Talmud Torah

[ Sephardic Hebrew tahl-mood taw-rah; Ashkenazic Hebrew tahl-mood toh-ruh, -muhd; English tahl-muhd tawr-uh, tohr-uh, tal- ]

noun

, Hebrew.

1. (in Europe) a community-supported Jewish elementary school for teaching children Hebrew, Bible, and the fundamentals of Judaism.
2. (in the U.S.) a Jewish religious school for children, holding classes at the end of the secular school day.

Example Sentences

Her two daughters have started attending a Talmud Torah after-school program: “They teach me now — the songs, their meaning,” she said.

From New York Times

After that closed, it reopened as a Jewish bingo parlor called the Talmud Torah, which the owners occasionally rented out for rock shows.

From Seattle Times

In these verses and on this street, Jews, blacks and Puerto Ricans walked in the spring sunlight, past the avenue’s mainstays at the time: the Downtown Talmud Torah, Blosztein’s Cutrate Bakery, Areceba Panataria Hispano, Nathan Kugler Chicken Store Fresh Killed Daily and others.

From Seattle Times

In these verses and on this street, Jews, blacks and Puerto Ricans walked in the spring sunlight, past the avenue’s mainstays at the time: the Downtown Talmud Torah, Blosztein’s Cutrate Bakery, Areceba Panataria Hispano, Nathan Kugler Chicken Store Fresh Killed Daily and others.

From Seattle Times

In these verses and on this street, Jews, blacks and Puerto Ricans walked in the spring sunlight, past the avenue’s mainstays at the time — the Downtown Talmud Torah, Blosztein’s Cutrate Bakery, Areceba Panataria Hispano, Nathan Kugler Chicken Store Fresh Killed Daily and others.

From New York Times