Pre-World War II Europe

In yeshivish

Yeshivish

Yeshivish , refers to a sociolect of English spoken by yeshiva students and other Jews with a strong connection to the Orthodox yeshiva world.-Research:Only a few serious studies have been written about Yeshivish...

 culture, there are some major Yeshivas which are known not so much by their name, but are rather referred to by the name of the location they are in. Most of the following yeshivas are referred to by the name of the city they are located in.

• Ess Hayim Seminary of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews
  Spanish and Portuguese Jews
  Spanish and Portuguese Jews are a distinctive sub-group of Sephardim who have their main ethnic origins within the Jewish communities of the Iberian peninsula and who shaped communities mainly in Western Europe and the Americas from the late 16th century on...
  
  , Amsterdam
  Amsterdam
  Amsterdam is the largest city and the capital of the Netherlands. The current position of Amsterdam as capital city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands is governed by the constitution of August 24, 1815 and its successors. Amsterdam has a population of 783,364 within city limits, an urban population...
  
  
• Brisk yeshiva
  Brisk yeshivas and methods
  The Soloveitchik dynasty of rabbinic scholars and their students originated the Brisker method of Talmudic study, which is embraced by their followers in the Brisk yeshivas. It is so called because of the Soloveitchiks' origin in the town of Brisk, or Brest-Litovsk, located in what is now Belarus...
  
  
• Baranovitch yeshiva (named "Ohel Torah")
• Yeshivas Chachmei Lublin
  Chachmei Lublin Yeshiva
  Founded by Rabbi Meir Shapiro, the Chachmei Lublin Yeshiva, , was an important centre for Torah study in Poland.-History:On May 22–28, 1924, the cornerstone laying ceremony took place for the construction of the yeshiva building. Approximately 20,000 people participated in the event.The opening...
  
  
• Chust yeshiva
• Grodno yeshiva (named "Shaar HaTorah")
• Kamenetz yeshiva
• Kelm yeshiva
• Keser Torah (Radomsk)
• Kletzk yeshiva
• Lomza yeshiva
• Mir Yeshiva
  Mir yeshiva (Poland)
  The Mir yeshiva , commonly known as the Mirrer Yeshiva or The Mir, was a Haredi yeshiva located in the town of Mir, Russian Empire...
  
  
• Novardok yeshiva
  Novardok yeshiva
  The Novardok yeshiva in Navahrudak, then the Russian Empire, was one of the biggest and most important yeshivas in pre-World War II Europe, and a powerful force within the Mussar movement. The yeshiva was established in 1896, together with a Kollel for married men, under the direction of Rabbi...
  
  
• Pinsk yeshiva
• Ponevezh Yeshiva
  Ponevezh yeshiva
  Ponevezh Yeshiva, often pronounced Ponevitch Yeshiva, is a world renowned yeshiva located in Bnei Brak, Israel. Donated by Henry Krausher, it was originally established in the town of Panevėžys, Lithuania...
  
  
• Pressburg Yeshiva
  Pressburg Yeshiva (Austria-Hungary)
  Pressburg Yeshiva, established in 1807 in the city of Pressburg, Austrian Empire by Rabbi Moses Sofer , was the largest and most influential yeshiva in Central Europe...
  
  
• Raduń Yeshiva
  Radun Yeshiva
  Raduń Yeshiva, originally located in Raduń, Poland , was established by the Chofetz Chaim in 1869.-Origins:In 1869 when the Chofetz Chaim returned from Vashilyshok to Raduń his first action was to establish a group to whom he could spread the knowledge of Torah...
  
  
• Slabodka yeshiva
  Slabodka yeshiva
  Hebron Yeshiva, also known as Yeshivas Hevron, or Knesses Yisroel, and originally as Slabodka Yeshiva, is known colloquially as the "mother of yeshivas" and was devoted to high=level study of the Talmud. The yeshiva was located in the Lithuanian town of Slabodka, adjacent to Kovno , now...
  
   (later became Hebron yeshiva)
• Slonim yeshiva
• Slutsk yeshiva (later became Lakewood yeshiva)
• Telshe yeshiva
  Telshe yeshiva
  Telshe yeshiva was a famous Eastern European yeshiva founded in the Lithuanian town of Telšiai. After World War II the yeshiva relocated to Wickliffe, Ohio, in the United States and is currently known as the Rabbinical College of Telshe, It is one of the most prominent Haredi institutions of Torah...
  
  
• Tomchei Temimim
  Tomchei Temimim
  Tomchei Temimim is the central Yeshiva of the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic movement...
  
  
• Torah Vodaas (of Lida, Lithuania)
• Vilkomir yeshiva
• Volozhin yeshiva
  Volozhin yeshiva
  The Volozhin Yeshiva, also known as Etz Chaim Yeshiva, was a prestigious Lithuanian yeshiva located in the town of Volozhin, Russia, . It was founded by Rabbi Chaim Itzkovitz, a student of the famed Vilna Gaon, and trained several generations of scholars, rabbis, and leaders...
  
  

Israel

• Bet Rabbi Shemayahu (Bet Shemaya) Bnei Berak
• Aish HaTorah
  Aish HaTorah
  Aish HaTorah is a Jewish Orthodox organization and yeshiva. Aish HaTorah is actively pro-Israel and encourages Jewish people to visit Israel and connect to the land and its history. Some consider the organisation to reflect a more Religious Zionist philosophy in its attachment to Israel, promoting...
  
  
• Ateret Cohanim
  Ateret Cohanim
  Ateret Cohanim, , also known as Ateret Yerushalyim, is a Religious Zionist yeshiva located in the Muslim Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem in Israel. Founded in 1978, it uses the building of the historic Torath Chaim Yeshiva...
  
