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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.
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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
His ultra-Orthodox allies wanted the reform to prevent the drafting of thousands of yeshiva students, who have long been exempt from military service.
—Ilan Z. Baron, Foreign Affairs, 12 Aug. 2024
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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
His ultra-Orthodox allies wanted the reform to prevent the drafting of thousands of yeshiva students, who have long been exempt from military service.
—Ilan Z. Baron, Foreign Affairs, 12 Aug. 2024
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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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Before Walter even reached kindergarten, his teachers were kicking him out of class.—
Laurie Stern,
NPR,
26 Apr. 2026
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Dozens of children attended Larysa and Oleh’s kindergarten.—
Lizzie Johnson,
New Yorker,
25 Apr. 2026
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That stint included local investigations into the United Neighborhood Organization and its charter school network and a fraudulent hotel deal in the city of Harvey.—
Jake Sheridan,
Chicago Tribune,
27 Apr. 2026
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Voller then spoke of Angel — a lanky star baseball pitcher who, months before the explosion, had finished a perfect 10-0 season for his Stockton charter school.—
Joe Rubin,
Sacbee.com,
19 Apr. 2026
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Hepburn has said all of these positions are based in district offices, not schools.—
Scott Travis,
Sun Sentinel,
27 Apr. 2026
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Other schools are stepping up to take in students as transfers, but no similar partnerships have been established for staff members.—
Neal Riley,
CBS News,
27 Apr. 2026
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“Yeshiva.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/yeshiva. Accessed 29 Apr. 2026.
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