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Getting ready for Pesach, Torah Style
The four special Shabbats leading up to Pesach are God’s proscription for purification before the major festival of Passover to begin the Jewish calendar year. And you thought it was
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Purim Party 2020
Graggers and Hamentaschen: It must be Purim
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T’rumah: unholy acts in holy places?
One evening last week, an East Asian looking student was walking home from a gym in Sheffield when a man standing in a doorway shouted at her, “Chinese bitch!” In
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Yitro – Wise Old Bird
A wise old bird who, at the beginning of this week’s parsha, arrives in the Israelite camp with his wise daughter Zipporah, who earlier saved Moses from the wrath of
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Bo: A Plague On All Your Houses
Ten plagues, actually, and on their houses not ours. We have a seder plate at home on which all the plagues are represented around the rim. Similar to pictures in
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Sh’mot: sins of the parents
“…for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate Me;
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Vayiggash
The last four parashiyot in Bereshit deal mostly with the story of Joseph. However, when discussing the parsha of Va-yeishev two weeks ago, Melanie Feldman focussed on the story of
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Chanukkah Party
The Kehillat Kernow community representing four generations came out in droves to welcome in the 7th night of Chanukkah at a party hosted in the home of Pat an Leslie
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Historic England 100 Places List
Historic England has created a list of the 100 places, buildings and historical sites that tell the remarkable story of England and its impact on the world.
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Va-yeishev
“I am distressed for you my brother Jonathan; Greatly beloved were you to me; your love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.”
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Vayetze – my favourite
We probably all have favourites of one kind or another: a favourite aunt or uncle, a cousin, perhaps a brother or sister whom we somehow gel with better than our
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Chayyei Sarah and Blessing for Kislev – there’s business and business
If Abraham had been dealing with the landed gentry and merchants of Falmouth and Penzance, he would have had an easier time of it negotiating for a burial plot for his
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Lech l’cha
Our cat Queenie loves nothing more than to be cradled in the arms of one of the family and to bury his head in the crook of our elbow or in
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Bereshit: what a beginning and how!
Words, words words – Devarim is full of them: eloquent, beautifully crafted words uttered by the man who protested to God over forty years before, as the burning bush burned and didn’t burn away, that he had no way with them, that he was an inarticulate stutterer. Now, back once more in Bereshit, where it all begins, God creates the world
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Kol Nidrei and Yom Kippur Observances
All the High Holy Day services were well attended this year on the 8th and 9th of October with many visitors from afar and our own community of Kehillat Kernow.
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Rosh HaShannah Shines Despite the Weather
It may have been raining on Erev Rosh HaShannah and on the day of 5780, but the sun certainly shone when a large number of people from within the Cornish
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World Cup VS Bar MItzvah
The Fiction, Film, Food Event at Malpas Village Hall on the afternoon of 22nd September proved that both secular and religious rites of passage can somehow be managed with the showing of Sixty-Six for members of Kehillat Kernow and the greater community from the Cornwall Faith Forum. Add some popcorn, scones, brownies, and some Rosh HaShannah goodies, it was a
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Ki-tetze
“Thou shalt not deliver unto his master a bondsman that is escaped from his master unto thee; he shall dwell with thee, in the midst of thee, in the place
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High Holy Days 5780/2019
Rosh Hashannah and Yom Kippur will be celebrated in Cornwall this year as follows.
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Re-eh
What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel,