Definition of "kehillah" []

• A type of Jewish community in eastern Europe. (noun)
• Any Jewish community; especially, a secular Jewish communal organization, or the secular dimension of a religious one. (noun)

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• "Also, the concept of a "kehillah" - style education for all Jewish children is passé and not vogue in the new humanitarian universal model."
• "The kehillah itself granted the various leaders this authority which included the right of leaders to enforce legislation."
• "Orthodox parties that developed at the same time did their utmost to preserve the essentially religious nature of the kehillah."