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His synagogue, which meets at the Maimonides School—a Modern Orthodox day school—was one of seven Orthodox shuls that were a part of the Oct. 6 siyum.—Emily Goldberg, Sun Sentinel, 8 Oct. 2024 Pro-Palestinian and Pro-Israeli demonstrators clashed Sunday outside Adas Torah synagogue, an Orthodox shul, in the Pico-Robertson neighborhood, which police said resulted in two reports of battery.—Antonio Planas, NBC News, 25 June 2024 His father convinced the House of Representatives to stop holding votes during the High Holidays in 1998, and former president Donald Trump’s daughter and son-in-law attended his home shul.—Rachel Weiner, Washington Post, 28 Jan. 2024 Recently, in Brooklyn’s Crown Heights neighborhood, a ye-olde Tudor-style mansion at 770 Eastern Parkway made headlines when a group of young Hasidic men were filmed brawling with police after emerging, improbably, out of a homemade subterranean passageway in a basement shul.—Adam Iscoe, The New Yorker, 22 Jan. 2024 See all Example Sentences for shul
Word History
Etymology
Yiddish, school, synagogue, from Middle High German schuol school
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