dynamic
toggle menu
menu
vocabulary
1000+ books

synagogue
in a sentence

show 189 more with this conextual meaning
  • I had forgotten that the Temple Mickve Israel synagogue is located directly across the square.†   (source)
  • WE ARE FREE TO LISTEN TO THE GUEST PREACHER AT HURD'S CHURCH, OR WE CAN ATTEND ANY OF THE TOWN CHURCHES OF OUR CHOICE; JEWS AREN'T FORCED TO TAKE COMMUNION, UNITARIANS AREN'T DRAGGED TO MASS—OR TO CONFESSION—BAPTISTS AREN'T ROUNDED UP ON SATURDAYS AND HERDED OFF TO SYNAGOGUE (OR TO THEIR OWN, UNWILLING CIRCUMCISIONS).†   (source)
  • Leaving for school on Thursday with her sister, Annemarie saw the Rosens walking to the synagogue early in the morning, dressed in their best clothes.†   (source)
  • Crowds packed the churches, mosques, synagogues, and temples to pray and repent, then poured out of them as the worshippers woke up to their increased risk of exposure.†   (source)
  • They heard about Kristallnacht in Germany, when gangs of Nazi thugs roamed through Jewish neighborhoods, breaking windows in homes and stores, burning synagogues, and beating people in the streets.†   (source)
  • Which is more frequently than I'd been to a mosque or a synagogue.†   (source)
  • Houses, shelters, hospitals, apartments, office buildings, schools, churches and synagogues, and warehouses.†   (source)
  • They set fire to the synagogue and ripped apart sacred Torah scrolls.†   (source)
  • I looked forward to going to synagogue services with my maternal grandparents, with whom I was especially close.†   (source)
  • Have you been to the synagogue in Bussard?†   (source)
  • An ugly word scrawled on the wall of a synagogue.†   (source)
  • The city comprises prominent (Jewish) synagogues, (Christian) churches, and (Islamic) mosques.†   (source)
  • I could as easily have gone for help to a Jewish synagogue or a Shinto temple, or—Ah.†   (source)
  • And more humans come to synagogue and read it.†   (source)
  • "If you want," Yetta said over their measly, cold breakfast, "you could go to your synagogue—er, temple, er—"†   (source)
  • On the night of November 9, 1938, Kristallnacht, a crowd eagerly destroyed Plauen's only synagogue, a strikingly modern building designed by Bauhaus architect Fritz Landauer.†   (source)
  • Nowadays, they were the ones who stole the booze, the ones who beat the bald guy unconscious at the airport before taking his wallet, the ones who painted the swastikas on the synagogue.†   (source)
  • We didn't even go to synagogue.†   (source)
  • With twenty or more churches of differing denominations to choose from (something unknown in Massachusetts), the lieutenant attended as many as possible—an "English" church (most likely Trinity Church on Broadway, which was Church of England), a Congregational meeting, a high Dutch church (probably Old Dutch Church on Garden Street), where only Dutch was spoken, and the city's one synagogue, Shearith Israel, on Mill Street.†   (source)
  • Calloway had been convicted of burning a synagogue to the ground seven years ago.†   (source)
  • A memorial service will be held Saturday, October 7, at 10 am at Central Synagogue.†   (source)
  • One elderly lady had barely got her walker through the door before it spread like wildfire that she had embezzled big money from her synagogue.†   (source)
  • She had only a vague sense of the differences between Jewish, Presbyterian, and Catholic churches, apart from the fact that the Jewish ones were called synagogues.†   (source)
  • The nuns I glimpsed were robed and ghostly figures I wanted no part of Culturally we were like those Jews who observe certain traditions but never visit a synagogue.†   (source)
  • But the movement reacted quickly, and by the time my case began on Monday morning, the Old Synagogue was packed with supporters.†   (source)
  • They shut up about it and sent me and my two sisters to a Protestant service one week, a Catholic mass on another, and a synagogue after that.†   (source)
  • Despite every church, mosque, and synagogue in it, this is not the world any God worth his salt would have created.†   (source)
  • In the courtyard of the Spanish Synagogue in Venice was a little garden that did not get much sun.†   (source)
  • He was active in the community, philanthropic, giving money to synagogues and other Jewish charities.†   (source)
