# Did you see the NYT Article on Yeshivas?

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**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2022, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-see-the-nyt-article-on-yeshivas/971424/123 "2022-09-16T11:55:03Z")

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> [@Max\_S](#):
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> I think it’s more useful to think in terms of a political entity than a religious “cult” as **Princhester** suggests.

I don’t agree. While I don’t think it’s invalid to think of them as a political entity, I suspect it’s a religious cult first, and the politics follows. They don’t behave in a cult like way to advance their politics, they advance their politics to protect their cult.

And at the very least, they are both a political entity _and_ a cult.

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