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Knowledge, Knowledge Everywhere….
The value of KK’s Arnold and Leatrice Levine Library was more than amply verified on Saturday, 10th of March when members of the community, armed with their reading fare, mostly
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Pesach in Cornwall
Spring is coming and, with it, one of the most wonderful festivals of the Jewish year: Pesach. It is fitting that, at the same time as the world around us
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Memorial services for the six million
Holocaust Memorial Services on the 26-28th of January to mark Holocaust Memorial Day were held in Cornwall to acknowledge the 73rd anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camps. The
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Cambridge comes to Cornwall
Two distinguished and accomplished visitors from the Beth Shalom Reform Synagogue in Cambridge led our end of the year Shabbat Va-y’chi services on the 30th of December: Mike Frankl and
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Newsletter for December 2017
I have just added the latest additon of the newsletter: Kol Kehillat Kernow to the Newsletter page. Sorry, it’s a little later than usual. To view the full version, you’ll
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AGM, Sunday 19th of November 2017
Jeremy Jacobson, Chairman of Kehillat Kernow, led our members through a fine summary of all that we have accomplished in the past year. We really do ‘punch above our weight,’
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A Golden Night
If you missed the book, food and film festival on Saturday, 18th of November at Malpas Village Hall celebrating The Lady in Gold, Klimt’s masterpiece, and the title of
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Book Swap Success
On November 4th, Kehillat Kernow members, Jacqueline and Harvey Kurzfield, hosted and organised their annual Book Swap to raise funds for Cornwall Hospices. This year £665 was raised. A multitude
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Jewish wild flower cemetery consecrated
Over twenty people attended the consecration ceremony at the Penmount Wildflower Cemetery section for Jewish burials in Truro on Sunday, the 15th of October. The service was led by Life
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Teshuvah for Yom Kippur
From Kol Nidrei to Neilah, our final journey of the High Holiday on 29 and 30th of September, couldn’t have been more moving or expertly conducted by our star service
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Rosh HaShanah 5778/2017
Leslie has added a few photos from the Rosh HaShanah services. I’ve also added some fantastic masthead banners, all taken by our resident photographer: Anthony Fagin. If you browse the
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High Holy Days in Cornwall
There will be services for both Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. If you are visiting Cornwall and wish to attend one or more of these, please contact us.
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Ponsharden Open Day Huge Success
Well over two hundred people passed through the Dissenters and Jewish Cemeteries at Ponsharden in Falmouth on Sunday, the 10th of September to learn about their historic roots and the
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What is it like to be British and Jewish?
This is the subject of some research being carried out by Hila Zaban, an UK-based Israeli research fellow working in the Department of Sociology at the University of Warwick. Dr
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Ponsharden Open Day
On Sunday, 10 September, from 2-4pm, there will be an Open Day at the Jewish Cemetery and Dissenters’ Burying Ground (also known as Congregationalists) at Ponsharden in Falmouth adjacent to
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VA-ETCHANAN, SHABBAT NAHAMU
In two week’s time, it will be the first of Elul. How appropriate, then, that we are beginning the last book of the Torah, Devarim, as so many of the
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Newsletter for August 2017
I have added the latest additon of the newsletter: Kol Kehillat Kernow to the Newsletter page. You’ll need to be a Kehillat Kernow member to view this.
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ANTHONY’S ARK
Have Ark, will travel-Anthony Fagin’s portable Ark which holds our two Torah scrolls, made its debut on Shabbat Mattot-Mas’ei on the 28th of Tammuz, where a Shehechianu was duly
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MATTOT-MAS’EI 22 July 2017
The children of Israel seem destined to have their ups and downs, even as we approach the last few chapters of B’midbar. The years in the wilderness haven’t yet taught
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Balak
Please note that service reminders aim to build a bridge between the last Saturday service two weeks before and the one being announced. They will therefore often focus on the