  
• Ateret Yisrael
• Yeshivas Bais Yisroel
• Beis Shmuel
• Beit El Yeshiva
  Beit El yeshiva
  The Beit El Yeshiva is a Religious Zionist yeshiva situated in the Israeli settlement of Beit El near Ramallah, in the Binyamin region of the West Bank....
  
   in Bet El
  Bet El
  Beit El is an Israeli settlement and a local council in the Benjamin region of the central West Bank, within the borders of the Matte Binyamin Regional Council. The religiously observant town is located in the hills north of Jerusalem east of the Palestinian city of al-Bireh. In 2009, it had a...
  
  
• Bet El Yeshiva
  Beit El Synagogue
  The Beit El Synagogue , has been the center of kabbalistic study in Jerusalem for over 250 years.-History of the Yeshivat HaMekubalim:The yeshiva was founded in 1737 by Rabbi Gedaliah Hayon, originally from...
  
   in Jerusalem, for Sephardi and Mizrahi students of Kabbalah
  Kabbalah
  Kabbalah/Kabala is a discipline and school of thought concerned with the esoteric aspect of Rabbinic Judaism. It was systematized in 11th-13th century Hachmei Provence and Spain, and again after the Expulsion from Spain, in 16th century Ottoman Palestine...
  
  
• Beit Hatalmud
• Beit Meir
• Beit Orot
• Binyan Av
• Bircas HaTorah
  Bircas HaTorah
  Yeshivas Bircas HaTorah is an orthodox yeshiva for Talmud professionals located in the Jewish Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem, founded by Rabbi Shimon Green in 1989.- History :...
  
  
• Bnei Chayil
• Bnei David
• Brisk yeshivas
• Chidushei Horim
• Hebron Yeshiva
  Slabodka yeshiva
  Hebron Yeshiva, also known as Yeshivas Hevron, or Knesses Yisroel, and originally as Slabodka Yeshiva, is known colloquially as the "mother of yeshivas" and was devoted to high=level study of the Talmud. The yeshiva was located in the Lithuanian town of Slabodka, adjacent to Kovno , now...
  
   (in Jerusalem, moved from Hebron
  Hebron
  Hebron , is located in the southern West Bank, south of Jerusalem. Nestled in the Judean Mountains, it lies 930 meters above sea level. It is the largest city in the West Bank and home to around 165,000 Palestinians, and over 500 Jewish settlers concentrated in and around the old quarter...
  
   following the 1929 Hebron massacre
  1929 Hebron massacre
  The Hebron massacre refers to the killing of sixty-seven Jews on 23 and 24 August 1929 in Hebron, then part of the British Mandate of Palestine, by Arabs incited to violence by rumors that Jews were massacring Arabs in Jerusalem and seizing control of Muslim holy places...
  
  )
• HaKotel
  Yeshivat Hakotel
  Yeshivat Hakotel is a modern-Orthodox religious Zionist hesder yeshiva situated in the Old City of Jerusalem. It was built in 1857. The yeshiva overlooks the Kotel ; hence its name. The Yeshiva is famous among tourists and tour guides for its entrance to the prayer plaza at the Kotel on Sabbath...
  
  
• Har Etzion
  Yeshivat Har Etzion
  Yeshivat Har Etzion, ', commonly known as "Gush," is a hesder yeshiva located in Alon Shvut, a community in Gush Etzion in the West Bank, near Jerusalem, Israel. With a student body of 484, it is one of the largest hesder yeshivas in Israel...
  
  
• Har Hamor
  Har Hamor
  Har-Hamor is a Zionist Yeshiva, located in the Kiryat Yovel neighborhood of Jerusalem. It was founded in 1997, and currently has an enrollment of approximately 400 students....
  
  
• Har Bracha
• Itri (Israel Torah Research Institute)
• Yeshivat Kedumim
• Kerem B'Yavneh
• Kisse Rahamim, Bene Berak: Sephardi/Tunisian
• Knesses Chizkiyahu
  Knesses Chizkiyahu
  Knesses Chizkiyahu was one of the first Lithuanian yeshivas founded after the establishment of the State of Israel and one of the first Torah institutions in the northern part of the country...
  
  
• Kol Torah
• Kol Yaacob
• Lakewood East
  Lakewood East
  Lakewood East, officially Beth Medrash Govoha of America in Eretz Yisroel , is a yeshiva in Jerusalem headed by Rabbi Yaakov Eliezer Schwartzman, son of Rabbi Dov Schwartzman and the eldest grandson of Rabbi Aharon Kotler, founder of the Lakewood Yeshiva...
  
   (Israeli branch of Lakewood yeshiva, known officially as "Bais Medrash Govoha D'America B'Eretz Yisrael" in Jerusalem)
• Ma'ale Gilboa
  Yeshivat Ma'ale Gilboa
  Yeshivat Ma'ale Gilboa is a Shiluv Yeshiva located on Kibbutz Ma'ale Gilboa in Israel's Gilboa Mountains. The Shiluv Yeshiva is unique in that it combines two years of Torah study with the full three years of army service. This is in contrast to students from Hesder Yeshivot, which only serve in...
  
  
• Yeshivat Ma'alos HaTorah
• Ma'alot
• Maaneh Simcha
• Meorot Chabad
• Machon Meir
  Machon Meir
  Machon Meir' is a religious Zionist outreach organization and yeshiva situated in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Kiryat Moshe, close to Givat Shaul...
  
  
• Mercaz HaRav
  Mercaz haRav
  Mercaz HaRav , more properly, Mercaz HaRav Kook ), is a national-religious yeshiva in Jerusalem, Israel, founded in 1924 by Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook. It has become synonymous with his teachings....
  
  
• Mirrer Yeshiva
• Migdal Haemek
• Neizer Hatorah
• Ohr Elchonon
• Orot Hatorah
• Pachad Yitzchok
  Yeshiva Pachad Yitzchok
  Yeshiva Pachad Yitzchok is a yeshiva that was established in Jerusalem, Israel in the late 1970s by Rabbi Yitzchok Hutner. It is located in the Har Nof neighborhood...
  
