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The modern Yiddish theater was conjured into being in barns and beer halls by Avrom Goldfaden, a yeshiva student turned impresario, in 1870s Romania.
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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
Both girls attended Bnos Malka Academy, an all-girls yeshiva in Forest Hills about two and a half miles from the family’s Kew Gardens Hill home.
—David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 13 Aug. 2025
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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
Both girls attended Bnos Malka Academy, an all-girls yeshiva in Forest Hills about two and a half miles from the family’s Kew Gardens Hill home.
—David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 13 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for yeshiva
Noun
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One was a girls' madrassa, or religious school.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
18 Apr. 2026
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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
Noun
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The kids who don’t get that early education — those who begin school in kindergarten and haven’t built (English) reading skills at home — are more likely to start at a disadvantage.—
Theo Peck-Suzuki,
Hartford Courant,
21 June 2026
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Rooney is a creative alternative sure to stand out on the first day of kindergarten.—
Beth Ann Mayer,
Parents,
20 June 2026
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In Broward, meanwhile, the district lost 9,512 non-charter students from 2023-2024 to 2024-2025 and gained 68 charter school students.—
Sarah Perkel,
USA Today,
18 June 2026
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Sylvia Mitchell previously led the charter school network Legacy Traditional Schools in Texas.—
Austin Horn
June 16,
Miami Herald,
16 June 2026
Noun
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Beginning with the 2027-28 school year, all high schools will be required to offer a personal finance course.—
Conor McGill,
CBS News,
23 June 2026
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One person is dead Monday following a fatal crash outside a south Kansas City school.—
Caroline Zimmerman,
Kansas City Star,
23 June 2026
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“Yeshiva.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/yeshiva. Accessed 25 Jun. 2026.
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