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ELKAN’S VIEW 15th April 2015 I was strolling through a park in Ra’anana last week when I heard an orchestra and choir rehearsing the Hatikvah. The tune is haunting, although
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Pesach 5775
The photos from this year’s Pesach Seder are now online in the Photo Gallery.
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South West Jewish Community Get-Together
On Sunday 17th May, there will be a South West ‘simcha’ in Totnes, featuring Israeli dance and song, Jewish music and stories, jokes and food. You can find out more
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ELKAN’S VIEW 1st April 2015 With Pesach beginning on Friday night, Israel is gripped with pre-holiday fever. I arrived back on Monday evening, turned on my phone and was greeted
Elkan’s View
View from Netanya
ELKAN’S VIEW 15th April 2015 I was strolling through a park in Ra’anana last week when I heard an orchestra and choir rehearsing the Hatikvah. The tune is haunting, although
Elkan’s View
View from Netanya
ELKAN’S VIEW 15th April 2015 I was strolling through a park in Ra’anana last week when I heard an orchestra and choir rehearsing the Hatikvah. The tune is haunting, although
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April Newsletter
The latest issue of Kol Kehillat Kernow, issue 40 is available to view online. If you’d like to be informed of any upcoming issues along with the main article, the
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Pesach in Cornwall
Enjoy a traditional service and super seder in an idyllic setting in Cornwall if you are in the Southwest for Friday night, 3rd April at 6:30pm. One of the highlights
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ELKAN’S VIEW 25h March 2015 Last Sunday I went to the all-day conference entitled “We Believe in Israel” which attracted over 1000 delegates including some from Radlett who also presented.
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ELKAN’S VIEW 11th March 2015 “See! The winter is past; the rains are over and gone. Flowers appear on the earth; the season of singing has come, and the cooing
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ELKAN’S VIEW 4th March 2015 It’s Purim this week, and the chaos that descends on communities outside Israel is written large on the whole country. You expect to see people
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Zac’s Bar Mitzvah
Zac Berger, now officially known in the family of Israel as Yitzhak ben Sha’ul, was joined by many members of the community, his family and friends for his Bar Mitzvah
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ELKAN’S VIEW 25th February 2015 Israel is building itself up for the elections on 17 March, and like the electoral perspective in the UK, the situation in Israel gives no
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ELKAN’S VIEW 18th February 2015 I am writing this after two amazing weeks in Hong Kong and Thailand. I had never been East of Israel and the interaction with other
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ELKAN’S VIEW 11th February 2015 Returning to last week’s topic; one of the problems as Melanie Phillips saw it, and I believe she is absolutely right, is the breakdown of
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ELKAN’S VIEW 4th February 2015 I belong to the Jerusalem branch of the Jewish Historical Society of England. This has some very good and extremely interesting lectures, and last week
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Holocaust Memorial Day receives interfaith support in Cornwall
Tuesday 27 January was Holocaust Memorial Day and there were events throughout the UK to remember those those who suffered and died under Nazis persecution. This year, seventy special commemorative
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ELKAN’S VIEW 28th January 2015 Over the last few days I have been watching “The Eichmann Show” the docudrama on BBC television about the filming of the Eichmann trial in
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ELKAN’S VIEW 21st January 2015 Is this how the media would have reported this week’s Sedrah? ISRAELITES CHARGED WITH WAR CRIMES – EGYPTIAN CIVILIANS SUFFER AS ISRAELITES DANCE AT THE
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ELKAN’S VIEW 14th January 2015 Last week’s events in Paris have possibly changed the world we live in, although my cynical reluctance to admit that the nations of the West