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US
/ˈsɪnəˌɡɔɡ/
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[ UK /sˈɪnɐɡˌɒɡ/ ]
[ UK /sˈɪnɐɡˌɒɡ/ ]
NOUN
- (Judaism) the place of worship for a Jewish congregation
How To Use synagogue In A Sentence
- A derelict synagogue may not be visible in the bazaar, but a Jewish cemetery is accessible on the city outskirts. Magda Abu-Fadil: Lebanon's Jews: Loyalty to Whom? BBC Documentary Tracks Vanished Community
- The family was liberal and religious: at home her mother had a kosher kitchen and the Jewish holidays were observed without any taint of fanaticism; her father was a carpenter and a shul yid (a Jew who went to the synagogue) whose fine voice led to his being a “baaltfile” (precentor). Vele Rabinowitz Zabludowsky.
- The synagogue is renowned for its bright white exterior and lion-headed gargoyles, which are unusual because animal forms are rarely used in Jewish art.
- Barbie, Toys “Я” Us machine guns—these are “charged objects,” contaminative; they represent the dog-eat-dog world, the obsessively competitive culture that synagogues and mosques and churches strive to keep out. The Barbie Chronicles
- Finally, it's come to my attention that the up-and-coming Canadian boy band B4-4 is fronted by the twin sons of the cantor of my family synagogue.
- How often do you attend church, mosque (mosk), synagogue (SIN-uh-gog), or other place of worship? All The Questions On the OpEdNews.Com/ Zogby People's Poll
- Well, Joel tells me Hillier has been selected as the honouree -- Man of the Year -- for the lodge's 57th. annual gentlemen's dinner at Beth Tzedec Synagogue on Dec. 5. Money, meet mouth
- In the early days, during the service, the congregants had the odd practice of auctioning the aliyoth or ‘privileges’ given to certain congregants, the money being used to maintain the synagogue.
- There is, in the synagogue, in the mosque, in the pagoda, in the wigwam, a hideous side which we execrate, and a sublime side, which we adore. Les Miserables
- They are less active religiously than those they leave behind in other churches and synagogues. Sociology and Religion: A Collection of Readings