  
• Petach Tikva
  Yeshivat Hesder Petah Tikva
  Yeshivat Hesder Petah Tikva is a Hesder Yeshiva located in Petah Tikva, Israel. Established in 1998, it currently has approximately 200 students, 25% whom are actively serving in the IDF.-History:...
  
  
• Pirchei Shoshanim
• Ponevezh yeshiva
  Ponevezh yeshiva
  Ponevezh Yeshiva, often pronounced Ponevitch Yeshiva, is a world renowned yeshiva located in Bnei Brak, Israel. Donated by Henry Krausher, it was originally established in the town of Panevėžys, Lithuania...
  
  
• Panim Meiros, Bnei Brak
• Porat Yosef Yeshiva
  Porat Yosef Yeshiva
  Porat Yosef Yeshiva is a leading Sephardic yeshiva in Jerusalem, Israel, with locations in both the Old City and the Geula neighborhood.-History:...
  
  , Sephardi, Jerusalem
• Pressburg Yeshiva
  Pressburg Yeshiva (Jerusalem)
  Pressburg Yeshiva of Jerusalem is a leading yeshiva located in the Givat Shaul neighborhood of Jerusalem, Israel. It was founded in 1950 by Rabbi Akiva Sofer , a great-grandson of Rabbi Moses Sofer , who established the original Pressburg Yeshiva in the Austrian-Hungarian Empire in 1807...
  
  
• The Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies
  Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies
  The Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies, located in Jerusalem, Israel, is an academic institution affiliated with Conservative Judaism first established in New York....
  
  
• Sfas Emes Yeshiva
  Sfas Emes Yeshiva
  Sfas Emes Yeshiva is an Orthodox Jewish yeshiva in Jerusalem, Israel, serving the Gerrer Hasidic community. Founded in 1925 in the Mekor Baruch neighborhood of Jerusalem, two blocks north of the Mahane Yehuda Market, it was one of the few Hasidic yeshivas in Israel in the early twentieth...
  
  
• Yeshivat Sha'alvim
  Yeshivat Sha'alvim
  Yeshivat Sha'alvim is a hesder yeshiva located near Kibbutz Sha'alvim.- History :Yeshivat Sha'alvim was founded in 1961 by Rabbi Meir Schlesinger, the rabbi of Kibbutz Sha'alvim...
  
  
• Toldos Yeshurun Yeshiva for Russian Speakers in Jerusalem
• Tomchei Temimim
  Tomchei Temimim
  Tomchei Temimim is the central Yeshiva of the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic movement...
  
  
• Torat Hachaim
• Yeshivat Bnei Akiva
• Yeshivat Ramat Gan
• Yeshivat Harei Yehuda

There are also many Hesder

Hesder

Hesder is an Israeli yeshiva program which combines advanced Talmudic studies with military service in the Israel Defense Forces, usually within a Religious Zionist framework...

 yeshivas which combine study with military service; various Hasidic

Hasidic Judaism

Hasidic Judaism or Hasidism, from the Hebrew —Ḥasidut in Sephardi, Chasidus in Ashkenazi, meaning "piety" , is a branch of Orthodox Judaism that promotes spirituality and joy through the popularisation and internalisation of Jewish mysticism as the fundamental aspects of the Jewish faith...

 yeshivas; and dozens of others.

Israel, Spanish and Portuguese-speaking

• Binyan Olam
• Shaarei Daat
• Mayanot
  Mayanot
  Mayanot Institute of Jewish Studies is a Chabad-Lubavitch yeshiva located in Makor Baruch, Jerusalem, Israel. Its faculty and student body are mostly American, and the yeshiva is targeted towards English and Spanish speaking baalei teshuva...
  
   (Spanish program)

Israel, English-speaking

Yeshivas located in Israel that cater to the international Anglophone

English language

English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

 community include:

• Aish HaTorah
  Aish HaTorah
  Aish HaTorah is a Jewish Orthodox organization and yeshiva. Aish HaTorah is actively pro-Israel and encourages Jewish people to visit Israel and connect to the land and its history. Some consider the organisation to reflect a more Religious Zionist philosophy in its attachment to Israel, promoting...
  
  
• Ateret Yerushalayim
• Yeshivas Bais Yisroel
• Bircas HaTorah
  Bircas HaTorah
  Yeshivas Bircas HaTorah is an orthodox yeshiva for Talmud professionals located in the Jewish Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem, founded by Rabbi Shimon Green in 1989.- History :...
  
  
• Boneh Yerushalayim
• Chassidic Rabbinical College (CRC)
• The Conservative Yeshiva
  Conservative Yeshiva
  The Conservative Yeshiva is a co-educational institute for study of traditional Jewish texts in Jerusalem, Israel. The Yeshiva was founded in 1995 and is under theAcademic Auspices of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America....
  
  
• Darche Noam/Shappel's
• Derech Institute (Ohr Sameach)
• Derech Etz Chaim
  Derech Etz Chaim
  Derech Etz Chaim is a post-high school religious zionistic yeshiva located in Har Nof, Jerusalem, Israel. It was designed for students to spend a year or more studying Torah after completing their high school studies and before embarking to university studies...
  
  
• Derech Hatalmud
• Eretz HaTzvi
  Yeshivat Eretz HaTzvi
  Yeshivat Eretz Hatzvi is a Modern Orthodox yeshiva, located in Katamon, Jerusalem, Israel. It was founded in 2004.Rabbi David Ebner and Rabbi Yehuda Susman serve as the Rashei Yeshiva. Rav Ebner also serves as the Yeshiva's Mashgiach ruchani...
  
  
• Heichal Hatorah
• Keser Hatalmud
• Lakewood East
  Lakewood East
  Lakewood East, officially Beth Medrash Govoha of America in Eretz Yisroel , is a yeshiva in Jerusalem headed by Rabbi Yaakov Eliezer Schwartzman, son of Rabbi Dov Schwartzman and the eldest grandson of Rabbi Aharon Kotler, founder of the Lakewood Yeshiva...
  
