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 -
At a visit to a Brooklyn yeshiva earlier this month, Adams praised the school.
— Shira Hanau, sun-sentinel.com, 25 Mar. 2021 -
Currently, the city hasn’t gained access to six yeshivas.
— Katie Honan, WSJ, 20 Nov. 2018 -
There were tears outside the synagogue, which has a yeshiva for children on the second floor.
— Heather Yakin, USA TODAY, 12 Dec. 2019 -
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 -
The schools under the city’s scrutiny are a small percentage of the 275 yeshivas citywide.
— Katie Honan, WSJ, 20 Nov. 2018 -
The yeshiva also operates a girls school for kindergarten through eighth-grade students and a girls high school.
— cleveland, 17 Dec. 2019 -
An Israeli yeshiva student lectured him on the Seven Laws of Noah.
— New York Times, 28 Apr. 2022 -
Oscar nights were sacrosanct for me as a yeshiva boy growing up on Long Island.
— Howard Rosenman, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Mar. 2018 -
No Wall, no Torah, no yeshiva, no separation, no dos and don’ts.
— Elias Muhanna, The New Yorker, 9 Apr. 2017 -
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 -
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 -
At one yeshiva in Israel’s Negev Desert, 95% of the students are drafted into combat units.
— NBC News, 5 Jan. 2024 -
Alumni and current students walked out from the safety of the yeshiva's walls to confront enemies.
— Eben Brown, Fox News, 28 Dec. 2023 -
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 -
Synagogues and yeshivas are locked, the streets nearly empty.
— David M. Halbfinger, New York Times, 15 Apr. 2020 -
In 2021, Ben-Gvir returned to his old yeshiva for Independence Day.
— Ruth Margalit, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2023 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
The fallout at his yeshiva is both hilarious and touching.
— Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 13 Nov. 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 -
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 -
Roth was not assigned reading at my yeshiva, mind you; no, my introduction to him was an accident.
— New York Times, 24 May 2018 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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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