  • Because, one, you didn't approve of his going into the synagogue and throwing all the tables and idols all over the place.†   (source)
  • Synagogues had been firebombed, gravestones toppled, shops looted, homes vandalized and marked with threatening graffiti.†   (source)
  • When she told me we were going to the Word of Faith Temple, I imagined it was a synagogue.†   (source)
  • She was very religious, this woman, and always go to pray at the synagogue they had there.†   (source)
  • "Yes," he said at last, "I would like to take you to the synagogue tomorrow."†   (source)
  • Elsewhere in the city, rioters looted a synagogue and burned the Torah scrolls.†   (source)
  • When we opened the synagogue door, it was raining outside and we had no umbrellas.†   (source)
  • Lotte made her way to the mikvah, the ritual bath next to the synagogue.†   (source)
  • A synagogue burned down and the fire trucks came.†   (source)
  • Max remembered one night when he and Zena and Papa were heading to synagogue.†   (source)
  • You told me in the synagogue, all happy with the idea.†   (source)
  • I don't suppose these ideas were easy to swallow, either for the church or the synagogue.†   (source)
  • Luckily he got an offer to run a synagogue in Suffolk, Virginia.†   (source)
  • Meyer Mossel, he told us afterward, had been cantor in the synagogue in Amsterdam.†   (source)
  • Why don't you think about joining our work at the synagogue helping poor children?†   (source)
  • True, his friends went to church on Sundays and Max went to synagogue on Fridays and Saturdays.†   (source)
  • He visited the Jewish synagogue in Athens and conversed with Epicurean and Stoic philosophers.†   (source)
  • The synagogue on Breite Strasse was only a ten-minute walk from the Blumenthals' house.†   (source)
  • I asked if I could see the inside of the synagogue itself.†   (source)
  • The Rosenfelds had lived for generations in a grand, multistory house near the synagogue.†   (source)
  • I wanted to see the inside of the synagogue.†   (source)
  • I hung up, muttering to myself, "I didn't want to see your silly old synagogue anyway.†   (source)
  • Well, that upset some of the synagogue folks.†   (source)
  • We went to synagogue together on Saturday morning and Jewish holidays, but Tateh didn't love Mameh.†   (source)
  • Simon would never see the inside of a church or synagogue again.†   (source)
  • The Epsteins would be in their synagogue now, wearing skull caps and praying.†   (source)
  • Yet, six months ago, he had given my father a thousand-dollar contribution to our synagogue.†   (source)
  • It was also within walking distance of the synagogue on St. Paulsgatan.†   (source)
  • He made a generous donation to the church and another to his synagogue.†   (source)
  • Jesus said that when He came back to the synagogue where He'd grown up.†   (source)
  • They attended our synagogue and sat near the front, foreigners in a strange land.†   (source)
  • When synagogues were burning, she said, caution was a luxury they could not afford.†   (source)
  • The synagogue was like a second home to me after four years of the Treason Trial.†   (source)
  • After visiting the synagogue they parted—Agnes to go shopping, Bublanski to keep walking.†   (source)
  • Even with a synagogue full of Jack Roses?†   (source)
  • I saw you many times at the synagogue after that, and you never once asked me.†   (source)
  • The next morning he wasn't in front of the synagogue.†   (source)
  • Women from the synagogue came every day to cook and clean.†   (source)
  • He went to the synagogue when he needed company and fellowship with other people.†   (source)
  • They stopped at the synagogue for a while and talked to the rabbi.†   (source)
  • Danny and I remained alone in the synagogue.†   (source)
  • Jack is on the Building Committee of his synagogue.†   (source)
  • I can't see Jack Rose in a synagogue," I said.†   (source)
  • Danny nudged me with his elbow and motioned with his head toward the rear of the synagogue.†   (source)
  • American Jews have begun to return to the synagogue.†   (source)
  • Danny was in the synagogue at the time, and all eyes turned to stare at him in astonishment.†   (source)
  • We had come to the corner of the synagogue in which my father and I prayed.†   (source)
  • When he grew older, he became the beadle of the village synagogue.†   (source)
