Synagogue in a sentence

Some of those parents raised the issue with synagogue leaders after some of their children came home from school upset about Israel’s actions in Gaza, according to a parent from the synagogue preschool who spoke on the condition of anonymity.

Some suggest that it was for the benefit of wayfarers who might be lodging in the synagogue overnight and not have candles of their own, as in ancient times the synagogue was frequently used as a guest house for travelers and the homeless.

When the excavation is completed, an architectural competition for the design of the new synagogue will be held, and the bunker standing next to the synagogue will be demolished.

Rabbi Michael Singer of Congregation Brith Shalom, a Bethlehem synagogue and polling place, said voters would be redirected to the synagogue’s social hall, instead of the main sanctuary where voting normally takes place.

Mark Taylor, president of the synagogue, said: “Obviously nowadays people have far bigger concerns than synagogue roofs, which is completely understandable, but the fact is we still need to raise the money.

One synagogue I joined for a Facebook service had an assigned greeter (one of the synagogue’s several rabbis) who acknowledged each person as they entered the service, and then explained things throughout.

A significant Jewish synagogue in India, the Keneseth Eliyahoo Synagogue is a place of worship for Mumbai’s Baghdadi and Bene Israeli Jewish community.

He was standing outside the exterior wall that surrounds both the synagogue and the adjacent cemetery; the synagogue building is separated by a small courtyard from this wall.

Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein speaks to community members and congregants about the shooting at the Chabad of Poway Synagogue during a candlelight vigil for the victim of the Chabad of Poway Synagogue at Valle Verde Park on April 28, 2019 in Poway, California.

According to the synagogue’s website, a group of families invited her to join them in founding a synagogue after she moved to the Fairfax area in 1986.

Designated a national historic site in 1946, the Touro Synagogue attracts tens of thousands of visitors each year, including for its annual summertime reading of a historic letter from George Washington, who visited the synagogue in 1790.

Dr. Meyer Benzekrit, the synagogue’s current president, believes that the ancient synagogue of Carpentras will once again become the heart of a vital Jewish community.

Mourners grieve upon visiting an impromptu memorial at the Tree of Life synagogue following Saturday’s shooting at the synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on Oct. 28, 2018.

Put your body in a synagogue on Saturday to show solidarity and to show that fear will not keep us from going to synagogue.

Unlike the Paradesi synagogue in nearby Mattanchery, the Kadavumbhagom synagogue rarely gets tourists.

You know, I think all Jews need to take care of one another, and when a Jew is hurt in a synagogue, or murdered in a synagogue in Pittsburgh, as an Israeli, it’s my problem, and that’s why I flew over.

It is also open to visitors. citation The fourth synagogue building was the "Great Synagogue" at Juri-Gagarin-Ring main.

It is also referred to as the Cochin Jewish Synagogue or the Mattancherry Synagogue.

It maintains a variety of formal strictures including a prohibition on making birth announcements in synagogue bulletins for children on non-Jewish mothers and accepting non-Jewish individuals as synagogue members.

Jews were slow to return to the town, but by 1750, the Rabbi Elijah Synagogue was built as the first Jewish synagogue in Casablanca.