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On June 30, 2014, the bodies of three yeshiva boys kidnapped by Hamas were discovered — and a 50-day war followed.
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Grace Gilson, Sun Sentinel, 2 July 2025
Simmons was a Hasidic Orthodox Jew from Israel who found a new faith one fateful day while exiting the yeshiva.
—Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 5 June 2025
What if, as Kagan asked, a Hasidic community wants its charter yeshiva to be free to teach Talmud without having to comply with curriculum requirements imposed on other charters?
—Ruth Marcus, New Yorker, 5 May 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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Grace Gilson, Sun Sentinel, 2 July 2025
Simmons was a Hasidic Orthodox Jew from Israel who found a new faith one fateful day while exiting the yeshiva.
—Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 5 June 2025
What if, as Kagan asked, a Hasidic community wants its charter yeshiva to be free to teach Talmud without having to comply with curriculum requirements imposed on other charters?
—Ruth Marcus, New Yorker, 5 May 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
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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
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The piece filled both a madrasa and a caravanserai, placing ancient craft next to modern technology.—
Dada Jovanovic,
ABC News,
28 Sep. 2025
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Bonds are used for capital expenditures such as new schools and facility buildings, whereas overrides are used for operational expenses such as classroom size, teacher salaries, music and art programs, and full-day kindergarten.—
Erick Trevino,
AZCentral.com,
10 Nov. 2025
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Strobel, a Bavarian kindergarten teacher, had been traveling Australia’s east coast with her then-boyfriend Tobias Suckfuell — who now goes by Tobias Moran — along with his sister and a friend, per The Guardian.—
Christina Coulter,
PEOPLE,
7 Nov. 2025
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Aspire Capitol Heights is a TK-8 charter school which enrolls about 220 primarily Black and socioeconomically disadvantaged students, only half of which reside in Sacramento City Unified district boundaries.—
Jennah Pendleton,
Sacbee.com,
8 Nov. 2025
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In Denver, all four of the teacher union’s candidates won despite Denver Families Action, a political group with charter school ties, spending more than $1 million to flip the board from the Denver Classroom Teachers Association.—
Jessica Seaman,
Denver Post,
6 Nov. 2025
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The state will collect feedback and purchasing data during the pilot year to evaluate the program, and there are plans to expand into additional schools across the state in the 2026-27 school year, the release said.—
Cristina LaRue,
Arkansas Online,
7 Nov. 2025
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He was known to the university only as Justin Phillips and none of the school’s records indicated a prior identity, according to the statement.—
Tim Stelloh,
NBC news,
7 Nov. 2025
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“Yeshiva.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/yeshiva. Accessed 14 Nov. 2025.
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