School
Yeshiva
Yeshiva noun - An academy for the advanced study of Jewish texts (primarily the Talmud).
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- Noel, who supposedly speaks Hebrew, tells Frasier that "yeshiva" is the word for school.
Source: Gratuitous Foreign Language -
Another joke: A rabbi is walking around the yeshiva (or Jewish religious school) one Sabbath, when he sees three students sitting in a room with the windows open, playing poker for money!
Source: Against My Religion -
When her father dies, Yentl makes the decision to cut her hair, take the name of her dead brother Anshel and disguise herself as a boy so she can enter a yeshiva (Jewish religious school).
Source: Film / Yentl
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