shul
Americannoun
plural
shulnnoun
Etymology
Origin of shul
Yiddish: synagogue, from Old High German scuola school 1
Example Sentences
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In 1915 another Orthodox New York synagogue, the Jewish Center, invited him to help realize a vision that seemed aligned with Kaplan’s own: Creating a new building that would house a shul, a school and a swimming pool, forming a unified center of Jewish religious, educational and social life.
Some of them Boaz had known forever, like Rabbi Maimon, who he had met the first time he came for the children’s classes and had been in the shul since its founding.
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Boaz glanced back at the shul, and even though no army of the living dead burst through the doors, he wanted to put as much distance between that building and the ring as possible.
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When he woke up Shabbat morning, Boaz realized that he had less than fifteen minutes to make himself presentable and get to shul at a time that was acceptably late.
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He wasn’t a member of the shul’s chevra kadisha, the burial society, but he was the first to ask them for details about crime scenes or to offer his opinion on the deceased, as if it mattered.
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