Cardiff New Synagogue Annual General Meeting, Cardiff, 1958

Description

A publication issued for the Annual General Meeting of the Cardiff New Synagogue, which took place on 2 March 1958. The document refers to the year 1957 and includes the agenda for AGM, list of synagogue officers in 1957, council attendances in the previous year, warden's report, revenue account for the year ended 31 December 1957 and balance sheet as of 31 December 1957, report from the Minister, Rabbi Graf, treasurer's report, and report of the Ladies' Guild.

The Cardiff Reform Synagogue was founded in 1948 as the Cardiff New Synagogue. The following year, it became a constituent member of the Movement for Reform Judaism. Born in reaction against the more restrictive traditions of the Orthodox Judaism of Cardiff Hebrew Congregation, such as the prohibition of driving on the Sabbath and the ban on interfaith marriages, the new Synagogue appealed to the immigrants who had fled the war-torn Europe, where the Reform movement was already well-established. The congregation worships in a converted Methodist Chapel on Moira Terrace they acquired in 1952.

Sources:
'The History of the Jewish Diaspora in Wales' by Cai Parry-Jones (http://e.bangor.ac.uk/4987);
JCR-UK/JewishGen (https://www.jewishgen.org/jcr-uk/Community/card1/index.htm).

Depository: Glamorgan Archives.

• https://cardiffreformsynagogue.uk/new/ (link opens in new window)