  • My father and I woke early so as to be in our synagogue by eight-thirty.†   (source)
  • The congregants rose and came toward the rear of the synagogue.†   (source)
  • He was talking in a straight, loud voice that rang through the terrible silence in the synagogue.†   (source)
  • Then the congregants broke to go back to the front section of the synagogue for the Evening Service.†   (source)
  • "Even with a synagogue full of Jack Roses," I said.†   (source)
  • You were at Reb Saunders' synagogue all this time?†   (source)
  • Through the middle of the synagogue ran a narrow aisle that ended at the large podium.†   (source)
  • The synagogue where my father and I prayed had once been a large grocery store.†   (source)
  • When my father and I came into the synagogue that morning, the service had just begun.†   (source)
  • Then my father and I started out on the three-block walk to the synagogue.†   (source)
  • God help us if synagogues fill up with Jack Roses.†   (source)
  • There were also those synagogues in which Jews who were not Hasidim worshiped.†   (source)
  • There were many synagogues in Williamsburg.†   (source)
  • When he died, his followers opened their own synagogues.†   (source)
  • When I opened my eyes Morris was explaining, "No, that's no synagogue.†   (source)
  • Neither Larry nor Nathan had been inside a synagogue for years.†   (source)
  • No, of course, I assured myself, that was in a synagogue (or was it?)†   (source)
  • The synagogues said No, also the Dutch Reformed church.†   (source)
  • So in the mornings, he went to synagogue—by himself, because his father was not a religious man—and he stood among the swaying men in their long black coats and he asked God to take care of his dead mother and his sick brother.†   (source)
  • But what you say is correct insofar as this: After the deuteronomists had reformed Judaism, instead of making sacrifices, the Jews went to synagogue and read the Book.†   (source)
  • This morning, at the synagogue, the rabbi told his congregation that the Nazis have taken the synagogue lists of all the Jews.†   (source)
  • Those of us who were Jewish spoke Yiddish at home, Polish in public, and Hebrew in religious school or at the synagogue.†   (source)
  • Bussard had grown impressively since Sol's childhood, but the synagogue was still there on the edge of one of the oldest neighborhoods in the city.†   (source)
  • I heard, and reliably, too, that in a town on the border of Poland, the entire population was locked in the synagogue.†   (source)
  • The wagon continued its slow side-to-side pace toward the town, but behind it the villagers grew silent as one by one they noticed what sat in front of the synagogue.†   (source)
  • After services in the synagogue, people would sit on their porches, chatting and chewing pumpkin seeds.†   (source)
  • Many of Esties's own policemen had helped burn down the synagogue, and were even more vicious than the Nazis.†   (source)
  • Every Friday night and Saturday morning at Sabbath services in the synagogue, I would stand next to my grandfather, bowing my head when he did and following his lead through the prayers.†   (source)
  • I love the Lord, but deep down, it doesn't make any difference to me if I pray to Him in a synagogue or a church.†   (source)
  • In September 1938 we celebrated Rosh Hashanah, the beginning of the Jewish year, and observed Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, in a beautiful Reform synagogue, one of more than a hundred synagogues scattered throughout the city.†   (source)
  • I was especially drawn to Krakow's grand parks and historic buildings, such as the Old Synagogue, which dated back to the 1400s, and St. Mary's Basilica, a majestic fourteenth-century Gothic church that towered over the main square.†   (source)
  • When I saw the flames near the synagogue, I was afraid for Herr Blumenthal, since the Jewish house was right on St. Annen-Strasse.†   (source)
  • He had loved her for as long as he could remember, since they'd first met in the synagogue at the tender age of ten.†   (source)
  • A mob gathered at one of the remaining synagogues, shouting slurs, and then came to our building to throw rocks at the windows.†   (source)
  • "Last week I was on the Bornplatz, near the synagogue, and I saw a woman exchanging a gold chain for an old stained winter coat for her daughter," Lotte replied.†   (source)
