How to Use synagogue in a Sentence

synagogue

noun
  • The men escaped into the synagogue and locked the door, the NYPD said.
    Rob Frehse and Anna Sturla, CNN, 27 May 2021
  • The synagogue where the Siegels worshipped was among the temples burned to the ground.
    Ethan Sacks, NBC News, 13 July 2024
  • Shots fired in the parking lot of a synagogue in New York.
    Erin Ailworth, WSJ, 11 Dec. 2023
  • When the people in the synagogue heard this, they were all filled with fury.
    The Salt Lake Tribune, 17 Feb. 2022
  • Today, the town has two large mosques and more than a dozen synagogues.
    Tim Craig, Washington Post, 12 Nov. 2023
  • Members of the synagogue were split over the death penalty.
    David Nakamura The Washington Post, Arkansas Online, 3 Aug. 2023
  • The roof of the synagogue had collapsed and most walls were destroyed.
    Colleen Shalby, Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 2025
  • Police were first called to the synagogue around 11 a.m.
    Jake Bleiberg, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Jan. 2022
  • One rock wall bears an engraved Star of David that may have been part of a synagogue.
    Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Aug. 2022
  • Today, the doors of the synagogue are still locked, and a chain-link fence surrounds the property.
    Kris Maher, WSJ, 24 Dec. 2022
  • Fox News has reached out to the synagogue near where the stabbing occurred but has not heard back.
    Fox News, 2 July 2021
  • Half was hidden in a safe under the bimah of a synagogue so that even the Germans could not find it.
    New York Times, 4 May 2022
  • There is also a Wish List on Amazon, where those who want to help can have items sent straight to the synagogue.
    Mike Nolan, chicagotribune.com, 28 Mar. 2022
  • The services were being livestreamed on the synagogue’s Facebook page for a time.
    sun-sentinel.com, 16 Jan. 2022
  • In 2017, the couple married at a New York City synagogue.
    Hannah Malach, ELLE, 1 Mar. 2023
  • And in Arizona, a brick was thrown through a synagogue window.
    Jeff Pegues, CBS News, 21 May 2021
  • The first synagogue dates from 1528 and was built by German Ashkenazi Jews.
    Chris Warde-Jones, BostonGlobe.com, 12 June 2022
  • Enter Berlin’s House of One, the world’s first planned structure that will house a synagogue, a church, and a mosque under one roof.
    Lenora Chu, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Sep. 2021
  • Listed on the back were the names and numbers of a church, a synagogue and a nonprofit on Martha’s Vineyard.
    J. David Goodman, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2022
  • Her findings even led her to join a synagogue in the 1980s and to become a practicing Jew.
    BostonGlobe.com, 24 July 2021
  • The resulting footage, of the two men side by side in the synagogue, inspired a frenzy in the Jewish and Arab media.
    Ruth Margalit, The New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2021
  • It is often said that the gabbai (sexton) in a synagogue has the most thankless job.
    Norman B. Gildin, sun-sentinel.com, 9 Dec. 2021
  • Officials When the synagogue moved to repair the wall, the men tried to stop it, according to a Chabad spokesperson.
    Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 10 Jan. 2024
  • Two-thirds of Jews under 30 belonged to no synagogue at all.
    Jane Eisner, The Atlantic, 28 July 2023
  • The synagogue shooting came 24 hours after a deadly attack by Israeli forces on the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank.
    Tracy Wilkinsonstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 31 Jan. 2023
  • El-Hussain fled the scene and headed to a synagogue where a bat mitzvah was taking place.
    Angela Dawson, Forbes, 2 Sep. 2021
  • The four men who were outside the synagogue went inside and locked the door, at which point the men in the Camry got out of the car and started banging on the door, police said.
    NBC News, 27 May 2021
  • With few survivors, the Hai Taieb synagogue was hollowed out.
    Michael Finnegan, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2024
  • In supporting a network of synagogues, OU runs the largest kosher certification program in the United States.
    Dan Eaton, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Jan. 2025
  • The shooter in the Pittsburgh synagogue massacre in 2018 seemed to have been inspired by the conspiracy theory, and targeted the congregation for its support of a pro-immigrant Shabbat.
    Andrew Silow-Carroll, Sun Sentinel, 4 Mar. 2025

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