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Communal Seder

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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Ki Tissa

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

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Terumah

Why is the first law, after the Ten Commandments that is, to do with slavery? One reason may be that the Israelites have just themselves emerged from slavery, so the

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Yitro

Imagine the wonder of it: to witness the plagues, each one more awful than the one before, to see the hail lash the land and darkness to descend for three

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Bo

“Listen heaven! I will speak! Earth hear the words of my mouth! My lesson shall drop like rain, my saying shall flow down like the dew – like a downpour

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Movie Night

Bagels and Batteries (not included) Pat Lipert The first film/nosh/cultural event of the season took place on Saturday, the 28th of January at Malpas Village Hall in Truro. If you

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Remembering the Holocaust

Pat Lipert From January 25-28th, several venues were arranged in Cornwall to honour all those who died in the Holocaust in observance of Holocaust Memorial Day. School visits, services at

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Sh’mot

As I said last year, Bereshit goes from the macro – the creation, the flood, the scattering of nations after Babel – to the micro, that is the focus on

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Va-yiggash

The whole of the book of Genesis can be seen as a history of brothers… and sisters… and brother and sister… “Hang on a minute,” someone is saying. “How can

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Va-yeitzei

“But the children clashed inside her.” Is it not unusual for twins to fight? Are not twins usually as alike as two pins? Yet in the case of Esau and

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Harvey Feted at Kehillat Kernow Luncheon

Thirty-nine members of the Kehillat Kernow community came out to honour and celebrate the chairmanship of Harvey Kurzfield on Saturday, 3 December at Trevaski’s Farm. The feelings of all those

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December Newsletter

The December newsletter is now available online. You can subscribe to email notifications if you’d like to know when these are coming out in the future.

Elkan’s View

View from Natanya

WEEK ENDING 3rd DECEMBER 2016 The weather is not normally a topic of conversation here in Israel. Occasionally when there is a Sharav, the hot dry wind that blows from

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Chayyei Sarah

The Torah has loads of contradictions…. Now, before everyone gathers together into a furious band, comes round to our house with pitchforks and scythes to skewer and shred me to

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Harvey Honoured at AGM Meeting

At the November 20th AGM meeting where 18 members of our community gathered, Harvey Kurzfield officially stepped down as chairman of Kehillat Kernow. Jeremy Jacobson was unanimously voted in as

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Jewish Chronicle 175 Anniversary Article

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Lech L’cha

Bereshit is full of big bangs. First there is the startling sequence of light, sky and water, the Earth and the seas, the sun, moon and all the stars, the

Elkan’s View

View from Natanya

WEEK ENDING 5th NOVEMBER 2016 Israel has been enjoying a long summer, and Sukkot despite being so late in October was sunny and dry, and the weather remains extremely pleasant.

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Bereshit and B’nei Mitzvot Rachel & David Barral

After Ha’azinu, some of which was beautifully rendered for us by Isaac Feldman, the story continues in the Torah inevitably to the death of Moses. However, it is not a

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Rachel and David Barral double B’nei Mitzvot

Barral B’nei Mitzvot Rachel and David Barral enjoyed a double B’nei Mitzvot on Saturday, 29 October, Shabbat Bereshit, the 27th of Tishrei at services. Family members and members of Kehllat