  • Then came the worst news yet: In Germany and Austria, on the night of November 9-10, 1938, synagogues and Torah scrolls were burned and Jewish property destroyed.†   (source)
  • It was just the synagogue where Tateh taught Hebrew lessons and gave Bible study to children and taught cantoring to boys and that sort of thing.†   (source)
  • Tateh would sign a contract with a synagogue and after a year the synagogue wouldn't renew it, so we'd pack up and move to the next town.†   (source)
  • I began to accept invitations to share my story at churches, synagogues, schools, and political, military, civic, and philanthropic organizations, locally and across the United States and Canada.†   (source)
  • As his mother had made him aware of the hostility, he began to see things that had escaped his attention before: people deliberately crossing the street when he came out of the synagogue with his mother, Alfons carefully removing graffiti from the shop's window or door.†   (source)
  • Wearing a scarf around her head, Lotte stood over the steaming pots by the side entrance to the synagogue, ladling the turnip soup into bowls, her every move followed by the eyes of hollow-cheeked men, women, and children.†   (source)
  • Later this night would be referred to as Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass, because of the thousands of windows that had been shattered in synagogues, in Jewish homes and businesses.†   (source)
  • When I called the rabbi of my mother's old synagogue he spoke to me with neither nostalgia nor surprise, only grudging recognition.†   (source)
  • In September 1938 we celebrated Rosh Hashanah, the beginning of the Jewish year, and observed Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, in a beautiful Reform synagogue, one of more than a hundred synagogues scattered throughout the city.†   (source)
  • As I sat on the steps of the synagogue in the hot August sun, his words sliced through my memory like raindrops.†   (source)
  • I explained to him that I was writing a book about my family and asked if I might see some of the synagogue records.†   (source)
  • "That's how it's done," Ma said as I helped her down the synagogue stairs, her arthritic knees aching in the damp weather.†   (source)
  • Nothing's changed," she breathed as we sat in front of the old synagogue, still white, aged, but slightly noble with its four tall columns.†   (source)
  • The closest I could come to her was to sit on these synagogue steps, baking in the August heat, and wonder.†   (source)
  • Tateh worked at the local synagogue, but he had his eye on this huge old barn-type building across the tracks on the so-called colored side of town with the aim of starting a grocery store there.†   (source)
  • She was standing in front of the synagogue entrance, staring up at the doorway from the sidewalk, lost in thought, the rain billowing into puddles around her.†   (source)
  • Given the photo of the board members on the synagogue's anniversary pamphlet I'd obtained, I doubted if half the old geezers on the board were still drawing air.†   (source)
  • We drove through the entire town, down Main Street, past the one building in town that had an elevator back in the thirties, past the spot where her old home had been, past the old synagogue and old high school, which were still there.†   (source)
  • In truth, I had never been inside an actual synagogue before, the closest being the time I was working as a reporter and did a story about a Jewish school in Queens that had a synagogue attached to it.†   (source)
  • A Jew Discovered It was afternoon, August 1992, and I was standing in front of the only synagogue in downtown Suffolk, a collection of old storefronts, dimly lit buildings, and old railroad tracks that tell of better, more populous times.†   (source)
  • This is the synagogue that young Rachel Shilsky walked to with her family and where Rabbi Shilsky led the congregation during the Jewish holidays Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year, and Yom Kippur, the day of atonement and fasting.†   (source)
  • I wanted to see it, then later tell my black wife and my two children about it-because some of my blood runs through there, because my family has a history there, because there's a part of me in there whether I, or those that run the synagogue, like it or not.†   (source)
