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.
Source: wiktionary
Cheder
//ˈxɛdəɹ//
Synonyms for "cheder"
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10 translations across 9 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- كُتَّاب noun (school)
Esperanto
1 entries- ĥedero noun (school)
German
2 entries- Cheder noun (school)
- Chederschule noun (school)
Hebrew
1 entries- חֶדֶר noun (school)
Hungarian
1 entries- héder noun (school)
Polish
1 entries- cheder noun (school)
Russian
1 entries- хе́дер noun (school)
Ukrainian
1 entries- хе́дер noun (school)
Yiddish
1 entries- חדר noun (school)
Sample sentences
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“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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