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yeshiva

noun

variants also yeshivah

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as in madrassa

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Recent Examples of yeshiva Teitz, said their yeshiva is the only Jewish house of worship in town, where forty roughly high-school age students attend. — Emma Seiwell, New York Daily News, 31 Jan. 2026 The modern Yiddish theater was conjured into being in barns and beer halls by Avrom Goldfaden, a yeshiva student turned impresario, in 1870s Romania. — Literary Hub, 22 Jan. 2026 What To Know The Lawsuit A yeshiva is a Jewish religious school, typically for boys, that focuses on intensive study of sacred texts such as the Torah and Talmud, with varying amounts of general secular education depending on the community. — Robert Alexander, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Sep. 2025 Prosecutors had tried pointing to two cases – the 1994 shooting of a van full of Hasidic yeshiva students on the Brooklyn Bridge, and the 1997 shooting from the observation deck of the Empire State Building – as terroristic acts that ended with just one deceased victim. — Dakin Andone, CNN Money, 16 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for yeshiva

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One was a girls' madrassa, or religious school.

— ABC News, ABC News, 18 Apr. 2026
After his mother’s death, he was sent to study Urdu and Islamic calligraphy at his grandfather’s madrassa in Sidhpur, Gujarat.

— Oscar Holland, CNN Money, 24 Oct. 2025

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Traditional public school enrollment for kindergarten and first grade is 25% lower than enrollment in the high school grades.

— Austin Horn, Miami Herald, 29 Aug. 2026
Research shows that children participating in the Imagination Library demonstrate a 29% increase in kindergarten readiness, the county’s website said.

— Michelle Mullins, Chicago Tribune, 28 Aug. 2026

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The Republican candidates are Andy Anuzis, who has worked as a charter school principal and the president of the charter school network Cornerstone Schools, and former WSU Board of Governors candidate Christa Murphy, who has worked in technology.

— Clara Hendrickson, Freep.com, 28 Aug. 2026
Superintendent Howard Hepburn proposed the board to close 10 schools at a workshop on Tuesday, including William Dandy Middle in Fort Lauderdale, a school where a Schools of Hope charter school plans to move in.

— Amanda Rosa, Miami Herald, 26 Aug. 2026

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The school did not mention Stephens or specify a reason for the change in its announcement.

— Ira Gorawara, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2026
The increasing chances of being taken, whether one is in a church, mosque, school, on a trip to the capital Abuja or resting at home, is a grim reality that should not be the case given Tinubu’s firm campaign pledges.

— Alexander Onukwue, semafor.com, 31 Aug. 2026

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