  • My sister Rosetta's college education at the all-black Howard University was completely paid for-tuition, books, even school clothes— by the Joseph L. Fisher Foundation, which was run out of the Stephen Wise Free Synagogue of Manhattan.†   (source)
  • I wanted to leave right at that moment, but instead sat on the synagogue steps as if glued, as my mind reeled back to a previous trip in 1982, when fate and luck led me deep into the bowels of a state office building where Aubrey Rubenstein was working for the highway department right-of-way office.†   (source)
  • He wasn't any different from the rest of those scoundrels you see on TV today except he preached in synagogues and he wasn't so smooth-talkin'.†   (source)
  • It was just after 8:00 on Saturday evening when Armansky left his office and walked to the synagogue of the Söder congregation on St. Paulsgatan.†   (source)
  • In particular, he wanted religious freedom for Jews, as he had written earlier to a noted New York editor, Mordecai Noah, who had sent him a discourse delivered at the consecration of a synagogue in New York.†   (source)
  • I already can't go into a church, a synagogue, I can't say—I can't say holy names, I can't get older, I'm already shut out from normal life.†   (source)
  • And that happened after the Kristallnacht, after the first state sponsored pogrom, with hundreds of Jewish shops destroyed, synagogues burned, thousands of people put in concentration camps.†   (source)
  • He began to attend synagogue regularly with my mother—I'll get to her later—and offered financial support to numerous Jewish causes.†   (source)
  • It's near the synagogue.†   (source)
  • It was Mr. Goldstein's job to take out of circulation the old siddurs that were torn or ripped, and one afternoon, with two crows as big as dogs watching from the trees, he pushed a wheelbarrow full of them out behind the synagogue, bumping over rocks and tree roots, dug a hole, said a prayer, and buried them.†   (source)
  • Behind them was Mount Arbel, with its ancient synagogue and cave fortresses, and on the southeastern slope was a small town by the same name.†   (source)
  • They always lit a yahrzeit candle for Max on New Year's Eve and another when the notice came from the synagogue listing the date of his death on the Hebrew calendar.†   (source)
  • And like me, he'd first seen his wife-to-be at the synagogue, soon after she'd arrived in Greensboro.†   (source)
  • On his way home to Katarina Bangata, Bublanski felt an urge to talk with God about the case, but instead of going to the synagogue he went to the Catholic church on Folkungagatan.†   (source)
  • And always, I would walk her home from the synagogue, her parents trailing ten paces behind, allowing us a bit more privacy.†   (source)
  • I saw Ruth twice at the synagogue that month, both times from a distance, before I went back to school.†   (source)
  • One day, as I was about to enter the synagogue, I saw Moishe the Beadle sitting on a bench near the entrance.†   (source)
  • Nor did it help that my father now accompanied my mother and me to synagogue; my intimate talks with my mother became a thing of the past.†   (source)
  • I always loved our Saturday morning walks home from the synagogue, when I had my mother all to myself.†   (source)
  • By day I studied Talmud and by night I would run to the synagogue to weep over the destruction of the Temple.†   (source)
  • The guests were mostly friends of my mother's that we knew from the synagogue, but that was the way both Ruth and I wanted it.†   (source)
  • Just listen to me!" he kept shouting in synagogue, between the prayer at dusk and the evening prayer.†   (source)
  • We spoke that way almost every evening, remaining in the synagogue long after all the faithful had gone, sitting in the semi-darkness where only a few half-burnt candles provided a flickering light.†   (source)
  • But days passed and then a week, and when I did not see you at the synagogue, I understood that you were trying to avoid me.†   (source)
  • I talked about my work as a substitute teacher at a school around the corner from the synagogue, but also mentioned that I was interviewing for a full-time position that fall at a rural elementary school on the outskirts of town.†   (source)
