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also madrassah
or madrasah
as in yeshivah
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On Sunday, Interior Minister Sirajuddin Haqqani offered a more moderate statement at a madrassa in Kabul, urging Taliban leaders to avoid imposing their will on the Afghan people.
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Joseph Epstein, Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2024
And this year the U.N. reported that the Taliban is, once again, aiding and abetting Al Qaeda, which now runs eight training camps and five madrassas in Afghanistan.
—Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 22 Oct. 2024
Admission to the Biennale, which will be spread out among the mosques and madrassas for which Bukhara is known, will be free.
—News Desk, Artforum, 3 Sep. 2024
Local militant groups like ABT recruit from among madrasah students and teachers, while one of the first deadly attacks on a blogger, back in 2013, was carried out by students at North South University, a prestigious Dhaka educational institution.
—Michael Kugelman, Foreign Affairs, 27 July 2017
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Joseph Epstein, Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2024
And this year the U.N. reported that the Taliban is, once again, aiding and abetting Al Qaeda, which now runs eight training camps and five madrassas in Afghanistan.
—Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 22 Oct. 2024
Admission to the Biennale, which will be spread out among the mosques and madrassas for which Bukhara is known, will be free.
—News Desk, Artforum, 3 Sep. 2024
Local militant groups like ABT recruit from among madrasah students and teachers, while one of the first deadly attacks on a blogger, back in 2013, was carried out by students at North South University, a prestigious Dhaka educational institution.
—Michael Kugelman, Foreign Affairs, 27 July 2017
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for madrassa
yeshiva
Noun
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What To Know The Lawsuit A yeshiva is a Jewish religious school, typically for boys, that focuses on intensive study of sacred texts such as the Torah and Talmud, with varying amounts of general secular education depending on the community.—
Robert Alexander,
MSNBC Newsweek,
25 Sep. 2025
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Prosecutors had tried pointing to two cases – the 1994 shooting of a van full of Hasidic yeshiva students on the Brooklyn Bridge, and the 1997 shooting from the observation deck of the Empire State Building – as terroristic acts that ended with just one deceased victim.—
Dakin Andone,
CNN Money,
16 Sep. 2025
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