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also yeshivah
as in madrassah
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The Supreme Court said there was no legal framework that supported a differentiation between yeshiva students and other Israelis eligible for military service.
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Chantal Da Silva, NBC News, 25 June 2024
Technically, the military service exemption applied to young men who were actively studying at a yeshiva.
—Mick Krever, CNN, 25 June 2024
Hate crimes, particularly against Jews, have spiked in the city since then, most recently on Wednesday morning when a cabbie passing a yeshiva in East Flatbush, Brooklyn verbally assaulted a group of Jewish people before driving up on the sidewalk and trying to run them down, police said.
—Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News, 31 May 2024
The flagship initiative of the religious parties in Netanyahu’s coalition, this was a sweeping bill that would legalize the existing reality according to which all yeshiva students are exempt from military service.
—Yohanan Plesner, Foreign Affairs, 19 Dec. 2023
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Chantal Da Silva, NBC News, 25 June 2024
Technically, the military service exemption applied to young men who were actively studying at a yeshiva.
—Mick Krever, CNN, 25 June 2024
Hate crimes, particularly against Jews, have spiked in the city since then, most recently on Wednesday morning when a cabbie passing a yeshiva in East Flatbush, Brooklyn verbally assaulted a group of Jewish people before driving up on the sidewalk and trying to run them down, police said.
—Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News, 31 May 2024
The flagship initiative of the religious parties in Netanyahu’s coalition, this was a sweeping bill that would legalize the existing reality according to which all yeshiva students are exempt from military service.
—Yohanan Plesner, Foreign Affairs, 19 Dec. 2023
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“Yeshiva.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/yeshiva. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.
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