Editing Torah study (section)

==Torah study abroad in Israel==
[[File:The_students_a_Midreshet_Shilat.JPG|thumb|Female students [[Chavrusa]]-studying at [[Midrasha|Midreshet]] Shilat in Israel|219x219px]]
Devoting a year to Torah study in the modern [[Land of Israel]] is a common practice among [[United States|American]],<ref name=AbroadIsrael.NYT2002>{{cite news |newspaper=[[The New York Times]]
   |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/02/world/death-campus-students-abroad-study-israel-american-jews-feel-tremors-worry.html
   |title=Death on the campus: Students abroad, Study in Israel: American Jews Feel the Tremors and Worry
   |author1=Joseph Berger |author2=Jennifer Medina |date=August 1, 2002}}</ref> and, to a lesser extent, [[Europe]]an, [[History of the Jews in South Africa|South African]], South American, and Australian [[Modern Orthodox Judaism|Modern Orthodox]] Jews. Young adults spend a year studying Torah in the Land of Israel. It is common<ref>[[Yeshiva University]] ... "nearly 90 percent of undergraduates will have spent a year of study in Israel before they graduate"</ref><ref name=AbroadIsrael.NYT2002/> both among males and females, with the boys normally going to a yeshiva and the girls to a [[midrasha]] (often called ''seminary'' or ''seminaria''). Yeshivot with year-in-Israel programs include: [[Mir yeshiva (Jerusalem)]], [[Yeshivat Sha'alvim]], [[Yeshivat Kerem B'Yavneh]], [[Yeshivat Har Etzion]], [[Yeshivas Midrash Shmuel]], [[Yeshivat HaMivtar]], [[Machon Meir]], [[Dvar Yerushalayim]], [[Aish HaTorah]], and [[Ohr Somayach, Jerusalem|Ohr Somayach]]. Seminaries, or midrashot, include: [[Midreshet HaRova]], [[Midreshet Lindenbaum]], [[Migdal Oz]], [[Nishmat]], [[B'not Chava]], Michlalah,<ref>[http://www.machal.michlalah.edu/ Machal at Michlalah], ''Michlalah.edu''</ref> [[Neve Yerushalayim]].

Multi-year programs also exist: [[Hasidic Judaism|Hasidic]] and [[Haredi Judaism|Haredi]] boys from abroad often spend many years studying in the Land of Israel. [[Bnei Akiva]] offers a number of options to spend a year of study in Israel, as part of their ''[[Hakhshara|Hachshara]]'' programs.