   (Israeli branch of Lakewood yeshiva)
• Lev Aryeh
• Lev Hatorah
• Ma'ale Gilboa
  Yeshivat Ma'ale Gilboa
  Yeshivat Ma'ale Gilboa is a Shiluv Yeshiva located on Kibbutz Ma'ale Gilboa in Israel's Gilboa Mountains. The Shiluv Yeshiva is unique in that it combines two years of Torah study with the full three years of army service. This is in contrast to students from Hesder Yeshivot, which only serve in...
  
  
• Machon Shlomo
  Machon Shlomo
  Machon Shlomo is an Orthodox yeshiva for men located in Har Nof, Jerusalem, Israel. Its faculty and student body are mostly American. Classes are taught in English....
  
  
• Machon Yaakov
  Machon Yaakov
  Machon Yaakov is a baal teshuva yeshiva for men located in Har Nof, Jerusalem, Israel. Its faculty and student body are all English speaking....
  
  
• Marbeh Torah
  Marbeh Torah
  Marbeh Torah is a Haredi yeshiva for English-speaking baalei teshuva, located in Bnei Brak. It belongs to the Lithuanian stream of Orthodox Judaism. The main beis midrash is located on the second floor of the building which also houses the Kollel Chazon Ish on its upper floors, close to the...
  
  
• Mayanot
  Mayanot
  Mayanot Institute of Jewish Studies is a Chabad-Lubavitch yeshiva located in Makor Baruch, Jerusalem, Israel. Its faculty and student body are mostly American, and the yeshiva is targeted towards English and Spanish speaking baalei teshuva...
  
  
• Medrash Chaim
  Medrash Chaim
  Medrash Chaim was a Haredi yeshiva for English-speaking high-school graduates, located in Jerusalem. It belonged to the Lithuanian stream of Orthodox Judaism. The main study hall was located on the second floor of the Be’ar Avraham building. The yeshiva started in August 2010 and closed it's doors...
  
  
• Meorot Chabad
• Mercaz HaTorah
  Mercaz Hatorah
  Mercaz Hatorah is a Lithuanian Charedi yeshiva located in Talpiot, Jerusalem. Founded by Rabbi Aryeh Rottman and Rabbi Chaim Kreiswirth zt"l in 1970, it primarily caters to students from the English speaking diaspora....
  
  
• Midrash Shmuel
• Nesiovs Aharon
• Netiv Aryeh

Ohr Avraham Beit Shemesh

• Ohr Somayach, Jerusalem
  Ohr Somayach, Jerusalem
  Ohr Somayach was founded in 1970. It is a yeshiva based in Jerusalem, Israel, catering mostly to young Jewish men, usually of college age, who are already interested in learning about Judaism...
  
  
• Ohr Yerushalayim
  Ohr Yerushalayim
  Yeshivat Ohr Yerushalayim is a yeshiva which caters to English-speaking students spending a year in Israel after high school...
  
  
• Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies
  Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies
  Pardes is an institute of Jewish learning, focused on primary sources, that is open to post-college men and women. It was founded in 1972 and is located in the neighborhood of Talpiot, Jerusalem....
  
  
• Reishit Yerushalayim (In Bet Shemesh)
• Shaarei Chaim
• Sha'arei Mevaseret Zion
• Sha'arei T'Vunah
• Sha'arei Yerushalayim
• Tehillas Shlomo
• Tiferet Yerushalayim
• Toras Moshe
• Torah Ore
• Toras Simcha (also known as Toras Simcha College of Talmudic Research)
• Torat Shraga
  Torat Shraga
  Yeshivat Torat Shraga is a post-high school yeshiva in Bayit Vegan, Jerusalem, Israel. Rabbi Avishai David is the rosh yeshiva...
  
  
• Tzeiri Hashluchim
• Yeshivat Baalei Daat (Sephardi)
• Yeshivat Dvar Yerushalayim
• Yeshivat HaMivtar
  Yeshivat HaMivtar
  Yeshivat Torat Yosef - Hamivtar is a men's yeshiva located in Efrat in the West Bank. The Roshei Yeshiva are Rabbi Yonatan Rosensweig and Rabbi Shlomo Riskin. The institution is primarily focused on post college-aged students and is part of the Ohr Torah Stone educational institutions founded by...
  
  
• Yeshivat Ohr David
  Yeshivat Ohr David
  Yeshivat Ohr David is a Jewish seminary and institute of higher learning located in Jerusalem, Israel....
  
  
• Yeshivat Temimei Darech
• Yesodei Hatorah
  Yesodei Hatorah
  Yeshivat Yesodei HaTorah is a Modern Orthodox Religious Zionist yeshiva situated in Moshav Zanoach near Bet Shemesh in Israel. Rabbi Pesach Wolicki and Rabbi Scott Kahn are the Roshei Yeshiva. Its focus is to train Bnei Torah....
  
  

United Kingdom

• Be'er Hatorah (in Gateshead)
• Chayei Olam (in London)
• Gateshead Yeshiva
  Gateshead Talmudical College
  Gateshead Talmudical College , popularly known as Gateshead Yeshiva, is located in the town of Gateshead in England. It is the largest yeshiva in Europe and considered to be one of the most prestigious advanced yeshivas in the Orthodox world. The student body currently numbers 350...
  
   (largest Yeshiva in Europe)
• Lev Simcha (in London)
• Manchester Yeshiva (Lubavitch]
• Hitchin Yeshiva
  Hitchin Yeshiva
  Yeshivas Toras Chessed is a Jewish yeshiva or rabbinical school for Torah study, the study of Talmud, Rabbinic literature and Responsa. It is based in Wellbury House, Great Offley, near Hitchin in Hertfordshire...
  
