Kehillat Kernow

{{Short description|Reform Jewish community in Cornwall, England}}

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Kehillat Kernow is a Reform Jewish congregation, that worships from various locations in Truro, Cornwall, England, in the United Kingdom. Founded in 1999 as the Jewish Community of Cornwall, the name of the congregation is a combination of the Hebrew word kehillat (community) and the Cornish word Kernow, meaning Cornwall.{{cite web |url=http://kehillatkernow.com/about/ | title=About Us | publisher=Kehillat Kernow, the Jewish Community of Cornwall |accessdate=4 July 2014}}{{self-published-inline|date=May 2024}}

The congregation is a member of the Movement for Reform Judaism{{cite web|url=http://synagogues.reformjudaism.org.uk/details/kehillat-kernow-synagogue.html |title=Kehillat Kernow (The Jewish Community of Cornwall) |publisher=Movement for Reform Judaism |work=Synagogue Directory |accessdate=4 July 2014 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714232542/http://synagogues.reformjudaism.org.uk/details/kehillat-kernow-synagogue.html |archivedate=14 July 2014 }} and had approximately 100 members in 2014.

Services

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Services take place fortnightly on Shabbat mornings at 10:30 and are held in a local school, with alternative venues for High Holidays and some festivals. They are led by members of the community and, occasionally, by visiting student rabbis from Leo Baeck College.

The community uses a Torah scroll on permanent loan from Exeter Synagogue and also one that it received from the Royal Cornwall Museum in Truro.{{cite news |url=https://www.thejc.com/community/community-news/scrolls-returned-after-132-years-1.55189 |title=Scrolls returned after 132 years |work=The Jewish Chronicle |date=9 June 2014 |accessdate=28 December 2018 |author=Lidiker, Pat}}{{cite press release |url=http://news.reformjudaism.org.uk/press-releases/kehillat-kernows-historic-return.html |title=Kehillat Kernow's historic return |publisher=Movement for Reform Judaism |date=30 May 2014 |accessdate=4 July 2014 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714165617/http://news.reformjudaism.org.uk/press-releases/kehillat-kernows-historic-return.html |archivedate=14 July 2014 }}{{cite journal |url=http://kehillatkernow.com/newsletter/Kol-Kehillat-Kernow-14-04.pdf |title=Torah Scroll comes home |author=Lipert, Pat |journal=Kol Kehillat Kernow |date=April 2014 |issue=37 }}{{Dead link|date=April 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} The scroll was previously used by Falmouth Synagogue, which closed in 1882. It was officially handed over by the Duke of Gloucester to Kehillat Kernow at a ceremony in the Royal Cornwall Museum on 28 May 2004.{{cite news |url=http://www.westernmorningnews.co.uk/Sacred-scroll-returned-Cornish-Jews/story-21063655-detail/story.html | title=Sacred scroll to be returned to Cornish Jews |work=Western Morning News |date=6 May 2014 |accessdate=16 July 2014 |author=Parker, Simon}}{{cite news |url= http://www.thisisthewestcountry.co.uk/news/cornwall_news/11244622.Falmouth_Synagogue_artefact_returned_to_Jewish_community_after_more_than_a_century/?ref=mr |title=Falmouth Synagogue artefact returned to Jewish community after more than a century | work=This is the West Country |date=29 May 2014 |accessdate=16 July 2014}}

The community runs a cheder for children and young people aged 2 to 15.

The congregation publishes three times a year a newsletter called Kol Kehillat Kernow.{{cite web |url=http://kehillatkernow.com/newsletter/ |title=Newsletter |publisher=Kehillat Kernow, the Jewish Community of Cornwall |accessdate=4 July 2014}}{{self-published-inline|date=May 2024}}

See also

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