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Book Burning

Authoritarian governments and extremists of all stripes are responsible for widespread cultural destruction through terrorism, war, ethnic cleansing, and other forms of mass violence.

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Communal Seder

The first lockdown descended just days before the 2020 Seder. Pesach 2021 was decidedly barred. How happy we were in early 2022!

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Holocaust Memorial Day Exhibition in Cornwall

Torpoint Community College has told a distinctive story for Holocaust Memorial Day by mounting a moving project based on the life of Leon Greenman, a renowned Holocaust survivor and anti-fascist

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Falmouth cemetery in Cornwall named alongside Stonehenge as a top place of faith worth saving in England

https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/cornish-cemetery-named-alongside-stonehenge-1416698

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Holocaust Memorial Day 2023

From Monday 23rd to Friday 27th January 2023, there will be several exhibitions in Truro Cathedral prepared by several organisations.

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Cornish Chanukah Eighth Night

The night is lit up by full menorahs across Cornwall and Cornish Manchester, and one of Kehillat Kernow’s founding members celebrates her 91st birthday.

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Cornish Chanukah Seventh Night

A lot of light to fill the winter darkness

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Cornish Chanukah Fourth Night

This menorah belonged to one of our members who lived in Queens, New York. Later she shared it with her children in Tarzana, California. And now it resides with her

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Cornish Chanukah First night

Blessed are You, our Living God, Sovereign of the universe, who has kept us alive and supported us and brought us to this season.

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Chanukah 5783/2022

For old hands, a reminder, and for new ones a guide to how it’s done. 

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Newsletter for December 2022

Here is the current issue of Kol Kehillat Kerno, added to the Newsletter page. This is the latest newsletter created by Melanie Feldman.

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Kehillat Kernow, the 20+ years anniversary

Shabbat service, Kiddush, Live music – Klezmer style, Talk on the theme of Renewal by Eleanor Davies, discussion and our own stories.

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Newsletter for August 2022

A little later for the next issue of Kol Kehillat Kernow in the Newsletter page. This is the second newsletter created by the new designer and editor: Melanie Feldman.

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Newsletter for April 2022

It is a few months late, but I’ve added the recent issue of Kol Kehillat Kernow in the Newsletter page. This is the first newsletter created by the new designer

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Srebrenica Memorial Day 2022

This year marks the 27th anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide, in which over 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys were murdered in the worst atrocity on European soil since the

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Garden Shul

When the Second Temple in Jerusalem was destroyed by the Romans in 70 CE, our sages moved from sacrifice to prayer and from a centralised place of worship to many

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Seder Night – Cancellation

After much discussion, with heavy hearts, the Council has decided to cancel this year’s Seder. There are basically two related reasons for this decision. 

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Pesach in Cornwall

After over two years in the wilderness, we are breaking free from the shackles of the pandemic and emerging step by step into freedom. Pesach this year will be doubly

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Holly and her trees

Young Kehillat Kernow regular Holly Hancock was unable to attend the Tree Planting at Paul (see below), so she and her dad planted their own trees for the Jewish refugees.

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Tree Planting in Penwith

On 30 January, 2022 Kehillat Kernow, the Association of Jewish Refugees (AJR), the Cornwall Faith Forum (CFF) and local people converged on the historic Cholera Field at Paul, near Mousehole