  
• Sha'arei Torah Yeshiva (in Manchester)
• Sunderland Yeshiva
  Sunderland Talmudical College
  The Sunderland Talmudical College , popularly known as Sunderland Yeshiva, was founded in the city of Sunderland in the United Kingdom during the 1940s. It re-located to Gateshead in June 1988, albeit keeping its original name. In its early years it catered for students from North Africa. The...
  
   (now located in Gateshead)
• Yeshiva Tiferes Yaakov Gateshead
• Yeshiva Gedola Lubavitch London
• Yeshiva Ketana Lubavitch London

United States

In Yeshivish

Yeshivish

Yeshivish , refers to a sociolect of English spoken by yeshiva students and other Jews with a strong connection to the Orthodox yeshiva world.-Research:Only a few serious studies have been written about Yeshivish...

 culture, there are some major Yeshivas which are known not so much by their name, but are rather referred to by the name of the location they are in. Examples include: Adelphia, Belle Harbor, Carteret

Carteret Yeshiva

Yeshiva Gedola of Carteret informally, "YGOC", also called Yeshiva Tiferes Yehuda Aryeh, is a yeshiva and non-profit organization located in Carteret, New Jersey.-History:...

, Lakewood

Beth Medrash Govoha

Beth Medrash Govoha is a Haredi yeshiva located in Lakewood Township, New Jersey. It is commonly known as BMG, or Lakewood Yeshiva....

, Long Beach, Passaic

Passaic Yeshiva

Yeshiva Gedola of Passaic is an advanced yeshiva in the Passaic Park neighborhood of Passaic, New Jersey catering to post-high-school-age men. Founded in 1973 by Rabbis Chaim Davis and Gershon Weisenfeld, and further developed by Rabbi Meir Stern who replaced Rabbi Wiesenfeld when the latter became...

, Peekskill, Philadelphia, Scranton, South Fallsburg, Staten Island and Waterbury. Locations below often refer to Metropolitan area

Metropolitan area

The term metropolitan area refers to a region consisting of a densely populated urban core and its less-populated surrounding territories, sharing industry, infrastructure, and housing. A metropolitan area usually encompasses multiple jurisdictions and municipalities: neighborhoods, townships,...

s, rather than to the city itself.

See also: "Jewish Religious Vocational Institutions" under Men's colleges in the United States

Men's colleges in the United States

Men's colleges in the United States are primarily undergraduate, Bachelor's degree-granting single-sex institutions that admit men exclusively. The most noted men's colleges are traditional liberal arts colleges, though the majority are institutions of learning for those preparing for religious...

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California

• Yeshiva Ohr Elchanan Chabad
• Yeshiva Gedola of Los Angeles
• Mesivta Birchas Yitzchok of Los Angeles
• Mesivta of Greater Los Angeles (Calabasas)
• JETS-- Jewish Vocational and Technical School (Lubavitch Yeshiva Gedola)

Connecticut

• Beis Dovid Shlomo - Oholei Torah Mesivta
  Oholei Torah
  Oholei Torah is the common name of the Lubavitch schools Educational Institute Oholei Menachem and Talmudical Seminary Oholei Torah...
  
   (New Haven, CT)
• Yeshiva Gedola of Bridgeport
  Yeshiva Gedola of Bridgeport
  Yeshiva Gedola of Bridgeport is a Jewish study institution in Bridgeport, Connecticut based in the Agudas Achim Synagogue on Arlington Street.The Rosh HaYeshiva, Rabbi Simcha Bunim Berger, was born in Montreal, Canada and raised in Los Angeles, California...
  
   (Bridgeport, CT)
• Yeshiva Gedola of Waterbury - http://waterburyyeshiva.org/ (Waterbury, CT)
• Yeshiva Bais Binyomin of Stamford (Stamford, CT)
• Yeshiva of New Haven (New Haven, CT)

Florida

• Academy of Jewish Education, Miami Beach - FL
• Yeshiva V'Kollel Beis Moshe Chaim
  Yeshiva V'Kollel Beis Moshe Chaim
  Yeshiva V'Kollel Beis Moshe Chaim is an Orthodox yeshiva and a kollel located in Miami Beach, Florida. Its Rosh Yeshiva is Rabbi Yochanan Zweig, an alumnus of Ner Israel Rabbinical College. After much anticipation, the Yeshiva has finally settled in their new campus, the old Howard Johnson Hotel...
  
   (Miami, FL)
• Yeshiva Gedolah Rabbinical College of Greater Miami- Lubavitch (Miami Beach, Fl)

• Yeshiva Toras Chaim Bais Medrash Zichron Ezra - North Miami Beach, FL

• Yeshiva Torah Or (N Miami Beach, Fl)

Illinois

• Hebrew Theological College
  Hebrew Theological College
  The Hebrew Theological College, known as "Skokie Yeshiva," is a Yeshiva in Skokie, Illinois which also functions as a private university on campus. The primary focus of the Yeshiva is to teach Torah and Jewish traditions...
  
  , Yeshivat Beit HaMidrash LaTorah (Skokie, IL)
• Telshe - Chicago
• Skokie Yeshiva
• Lubavitch Mesivta of Chicago

Indiana

• Rabbi Naftali Riff Yeshiva, (Indianapolis, IN)
• Yeshiva of South Bend, (South Bend, IN)

Maryland

• Tomchei Temimim
  Tomchei Temimim
  Tomchei Temimim is the central Yeshiva of the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic movement...
  
   Lubavitch (Baltimore, MD)
• Ner Yisroel (Baltimore, MD)
• Yeshiva of Greater Washington
  Yeshiva of Greater Washington
  The Yeshiva of Greater Washington is an all boys, Modern Orthodox community based Jewish Day School, that is located in Silver Spring, Maryland. It was originally founded in 1964 by Rabbi Gedaliah Anemer. It consists of a high school and beis medrash....
  
