Cheder

//ˈxɛdəɹ//

"Cheder" in a Sentence (2 examples)

A businessman in New York who happened to be in the Midlands at the time was so impressed by Asher's methods that he was funding him to set up a string of chederim – Sunday schools for Jews – all over the United States.

“Ms. Rachel seems to be someone who is really, really good-hearted, but in the context of everything that’s going on — she says, ‘I care about all children,’ but really she’s talking about the children of Gaza,” Stacy Hackner, a teacher at a London cheder, a school of Jewish instruction, said in an interview.

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