A kehilla or kehillah (קהילה, Hebrew: "community") is a Jewish community. In pre-War Europe, all towns or cities with a Jewish population ha one communal organisation, or occasionally more. As a result of the dispersal caused by the War, larger agglomerations may have more than one community, each centred around one synagogue, with the various communities together providing the services previously run by the kehilla, such as a mikvah (immersion pool), gemach (free-loan fund), and kashrut (kosher food) supervision.