   (Silver Spring, MD)
• Bais Medrash and Mesivta of Baltimore (R' Shlanger's)
• Beis Medrash Birkas Shmuel (TA)

Michigan

• Yeshiva Gedolah of Detroit
• Yeshivat Akiva
  Yeshivat Akiva
  - The school's mission :Akiva Hebrew Day School - Yeshivat Akiva was founded in 1964 to promote religious Zionism and offer a combined the Judaic and secular studies education. Akiva is a Nursery through 12th grade Jewish Modern Orthodox school in Southfield, Michigan...
  
   - Southfield,MI

Missouri

• Mesivta D'Missouri/ Missouri Torah Institute (MTI)

Monsey

• Yeshivat Tiferet Torah Sephardic Heritage (Monsey, NY)
• Beis Medrash Elyon (Monsey, NY)
• Ohr Reuven
• Ohr Somayach
• Mesivta Shaarei Arazim
• Shaarei Torah
• Yeshiva Bais Shraga
• Yeshiva Gedula of Rockland
• Yeshiva Zichron Yaakov
• Yeshiva Menachem Mendel Lubavitch

Queens

• Beis Medrash L'Talmud - Lander College
  Lander College
  The Lander College for Men is a private, men's honors division of Touro College located in Kew Gardens Hills, New York. Its stated goal is to provide a rigorous college curriculum while maintaining a traditional Yeshiva environment...
  
   for Men (Flushing, NY)
• Mercaz HaTorah of Belle Harbor, Belle Harbor, NY
• Chofetz Chaim (Kew Gardens Hills, NY)
• Yeshivas Ohr Hachaim, Kew Gardens Hills, NY
• Yeshiva Shaar Hatorah
  Yeshiva Shaar Hatorah
  Yeshiva Shaar Hatorah is a yeshiva in Queens, New York that includes a high school and a program for post-high-school-age men . The Yeshiva also awards Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Talmudic law.It was founded in 1974 by Rabbis Kalman Epstein and Sholom Spitz...
  
   -Grodno ,Kew Gardens NY
• Yeshiva Etzion
  Yeshiva Etzion
  Yeshiva Etzion is a yeshiva located in Queens, NY. The yeshiva was established in 2003 by Rabbi Avraham Gaon. Like many yeshivot, Yeshiva Etzion is a center of Talmud, Halacha and other Jewish studies and is open to students of all backgrounds....
  
  , Fresh Meadows, NY

Brooklyn

• Beth Hatalmud Rabbinical College
  Beth Hatalmud Rabbinical College
  Beth Hatalmud Rabbinical College, also known as Bais Hatalmud, is a small and selective Rabbinical college located in the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn, New York.-Founding and Mission:...
  
  , (Bensonhurst, New York)
• Bais Joseph Novardok - Bialystok (Brooklyn, NY)
• Chaim Berlin
  Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin
  Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin or Yeshivas Rabbeinu Chaim Berlin, is a Haredi Lithuanian-type yeshiva located in Brooklyn, New York. Established in 1904 as Yeshiva Tiferes Bachurim, it is the oldest yeshiva in Kings County...
  
    (Brooklyn, NY)
• Yeshivas Chasan Sofer, Borough Park, Brooklyn
  Borough Park, Brooklyn
  Borough Park , is a neighborhood in the southwestern part of the borough of Brooklyn, in New York City in the United States....
  
  
• Yeshiva Derech Hatalmud (Brooklyn, NY)
• Yeshiva Derech Hatorah (Brooklyn, NY)
• Hadar Hatorah
  Hadar Hatorah
  Yeshiva Hadar Hatorah is a Chabad men's yeshiva in Brooklyn, New York. It is the world's first yeshiva for baali teshuva.-History:The yeshiva was founded in 1962 by Rabbi Yisroel Jacobson, a Chabad activist, to accommodate baalei teshuva interested in full-time study in a traditional yeshiva...
  
   (Brooklyn NY)
• Mirrer Yeshiva  (Brooklyn, NY)
• Oholei Torah
• Yeshivas Toras Emes Kamenitz (Brooklyn,NY)
• Yeshiva Torah Vodaath  (Brooklyn, NY)
• Yeshiva Torah Temima (Brooklyn, NY)
• Yeshiva Tiferes Yisroel (Brooklyn, NY)
• Yeshivas Tomchei Temimim
  Tomchei Temimim
  Tomchei Temimim is the central Yeshiva of the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic movement...
  
   - Lubavitch
• Yagdil Torah (Borough Park)

Manhattan

• MTJ
  Mesivtha Tifereth Jerusalem
  Mesivtha Tifereth Jerusalem, is one of the oldest existent yeshivot in New York City, and is renowned for being the institution led by Rabbi Moshe Feinstein.-Location:The yeshiva has two campuses....
  
   (New York, NY)
• Yeshivat Chovevei Torah
  Yeshivat Chovevei Torah
  Yeshivat Chovevei Torah Rabbinical School is a "Modern Open Orthodox" yeshiva founded in 1999 by Rabbi Avi Weiss.Currently located in Riverdale, New York, it seeks to "recruit, professionally train, and place rabbis" who will promote its founder's philosophy...
  
  
• Yeshivat Hadar
• Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary
  Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary
  Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary , or Yeshivat Rabbeinu Yitzchak Elchanan, is the rabbinical seminary of Yeshiva University, located in Washington Heights, New York. It is named after Rabbi Yitzchak Elchanan Spektor, who died the year it was founded, 1896...
  
   (Yeshivas Rabbenu Yitzchak Elchanan) of Yeshiva University
  Yeshiva University
  Yeshiva University is a private university in New York City, with six campuses in New York and one in Israel. Founded in 1886, it is a research university ranked as 45th in the US among national universities by U.S. News & World Report in 2012...
  
   (New York, NY)
• Yeshiva Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch (Breuer's)
• Beit Midrash Yeshiva (New York, NY)

Staten Island

• Nesivos HaTorah, Staten Island
  Staten Island
  Staten Island is a borough of New York City, New York, United States, located in the southwest part of the city. Staten Island is separated from New Jersey by the Arthur Kill and the Kill Van Kull, and from the rest of New York by New York Bay...
  
