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Recent Examples of bimah
The rabbis had asked several members who’d made trips there to talk about their experiences while standing on the bimah, before the Acheinu prayer was read.
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Eyal Press, New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2026
We were led by women instead of the all-male cast of rabbis that blanketed the other bimahs across town.
—Literary Hub, 1 Dec. 2025
Then, Fixler took to the bimah himself.
—The New York Times News Service Syndicate, The Denver Post, 8 Mar. 2025
The flags of the U.S. and Israel will both be displayed on the bimah, or raised platform, at the front of the sanctuary.
—Frank E. Lockwood, Arkansas Online, 13 Oct. 2023
Half was hidden in a safe under the bimah of a synagogue so that even the Germans could not find it.
—New York Times, 4 May 2022
On the bimah, Charlotte has shown her maturity — proving it even to herself.
—Kate Aurthur, Variety, 4 Feb. 2022
The discovery this week follows the 2019 unearthing of the Tuscan baroque-style bimah, the synagogue’s central prayer platform, in the same dig by a team of international scholars headed by Jon Seligman, director of the antiquities authority’s Excavations, Surveys and Research Department.
—Cnaan Liphshiz, sun-sentinel.com, 1 Sep. 2021
Eyal Press, New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2026
We were led by women instead of the all-male cast of rabbis that blanketed the other bimahs across town.
—Literary Hub, 1 Dec. 2025
Then, Fixler took to the bimah himself.
—The New York Times News Service Syndicate, The Denver Post, 8 Mar. 2025
The flags of the U.S. and Israel will both be displayed on the bimah, or raised platform, at the front of the sanctuary.
—Frank E. Lockwood, Arkansas Online, 13 Oct. 2023
Half was hidden in a safe under the bimah of a synagogue so that even the Germans could not find it.
—New York Times, 4 May 2022
On the bimah, Charlotte has shown her maturity — proving it even to herself.
—Kate Aurthur, Variety, 4 Feb. 2022
The discovery this week follows the 2019 unearthing of the Tuscan baroque-style bimah, the synagogue’s central prayer platform, in the same dig by a team of international scholars headed by Jon Seligman, director of the antiquities authority’s Excavations, Surveys and Research Department.
—Cnaan Liphshiz, sun-sentinel.com, 1 Sep. 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bimah
Noun
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Since glaciers didn’t flow right into Salisbury, the study speculates the stone, thought to have served as an altar, was deposited hundreds of miles east, beneath what is now the North Sea.—
Devorah Lauter,
ARTnews.com,
4 June 2026
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Anybody who chose this option had to walk past the altar to the front of the church, where the priest waited in a small room.—
Peter Hessler,
New Yorker,
31 May 2026
Noun
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From the pulpit, Reverend Renè Brown said that all of this was on his mind.—
Yvonne Wingett Sanchez,
The Atlantic,
31 May 2026
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But while the two overlap on some issues, City Hall and the Vatican remain very different pulpits.—
The Editorial Board,
Chicago Tribune,
29 May 2026
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“Bimah.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bimah. Accessed 6 Jun. 2026.
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