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The modern Yiddish theater was conjured into being in barns and beer halls by Avrom Goldfaden, a yeshiva student turned impresario, in 1870s Romania.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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David Goodhue,
Miami Herald,
13 Aug. 2025
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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
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for yeshiva
Noun
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One was a girls' madrassa, or religious school.
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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.
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The initiative provides training and support for educators, requires screening for dyslexia and other learning disabilities and mandates kindergarten attendance.
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Parents of the second- and third-place finishers raised a complaint that led the high school athletics association to analyze her school records back to kindergarten to determine the child’s gender, without consulting her parents.
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Enrollment is declining across the board in traditional public schools as the national birthrate continues to fall, charter school enrollment remains robust, private school voucher use increases and the number of immigrant students has flatlined.
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His wife, Janine, founded a Philadelphia charter school and is an advocate for school choice.
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That proposal drew opposition from unions and associations representing teachers and school employees.
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The academy’s director and owner Leslie Novoa told the South Florida Sun Sentinel on Monday night that the child was an 18-month-old boy who attended the school.
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“Yeshiva.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/yeshiva. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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