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Ecumenical

Promoting or relating to unity among the world's Christian churches.

Entangle

To make tangled, ensnarled, intertwine.

Gentile

Of or pertaining to any people not Jewish.

Orthodox

Of, pertaining to, or conforming to the approved form of any doctrine, philosophy, ideology, etc.

Palpitate

To pulsate, quiver, throb, tremble, usually from emotion, exertion, or disease.

Placate

To appease or pacify.

Sojourn

A short stay or to stay somewhere temporarily.

Solemn

Grave or somber, as a person, the face, speech, tone, or mood.

Synagogue

A Jewish house of worship.

Torah

The first five books of the Hebrew Bible.

Yom Kippur

A Jewish high holy day observed with abstinence from food or drink and by the daylong recitation of prayers of repentance in the synagogue.