cheder

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1. JudaismeducationAn elementary school for Jewish children, teaching basic Judaism and Hebrew.

   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.

   2006, Howard Jacobson, Kalooki Nights, Vintage, published 2007, page 51

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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.

   2025 May 14, Marc Tracy, “Why Tot Celebrity Ms. Rachel Waded Into the Gaza Debate”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC