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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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Beijing in recent years has rapidly expanded mandates for schools in ethnic minority regions to adopt primarily Chinese-language education, starting from kindergarten.

— CNN Money, CNN Money, 2 Aug. 2026
Maybe there’s even a Katniss or a Rue in your kid’s kindergarten class.

— Parents, Parents, 31 July 2026

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The Colorado school testing Mithril's drone, a public charter school called the John Adams Academy, is tapping private funding after the county backed away from providing $200,000 for the program.

— Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 29 July 2026
For San Diego, one of those lessons came in 2019 through the Academic Arts and Action, or A3, charter school fraud scheme, which siphoned more than $400 million from public education and ultimately led to the criminal prosecution of 11 individuals.

— Malia M Cohen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 July 2026

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States typically decide which vaccines are required for school attendance, but Covid-19 vaccines are not on any of these lists.

— Deidre McPhillips, CNN Money, 4 Aug. 2026
Almanza was charged with threatening to commit an act of mass violence on school property and is currently being held on a $1 million bond in the Faulkner County jail.

— Daniel McFadin, Arkansas Online, 4 Aug. 2026

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