Article: synagogue

Article: The Synagogue.(Our Own Pages)(Brief Article)
Highlights for Children;  October 1, 2003 ;     60 words ...The Synagogue The synagogue makes me feel cozy and safe, relaxed, and watched over. I hear the...at the shiny, glittering stage makes me shiver in surprise. The synagogue is silent. How I love the synagogue. Ella Rosenfeld, Age 8 Washington...

Article: Synagogue, The Great
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions;      57 words ...Synagogue, The Great. Jewish institution mentioned in the Mishnah . According to Avot , ‘the men of the Great Synagogue’ lived between the time of the prophets and the...date the period from the time of Ezra , and the Great Synagogue was probably a representative body which met from time...

Article: Synagogue
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions;      217 words ...Synagogue (Heb., bet keneset ). Jewish meeting house and place of worship. The synagogue, in embryonic form, may perhaps date back to the period of the Babylonian exile . By the 1st cent. CE, the synagogue emerges as a well-established institution. With the calamity...

Article: Great synagogue
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions;      24 words ...Great synagogue. Perhaps better translated ‘ great assembly ’, a Jewish administrative council during the Persian period (538–331 BCE).

Article: synagogue
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church;      118 words ...synagogue. The Jews may have introduced synagogues as regular meeting places for worship during the Babylonian...Temple worship at Jerusalem, but the first clear evidence of synagogue building comes from Egypt in the Hellenistic period. The...

Article: City's senior synagogue restored to former glory.(Construction & Design)(New York City's Congregation Chasam Sopher)
Real Estate Weekly;  November 24, 2004 ;     508 words ......City's second-oldest building built as a synagogue, the 1853 Congregation Chasam Sopher...renovation by Meltzer/Mandl Architects. The synagogue declined in recent decades as its congregation...old world smell that characterized the synagogue. It transported him back more than 50...

Article: ADVISORY/Bentley Joins Honors at Re-opening of 19th Century Synagogue in Poland.
Business Wire;  November 6, 1998 ;     700+ words ......Bialym Bocianem ( Under the White Stork ) Synagogue on Nov. 8, 1998. Bentley's architectural...integral role in the reconstruction of the synagogue. The ceremony is being conducted under...in 1829, in what was then Breslau, the synagogue was at that time the largest in the city...

Article: An attack on all of us.(Editorials)(Eight years later, synagogue again a target)(Editorial)
The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR);  October 30, 2002 ;     469 words ......years ago, white supremacists riddled the synagogue with armor-piercing rifle rounds at a...threw swastika-engraved rocks through synagogue windows while worshipers inside were...aggravating to learn of an attack on a synagogue that has occurred in a faraway country...

Article: Historic Philadelphia prison works to restore lost synagogue
AP Worldstream;  April 17, 2008 ;     700+ words ......of faith and spiritual guidance. The synagogue behind the walls of Eastern State Penitentiary...tourist attraction are restoring the synagogue's spare but dignified environs. Decades...carrying a concealed deadly weapon. The synagogue was built off a cellblock alley in the...

Article: Pope to Visit New York City Synagogue
AP Online;  April 4, 2008 ;     661 words ...When Pope Benedict XVI enters a U.S. synagogue for the first time, it will be an emotional...senior rabbi of Manhattan's Park East Synagogue, which the pope is to visit on April...Schneier said the pope's visit to the synagogue on the eve of Passover is another tangible...

Article: Pope to Visit NYC Synagogue This Month
AP Online;  April 4, 2008 ;     673 words ...When Pope Benedict XVI enters a U.S. synagogue for the first time, there likely will...senior rabbi of Manhattan's Park East Synagogue, which the pope is to visit on April...said the pope's scheduled visit to the synagogue on the eve of Passover, which begins...

Article: Centenary of synagogue.(Brief Article)
Catholic Insight;  June 1, 2004 ;     105 words ......the ceremony of the centenary of the synagogue of Rome on May 23. They are Cardinal...first Pope after St. Peter to visit a synagogue, when he visited the Rome landmark in...the Pope would be unable to visit the synagogue, but said that Cardinals Ruini and Kasper...

Article: Pope Benedict XVI to visit New York synagogue led by Holocaust survivor on eve of Passover
AP Worldstream;  April 4, 2008 ;     673 words ...When Pope Benedict XVI enters a U.S. synagogue for the first time, there likely will...senior rabbi of Manhattan's Park East Synagogue, which the pope is to visit on April...said the pope's scheduled visit to the synagogue on the eve of Passover, which begins...

Article: ruler of the synagogue
A Dictionary of the Bible;      80 words ...ruler of the synagogue The ‘leader of the synagogue’ (NRSV, Luke 8: 41) was an official appointed by the elders to look after the building, its contents, and its arrangements for worship . He was probably not the same person as the...