  , NY
• Rabbi Jacob Joseph School
  Rabbi Jacob Joseph School
  The Rabbi Jacob Joseph School is an Orthodox Jewish day school located in Staten Island, New York that serves students from nursery through twelfth grade. The school was founded in 1903 and named in honor of Rabbi Jacob Joseph, chief rabbi of New York City's Association of American Orthodox Hebrew...
  
   (RJJ) (Edison, NJ and Staten Island
  Staten Island
  Staten Island is a borough of New York City, New York, United States, located in the southwest part of the city. Staten Island is separated from New Jersey by the Arthur Kill and the Kill Van Kull, and from the rest of New York by New York Bay...
  
  , NY)
• Yeshiva of Staten Island (Staten Island, NY)

Long Island

• Yeshiva Derech Ayson (Yeshiva of Far Rockaway)
  Yeshiva of Far Rockaway
  Yeshiva of Far Rockaway is a Haredi yeshiva located on 802 Hicksville Road, Far Rockaway, Queens in New York City. It comprises a high school and beis medrash, or seminary. The school was founded by the current rosh yeshiva, Rabbi Yechiel Yitzchok Perr, and by the late Rabbi Nachman Bulman...
  
   (Far Rockaway, NY)
• Yeshiva Darchei Torah, Mesivta Chaim Shlomo (Far Rockaway, NY)
• Yeshiva Ketana of Long Island
• Mesivta of Roslyn, North Hills New York, http://www.mesivtaofroslyn.info/home/3.html
• Hebrew Academy of Nassau County
• Yeshiva Zichron Aryeh
• North Shore Hebrew Academy
• Hebrew Academy of Five towns and the Rockaways
• Yeshiva of South Shore
• Yeshiva Har Torah
• Shor Yoshuv
• Yeshiva Bnei Torah

Catskills

• Yeshiva Gedolah Zichron Moshe
  Yeshiva Gedolah Zichron Moshe
  The Yeshiva Gedolah Zichron Moshe, also known as Yeshiva of South Fallsburg, is a private Rabbinical college, or Yeshiva, located in a rural setting, in South Fallsburg, Sullivan County, New York....
  
   (South Fallsburg, NY)
• Yeshiva Gedola of Peekskill (Peekskill, NY)
• Yeshiva Gedolah Zichron Mayir  (Mountaindale, NY)

New Jersey

• Beth Medrash Govoha
  Beth Medrash Govoha
  Beth Medrash Govoha is a Haredi yeshiva located in Lakewood Township, New Jersey. It is commonly known as BMG, or Lakewood Yeshiva....
  
   (Lakewood, NJ)
• Yeshiva Gedola of Passaic
• Yeshivas Be'er Yitzchok (Elizabeth, NJ)http://www.elizabethkollel.org
• Yeshiva Gedola of Carteret
  Carteret
  Carteret may refer to:*George Carteret, 1st Baronet , one of the first proprietors of New Jersey*George Carteret, 1st Baron Carteret...
  
   (Carteret, NJ)
• Mesivta Zichron Baruch
  Mesivta Zichron Baruch
  Mesivta Zichron Baruch, also known as Mesivta of Clifton, is an Orthodox Jewish high school in Clifton, New Jersey. Established in 2007, it has over 76 students.-Location:...
  
   (Clifton, NJ)
• Bais Meir Yeshiva (Lakewood,NJ)
• Linden Yeshiva
• Springfield Yeshiva
• Yeshiva Gedola of Cliffwood
• Paterson Yeshiva
• Deal Yeshiva
• Yeshiva Gedola of Edison (RJJ)
• Yeshiva Gedola of Bayonne
• Yeshiva of Belmar
• Yeshiva Gedola of Teaneck
• Yeshiva of Englewood
• Yeshivas Chofetz Chaim of Cherry Hill
• Yeshivas Toras Chaim (Lakewood, NJ)
• Yeshivas Toras Chesed (Lakewood, NJ)
• Yeshivas Ohr Yissochar (Lakewood, NJ)
• Yeshivas Medrash Chaim (Lakewood, NJ)
• Yeshivas Tomchei Temimim
  Tomchei Temimim
  Tomchei Temimim is the central Yeshiva of the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic movement...
  
   Lubavitch, Rabbinical College of America
  Rabbinical College of America
  The Rabbinical College of America is one of the largest Chabad Lubavitch Chasidic Yeshivas in the world. The Yeshiva is located in Morristown, New Jersey and has trained thousands of Rabbinic students. The Yeshiva is supported by Jewish philanthropists such as David T. Chase, and Ronald Lauder of...
  
  , Morristown, NJ
• Yeshiva of Mesivta Keser Torah (Belmar , NJ)
• Yeshiva of Asbury Park (Lakewood, NJ)

Pennsylvania

• Talmudical Yeshiva of Philadelphia
  Talmudical Yeshiva of Philadelphia
  The Talmudical Yeshiva of Philadelphia, known as "Philly", is a Haredi Litvish yeshiva. Its roshei yeshiva are Rabbi Elya Svei, Rabbi Shmuel Kamenetsky, Rabbi Yehudah Svei and Rabbi Sholom Kaminetsky...
  
  
• Yeshiva Tiferes Avigdor (Philadelphia, PA)
• Yeshiva Bais Moshe (Scranton, PA)

Wisconsin

• Wisconsin Institute of Torah Study - WITS (Milwaukee, WI)

There are a handful of other prestigious yeshivas and dozens of smaller ones, including those affiliated with various Hasidic

Hasidic Judaism

Hasidic Judaism or Hasidism, from the Hebrew —Ḥasidut in Sephardi, Chasidus in Ashkenazi, meaning "piety" , is a branch of Orthodox Judaism that promotes spirituality and joy through the popularisation and internalisation of Jewish mysticism as the fundamental aspects of the Jewish faith...

 groups.

