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or madrasa
also madrassah
or madrasah
as in yeshivah
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Recent Examples of madrassa
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.
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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
Uncle continued to act so nicely that even the pupils at the madrassa agreed that a change of some kind had occurred.
—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
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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
Uncle continued to act so nicely that even the pupils at the madrassa agreed that a change of some kind had occurred.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for madrassa
yeshiva
Noun
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What if, as Kagan asked, a Hasidic community wants its charter yeshiva to be free to teach Talmud without having to comply with curriculum requirements imposed on other charters?—
Ruth Marcus,
New Yorker,
5 May 2025
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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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“Madrassa.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/madrassa. Accessed 3 Jun. 2025.
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