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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.
—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
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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.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for shul
Noun
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The participants include members of church groups and synagogues, and the relatives of men being detained out of sight on the other side of the highway.—
Eric Schlosser,
The Atlantic,
4 June 2026
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But his candidate statement twists scripture to cast Jewish people as treacherous and contains antisemitic tropes, a rabbi with the conservative synagogue Mosaic Law Congregation told The Bee.—
Mathew Miranda,
Sacbee.com,
3 June 2026
Noun
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But what actually happened was that much larger numbers of people came out en masse to demonstrate and show their opposition to the racist rioting and the targeting of refugees and asylum seekers and mosques, and so on.—
Isaac Chotiner,
New Yorker,
12 June 2026
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Attorneys for the president of Wisconsin's largest mosque say he is being denied basic medical care for diabetes and has lost 30 pounds in the two months since he was detained by immigration officers.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
9 June 2026
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“Shul.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shul. Accessed 14 Jun. 2026.
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