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Following is a listing of rabbinical schools, organized by denomination.The emphasis of the training will differ correspondingly: Orthodox Semikha centers on the study of Talmud-based halacha (Jewish law), while in other programs, the emphasis may shift to "the other functions of a modern rabbi such as preaching, counselling, and pastoral work.” [1] [2] Conservative Yeshivot occupy a ...
As of 2021, there are 151 elementary/K-8 schools, 16 middle schools, and 57 high schools in the School District of Philadelphia, excluding charter schools. [1] The Thomas K. Finletter School serves kindergarten through 8th grade students in the Olney neighborhood of Philadelphia.
The Talmudical Yeshiva of Philadelphia (Hebrew: פילאדעלפיע ישיבה) is a Haredi Litvish yeshiva in the Overbrook neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Its heads of school are Rabbi Shmuel Kamenetsky , Rabbi Shimon Yehudah Svei and Rabbi Sholom Kaminetsky.
Akiba was founded as a progressive school, which a 1946 brochure for the school described as "the needs, interests and aspirations of the individual pupil are the school’s primary concern." [ 3 ] The school hired Dr. Joseph Butterweck, the dean at the Temple University School of Education and a leading figure in progressive education, as an ...
Rabbi Herbert Rosenbaum was the synagogue's rabbi from 1981 to 1983. [18] Rabbi David Silverman came to lead the synagogue in November 1983 when it counted 900 members. [19] The Neziner Congregation in Philadelphia's Queen Village neighborhood closed in 1984 and merged into Beth Zion-Beth Israel. Beth Zion-Beth Israel named its youth education ...
Beth Sholom Congregation (transliterated from Hebrew as "House of Peace") is a Conservative Jewish congregation and synagogue located at 8231 Old York Road in Elkins Park, a suburb of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the United States.
This article is a list of mesivtas.A mesivta (or mesifta) [1] [2] is a Jewish Orthodox secondary school for boys. The term is commonly used in the United States to describe a yeshiva that emphasizes Talmudic studies for boys in grades 9 through 11 or 12; alternately, it refers to the religious studies track in a yeshiva high school that offers both religious and secular studies.
Kohelet Yeshiva was founded in 2000 in Northeast Philadelphia. It was named Stern Hebrew High School after its primary funder Harry Stern. [1] The Kohelet Foundation funded the school's relocation to its current campus in 2010 and the school renamed itself in recognition. [2] Kohelet Yeshiva Lab & Middle School building (November 2019)