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Recent Examples of synagogue
The group is made up of some 40 churches, synagogues and mosques in Miami-Dade that come together to advocate for solutions to some of the county’s most pressing social issues.
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Lauren Costantino, Miami Herald, 27 Aug. 2025
Since the Israel-Gaza war began in October 2023, Australian homes, schools, synagogues, and vehicles have been targeted in antisemitic vandalism and arson.
—Reuters, USA Today, 26 Aug. 2025
Only a 10-minute stroll down a maze of cobblestone streets from the birthplace of Vlad Dracul — who inspired the fictional, bloodsucking Count Dracula — sits an empty but remarkably well-preserved synagogue in a fairy-tale town that no longer has any Jews.
—Larry Luxner, Sun Sentinel, 21 Aug. 2025
For today’s eternalists, acts of anti-Semitic violence such as the horrific 2018 mass killing at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh exist outside both history and reason.
—Daniel May, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
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Lauren Costantino, Miami Herald, 27 Aug. 2025
Since the Israel-Gaza war began in October 2023, Australian homes, schools, synagogues, and vehicles have been targeted in antisemitic vandalism and arson.
—Reuters, USA Today, 26 Aug. 2025
Only a 10-minute stroll down a maze of cobblestone streets from the birthplace of Vlad Dracul — who inspired the fictional, bloodsucking Count Dracula — sits an empty but remarkably well-preserved synagogue in a fairy-tale town that no longer has any Jews.
—Larry Luxner, Sun Sentinel, 21 Aug. 2025
For today’s eternalists, acts of anti-Semitic violence such as the horrific 2018 mass killing at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh exist outside both history and reason.
—Daniel May, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for synagogue
Noun
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Husseini attempted to ply him with patronage, appointing him imam of a new mosque, but the cleric’s burgeoning following augured poorly for Husseini’s grip on power.—
Sean Durns,
The Washington Examiner,
12 Sep. 2025
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In order to embolden and support his organization, bin Laden often videotaped himself with messages aimed at his target audience, established training centers in Afghanistan, had an expansive funding network that included wealthy individuals, couriers, mosques and other complex ways to raise funds.—
Richard Frankel,
ABC News,
11 Sep. 2025
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In 2014, vandals tried to set fire to the shul, noted for the whimsical palm trees painted on either side of the ark, and its ceiling, which resembles a starry night.—
Larry Luxner,
Sun Sentinel,
21 Aug. 2025
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The caretaking and preservation of these dying congregations is just another aspect of the invisible labor taken on by a generation of women whose work in the home and the shul—caring for children, husbands, family members—was always taken for granted.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
12 June 2025
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Russian forces had also taken old icons and books, a Polovtsian saber, Scythian bronze items, buckles, amulets, temple rings, axes and arrowheads from the times of Kievan Rus, the first East Slavic state, established between the 9th and 13th centuries.—
Yegor Mostovshikov,
The Dial,
9 Sep. 2025
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While the frequent visits from Portuguese, Dutch, British and Indian peoples is reflected in the various churches, Hindu temples, colonial mansions, Buddhist stupas the food has been heavily impacted.—
Alissa Fitzgerald,
Forbes.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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One moment, the Sound of Sleat is a sheet of silver under a pale sun; the next, wind drives rain sideways into the distillery’s courtyard, rattling the pagoda roof.—
Gina Pace,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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Both Hai and Thida’s homes are facing destruction — his pagoda, her cinema — and the consequences of the Cambodian genocide loom large in their present lives.—
Blake Simons,
IndieWire,
6 Sep. 2025
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Renovation plans to this tabernacle feature a mental wellness center and a workout room.—
Sam Cohn,
Baltimore Sun,
27 June 2025
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Miller also noted that the original tabernacle of the church survived, along with 17th-century lead coffins that visitors can view under a glass floor.—
Andrea Margolis,
FOXNews.com,
20 Apr. 2025
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“Synagogue.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/synagogue. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.
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