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Recent Examples of shulPro-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 The nonprofit has trained more than 1,000 people, including 47 volunteers who qualify under FBI standards who help patrol community schools and shuls.—Emma Colton, Fox News, 30 Oct. 2023 See All Example Sentences for shul
Donna, a former teacher, was known in Broward for working part-time in her husband’s dentistry practice while juggling the demands of three children, volunteering and keeping an active membership in her Coral Springs synagogue, according to the Herald’s reporting.
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Grethel Aguila,
Miami Herald,
15 Oct. 2025
Only instead of ignoring or burying this awful truth, Kai travels the world, speaking at synagogues and in Jewish community centers about his family’s dark past — and at high schools and colleges to ensure that the atrocities of Nazi Germany are never forgotten or sanitized.
The siege has spread hunger and disease in the city and relentless drone and artillery strikes have hit displacement shelters, mosques, and hospitals and clinics.
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CNN Money,
CNN Money,
11 Oct. 2025
In front of the mosque, the Parkchester Jame Masjid, thousands of officers watched silently as hundreds of men and boys prayed on mats unfurled on the streets and sidewalks.
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