Synonyms of yeshiva

yeshiva

noun

variants also yeshivah

as in madrassa

Related Words

• madrassa
• Sunday school
• kindergarten
• charter school
• school
• magnet school
• high school
• public school
• secondary school
• trade school
• junior high school
• elementary school
• common school
• grammar school
• middle school
• senior high school
• primary school
• academy
• minischool
• prep school
• seminary
• prep
• preparatory school
• boarding school
• academe
• training school

Example Sentences

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