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The Jews of Cornwall – A History
A review of Keith Pearce’s book has been made by Dr Jo Esra an associate researcher at the Institute of Cornish Studies and a lecturer with Humanities Penryn on the
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ELKAN’S VIEW FROM NETANYA 19th August 2015 Israel has been horrified internally by some of the events that have taken place in recent weeks, including the tragic murder of a
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ELKAN’S VIEW FROM NETANYA 12th August 2015 Like most people of my generation I can remember when Panorama, chaired by the unfogetteble Richard Dimbleby, embodied all the qualities inculcated into
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ELKAN’S VIEW FROM RADLETT 5th August 2015 It’s getting nasty. Obama, trying to leave some sort of acceptable legacy behind him, has crafted the agreement with Iran in an attempt
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Clearance of Falmouth Jewish Cemetery
Question: How do you get 265 years of intrusive vegetation cleared in only 3 days? Answer: Find two two old Jews and give them the job. David Hearle and Anthony
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ELKAN’S VIEW FROM RADLETT 29TH JULY 2015 One of the things about being Jewish is that we spend a great deal of time complaining. This is not a new thing;
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August Newsletter
The latest Kol Kehillat Kernow newsletter, issue 41, is now available featuring the Pesach Seder. If you haven’t already, please add your email address to our newsletter list. We’ll tell
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ELKAN’S VIEW FROM NETANYA 23RD JULY 2015 On Saturday night and Sunday we will observe the fast of Tisha B’Av which this year actually falls on Shabbat. Since the only
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ELKAN’S VIEW 8th July 2015 Towards the end of last week the Chofesh Hagadol, the great long summer holidays, began in Israeli schools, and with the majority of parents working,
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ELKAN’S VIEW 1st July 2015 The boycott of Israel, so widely trumpeted, does possibly have a pernicious moral effect but in practice it is difficult to view it as a
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ELKAN’S VIEW 24th JUNE 2015 Israel is undoubtedly a very prosperous country but the division between the haves and the have-nots can at times be frighteningly large. Statistics reveal that
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ELKAN’S VIEW 17 June 2015 Anti-Semitism is an old and dangerous concept, but it mutates in different forms and requires different responses. Its latest form is BDS, the Boycott Divestment
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ELKAN’S VIEW 10 June 2015 France has a long and inglorious record of anti-Jewish actions. Although there were good times, and considerable mediaeval Jewish scholarship came from France (Rashi was
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ELKAN’S VIEW 3rd June 2015 Jewish settlement in Croatia, where I will be when you read this, has had a long and very colourful history, although recently both sad and
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ELKAN’S VIEW 27TH May 2015 Last week I went with two of my grandchildren (and their parents) to spend Shavuot in Kibbutz Keturah which is in the Negev about 50
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ELKAN’S VIEW 20TH May 2015 One of the most irritating things about Western commentators on the Middle Eastern situation is that they ignore reality and assume that the Arabs are
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ELKAN’S VIEW 13TH May 2015 I have just lived through two general elections, in both of which I had a vote and in neither of which I voted. As a
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ELKAN’S VIEW 6th April 2015 One of the classic definitions of the Jewish people is that we are “Rachmanim bnai Rachmanim – Merciful human beings, the children of merciful human
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ELKAN’S VIEW 29th April 2015 Israel is a Jewish state which means that sometimes there are Jewish ways around problems. I got caught in Jerusalem some years ago doing something
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ELKAN’S VIEW 21st April 2015 I am writing this on the afternoon of Wednesday 21st April, Yom Hazikaron, the day of national memorial for the 23,320 Israeli soldiers who have