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synagogue

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


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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

The Jewish community at a synagogue where two men were killed in 2025 feels less safe now than it did immediately after the attack, its rabbi has said almost one year on.

From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026

A memorial service will take place at Heaton Park synagogue later to commemorate the victims and survivors.

From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026

Those photos showed stones, and on those stones were Hebrew inscriptions—emerging from oblivion, the unimaginable remains of a synagogue whose existence no one had suspected.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 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

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

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

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

Julie Menin, speaker of the New York City Council, wrote on social media that "multiple synagogues and private homes in Queens were vandalized overnight with swastikas and other antisemitic graffiti."

From Barron's ● May 4, 2026

I began to accept invitations to share my story at churches, synagogues, schools, and political, military, civic, and philanthropic organizations, locally and across the United States and Canada.

From "The Boy on the Wooden Box" by Leon Leyson




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