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  • Other shuls run similar initiatives for unmarried bochers, but this is the only program to officially be called a kollel in Sydney.

    The Australian Jewish News 2010

  • For services, he attends the Hebrew Orthodox Congregation or the kollel, which is an institute for Talmudic study, in South Bend.

    Wake Up From Your Slumber - The Truth Will Set You Free 2009

  • Especially is this so since a few of the midrashot are developing selected groups of students who receive grants that enable them to devote their entire time to study, thus imitating the situation long existent for men who attend a kollel.

    Leaders in Israel's Religious Communities. 2009

  • She ended her life in apparent obscurity as a widow in the Volhynian Hasidic kollel of Jerusalem, where archival evidence dating from the 1860s and 1870s seems at least to confirm the historicity of her existence.

    Hasidism. 2009

  • One member deferred Harvard for a few years, ultimately becoming one of the metzuyanim star students of the Mir Yeshiva kollel in Yerushalayim and undoubtedly left someone in the admissions office in Cambridge scratching his head.

    Is NCSY appropriate for our public schools? | Jewschool 2007

  • Even Ohr Somayach in Monsey yeah, I know, one of your many kiruv nemeses when I was there, had a guy come in to talk about how kollel was bad and how “work was therapeutic”.

    JPPPI Don’t Like Frum People | Jewschool 2007

  • Two frum guys who travel with Matis had made arrangements for him to stay with the director of the Kollel here and spend Shabbos with the kollel rabis.

    The King Without a Crown (or a yellow flag) | Jewschool 2007

  • And yet Wednesday's arrest of Jerusalem's former mayor Uri Lupolianski, amid allegations that he obtained millions of shekels in "donations" for the magnificent Yad Sarah, and smaller sums for his political benefit and for a kollel run by one of his sons, in return for expediting the construction of the Holyland hilltop eyesore in southwest Jerusalem, marks a new low.

    JPost.com - Front Page 2010

  • My husband's former rosh kollel used to give a shiur on Pesach preparation and he would say,

    Beyond BT - The Baal Teshuva / Baal Teshuvah site for Baalei Teshuva / Baalei Teshuvah and Other Growth Oriented Jews Shayna 2010

  • Yitschok, who is 24, is studying in Brooklyn in a kollel, a seminar-type Torah study group, while his wife teaches in the Lubavitcher kindergarten.

    Chicago Reader 2010

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