  • The door in the hallway that led into the synagogue was open, but the synagogue was empty—except for the echoes it contained.†   (source)
  • The noise in the synagogue had become very loud, almost a din, and the room seemed to throb and swell with the scraping chairs and the talking men.†   (source)
  • The singing filled the synagogue, and Reb Saunders sat back in his leather seat and sang too, and then Danny was singing.†   (source)
  • The next morning, as I walked up Lee Avenue, I saw him waiting for me in front of the synagogue where my father and I prayed.†   (source)
  • A small portion of the synagogue near the upper door of the hallway had been curtained off with white cheesecloth.†   (source)
  • He is helping them put up a new building so his grandchildren can go to a modern synagogue and have a good Jewish education.†   (source)
  • The sun was warm and bright, and I went along slowly, past the houses and the shops and the synagogue where my father and I prayed.†   (source)
  • It seemed tiny to me now, the synagogue, so much less neat than when I had seen it for the first time.†   (source)
  • The synagogue seemed to me suddenly very small without its throng of black-hatted, black-bearded, black-caftaned men.†   (source)
  • I sat at the kitchen table and slowly told my father every thing that had taken place in Reb Saunders' synagogue.†   (source)
  • The remaining section of the synagogue, the section without chairs, was crowded with long tables and benches.†   (source)
  • The crowd came in quickly, and the synagogue was soon filled with the sounds of shuffling shoes, scraping chairs, and loud voices talking Yiddish.†   (source)
  • When we stopped in front of the synagogue where my father and I prayed, he muttered his "Good night," turned, and walked slowly away.†   (source)
  • Then the congregants wished one another and Reb Saunders a good week and began to leave the synagogue.†   (source)
  • When it didn't rain and wasn't too cold, my father and I always enjoyed our Shabbat walks to and from the synagogue.†   (source)
  • The seats extended back to about twenty feet from the rear wall of the synagogue, the wall opposite the Ark.†   (source)
  • The noise inside the synagogue ceased so abruptly that I felt its absence as one would a sudden lack of air.†   (source)
  • And on my way to the synagogue the next morning, I saw the newspaper headlines announcing the birth of the Jewish state.†   (source)
  • It stopped in swift waves, beginning at the rear of the synagogue and ending at the chairs near the podium.†   (source)
  • A block beyond the synagogue where my father and I prayed, we made a right turn into a narrow street crowded with brownstones and sycamores.†   (source)
  • Again, I got the impression that he loved his brother very much, and I wondered why he hadn't said a word to him during all the time I had seen them together yesterday in the synagogue.†   (source)
  • So Danny and I resumed our old habits of meeting in front of my synagogue, of riding to school together, eating lunch together, and going home together.†   (source)
  • I stood just inside the synagogue.†   (source)
  • We walked past our synagogue, past the shops and houses, past the library where we had sat and read, walking in silence and saying more with that silence than with a lifetime of words.†   (source)
  • The synagogue door stood open.†   (source)
  • The street floor of the building consisted of administrative offices, an auditorium, and a large synagogue, a section of which contained chairs and long tables.†   (source)
  • About three or four such Hasidic sects populated the area in which Danny and I grew up, each with its own rabbi, its own little synagogue, its own customs, its own fierce loyalties.†   (source)
  • Dov Shlomowitz looked away but I saw others in the crowded synagogue staring at me too, and I looked down at the worn prayer book on my stand, feeling exposed and naked again, and very alone.†   (source)
  • What was our kitchen, hallway, bathroom, my bedroom, my father's study and our front room, was here the portion of the synagogue where the worshipers sat.†   (source)
  • My father and I spent Shabbat morning in the synagogue, where the pain of death showed itself clearly on every face, and where my friends and I just stood around aimlessly after the service, not knowing what to say.†   (source)
▲ show less (of above)