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Recent Examples of shul
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.
—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
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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.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for shul
Noun
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In 1950, when Sol was in line to become president of Temple Beth-El, his synagogue, Texas Christian University appointed him to its Board of Trustees, an unusual position for a Jewish person.—
Hollace Ava Weiner,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
16 Aug. 2025
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The synagogue, founded in 1919, was originally a residential home and contained a lot of old wood and varnish, which could explain how fast the fire spread, Rutherford Mayor Frank Nunziato said.—
Roni Jacobson,
New York Daily News,
9 Aug. 2025
Noun
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The mosque had been struggling to afford rising electricity prices to keep fans going in the country's longer and more frequent heat waves, so community members pooled money to buy a rooftop solar system.—
Betsy Joles,
NPR,
21 Aug. 2025
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After years of monitoring a mosque known as the Islamic Center, AJC assisted the Office for the Protection of the Constitution of Hamburg in shutting down the mosque for its ties to terrorist organizations, thus violating the German constitution.—
Susan Greene Pallot,
Sun Sentinel,
13 Aug. 2025
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“Shul.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shul. Accessed 28 Aug. 2025.
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