Thesaurus results for SHUL

shul

noun

as in synagogue

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Recent Examples of shul 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 Pro-Palestinian and Pro-Israeli demonstrators clashed Sunday outside Adas Torah synagogue, an Orthodox shul, in the Pico-Robertson neighborhood, which police said resulted in two reports of battery. —

Antonio Planas, NBC News, 25 June 2024 His father convinced the House of Representatives to stop holding votes during the High Holidays in 1998, and former president Donald Trump’s daughter and son-in-law attended his home shul. —

Rachel Weiner, Washington Post, 28 Jan. 2024 Recently, in Brooklyn’s Crown Heights neighborhood, a ye-olde Tudor-style mansion at 770 Eastern Parkway made headlines when a group of young Hasidic men were filmed brawling with police after emerging, improbably, out of a homemade subterranean passageway in a basement shul. —

Adam Iscoe, The New Yorker, 22 Jan. 2024 See All Example Sentences for shul

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This past week in Queens, New York, multiple Jewish homes, a synagogue and a Jewish community center housing a preschool were vandalized with swastikas and antisemitic graffiti, raising alarm among residents.

— Ariella Noveck, FOXNews.com, 10 May 2026
Right now, a synagogue in Iran has been destroyed; the Church of the Nativity has been bombed, along with many ancient sites across Lebanon.

— Pablo Larios, Artforum, 7 May 2026