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synagogue

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


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It was unclear if the synagogue had cameras installed facing the vandalized mural.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 25, 2026

He returned to New York to tie up loose ends and attended synagogue during the fast of Tisha B’Av, when Jews mourn the destruction of the ancient temple in Jerusalem.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 24, 2026

A police chief has apologised after admitting phones were seized from the Manchester synagogue attacker months before the car and knife assault but they were not examined.

From BBC Jul. 23, 2026

During the 1950s and 1960s, the team reconstructed a monumental bath gymnasium complex and the largest synagogue in the ancient world.

From Science Daily Jun. 25, 2026

Standing there in the music of the bar mitzvah party, feeling the weight of what had happened in the synagogue, I saw again the glittering stream, with its light rushing toward me.

From "The Wednesday Wars" by Gary D. Schmidt

“Interestingly, in Iran we’ve always lived in peace with the Muslims,” and Iran’s synagogues don’t require security, as they do in many other countries, he said.

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

The New York synagogue siege might have been worse if not for a new city law letting police set up barricades around synagogues and other Jewish sites.

From The Wall Street Journal May 6, 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

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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