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In 2014, vandals tried to set fire to the shul, noted for the whimsical palm trees painted on either side of the ark, and its ceiling, which resembles a starry night.—Larry Luxner, Sun Sentinel, 21 Aug. 2025 The caretaking and preservation of these dying congregations is just another aspect of the invisible labor taken on by a generation of women whose work in the home and the shul—caring for children, husbands, family members—was always taken for granted.—Literary Hub, 12 June 2025 Halfway across the city, around the time that Stein was expelled from religious shul in Brooklyn, Weinstein was struggling with his own trans identity, living on the Upper West Side among a dynastic family of his own.—Leah Abrams, Them., 17 Apr. 2025 His synagogue, which meets at the Maimonides School—a Modern Orthodox day school—was one of seven Orthodox shuls that were a part of the Oct. 6 siyum.—Emily Goldberg, Sun Sentinel, 8 Oct. 2024 See All Example Sentences for shul
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Etymology
Yiddish, school, synagogue, from Middle High German schuol school
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