shul

Or schul

[shool, shool]

noun

Yiddish.

plural

shuln 

1. a synagogue.

shul

/ ʃuːl /

noun

1. the Yiddish word for synagogue

Word History and Origins

Origin of shul¹

Yiddish: synagogue, from Old High German scuola _school ¹

Example Sentences

Ms Lazarus, who attended the Heaton Park Shul when she was younger, said she did not think Mr Lammy would "care" about the response he received at the vigil.

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But we also watch him talk about many events, like becoming a father or cofounding the aforementioned experimental Lab/Shul initiative, while he is still in the middle of experiencing them, rather than speaking with the benefit of hindsight.

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“I feel like we’re at war,” said Rabbi Sholom Lipskar, who started the Shul of Bal Harbour more than 40 years ago near the beach in Surfside.

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“Day and night, every chat, every post was, ‘What can we do?’” said Johana Abraham, president of the Shul Sisterhood.

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“It’s incredible to have to hide who we are,” said David Wolf, the president of the Shul of Bal Harbour who has lived near it for 25 years.

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