How to Use yeshiva in a Sentence
yeshiva
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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
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At a visit to a Brooklyn yeshiva earlier this month, Adams praised the school.
—Shira Hanau, sun-sentinel.com, 25 Mar. 2021
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Currently, the city hasn’t gained access to six yeshivas.
—Katie Honan, WSJ, 20 Nov. 2018
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There were tears outside the synagogue, which has a yeshiva for children on the second floor.
—Heather Yakin, USA TODAY, 12 Dec. 2019
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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
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The schools under the city’s scrutiny are a small percentage of the 275 yeshivas citywide.
—Katie Honan, WSJ, 20 Nov. 2018
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The yeshiva also operates a girls school for kindergarten through eighth-grade students and a girls high school.
—cleveland, 17 Dec. 2019
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An Israeli yeshiva student lectured him on the Seven Laws of Noah.
—New York Times, 28 Apr. 2022
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Oscar nights were sacrosanct for me as a yeshiva boy growing up on Long Island.
—Howard Rosenman, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Mar. 2018
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No Wall, no Torah, no yeshiva, no separation, no dos and don’ts.
—Elias Muhanna, The New Yorker, 9 Apr. 2017
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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
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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
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At one yeshiva in Israel’s Negev Desert, 95% of the students are drafted into combat units.
—NBC News, 5 Jan. 2024
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Alumni and current students walked out from the safety of the yeshiva's walls to confront enemies.
—Eben Brown, Fox News, 28 Dec. 2023
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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
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Synagogues and yeshivas are locked, the streets nearly empty.
—David M. Halbfinger, New York Times, 15 Apr. 2020
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In 2021, Ben-Gvir returned to his old yeshiva for Independence Day.
—Ruth Margalit, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2023
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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
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A few months later, Elon met his future co-creator, Yehonatan Indursky, who had been raised Haredi and studied in a yeshiva.
—New York Times, 20 Apr. 2021
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In 2005, Rabbi Krauss accomplished a lifelong dream of settling in Israel, choosing to teach at a yeshiva in Jerusalem.
—New York Times, 14 Feb. 2022
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The Orthodox presence grew further with the arrival of Rabbi Yehoshua Fromowitz in the summer of 2008 to form a kollel (yeshiva for married men).
—Howard Riell, sun-sentinel.com, 14 Apr. 2021
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The fallout at his yeshiva is both hilarious and touching.
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 13 Nov. 2023
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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
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The ragtag Jewish water carriers formed a guild, which promised to donate a Torah scroll and a set of Talmuds to the yeshiva if members were given a room of their own, rent-free, for worship.
—Joseph Berger, New York Times, 18 Oct. 2017
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Roth was not assigned reading at my yeshiva, mind you; no, my introduction to him was an accident.
—New York Times, 24 May 2018
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Deep root systems connected the earth between their backyard and the neighboring yeshiva.
—Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 10 Apr. 2018
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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
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As early as May, when the city was still under a lockdown, a large yeshiva in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, was shuttered for violating the ban on in-person schooling.
—New York Times, 4 Oct. 2020
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Israel has not lost a soldier in the West Bank since August, when a 19-year-old student who had technically enlisted but was still studying in a yeshiva was stabbed to death near his school.
—David M. Halbfinger, New York Times, 12 May 2020
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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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