How to Use yeshiva in a Sentence

yeshiva

noun
  • Sigall had found that most judges had almost no understanding of what went on in a yeshiva.
    — Larissa MacFarquhar, The New Yorker, 30 Nov. 2020
  • But the yeshiva complex has so far proven to be Beit El’s main engine of growth.
    — Isabel Kershner, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2017
  • There were tears outside the synagogue, which has a yeshiva for children on the second floor.
    — Heather Yakin, USA TODAY, 12 Dec. 2019
  • The yeshiva also operates a girls school for kindergarten through eighth-grade students and a girls high school.
    — cleveland, 17 Dec. 2019
  • Synagogues and yeshivas are locked, the streets nearly empty.
    — David M. Halbfinger, New York Times, 15 Apr. 2020
  • But the bustle is missing, except for now the yeshiva students who are coming back to their studies.
    — Eben Brown, Fox News, 28 Dec. 2023
  • No Wall, no Torah, no yeshiva, no separation, no dos and don’ts.
    — Elias Muhanna, The New Yorker, 9 Apr. 2017
  • Oscar nights were sacrosanct for me as a yeshiva boy growing up on Long Island.
    — Howard Rosenman, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Mar. 2018
  • At a visit to a Brooklyn yeshiva earlier this month, Adams praised the school.
    — Shira Hanau, sun-sentinel.com, 25 Mar. 2021
  • Roth was not assigned reading at my yeshiva, mind you; no, my introduction to him was an accident.
    — New York Times, 24 May 2018
  • Alumni and current students walked out from the safety of the yeshiva's walls to confront enemies.
    — Eben Brown, Fox News, 28 Dec. 2023
  • 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
  • Deep root systems connected the earth between their backyard and the neighboring yeshiva.
    — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 10 Apr. 2018
  • The ruling requires the yeshiva to work with city education officials to come up with an improvement plan.
    — Brian M. Rosenthal, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2022
  • The schools under the city’s scrutiny are a small percentage of the 275 yeshivas citywide.
    — Katie Honan, WSJ, 20 Nov. 2018
  • An Israeli yeshiva student lectured him on the Seven Laws of Noah.
    — New York Times, 28 Apr. 2022
  • Of the more than a dozen Hasidic rabbis and yeshiva officials Fox News reached out to for comment, none responded.
    — Elizabeth Llorente | Fox News, Fox News, 12 June 2018
  • Local police have upped patrols near the Carteret yeshiva in response to the ramming incident in Brooklyn.
    — Emma Seiwell, New York Daily News, 31 Jan. 2026
  • At one yeshiva in Israel’s Negev Desert, 95% of the students are drafted into combat units.
    — NBC News, 5 Jan. 2024
  • The country's Supreme Court ruled last week that the government must end subsidies for yeshiva students who fail to serve in Israel's armed forces.
    — NBC News, 2 Apr. 2024
  • Adam Gabay plays Avishay Elbaz, an aimless yeshiva student swept up in the fervor to avenge the murder of the three Jewish students.
    — Los Angeles Times, 22 Aug. 2019
  • He and other young men in black coats and broad brim black hats were gathered for evening prayer outside the prestigious Chazon Ish religious seminary, or yeshiva.
    — Jennifer Ludden, NPR, 26 Mar. 2024
  • Once in Palestine, Yoel was enrolled in a Lubavitch yeshiva and proved to be an exceptionally gifted student.
    — New York Times, 26 July 2021
  • In 2021, Ben-Gvir returned to his old yeshiva for Independence Day.
    — Ruth Margalit, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2023
  • The gym, which is used by the elementary school Corpus Christi Academy in Lyndhurst, will also be shared with the yeshiva.
    — cleveland, 17 Dec. 2019
  • 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
  • Ephy Carlebach, 18, attends yeshiva school in Beit Shemesh, one of the first Israeli cities Iran attacked during the war.
    — Christine Sloan, CBS News, 21 Mar. 2026
  • Tauber, 19, was a Monsey resident who went to Israel four weeks ago to study the Talmud at a yeshiva there, Weissmandel said.
    — Washington Post, 30 Apr. 2021
  • The northern Israeli town of Karmiel reported last week that almost half the 400 students at a local yeshiva had tested positive.
    — Steve Hendrix, Washington Post, 5 Sep. 2020
  • That so many students join Israel’s military is a point of pride for this yeshiva, where roughly 95% of the student body is ultimately drafted into combat units, the school said.
    — Josh Lederman, NBC News, 7 Jan. 2024

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