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or madrasa
also madrassah
or madrasah
as in yeshivah
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Recent Examples of madrassa
Admission to the Biennale, which will be spread out among the mosques and madrassas for which Bukhara is known, will be free.
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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
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
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yeshiva
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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?—
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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.—
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“Madrassa.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/madrassa. Accessed 24 May. 2025.
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