shul
Americannoun
PLURAL
shulnnoun
"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012Etymology
Origin of shul
Yiddish: synagogue, from Old High German scuola school 1
Example Sentences
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On Jonathan Dahm Robertson’s set of the shabby shul, sniping at each other is what Zeblyan and Ishaq do, as they duel over Scripture, revisit old grievances and debate the possibility of repopulating the city’s Jewish community, which fled in the years of the initial Taliban takeover.
From Washington Post
Do they look like the families in “Armageddon Time” and “The Fabelmans,” who celebrate Hanukkah and eat bagels and lox but don’t go to shul regularly?
From New York Times
And Biden has referenced his closeness to the Jewish community, good-naturedly telling a group of Jewish leaders at a White House reception that “I probably went to shul more than many of you did,” using a Yiddish word for synagogue.
From Washington Post
One of the rare surviving buildings is the Breed Street Shul, for decades the largest Orthodox congregation in the West.
From Los Angeles Times
The Rev. Marshall Mitchell, senior pastor of Salem Baptist Church of Abington, Pa., who has known Shapiro for years, said Shapiro “is as comfortable in a Black Baptist church as he is in a Conservative shul or a temple or a mosque,” Mitchell said.
From Seattle Times
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