rena tyloczy

Ecumenical: (adj.) promoting or relating to unity among the world's Christian churches

Entangle:  (v) to make tangled, ensnarled, intertwine

Gentile: (adj.) of or pertaining to any people not Jewish

Orthodox: (adj) of, pertaining to, or conforming to the approved form of any doctrine, philosophy, ideology, etc.

Palpitate: (v) to pulsate, quiver, throb, tremble, usually from emotion, exertion, or disease

Placate: (v) to appease or pacify

Sojourn: (n. or v.) a short stay or to stay somewhere temporarily

Solemn: (adj) grave or somber, as a person, the face, speech, tone, or mood

Synagogue: (n) a Jewish house of worship

Torah: (n) the first five books of the Hebrew Bible

Yom Kippur: (n) a Jewish high holy day observed abstinence from food or drink and by the daylong recitation of prayers of repentance in the synagogue