kehillah

[ Sephardic Hebrew kuh-hee-lah; Ashkenazic Hebrew kuh-hil-uh ]

noun

, plural ke·hil·loth, ke·hil·lot, ke·hil·los [k, uh, -hee-, lawt, k, uh, -, hil, -oht, -ohs].

1. the organization of the Jewish population of a community that deals with charities and other communal affairs.

Word History and Origins

Origin of kehillah¹

First recorded in 1880–85, kehillah is from the Hebrew word qəhillāh community

Example Sentences

Last November, Mirinda Kossoff sent an email to a local rabbi, Jen Feldman of the Kehillah Synagogue.

From New York Times

Songs have popped up with lyrics such as these from “The Ballad of Thanksgivukkah”: “Imagine Judah Maccabee, sitting down to roast turkey and passing the potatoes to Squanto ” Rabbi David Paskin, the song’s co-writer and co-head of the Kehillah Schechter Academy in Norwood, Massachusetts, proudly declares his Jewish day school to be the one nearest Plymouth Rock.

From Washington Post

Songs have popped up with lyrics such as these from “The Ballad of Thanksgivukkah”: “Imagine Judah Maccabee, sitting down to roast turkey and passing the potatoes to Squanto ” Rabbi David Paskin, the song’s co-writer and co-head of the Kehillah Schechter Academy in Norwood, Massachusetts, proudly declares his Jewish day school to be the one nearest Plymouth Rock.

From Washington Post