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or madrasa
also madrassah
or madrasah
as in yeshivah
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Uncle continued to act so nicely that even the pupils at the madrassa agreed that a change of some kind had occurred.
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Mohammed Naseehu Ali, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024
The regime is subsidizing hundreds of madrassas — religious schools — for boys and men.
—Pamela Constable, Washington Post, 4 June 2023
Akhunzada ran a madrassa, or a religious school, in Pakistan’s border regions before his 2016 rise as the new Taliban leader.
—Kathy Gannon, chicagotribune.com, 28 Mar. 2022
Taliban leaders often lived in the safe haven of neighboring Pakistan, while the Taliban also recruited suicide bombers from Pakistani madrassas.
—Peter Bergen, CNN, 28 Mar. 2023
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Mohammed Naseehu Ali, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024
The regime is subsidizing hundreds of madrassas — religious schools — for boys and men.
—Pamela Constable, Washington Post, 4 June 2023
Akhunzada ran a madrassa, or a religious school, in Pakistan’s border regions before his 2016 rise as the new Taliban leader.
—Kathy Gannon, chicagotribune.com, 28 Mar. 2022
Taliban leaders often lived in the safe haven of neighboring Pakistan, while the Taliban also recruited suicide bombers from Pakistani madrassas.
—Peter Bergen, CNN, 28 Mar. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for madrassa
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My colleagues Eliza Shapiro and Brian M. Rosenthal write that the move is one that many Hasidic leaders — and even critics of the yeshiva system — doubted the state would ever take.—
James Barron,
New York Times,
24 Feb. 2025
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Natasha Cohen, who lives around the block from where the vandalism took place, is also accused of leaving a brick with a swastika drawn on it atop the Tesla outside a yeshiva on Ditmas Ave.—
Thomas Tracy,
New York Daily News,
12 Apr. 2025
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