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Nitzavim-Vayelekh

If you travel around the towns and villages of Britain, you will find in almost all of them one or more memorials to the dead of the First and Second

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Ki Teitzei

An aged parent sits at home in his favourite armchair, surrounded by his children. He speaks softly of the past and of the future. He knows that death approaches and

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R’eih

Can there be a more impressive scene? Moses, the humblest of men, the stammerer, devoid of ambition, who has surrounded himself with no pomp or ceremony, servant of God, leader

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What is it like to be British and Jewish?

This is the subject of some research being carried out by Hila Zaban, an UK-based Israeli research fellow working in the Department of Sociology at the University of Warwick. Dr

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Ponsharden Open Day

On Sunday, 10 September, from 2-4pm, there will be an Open Day at the Jewish Cemetery and Dissenters’ Burying Ground (also known as Congregationalists) at Ponsharden in Falmouth adjacent to

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VA-ETCHANAN, SHABBAT NAHAMU

In two week’s time, it will be the first of Elul. How appropriate, then, that we are beginning the last book of the Torah, Devarim, as so many of the

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Newsletter for August 2017

I have added the latest additon of the newsletter: Kol Kehillat Kernow to the Newsletter page. You’ll need to be a Kehillat Kernow member to view this.

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ANTHONY’S ARK

  Have Ark, will travel-Anthony Fagin’s portable Ark which holds our two Torah scrolls, made its debut on Shabbat Mattot-Mas’ei on the 28th of Tammuz, where a Shehechianu was duly

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MATTOT-MAS’EI 22 July 2017

The children of Israel seem destined to have their ups and downs, even as we approach the last few chapters of B’midbar. The years in the wilderness haven’t yet taught

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Balak

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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Korach

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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Beha’aloteckha

When I was a child, I believed that the reason Samson lost his strength and was captured by the Philistines was because Delilah shaved his hair off while he was

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Talk about the Jewish Cemetery in Falmouth

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B’midbar

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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Tazria-M‘tzora, Shabbat Atzma’ut

Imagine, you are walking along beside the Ark of the Covenant, as King David leads the procession to take the Ark to Jerusalem. You are in a privileged position at

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Pesach Seder Photos

Leslie and I have uploaded some photos taken at the Pesach Seder. Please check them out!

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Shabbat Chol Ha-mo’ed Pesach

On the news this morning, I listened to an item on money laundering and the corruption of oligarchs from a country somewhere to the east of here. Clearly, these oligarchs

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The day after the night before

March ended and April began for Kehillat Kernow on a spiritual, social and culinary high. Friday 31st brought down from remotest London David and Hannah Jacobs. David led a joyful

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April 2017 Newsletter

The April 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.

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Vayikra

Last week there was a double parashiyot, namely Va-yakhel and P’kudei. In Ya-yakhel, the instructions given to Moses earlier on the building of the Tabernacle, the Ark and the other