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yeshiva

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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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Belgal’s lawyers wrote that several high schools, a charter school and at least three daycares were in the vicinity of the shooting.

— Cayla Bamberger, New York Daily News, 17 Oct. 2026
Miami hedge fund billionaire and philanthropist Ken Griffin pushed for expansion of the law and gave the charter school network $50 million for its Miami expansion.

— Austin Horn, Miami Herald, 14 Oct. 2026

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The cosmonauts plonked down on November 19th, 1965 in the Midlands market town of Rugby, a cultural backwater best known for the sport, the school, and wartime poet Rupert Brooke, in that order.

— Gabriel Szatan, Pitchfork, 18 Oct. 2026
In Indiana, emergency-response professionals helped expand Stop the Bleed training in schools, and the state’s Secured School Safety Grant program now offers funding for school bleeding-control programs and kits.

— Meng Yang, Time, 18 Oct. 2026

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