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The TASOs prohibited Herzfeld from engaging in various activities in certain sections of Washington, including the neighborhood surrounding his own yeshiva.
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Steven Lieberman, New York Daily News, 13 Mar. 2025
But don’t expect sprawling, High School Musical–esque song-and-dance numbers at the yeshiva; in Yentl, every song functions as a monologue, during which our heroine privately reckons with the loneliness and absurdity of her situation.
—Vogue, 15 Feb. 2025
The story reminded me of the clothing drive that was started for me at my yeshiva, although this tale had a kinder, more midwestern ending (Alex’s father and his Armoury suit were also at the party).
—Gary Shteyngart, The Atlantic, 7 Feb. 2025
Another rabbi, Ethan Tucker, the head of Hadar, a yeshiva in Manhattan, noted that the Jews’ history of persecution includes not only massacres, expulsions, and forcible conversions but also prohibitions on converting people to Judaism, sometimes on pain of death.
—Jeannie Suk Gersen, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2024
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Steven Lieberman, New York Daily News, 13 Mar. 2025
But don’t expect sprawling, High School Musical–esque song-and-dance numbers at the yeshiva; in Yentl, every song functions as a monologue, during which our heroine privately reckons with the loneliness and absurdity of her situation.
—Vogue, 15 Feb. 2025
The story reminded me of the clothing drive that was started for me at my yeshiva, although this tale had a kinder, more midwestern ending (Alex’s father and his Armoury suit were also at the party).
—Gary Shteyngart, The Atlantic, 7 Feb. 2025
Another rabbi, Ethan Tucker, the head of Hadar, a yeshiva in Manhattan, noted that the Jews’ history of persecution includes not only massacres, expulsions, and forcible conversions but also prohibitions on converting people to Judaism, sometimes on pain of death.
—Jeannie Suk Gersen, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for yeshiva
madrassa
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Late last year, Parliament passed a new set of laws seeking to improve the quality of madrassa education, both to uplift student outcomes and to help madrassas shed their tag as terrorist hotbeds.—
Hasan Ali,
Christian Science Monitor,
19 May 2025
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Critics say this ministry has neither the power nor the expertise to keep madrassas in check.—
Hasan Ali,
Christian Science Monitor,
19 May 2025
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“Yeshiva.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/yeshiva. Accessed 5 Jul. 2025.
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