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synagogue

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


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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

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

Andrew Franks, who the court heard opened the synagogue compound gates to Al-Shamie, was also given interested person status, but the coroner said this did not imply any "criticism or culpability" on his behalf.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 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

The synagogue was the place where we worshiped every Sabbath and where I was studying for my bar mitzvah.

From "Prisoner B-3087" by Alan Gratz

“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

The Metropolitan Police will receive £86m to recruit about 300 extra officers to help increase police presence in Jewish neighbourhoods, and around synagogues, schools and community centres.

From BBC ● Jul. 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

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

There were also those synagogues in which Jews who were not Hasidim worshiped.

From "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok


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