Australia

• Rabbinical College of Australia and New Zealand, Melbourne
• Mesivta Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
• Rabbinical College of Sydney, Sydney (Chabad Lubavich)

Belgium

• Yeshiva des Etudiants de Bruxelles
• Etz Chaim Wilrijk Antwerpen Yeshiva
• Yeshivat Tal Toïre

Toronto

• Yeshiva Darchei Torah of Toronto
• Yeshivas Lubavitch Toronto
• Yeshivas Ner Yisroel of Toronto
  Yeshivas Ner Yisroel of Toronto
  Yeshivas Ner Yisroel of Toronto is a Haredi yeshiva that was founded in 1959 as a branch of Yeshivas Ner Yisroel in Baltimore . It is no longer affiliated with Ner Yisroel in Baltimore. The yeshiva includes a both a Beis Midrash program and a high school.- Past leadership :The yeshiva was...
  
  
• Yeshiva Gedolah Zichron Shmayahu
• Yeshivas Mishkan HaTorah
• Yeshivat Or Chaim
• Yeshivat Nachalas Tzvi (Kaplans')

Montreal

• Yeshiva Gedolah Merkaz Hatorah Tiferes Mordechai
• Mesivta Tomchei Temimim Lubavitch
  Rabbinical College of Canada
  Rabbinical College of Canada , is a Chabad rabbinical institution of higher education. It is located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada....
  
  

Germany

• Yeshivas Beis Zion, Berlin
• Yeshiva Gedolah
  Yeshiva Gedolah
  Yeshiva Gedolah or Yeshiva High School is a type of yeshiva, a Jewish educational institution, which combines religious education with a high school education....
  
   Chabad
  Chabad
  Chabad or Chabad-Lubavitch is a major branch of Hasidic Judaism.Chabad may also refer to:*Chabad-Strashelye, a defunct branch of the Chabad school of Hasidic Judaism*Chabad-Kapust or Kapust, a defunct branch of the Chabad school of Hasidic Judaism...
  
  , (Frankfurt
  Frankfurt
  Frankfurt am Main , commonly known simply as Frankfurt, is the largest city in the German state of Hesse and the fifth-largest city in Germany, with a 2010 population of 688,249. The urban area had an estimated population of 2,300,000 in 2010...
  
  )
• Yeshiva Gedolah
  Yeshiva Gedolah
  Yeshiva Gedolah or Yeshiva High School is a type of yeshiva, a Jewish educational institution, which combines religious education with a high school education....
  
   Chabad
  Chabad
  Chabad or Chabad-Lubavitch is a major branch of Hasidic Judaism.Chabad may also refer to:*Chabad-Strashelye, a defunct branch of the Chabad school of Hasidic Judaism*Chabad-Kapust or Kapust, a defunct branch of the Chabad school of Hasidic Judaism...
  
  , (Berlin
  Berlin
  Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...
  
  )

South Africa

See also: Jewish education in South Africa under History of the Jews in South Africa.

• Kollel Bet Mordechai
• Kollel Toras Chaim, South Africa
• Kollel Yad Shaul
  Kollel Yad Shaul
  Kollel Yad Shaul is a Charedi yeshiva and Beit Midrash, based in Johannesburg, South Africa. Established in 1975, it was originally based in Yeoville, Johannesburg until 2000, when it moved to the suburb of The Gardens...
  
  
• Lubavitch Yeshiva Gedolah of Johannesburg
  Lubavitch Yeshiva Gedolah of Johannesburg
  The Lubavitch Yeshiva Gedolah of Johannesburg is a Chabad Yeshiva based in Orchards, Johannesburg. It is headed by Rabbi Noam Wagner, with Rabbi Y...
  
  
• Ohr Somayach, South Africa
  Ohr Somayach, South Africa
  Ohr Somayach in South Africa is an affiliate of Ohr Somayach, Jerusalem, a network of Haredi yeshivas and Synagogues. Like its parent institution, it focuses on educating baal teshuvas...
  
  
• Rabbinical College of Pretoria
  Rabbinical College of Pretoria
  The Rabbinical College of Pretoria is a Chabad Yeshiva in Pretoria, South Africa. It was established in 2001 under the inspiration of late Chief Rabbi Cyril Harris...
  
  
• Yeshiva of Cape Town
  Yeshiva of Cape Town
  The Yeshiva of Cape Town is a kollel and yeshiva established in 1994. Its full title is "The Rabbi Cyril and Ann Harris Yeshiva of Cape Town", named for the late Chief Rabbi. It is based in the Beit Midrash Morasha community, in the suburb of Sea Point, Cape Town.The Yeshiva's ideology is Religious...
  
  
• Yeshivah Gedolah of Johannesburg
  Yeshivah Gedolah of Johannesburg
  Yeshivah Gedolah of Johannesburg was one of the first Yeshivahs established in South Africa . Since its founding in 1973, it has played an important - though understated - role in the South African religious community; see Jewish education in South Africa...
  
  
• Yeshiva Maharsha Beis Aharon
  Yeshiva Maharsha Beis Aharon
  Yeshiva Maharsha Beis Aharon is a Haredi Community and Yeshiva based in Fairmount, Johannesburg. The community was founded in 1982 by the late Rabbi Aharon Pfeuffer , and is Headed by Rabbi M. Raff. The Yeshiva comprises a Beit Midrash, a post high school programme, and a semicha programme...
  
  
• Yeshiva Pri Eitz Chaim
  Yeshiva Pri Eitz Chaim
  Yeshiva Pri Eitz Chaim was a Chareidi yeshiva based in Johannesburg, South Africa. The Yeshiva was established in 2004 and operated for three years; it was accommodated by the Kollel Yad Shaul in Gardens, Johannesburg. The then Rosh Yeshivas were Rabbis Berel Eichestein and Gedalya Sternstein...