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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Adam Iscoe,
The New Yorker,
22 Jan. 2024
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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.
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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.
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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for shul
Noun
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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese last year accused Iran’s Revolutionary Guard of directing the synagogue fire and an arson attack two months earlier at a Sydney kosher eatery, Lewis’ Continental Kitchen.
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On the inside, work to rebuild the synagogue just began this week.
Noun
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According to the Waqf and Glick, more than 70,000 Jewish activists entered the mosque compound last year.
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Independent churches, synagogues, and mosques represent loyalties outside Moscow’s control.
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“Shul.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shul. Accessed 28 Jun. 2026.
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