synagogue
noun
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Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 25 May 2024
Inside a former synagogue on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, Tony Oursler, 67, has built an extensive private collection of historic material related to magic, spirituality and the occult.
—Julia Halperin, New York Times, 16 May 2024
Archaeologists recently unearthed a Byzantine church there—and, at the same excavation site, a ruin that might have been the very synagogue in which Paul preached two millenniums ago.
—Joshua Hammer, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 May 2024
Merilyn Helen Fink, a bookkeeper for her family’s packaging firm who was co-president of her synagogue’s sisterhood, died of respiratory failure Wednesday at Roland Park Place.
—Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 4 May 2024
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nounMiddle English synagoge "a Jewish congregation," from early French synagoge (same meaning), from Latin synagoga (same meaning), from Greek synagōgē "synagogue, assembly," from synagein "to bring together," from syn- "together with" and agein "to lead" — related to synonymous
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