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yeshiva

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variants also yeshivah

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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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Opened in March on the grounds of the Hazrati Imam ensemble, a 25-acre architectural site that includes a historic mosque and madrassa, the center is a research library, a digital learning hub, and the world's largest museum of Islamic civilization.

— Ashlea Halpern, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Sep. 2026
One was a girls' madrassa, or religious school.

— ABC News, ABC News, 18 Apr. 2026

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They were addressed to Texas students, purporting to be a resource guide for LGBTQ+ students as young as kindergarten, with the Texas Transgender Student Union listed on the return address.

— Kelsy Mittauer, CBS News, 22 Oct. 2026
In Marylou Escobar’s kindergarten classroom at John Muir Elementary in Glendale, seven of her 20 students attended transitional kindergarten.

— Emily Woodruff, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2026

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An entire section on the charter school group’s website is dedicated to its philosophy that a smile can make a difference.

— ABC News, ABC News, 24 Oct. 2026
While both traditional public and charter school enrollment has declined, private schools have largely seen growth in Miami-Dade, according to the available data and reports from large private school operators like the Archdiocese of Miami.

— Austin Horn, Miami Herald, 23 Oct. 2026

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While Usher was off basking in the afterglow of Confessions, maturing into a divorcé in the mid-2000s, the R&B world was already priming itself for a new-school successor.

— Clover Hope, Pitchfork, 25 Oct. 2026
Many voters thank him for pulling Serbia from economic obscurity and orchestrating a period of sustained modernisation including new highways, railways, schools and hospitals.

— Reuters, NBC news, 25 Oct. 2026

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