Overview: Rabbi Barry R. Baron is University Chaplain and Campus Rabbi at Colgate University in upstate New York. He will be visiting Cornwall in November and has kindly agreed to lead a Kabbalat Shabbat service at the Multifaith Chaplaincy on Friday 17 November. We will welcome in Shabbat at 18:00. Following the service there will be a communal meal. We expect to finish by 21:00.

Practical details: This event is open to all but will be of particular interest to Jewish students and staff. The invitation is also extended to members of Kehillat Kernow, the Jewish community in Cornwall. We look forward to you joining us. Please let us know if you plan to attend so that we can plan catering. If you are able to contribute a vegetarian dish for the communal meal, that would be appreciated but is not obligatory.

If you have any questions please contact Gemma: gemma.tracey@fxplus.ac.uk

Directions to the Penryn Chaplaincy: The Multifaith Chaplaincy is located in Tremough Barton Cottage 8 on the Penryn Campus, Treliever Road, Penryn, Cornwall, TR10 9FE. Car parking is free after 5pm.

Biography: Rabbi Barry R. Baron came to Colgate as Associate University Chaplain and Campus Rabbi in June 2019. Since July 2021, he has served as University Chaplain along with his rabbinic duties. He regularly teaches “Rabbis Reinventing: The Making of Judaism as We Know It,” as part of Colgate’s Jewish Studies Program.

Previously, Rabbi Baron served as a Chaplain in the United States Army, from which he retired in 2018, and, over a 14-year period, in synagogues in Houston, Texas, Youngstown, Ohio, and Vestal (Binghamton), New York. He is the co-author of “Religious Advising for Strategic Effect: US Army Chaplains as Change Agents,” published in Small Wars Journal (May 2013).

A graduate of the of the Army’s Command and General Staff College, Rabbi Baron holds a Bachelor of Arts in History from Cornell University and a Master of Arts, Rabbinic Ordination, and Doctorate of Divinity (honorary) from The Jewish Theological Seminary of America.

Photo credit: Leah Goodstein

Kabbalat Shabbat service led by Rabbi Barry Baron