synagogue
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In March, El-Sayed responded to an attack against a Detroit-area synagogue by saying that “hurt people hurt people,” which sounded to some like a justification for the violence.
From Slate ● Nov. 2, 2026
The banya, in turn, became a place to meet, socialize and maintain a sense of community outside the synagogue.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026
So had the creation and decoration of Prague’s earliest Jewish synagogue, the Altneuschul, the double-naved Gothic house of worship completed in 1270 that is also the oldest still-active synagogue in Europe.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026
In 2015, he demonstrated the successful digital unrolling of a charred scroll recovered from a synagogue that burned around 600 C.E.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026
“You told me in the synagogue, all happy with the idea. You were only thirteen, you said, and already an aunt.”
From "The Devil's Arithmetic" by Jane Yolen
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He had also said he wanted to see the motion amended to specify that it should not be used to discipline Jewish members attending synagogues that consider themselves Zionist.
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026
According to demographer Ira Sheskin, the number of religiously liberal synagogues in the U.S. has declined over the past 20 years, while the number of Chabad synagogues has grown from 346 to 1,036.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
Abrishami is one of about 60 active synagogues in Iran, for which Gerami serves as chief rabbi.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
Other synagogues, churches and mosques are on the path to rebuilding, but they are facing the same hurdles as many of their congregants and members, and then some.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2026
One of them held a set of Torah scrolls in a burlap sack, saved, perhaps, from one of the ghetto’s synagogues before it burned to the ground.
From "Prisoner B-3087" by Alan Gratz
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