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synagogue

[sin-uh-gog, -gawg] / ˈsɪn əˌgɒg, -ˌgɔg /


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A church or synagogue that can’t determine its membership can’t maintain its uniquely religious character.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

Earlier this year a police chief said he was "deeply sorry" over missed opportunities to potentially uncover the plot to attack the synagogue.

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026

Family of synagogue attack victim call for 'day of kindness'

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 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

Usually all of my school friends and aunts and uncles and cousins would have come to see me read in the synagogue.

From "Prisoner B-3087" by Alan Gratz

The men were arrested in the Northern Quarter area of Manchester on 20 September - the eve of Yom Kippur, when thousands of British Jews were in synagogues.

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026

Today it reaches Muslim Americans and other minorities with the same ferocity it reaches synagogues.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

When New York state enacted buffer-zone protections in May, the coalition that organizes disruptive gatherings outside synagogues and churches published a victory statement.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 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

We once had ten synagogues in Toledo and five Jewish schools, and soon there will be none.

From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar


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