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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'.†
Chpt 5

synagogues = places where members of the Jewish faith worship
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.†
Chpt 5

synagogue = a place of worship for a people of the Jewish faith
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.†
Chpt 5
Luckily he got an offer to run a synagogue in Suffolk, Virginia.†
Chpt 5
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.†
Chpt 5
Well, that upset some of the synagogue folks.†
Chpt 5
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.†
Chpt 9
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.†
Chpt 10
We went to synagogue together on Saturday morning and Jewish holidays, but Tateh didn't love Mameh.†
Chpt 11
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.†
Chpt 22
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.†
Chpt 22
The closest I could come to her was to sit on these synagogue steps, baking in the August heat, and wonder.†
Chpt 22
I wanted to see the inside of the synagogue.†
Chpt 22
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.†
Chpt 22
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.†
Chpt 22
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.†
Chpt 22
When I called the rabbi of my mother's old synagogue he spoke to me with neither nostalgia nor surprise, only grudging recognition.†
Chpt 22
I explained to him that I was writing a book about my family and asked if I might see some of the synagogue records.†
Chpt 22
I asked if I could see the inside of the synagogue itself.†
Chpt 22
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.†
Chpt 22
I hung up, muttering to myself, "I didn't want to see your silly old synagogue anyway.†
Chpt 22
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.†
Chpt 22
As I sat on the steps of the synagogue in the hot August sun, his words sliced through my memory like raindrops.†
Chpt 22
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.†
Chpt 25
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.†
Chpt 25
She'd had no problems walking into the synagogue.
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synagogue = a place where members of the Jewish faith worship
When we opened the synagogue door, it was raining outside and we had no umbrellas.†
Chpt Epil.

synagogue = a place of worship for a people of the Jewish faith
"That's how it's done," Ma said as I helped her down the synagogue stairs, her arthritic knees aching in the damp weather.†
Chpt Epil.
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.†
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(1) (synagogue)
a place of worship for a people of the Jewish faith
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)

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