cheder

Noun

cheder (plural cheders or chederim or chedarim or chadarim or chadorim)

1. (Judaism) An 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
   • “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...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