Sentence examples for like a synagogue from inspiring English sources
Not one looks like another and none look like a synagogue; that is, if you think of a synagogue as vaguely Middle Eastern, if not flamboyantly Moorish.
They recommend welcoming prospective converts and list expectations for those who convert, like affiliating with a synagogue, as well as recognize such traditional practices as immersing a prospective convert in a ritual bath, or mikveh.
Vaguely Moorish-looking, but with a church-like spire, it is actually a synagogue, the Magen David, built in Kolkata's Raj heyday, when the then capital of India had 10,000 Jews.
"It was very different; I had never seen a synagogue like it," Mr. Satin said.
How does a synagogue like Har Zion go about replacing its beloved rabbi?
"I wanted to bring the aura of what it's like to be in a synagogue," she added.
Mrs. Stern recalled being dismayed watching her eldest son, a ninth grader, do the kind of community service that helped no one, like stacking books in a synagogue library or checking its pens for ink.
"This is a synagogue that a year ago looked like it was going to have to close for good," he said.
With thousands of youngsters being drawn toward skinhead and neo-Nazi groups, and attacks like last week's firebombing of a synagogue in Dusseldorf making headlines, ignorance is an enemy, the producers of the series say.
For example, an early-15th-century painting by an unknown artist illustrating the boy Jesus impressing the doctors in a synagogue accurately represents what the interior of a medieval synagogue looked like.
