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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
The nonprofit has trained more than 1,000 people, including 47 volunteers who qualify under FBI standards who help patrol community schools and shuls.
—Emma Colton, Fox News, 30 Oct. 2023
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Word History
Etymology
Yiddish, school, synagogue, from Middle High German schuol school
First Known Use
1771, in the meaning defined above
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“Shul.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shul. Accessed 28 Nov. 2024.
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