmud, Midrash, and Jewish philosophy in depth, as well as completing a university course. Continued studies in rabbinical law will lead to the student becoming a rabbi. Jews often go to Israel to attend an Israeli yeshiva.

Girls in the Orthodox Jewish tradition will study a more structured course at a seminary. In Reform and Liberal Jewish traditions, women may become rabbis as well as men.