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shul

[shool, shool] / ʃul, ʃʊl /






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“When I am mayor, I will work every day to keep Jewish New Yorkers safe—on our streets, our subways, at shul, in every moment of every day,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 31, 2025

“A lot of people are questioning whether to go to shul for Shabbos.”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 18, 2023

Back from shul, he was breaking fast with a bagel and cream cheese, holding forth at the head of the table in our Michigan dining room.

From Salon • Sep. 14, 2021

They turned to Rabbi Sholom Lipskar, the founding head of a large Orthodox shul in the Chabad-Lubavitch movement less than a mile north of Champlain Towers.

From New York Times • Aug. 10, 2021

I turned back to the shul, but the windows were black and unlit.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros




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